1 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
2 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
3 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
5 o Major bugfixes (client):
6 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
7 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
10 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
12 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
13 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
14 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
15 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17 o Major bugfixes (portability):
18 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
19 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
22 o Minor features (heartbeat):
23 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
24 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
25 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
26 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
28 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
30 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
33 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
34 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
36 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
37 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
38 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
40 o Directory authority changes:
41 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
42 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
43 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
44 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
47 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
48 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
49 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
52 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
53 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
54 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
55 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
56 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
57 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
58 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
59 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
61 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
62 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
63 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
64 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
66 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
67 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
68 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
69 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
71 o Minor features (controller):
72 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
73 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
74 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
76 o Minor features (geoip):
77 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
78 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
81 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
82 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
83 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
84 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
85 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
86 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
88 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
89 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
90 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
91 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
93 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
94 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
95 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
96 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
97 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
98 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
99 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
100 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
102 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
103 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
104 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
106 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
107 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
108 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
109 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
110 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
114 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
115 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
116 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
119 o Directory authority changes:
120 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
121 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
122 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
123 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
126 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
127 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
128 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
129 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
131 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
132 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
133 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
134 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
135 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
136 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
137 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
138 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
140 o Minor features (geoip):
141 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
142 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
145 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
146 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
147 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
148 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
149 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
151 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
152 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
153 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
156 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
157 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
158 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
159 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
160 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
161 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
162 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
163 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
165 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
166 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
167 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
170 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
171 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
172 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
174 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
175 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
176 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
177 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
178 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
180 o Minor features (controller):
181 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
182 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
183 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
185 o Minor features (geoip):
186 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
187 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
190 o Minor features (logs):
191 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
194 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
195 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
196 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
197 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
198 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
199 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
200 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
201 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
202 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
205 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
207 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
210 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
211 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
212 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
214 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
215 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
216 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
217 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
219 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
220 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
223 o Directory authority IP change:
224 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
228 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
229 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
230 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
234 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
235 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
236 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
237 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
238 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
239 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
241 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
242 the next version will be a release candidate.
244 o Deprecated versions:
245 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
246 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
248 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
249 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
250 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
251 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
252 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
253 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
255 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
256 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
257 Implements ticket 11485.
259 o Major features (changed defaults):
260 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
261 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
262 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
263 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
264 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
265 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
267 o Major features (directory system):
268 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
269 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
270 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
271 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
272 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
273 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
274 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
275 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
276 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
277 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
278 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
279 227. Closes ticket 10395.
281 o Major features (guards):
282 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
283 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
284 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
285 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
286 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
288 o Major features (performance):
289 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
290 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
291 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
292 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
293 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
294 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
295 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
296 Implements ticket 9682.
298 o Major features (relay):
299 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
300 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
301 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
303 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
304 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
305 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
306 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
308 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
309 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
310 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
311 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
312 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
313 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
314 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
316 o Minor features (build):
317 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
318 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
319 Resolves ticket 13037.
321 o Minor features (controller):
322 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
323 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
325 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
326 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
327 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
328 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
329 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
330 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
332 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
333 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
334 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
335 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
336 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
337 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
338 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
339 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
340 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
341 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
343 o Minor features (geoip):
344 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
345 GeoLite2 Country database.
347 o Minor features (guard nodes):
348 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
349 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
350 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
352 o Minor features (hidden service):
353 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
354 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
355 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
356 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
357 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
358 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
359 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
360 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
362 o Minor features (interface):
363 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
364 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
365 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
367 o Minor features (logging):
368 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
369 Resolves ticket 6852.
370 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
371 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
372 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
374 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
375 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
377 o Minor features (stability):
378 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
379 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
382 o Minor features (systemd):
383 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
384 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
386 o Minor features (testing networks):
387 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
388 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
389 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
390 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
391 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
392 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
394 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
395 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
396 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
397 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
398 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
400 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
401 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
402 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
403 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
404 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
406 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
407 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
408 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
409 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
410 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
411 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
412 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
413 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
415 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
416 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
417 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
418 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
419 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
420 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
421 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
422 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
424 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
425 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
426 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
429 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
430 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
431 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
432 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
433 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
435 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
436 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
437 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
438 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
439 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
442 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
443 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
444 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
445 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
446 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
447 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
448 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
449 Addresses ticket 14188.
450 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
451 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
452 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
453 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
454 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
455 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
456 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
457 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
458 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
460 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
461 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
462 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
463 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
464 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
465 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
466 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
467 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
469 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
470 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
471 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
472 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
473 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
474 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
475 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
476 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
477 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
478 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
479 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
480 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
481 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
483 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
484 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
485 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
486 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
487 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
488 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
489 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
490 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
491 state, and key files.
492 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
493 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
496 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
497 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
498 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
499 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
500 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
501 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
502 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
503 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
504 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
505 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
506 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
508 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
509 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
510 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
511 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
513 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
514 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
516 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
517 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
518 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
519 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
520 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
521 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
523 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
524 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
525 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
526 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
527 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
528 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
529 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
530 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
531 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
532 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
534 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
535 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
536 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
538 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
539 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
541 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
542 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
543 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
544 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
545 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
547 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
548 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
549 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
550 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
553 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
554 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
555 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
558 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
559 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
560 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
562 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
563 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
564 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
565 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
566 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
567 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
568 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
570 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
571 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
574 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
575 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
576 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
578 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
579 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
580 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
583 o Code simplification and refactoring:
584 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
585 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
586 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
587 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
588 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
589 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
590 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
591 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
593 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
594 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
596 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
600 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
601 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
602 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
603 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
604 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
605 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
607 o Downgraded warnings:
608 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
609 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
612 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
613 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
614 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
615 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
616 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
620 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
621 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
622 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
623 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
624 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
626 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
627 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
628 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
629 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
631 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
632 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
633 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
634 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
636 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
637 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
638 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
641 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
642 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
643 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
644 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
645 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
646 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
648 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
649 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
650 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
651 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
653 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
654 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
655 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
656 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
657 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
658 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
660 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
661 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
662 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
663 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
664 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
665 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
666 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
669 o Major features (hidden services):
670 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
671 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
673 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
674 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
675 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
676 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
677 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
678 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
679 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
680 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
681 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
682 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
683 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
685 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
686 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
687 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
688 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
689 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
690 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
693 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
694 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
695 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
696 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
697 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
698 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
700 o Directory authority changes:
701 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
702 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
703 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
705 o Major removed features:
706 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
707 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
708 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
709 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
711 o Minor features (client):
712 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
713 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
714 Resolves ticket 13315.
716 o Minor features (controller):
717 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
718 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
721 o Minor features (geoip):
722 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
725 o Minor features (hidden services):
726 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
727 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
728 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
729 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
730 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
731 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
733 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
734 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
735 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
737 o Minor features (systemd):
738 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
739 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
740 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
741 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
743 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
744 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
745 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
746 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
747 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
750 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
751 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
752 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
753 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
754 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
756 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
757 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
758 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
761 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
762 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
763 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
764 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
765 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
767 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
768 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
769 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
772 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
773 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
774 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
775 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
777 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
778 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
781 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
782 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
783 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
784 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
785 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
786 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
787 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
788 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
789 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
790 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
791 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
792 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
793 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
794 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
797 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
798 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
799 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
800 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
801 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
802 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
804 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
805 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
806 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
807 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
809 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
810 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
812 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
813 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
814 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
815 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
818 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
819 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
820 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
821 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
822 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
823 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
825 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
826 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
827 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
828 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
829 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
830 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
831 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
832 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
833 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
834 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
835 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
836 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
837 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
838 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
839 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
840 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
841 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
842 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
843 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
844 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
845 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
846 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
847 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
848 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
849 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
850 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
851 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
852 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
853 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
854 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
855 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
856 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
858 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
859 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
860 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
861 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
862 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
864 o Code simplification and refactoring:
865 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
866 with a function instead.
867 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
868 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
870 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
871 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
872 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
873 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
874 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
875 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
876 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
877 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
878 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
879 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
880 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
881 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
885 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
886 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
887 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
888 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
889 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
890 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
891 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
892 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
893 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
894 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
895 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
896 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
899 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
900 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
901 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
902 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
903 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
904 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
906 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
910 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
911 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
912 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
913 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
914 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
915 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
916 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
917 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
918 of introducing infinite download loops.
920 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
921 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
922 with 0.2.5.x for now.
924 o New compiler and system requirements:
925 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
926 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
927 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
928 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
930 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
931 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
932 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
933 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
934 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
935 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
936 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
937 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
938 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
940 o Removed platform support:
941 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
942 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
945 o Major features (bridges):
946 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
947 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
948 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
951 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
952 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
953 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
954 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
957 o Major features (directory system):
958 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
959 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
960 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
961 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
963 o Major features (sample torrc):
964 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
965 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
966 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
967 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
968 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
969 generally useful "sample torrc".
971 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
972 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
973 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
975 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
976 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
977 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
978 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
979 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
981 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
982 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
983 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
984 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
986 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
987 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
988 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
989 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
990 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
991 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
994 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
995 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
996 document. Implements feature 10427.
998 o Minor features (client):
999 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
1000 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
1001 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
1002 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
1004 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1005 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
1006 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
1007 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
1008 argument more than once.
1009 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
1010 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
1011 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
1012 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
1013 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
1014 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
1016 o Minor features (logging):
1017 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
1018 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
1019 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
1020 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
1021 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
1022 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
1023 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
1024 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
1025 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
1027 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
1028 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
1029 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
1030 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
1032 o Minor features (relay):
1033 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
1034 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
1035 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
1037 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
1038 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
1039 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
1040 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
1042 o Minor features (testing networks):
1043 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
1044 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
1045 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
1046 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
1047 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
1050 o Minor features (validation):
1051 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
1052 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
1053 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
1054 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
1055 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
1056 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
1057 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
1058 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
1060 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
1061 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
1062 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
1063 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1065 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1066 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
1067 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
1068 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1071 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
1072 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
1074 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
1075 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
1076 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
1078 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
1079 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1080 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
1081 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
1082 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1083 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
1084 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1086 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1087 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
1088 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
1089 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
1090 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
1091 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1092 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
1093 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
1094 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
1096 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
1097 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
1098 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
1099 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
1100 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
1102 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
1103 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
1104 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
1106 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1107 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
1108 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
1109 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
1110 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
1112 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
1113 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
1114 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
1115 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1116 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
1117 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
1118 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1119 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
1120 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
1121 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
1122 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
1125 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1126 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
1127 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
1128 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
1129 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1131 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1132 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
1133 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1134 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
1135 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
1138 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
1139 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
1140 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1141 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
1142 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
1143 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1145 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1146 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
1147 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
1148 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1150 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
1151 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
1152 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
1153 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1155 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1156 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
1157 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
1158 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
1161 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
1162 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
1163 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1166 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
1167 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1168 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
1169 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
1170 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
1173 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1174 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
1175 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
1177 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
1178 Resolves ticket 12205.
1179 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
1180 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
1181 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
1182 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
1184 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
1185 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
1186 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
1188 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
1189 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
1191 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
1192 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
1193 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
1194 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
1195 or_options_t structure.
1198 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
1199 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
1200 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
1201 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
1205 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
1206 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
1207 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
1208 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
1209 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
1210 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
1211 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
1212 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
1213 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
1215 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
1216 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
1218 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
1219 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
1220 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
1221 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
1222 anymore, and ignore it.
1225 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
1226 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
1227 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
1228 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
1229 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
1230 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
1231 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
1232 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
1233 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
1234 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
1235 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
1236 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
1238 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
1239 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
1240 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
1242 o Distribution (systemd):
1243 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
1244 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
1245 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
1246 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
1247 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1249 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
1250 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
1252 o Removed features (directory authorities):
1253 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
1254 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
1255 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
1256 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
1257 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
1258 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
1259 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
1260 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
1261 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
1263 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
1264 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
1265 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
1266 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
1269 o Testing (test-network.sh):
1270 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
1271 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
1273 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
1275 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
1276 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
1277 Partially implements ticket 13161.
1280 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
1281 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1283 It adds several new security features, including improved
1284 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
1285 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
1286 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
1287 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
1288 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
1289 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
1290 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
1291 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
1292 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
1293 and features mentioned below.
1295 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
1296 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1298 o Deprecated versions:
1299 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1300 attention for some while.
1303 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
1304 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1305 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1306 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1307 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1308 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
1310 o Major security fixes:
1311 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1312 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1313 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1315 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
1316 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1317 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1318 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1321 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
1322 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
1323 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
1324 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1326 o Compilation fixes:
1327 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
1328 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
1329 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
1331 o Downgraded warnings:
1332 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
1333 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
1336 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
1337 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1338 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1339 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1340 (which does affect Tor).
1342 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1343 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1344 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1345 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1347 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1348 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1349 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1350 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1353 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
1354 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1355 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1356 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1357 the directory authorities.
1360 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1361 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1362 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1363 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1364 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1365 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1366 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1367 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1368 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1369 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1370 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1371 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1373 o Directory authority changes:
1374 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1377 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
1378 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1379 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1380 the directory authorities.
1383 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1384 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1385 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1386 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1387 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1388 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1389 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1390 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1391 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1392 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1393 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1394 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1396 o Directory authority changes:
1397 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1399 o Minor features (geoip):
1400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1404 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
1405 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
1406 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
1407 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
1408 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
1410 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
1411 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
1412 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
1413 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
1414 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
1415 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
1416 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1417 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
1418 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
1419 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
1420 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
1421 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
1422 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
1423 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1424 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
1425 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
1427 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1428 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
1429 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1430 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1431 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
1432 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
1433 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
1434 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1436 o Minor features (bridge):
1437 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
1438 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
1440 o Minor features (geoip):
1441 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1444 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1445 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
1446 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
1447 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
1448 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
1449 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
1450 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1451 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
1452 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
1453 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
1454 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1455 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
1456 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
1457 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
1458 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
1460 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
1461 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
1462 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1463 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
1464 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
1466 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1467 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
1468 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1469 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
1470 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
1473 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1474 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
1475 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1476 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
1477 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1478 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
1479 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
1480 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1481 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
1482 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
1483 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
1486 o Distribution (systemd):
1487 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
1488 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
1489 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
1490 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
1491 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
1492 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
1493 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
1494 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
1495 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1499 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
1500 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
1502 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
1506 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
1507 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
1508 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
1509 us closer to a release candidate.
1511 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
1512 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1513 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1514 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1515 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1517 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1518 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1519 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1520 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1521 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1522 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1523 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1524 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1525 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1529 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
1530 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
1531 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
1532 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
1533 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
1534 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
1535 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
1539 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
1540 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
1541 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
1542 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
1543 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
1544 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
1545 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
1546 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1548 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
1550 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1551 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1552 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1553 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1554 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1555 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1556 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1557 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1558 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1559 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1562 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
1563 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
1564 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
1565 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
1567 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
1568 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
1569 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
1572 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
1573 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
1574 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
1575 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
1578 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1579 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1580 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1581 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1582 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1583 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1584 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1585 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1586 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1587 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1590 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1591 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1592 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1593 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1594 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1595 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1596 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1597 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1601 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1602 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1603 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1604 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1605 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1606 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1607 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1608 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1609 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1610 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
1611 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
1612 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
1613 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
1616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1620 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
1621 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
1622 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
1623 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
1624 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
1625 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
1628 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
1629 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
1630 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
1631 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
1632 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
1633 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
1634 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
1635 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
1636 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
1637 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
1638 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
1639 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
1640 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1642 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1643 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1644 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1645 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1648 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
1649 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
1650 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
1652 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
1653 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
1654 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
1655 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
1656 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
1657 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
1658 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
1659 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
1660 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
1661 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
1662 router's identity is not forgeable.
1664 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1665 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
1666 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
1667 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
1668 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1669 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
1670 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
1671 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
1672 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
1673 bugfix on every version of Tor.
1675 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
1676 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
1677 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
1678 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
1681 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1682 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
1683 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
1684 help diagnose bug 7164.
1685 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
1686 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
1687 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
1688 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
1689 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
1691 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
1692 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
1693 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
1694 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
1695 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
1696 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
1697 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
1699 o Minor features (security, memory management):
1700 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
1701 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
1702 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
1703 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
1704 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
1705 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
1707 o Minor features (security):
1708 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
1709 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
1710 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
1711 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
1713 o Minor features (build):
1714 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
1715 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
1716 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
1718 o Minor features (other):
1719 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1722 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1723 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
1724 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
1725 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1726 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1728 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1729 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
1730 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
1731 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
1732 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
1733 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
1734 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
1735 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
1736 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1737 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
1738 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
1739 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
1741 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1742 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
1743 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1744 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
1745 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
1746 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
1747 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
1748 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
1749 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
1750 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
1751 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1752 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
1753 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
1754 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
1755 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
1756 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
1757 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
1758 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
1761 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
1762 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
1763 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
1764 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
1765 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
1766 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
1767 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1769 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
1770 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
1771 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1772 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
1773 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1774 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
1775 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1776 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
1777 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
1779 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
1780 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
1782 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
1783 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
1785 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
1786 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
1787 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1788 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
1789 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
1790 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1791 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
1792 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
1793 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
1795 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
1796 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
1797 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
1798 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
1799 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
1800 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1801 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
1802 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
1803 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1804 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
1805 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
1806 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1807 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
1808 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
1809 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
1810 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
1811 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
1812 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1814 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1815 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
1816 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
1817 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
1818 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
1819 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1820 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
1821 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
1822 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
1825 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1826 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
1827 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
1828 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
1829 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1831 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1832 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
1833 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
1834 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
1836 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
1837 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
1838 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
1839 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1840 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
1841 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
1842 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
1843 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
1845 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1846 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
1847 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
1848 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
1851 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
1852 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
1853 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
1854 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
1855 versions. Found by "skruffy".
1856 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
1857 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
1858 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
1861 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
1862 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
1863 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
1864 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
1867 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
1868 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
1869 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
1870 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
1872 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
1873 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
1874 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
1876 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
1877 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
1878 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1880 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1881 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
1882 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1883 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
1884 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
1888 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
1889 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
1890 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
1891 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
1894 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
1895 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
1896 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
1897 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
1899 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
1900 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
1902 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
1903 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
1904 caches don't get confused.
1907 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
1908 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
1909 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
1910 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
1911 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
1914 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
1915 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
1916 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
1917 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
1918 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
1919 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
1923 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
1924 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
1925 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
1926 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
1927 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
1928 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
1929 of RAM, and several others.
1931 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1932 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1933 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1934 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1935 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1937 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
1938 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1939 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1940 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1943 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1944 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1945 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1946 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1947 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1948 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1949 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1950 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1951 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1952 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1953 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1954 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1955 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1956 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1957 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1958 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1959 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1960 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1961 Resolves ticket 11438.
1963 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
1964 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
1965 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
1966 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
1967 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1968 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1970 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1971 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1972 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1974 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1975 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1976 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1978 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1979 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1980 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1981 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1983 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1984 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
1985 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
1987 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1988 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
1989 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1992 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
1993 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
1994 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
1995 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
1998 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
1999 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
2000 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
2001 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
2003 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2004 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
2005 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
2006 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2008 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2009 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2010 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2014 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
2015 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
2016 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
2017 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
2018 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
2019 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
2020 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
2021 the Linux sandbox code.
2023 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
2024 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
2025 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
2027 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
2028 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
2030 o Major features (security):
2031 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
2032 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
2033 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
2034 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
2035 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
2036 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
2037 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
2038 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
2040 o Major features (relay performance):
2041 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
2042 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
2043 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
2044 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
2045 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
2046 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
2047 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
2048 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
2049 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
2050 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
2052 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
2053 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
2054 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
2055 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
2056 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
2057 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
2058 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
2060 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
2061 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
2063 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
2064 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
2065 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
2066 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
2067 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
2068 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
2069 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2070 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
2071 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
2072 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
2073 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
2074 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
2075 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
2076 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
2077 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
2078 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
2079 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
2080 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
2081 Resolves ticket 11438.
2083 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
2084 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
2085 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
2086 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2088 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
2089 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
2090 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
2091 10267; patch from "yurivict".
2092 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
2093 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
2094 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
2095 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
2096 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
2097 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
2099 o Minor features (security):
2100 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
2101 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
2102 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
2103 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
2106 o Minor features (log verbosity):
2107 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
2108 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
2109 Resolves ticket 5286.
2110 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
2111 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
2112 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
2113 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
2114 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
2115 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
2116 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
2117 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
2118 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
2120 o Minor features (relay):
2121 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
2122 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
2123 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
2125 o Minor features (controller):
2126 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
2127 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
2129 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
2130 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
2131 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
2133 o Minor features (bridge client):
2134 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
2135 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
2136 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
2138 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2139 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
2140 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
2141 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
2142 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
2143 still referenced by a live node_t object.
2145 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
2146 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
2147 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
2148 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
2150 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
2151 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
2152 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
2153 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
2156 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
2157 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
2158 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
2161 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
2162 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
2163 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2164 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
2165 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
2166 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2168 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
2169 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
2170 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
2171 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2172 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
2173 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
2174 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2175 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
2176 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
2177 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
2178 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2179 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
2180 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
2183 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
2184 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
2185 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
2186 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
2187 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
2189 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
2190 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
2191 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
2194 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2195 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
2196 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2198 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
2199 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
2200 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2203 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
2204 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
2205 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
2208 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
2209 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2210 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
2211 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
2213 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
2214 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
2215 early. Fixes bug 10081.
2217 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
2218 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
2219 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2220 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
2221 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2222 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
2223 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
2224 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
2226 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
2227 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
2228 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
2229 should never have affected anyone in practice.
2231 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2232 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
2233 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2235 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
2236 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
2237 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
2238 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
2239 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
2240 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
2241 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
2242 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
2243 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
2244 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
2245 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
2246 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
2247 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
2248 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
2250 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
2251 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
2252 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
2253 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
2254 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
2255 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
2256 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
2257 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
2261 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
2262 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
2263 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
2264 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2265 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
2266 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2267 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2268 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2270 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
2272 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2273 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
2274 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
2275 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
2276 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
2279 o Deprecated versions:
2280 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2281 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
2282 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
2283 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
2286 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
2287 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
2288 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
2289 Patch from Dana Koch.
2292 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
2293 Resolves ticket 11070.
2296 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
2297 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
2298 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
2299 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
2300 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
2303 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
2304 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
2306 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
2307 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
2308 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
2309 streams attached to each circuit.
2311 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
2312 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
2313 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
2314 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
2315 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
2316 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
2317 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
2318 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
2319 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
2320 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
2321 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
2322 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
2323 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
2325 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
2326 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
2327 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2329 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2330 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
2331 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
2332 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
2333 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
2334 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
2335 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
2336 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
2337 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
2339 o Minor features (other):
2340 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
2341 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
2342 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
2343 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
2344 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
2345 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
2346 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
2347 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
2348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2351 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
2352 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2353 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2354 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2355 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2356 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2357 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2358 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2361 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
2362 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
2363 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
2364 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2365 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
2366 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
2367 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
2369 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
2370 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
2371 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
2372 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
2373 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
2374 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2375 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
2376 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
2377 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2378 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
2379 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
2380 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
2383 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
2384 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2385 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
2386 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
2387 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
2388 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
2389 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
2390 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2391 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
2392 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2393 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
2394 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
2395 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
2397 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
2398 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
2401 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
2402 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
2403 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
2404 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
2405 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
2406 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2407 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
2408 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
2409 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
2410 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
2411 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2412 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
2413 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
2415 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
2416 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
2417 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
2418 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2421 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
2422 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2423 the rest of bug 10841.
2426 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
2427 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
2428 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
2429 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
2430 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
2431 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
2432 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
2433 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
2434 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
2435 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
2436 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
2437 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2438 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
2439 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
2440 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2442 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2443 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
2444 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
2446 o Test infrastructure:
2447 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
2448 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
2449 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
2450 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2453 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
2454 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
2455 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
2456 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
2458 o Major features (client security):
2459 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2460 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2461 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2462 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2463 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2464 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2467 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2468 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2469 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2470 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2472 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2473 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2474 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
2475 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
2476 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
2479 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2480 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2482 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2483 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2484 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2485 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2486 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
2487 GeoLite2 Country database.
2490 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2491 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2492 bugfix on every released Tor.
2493 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2494 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2495 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2496 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2497 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2498 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2499 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2500 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2501 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2502 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2503 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2504 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2505 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2506 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2507 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2509 o Documentation fixes:
2510 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2511 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2514 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
2515 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
2516 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
2517 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
2518 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
2519 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
2520 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
2521 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
2523 o Major features (client security):
2524 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2525 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2526 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2527 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2528 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2529 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2530 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
2531 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
2532 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
2533 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
2534 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
2535 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
2537 o Major features (bridges):
2538 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
2539 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
2540 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
2541 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
2542 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
2543 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
2544 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
2545 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
2548 o Major features (other):
2549 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
2550 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
2551 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
2552 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
2553 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
2554 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
2555 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
2556 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
2557 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
2558 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
2559 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
2560 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
2563 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2564 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2565 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2566 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2567 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2568 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2569 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2571 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2572 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2573 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2574 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2575 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2576 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2577 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2578 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2579 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2581 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2582 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2583 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2584 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2585 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2586 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2588 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2589 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2590 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2591 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2592 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2593 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2596 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2597 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
2598 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
2599 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
2600 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
2601 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
2602 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
2604 o Minor features (security):
2605 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2606 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2609 o Minor features (config options and command line):
2610 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
2611 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
2612 Implements ticket 10060.
2613 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
2614 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
2615 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
2617 o Minor features (controller):
2618 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
2619 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
2620 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
2621 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
2622 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
2625 o Minor features (build):
2626 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
2627 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
2628 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
2629 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
2630 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
2631 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
2632 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
2634 o Minor features (testing):
2635 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
2636 the unit test scripts.
2637 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
2638 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
2639 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
2640 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
2642 o Minor features (log messages):
2643 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
2644 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
2645 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
2646 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
2647 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
2648 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
2649 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
2650 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
2651 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2652 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2654 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2655 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2656 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2657 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2658 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2659 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2660 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2661 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2662 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2663 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2665 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2666 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
2667 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
2668 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
2671 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2672 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2673 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2674 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2675 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2677 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2678 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
2679 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
2680 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
2681 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
2682 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
2683 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
2685 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
2686 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
2687 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
2688 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
2689 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
2690 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
2691 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2693 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
2694 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
2695 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
2696 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2698 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
2699 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
2700 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
2701 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
2702 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
2703 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
2704 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
2705 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
2706 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
2707 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
2708 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2710 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2711 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
2712 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
2713 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
2714 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
2715 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
2716 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
2717 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
2718 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
2719 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
2721 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
2722 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
2723 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
2724 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
2727 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2728 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
2729 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
2730 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
2731 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
2732 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
2734 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
2735 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2737 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2738 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2739 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2740 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2742 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2743 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
2744 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
2745 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2746 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
2747 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
2748 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
2749 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2750 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
2751 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
2752 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
2753 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
2754 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
2755 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
2757 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2758 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2759 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2760 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2761 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2762 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2764 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2765 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2766 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2767 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2768 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2769 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2770 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2771 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2772 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2773 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2774 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2775 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2777 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2778 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2779 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2780 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2781 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2782 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2783 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2784 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2785 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2786 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2787 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2788 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2789 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2790 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2791 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2792 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2795 o Removed code and features:
2796 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
2797 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
2798 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
2799 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
2800 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
2801 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
2803 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
2804 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
2805 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
2806 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
2807 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
2808 part of a fix for bug 10841.
2810 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2811 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
2812 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
2813 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
2814 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
2815 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
2816 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
2817 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2818 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
2819 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
2820 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
2823 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
2824 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
2825 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
2826 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2827 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2829 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2830 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2831 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2832 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2833 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2834 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2835 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2838 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
2839 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
2840 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
2843 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
2844 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
2845 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
2846 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
2847 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
2848 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
2849 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
2851 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
2852 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
2855 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2856 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2857 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2858 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2859 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2860 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2861 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2862 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2864 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2865 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2866 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2867 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2868 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2869 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2872 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2873 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2874 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2875 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2876 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2879 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
2880 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
2881 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
2882 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
2883 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
2884 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
2885 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
2886 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
2888 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
2889 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
2890 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
2891 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
2892 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
2893 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
2894 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
2895 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
2896 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
2897 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
2898 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
2899 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
2900 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
2901 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
2902 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
2903 security, and privacy fixes.
2906 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
2907 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2908 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
2909 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
2912 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2913 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2914 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2915 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2916 them to solve bug 6033.)
2919 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2920 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2921 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2922 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2923 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2924 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2925 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2926 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2928 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2929 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2930 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2931 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2933 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
2934 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2935 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2936 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2937 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2938 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2939 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2940 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2941 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2942 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2943 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2944 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2946 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
2947 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2948 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2949 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2950 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2951 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2952 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2953 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2954 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2955 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2956 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2957 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2958 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2959 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2960 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2961 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2964 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2965 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2966 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2967 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2968 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2969 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2970 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2971 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2972 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2973 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2974 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2975 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2976 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2977 Implements part of proposal 222.
2979 o Minor features (other):
2980 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2981 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2982 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2983 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2984 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2985 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2986 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2987 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2988 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2990 o Documentation fixes:
2991 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2992 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2993 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2994 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2995 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2996 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2999 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
3000 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
3001 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
3002 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
3003 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
3004 release of the new branch.
3006 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
3007 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3008 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
3010 o Major features (security):
3011 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
3012 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
3013 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
3014 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
3015 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
3016 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
3017 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
3018 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
3019 Google Summer of Code.
3020 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
3021 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
3022 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
3023 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
3024 them to solve bug 6033.)
3026 o Major features (other):
3027 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
3028 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
3029 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
3030 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
3031 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
3033 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
3034 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
3035 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
3036 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
3037 Implements ticket 8530.
3038 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
3039 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
3042 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
3043 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
3044 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
3045 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
3046 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
3047 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3048 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
3049 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
3050 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3051 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
3052 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
3053 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
3054 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3057 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
3058 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
3059 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
3060 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
3061 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
3062 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
3063 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
3064 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
3065 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
3066 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
3070 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
3071 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
3072 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
3073 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
3074 invoking the other functions it calls.
3075 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
3076 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
3077 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
3078 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
3080 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
3081 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
3082 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
3083 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
3084 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
3085 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
3086 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
3087 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
3088 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
3089 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
3090 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
3091 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
3092 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
3093 Implements part of proposal 222.
3095 o Minor features (config options):
3096 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
3097 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
3098 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
3099 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
3100 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
3101 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
3102 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
3103 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
3104 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
3105 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
3106 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
3107 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
3108 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
3109 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
3110 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
3111 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
3112 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
3115 o Minor features (build):
3116 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
3117 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
3118 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
3119 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
3120 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
3123 o Minor features (other):
3124 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
3125 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
3126 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
3127 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
3128 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3129 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
3130 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
3131 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
3132 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
3133 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
3134 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
3135 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
3137 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3140 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
3141 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
3142 bugfix on every released Tor.
3143 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
3144 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
3145 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
3146 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
3147 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
3148 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
3150 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
3151 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
3152 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
3153 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3154 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
3155 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
3156 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
3157 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3159 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
3160 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
3161 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
3162 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
3163 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
3165 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
3166 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3168 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
3169 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
3170 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
3172 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
3173 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
3174 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
3175 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
3176 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3178 o Minor code improvements:
3179 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
3180 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
3182 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
3183 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
3184 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
3185 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
3186 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3189 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
3190 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
3191 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
3192 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
3194 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3195 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
3196 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
3197 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3198 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
3199 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
3200 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
3201 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
3202 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
3203 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
3204 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3205 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
3206 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
3207 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
3208 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
3209 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
3212 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
3213 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3214 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
3215 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
3216 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
3217 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
3218 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
3221 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
3222 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
3223 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
3224 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
3225 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
3226 Implements ticket 9574.
3229 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
3230 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
3231 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3232 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
3233 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
3234 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
3235 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
3236 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
3237 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3238 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
3239 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
3240 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
3244 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
3245 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
3246 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
3247 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
3249 o Minor fixes (config options):
3250 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
3251 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
3252 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
3253 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
3254 message is logged at notice, not at info.
3255 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
3256 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
3257 or we just won't work.)
3260 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
3261 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
3262 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
3263 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3266 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
3267 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3268 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
3271 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
3272 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
3273 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3274 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
3275 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3276 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
3277 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
3279 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
3280 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3281 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
3282 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
3285 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
3286 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
3287 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3288 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
3289 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
3290 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
3291 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
3292 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
3293 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
3294 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
3295 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3296 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
3297 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3300 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3303 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
3304 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3305 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3306 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3309 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
3310 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
3311 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3314 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
3315 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
3316 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
3319 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
3320 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
3321 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3324 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
3325 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
3326 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
3327 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
3328 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
3329 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3331 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
3332 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
3333 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
3334 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
3335 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
3336 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3338 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
3339 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
3340 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3343 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
3344 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
3345 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
3346 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
3347 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
3349 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
3350 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
3351 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
3352 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3353 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
3354 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
3355 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
3357 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
3358 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
3359 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
3361 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
3362 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
3366 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
3367 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
3368 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
3370 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
3371 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
3372 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
3373 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
3374 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
3375 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
3377 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
3378 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
3379 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
3380 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
3381 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
3382 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
3383 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3386 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
3387 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
3388 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
3389 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
3390 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
3391 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
3392 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3393 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
3394 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3395 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
3396 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
3397 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3398 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
3399 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
3401 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
3402 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
3403 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
3404 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
3407 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3408 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
3409 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
3410 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
3411 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
3412 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
3414 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
3415 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
3419 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
3420 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
3421 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
3422 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
3423 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
3424 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
3425 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3427 o Removed documentation:
3428 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
3429 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
3431 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3432 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
3433 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
3434 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
3437 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
3438 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
3439 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
3440 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
3441 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
3442 variety of other issues.
3445 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
3446 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
3447 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
3448 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
3449 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
3450 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3451 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
3452 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
3454 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
3455 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
3456 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
3458 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
3459 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
3460 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
3461 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3462 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
3463 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
3464 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3466 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
3467 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
3468 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
3469 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
3470 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
3471 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
3472 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
3473 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3474 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
3475 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
3476 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
3477 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
3478 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3479 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
3480 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
3481 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
3482 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
3483 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
3484 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
3485 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
3486 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3488 o Major bugfixes (other):
3489 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
3490 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
3491 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
3492 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3495 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
3496 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
3497 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
3498 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
3500 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
3501 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
3503 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3505 o Minor features (build):
3506 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
3507 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
3509 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
3510 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
3512 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
3513 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
3514 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
3517 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3518 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
3519 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3520 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3521 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
3522 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
3523 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3524 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
3525 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
3526 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3527 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
3528 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
3529 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
3530 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
3533 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
3534 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
3535 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
3536 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
3537 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
3538 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
3539 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
3540 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
3541 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
3542 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
3543 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
3544 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
3545 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
3546 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3547 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3549 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3550 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
3551 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3552 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
3553 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
3554 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
3555 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
3556 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3557 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
3558 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
3559 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
3560 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
3561 Should help resolve bug 8235.
3562 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
3563 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
3564 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
3565 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3567 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
3568 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
3569 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
3570 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
3571 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
3572 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
3573 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
3574 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
3577 o Minor bugfixes (config):
3578 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
3579 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
3581 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
3582 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
3583 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3584 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
3585 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
3586 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
3587 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3588 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
3589 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
3590 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3591 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
3592 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
3593 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3594 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
3595 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
3598 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
3599 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
3600 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
3601 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
3602 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
3603 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
3604 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
3605 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
3607 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
3608 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
3609 or at least make it more diagnosable.
3610 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
3611 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
3612 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
3613 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3615 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3616 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
3617 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
3618 the relaxed timeout log message.
3619 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
3620 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
3621 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
3623 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
3624 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
3625 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3626 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
3627 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3628 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
3629 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
3632 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3633 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
3634 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
3635 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
3636 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3637 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
3638 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3639 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
3640 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3641 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
3642 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
3643 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
3644 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3645 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
3646 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
3647 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
3648 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3650 o Documentation fixes:
3651 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
3652 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
3653 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
3654 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
3655 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
3656 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
3657 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
3658 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
3661 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
3662 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
3666 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
3667 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
3668 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
3669 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
3671 o Major features (directory authorities):
3672 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
3673 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
3674 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
3675 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
3676 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
3677 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
3678 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
3679 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
3680 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
3681 Implements ticket 8151.
3683 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3684 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
3685 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
3686 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
3687 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3689 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3690 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
3691 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
3692 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
3693 whether authentication information is present, causing all
3694 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
3695 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
3697 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
3698 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
3699 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
3701 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
3702 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
3703 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
3704 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
3705 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
3706 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
3707 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
3708 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
3709 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
3710 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
3711 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
3712 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
3713 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
3714 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
3715 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
3716 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
3717 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
3718 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
3721 o Minor features (portability):
3722 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
3723 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3724 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
3725 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
3726 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
3727 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
3728 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
3729 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3731 o Minor features (other):
3732 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
3733 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
3734 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
3735 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
3736 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
3737 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
3738 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
3739 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
3741 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3743 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3744 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
3745 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
3746 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
3747 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
3748 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3749 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
3750 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
3751 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
3752 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
3754 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
3755 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
3756 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
3757 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3759 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3760 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
3761 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
3762 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
3763 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
3764 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
3765 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
3767 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
3768 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
3769 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
3770 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
3771 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
3773 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
3774 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
3775 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
3776 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3778 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3779 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
3780 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
3783 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
3784 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
3785 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3786 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
3788 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
3789 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3790 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
3791 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3793 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
3794 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
3795 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
3797 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
3798 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
3799 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
3800 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
3802 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
3803 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
3804 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3805 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
3806 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
3807 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
3808 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3810 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3811 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
3815 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
3816 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
3817 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
3818 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
3819 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
3822 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3823 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
3824 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
3825 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3827 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
3828 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
3829 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3833 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
3834 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
3835 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
3836 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
3837 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
3838 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
3839 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
3840 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
3841 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
3842 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3843 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
3844 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
3845 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
3848 o Major features (relay):
3849 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
3850 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
3851 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
3852 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
3853 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
3854 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
3855 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
3857 o Major features (portability):
3858 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
3859 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
3860 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
3861 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
3862 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3865 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
3866 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
3867 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
3868 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
3869 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
3870 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
3872 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
3873 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
3874 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
3875 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
3876 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
3877 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
3878 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
3879 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
3881 o Minor features (path selection):
3882 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
3883 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
3884 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
3885 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
3886 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
3887 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
3888 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
3889 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
3890 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
3891 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
3892 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
3893 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
3894 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
3895 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
3896 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
3897 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
3898 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
3899 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
3900 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
3902 o Minor features (log messages):
3903 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
3904 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
3905 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
3906 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
3909 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
3910 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
3911 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3912 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
3913 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
3914 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
3915 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
3916 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
3917 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
3918 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3919 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
3920 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3922 o Build improvements:
3923 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
3924 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
3925 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
3926 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
3927 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
3928 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
3929 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
3930 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
3931 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
3932 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
3933 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
3934 than to perform erroneously.
3937 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
3938 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
3939 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
3941 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
3942 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
3943 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
3946 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3947 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
3949 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
3950 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
3954 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
3955 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
3959 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
3960 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
3961 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
3965 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
3966 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
3967 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
3968 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
3971 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
3972 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
3973 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
3974 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
3975 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
3976 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
3977 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
3978 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
3979 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
3980 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
3981 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
3984 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
3985 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
3986 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
3987 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
3988 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
3989 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
3990 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
3991 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
3992 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
3993 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
3994 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
3996 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
3997 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
3998 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
4000 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
4001 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
4002 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
4004 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
4006 o Major features (better link encryption):
4007 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
4008 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
4009 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
4010 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
4011 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
4012 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
4015 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
4016 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
4017 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
4018 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
4019 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
4020 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
4021 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
4023 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
4024 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
4025 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
4026 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
4028 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
4031 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
4032 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
4033 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4036 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
4037 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
4038 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
4039 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
4040 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
4041 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
4042 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
4043 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4044 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4046 o Minor features (testing):
4047 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
4048 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
4049 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
4051 o Minor features (path bias detection):
4052 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
4053 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
4054 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
4055 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
4056 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
4057 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
4058 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
4059 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
4060 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
4061 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
4062 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
4063 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
4064 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
4065 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
4066 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
4067 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
4068 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
4069 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
4070 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
4071 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
4072 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
4073 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
4074 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
4075 detection capability loss.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4078 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
4079 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
4080 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
4081 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4082 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
4083 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
4084 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
4087 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4088 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
4089 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
4090 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
4091 and the different handshakes it supports.
4092 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
4093 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
4094 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
4095 any encoding is overkill.
4098 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
4099 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
4100 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
4101 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
4102 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
4103 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
4104 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
4105 and fixes a variety of other issues.
4107 o Major features (client resilience):
4108 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
4109 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
4110 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
4111 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
4112 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
4113 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
4114 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
4115 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
4116 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
4117 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
4118 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
4119 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
4120 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
4121 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
4122 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
4124 o Major features (IPv6):
4125 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
4126 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
4127 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
4128 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
4129 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
4130 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
4131 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
4132 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
4134 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
4135 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
4137 o Major features (geoip database):
4138 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
4139 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
4140 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
4141 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
4142 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
4143 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
4144 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
4145 Country database, as modified above.
4147 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
4148 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
4149 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
4150 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
4151 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
4152 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
4153 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
4154 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
4155 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
4156 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
4157 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
4158 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
4159 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
4160 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
4161 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
4162 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
4163 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
4166 o Major bugfixes (other):
4167 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
4168 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
4169 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
4170 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
4171 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
4172 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
4173 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
4174 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
4176 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
4177 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4180 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
4181 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
4182 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
4183 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
4184 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
4185 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
4186 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
4187 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
4189 o Minor features (IPv6):
4190 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
4191 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
4192 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
4193 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
4194 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
4195 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
4196 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
4197 connect to the wrong addresses.
4198 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
4199 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
4200 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
4201 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
4205 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
4206 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
4207 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
4209 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
4210 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
4211 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
4213 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
4214 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
4215 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
4218 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
4219 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
4221 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4222 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
4223 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
4224 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
4225 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
4228 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
4229 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
4230 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
4231 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
4232 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
4233 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
4234 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
4235 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
4237 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
4238 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
4239 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
4240 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
4241 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
4242 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
4243 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
4244 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
4245 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
4246 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
4247 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
4250 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4251 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4252 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4253 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4254 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4255 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4256 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4257 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4258 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4259 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4262 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4263 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4267 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
4268 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
4269 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
4270 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
4273 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
4274 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
4276 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4277 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4278 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4279 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4280 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4281 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4282 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4283 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4284 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4285 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4288 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
4290 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
4291 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
4292 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
4293 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
4294 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
4297 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
4298 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
4299 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4300 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4301 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4303 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
4304 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4305 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
4306 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
4307 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
4308 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
4309 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
4311 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
4312 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4313 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
4314 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
4315 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
4316 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4317 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
4318 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4320 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4321 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
4322 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
4323 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
4324 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
4325 present the same extensions.)
4328 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
4329 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
4330 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
4331 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
4332 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
4334 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4335 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4336 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4337 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4339 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4340 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4341 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4342 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4344 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4345 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4346 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4347 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4348 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4349 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4350 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4351 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4352 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4354 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4355 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4356 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4357 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4358 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4361 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
4362 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
4363 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
4365 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4366 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
4368 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
4369 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
4373 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
4374 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
4375 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
4376 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
4379 o Major bugfixes (security):
4380 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4381 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4382 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4384 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4385 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4386 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4387 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4390 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4391 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4392 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4393 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4394 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4395 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4396 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4397 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4400 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4401 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4402 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4403 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4406 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
4407 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4408 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
4409 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
4410 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
4411 scheduling algorithms.
4413 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4414 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4415 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4417 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4418 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4419 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4420 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4421 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4422 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4423 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4424 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4425 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4426 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4427 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4429 o Internal abstraction features:
4430 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
4431 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
4432 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
4433 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
4434 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
4435 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
4436 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
4437 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
4438 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
4439 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
4440 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
4441 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
4442 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
4443 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
4444 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
4445 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
4446 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
4448 o Required libraries:
4449 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
4450 strongly recommended.
4453 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
4454 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
4455 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
4456 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
4457 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
4458 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
4459 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
4460 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
4461 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
4463 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4464 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
4465 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
4466 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4467 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4468 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4469 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4470 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4471 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4472 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4473 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4474 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4475 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4476 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4477 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4480 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
4481 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
4482 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
4483 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
4484 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
4485 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
4486 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
4487 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
4488 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
4489 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
4490 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
4491 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4492 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
4493 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
4494 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4495 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
4496 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
4497 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
4498 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
4500 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
4501 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
4502 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
4503 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
4504 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
4505 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
4506 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
4509 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
4510 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4511 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
4512 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
4514 o New directory authorities:
4515 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4516 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4518 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
4519 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4520 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4521 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4522 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4523 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4524 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4525 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4526 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4527 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4528 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4531 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4532 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4533 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4535 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4536 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4537 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4538 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4539 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4540 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4541 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4542 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4543 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4545 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4546 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
4547 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
4548 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4549 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4550 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4551 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4552 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4553 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4554 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
4555 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4556 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4557 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4558 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4559 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4560 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4561 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4562 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4564 o Documentation fixes:
4565 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4568 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
4569 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4570 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
4571 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
4574 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4575 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4576 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4579 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4580 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4581 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4582 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
4583 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
4584 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
4585 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
4586 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4588 o Security features:
4589 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
4590 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
4591 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
4592 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
4593 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
4594 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
4595 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
4596 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
4597 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
4601 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
4602 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
4603 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
4606 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4607 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4608 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4609 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
4610 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4611 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
4612 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
4613 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
4614 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4615 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4616 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4617 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
4618 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
4619 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
4621 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
4622 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4623 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
4624 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
4625 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4627 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
4628 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
4629 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
4630 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4631 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
4632 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
4633 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4634 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4635 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4636 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4637 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4638 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4639 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
4640 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4641 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
4642 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
4643 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4644 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
4645 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
4646 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
4648 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4649 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
4650 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
4651 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
4652 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
4653 testable, and a little less fragile too.
4654 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
4655 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4657 o Documentation fixes:
4658 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4659 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
4663 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
4664 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4668 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4669 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4670 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4673 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4674 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4678 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
4679 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
4683 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4684 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4685 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4686 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4687 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4688 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4689 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4693 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
4694 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
4695 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
4696 log messages less noisy.
4699 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
4700 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
4704 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
4705 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
4706 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
4707 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
4708 last time we raised it).
4711 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
4712 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
4714 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
4715 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
4716 part of ticket 6736.
4717 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
4718 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
4719 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
4723 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
4724 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
4725 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4726 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4727 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4729 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
4730 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4731 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
4732 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
4733 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4734 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
4735 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
4736 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4737 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
4738 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4739 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
4740 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4743 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
4744 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
4745 bunch of compatibility code.
4748 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
4749 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
4750 the ORPort and the DirPort.
4753 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
4754 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
4755 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
4756 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
4758 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4759 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4760 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
4762 o Major features (bridges):
4763 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
4764 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
4765 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
4768 o Major features (IPv6):
4769 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
4770 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
4771 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
4772 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
4773 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
4774 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
4775 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
4776 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
4777 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
4779 o Major features (build):
4780 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
4781 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
4782 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
4783 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
4784 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
4785 fixes by Jim Meyering.
4786 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
4787 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
4788 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
4790 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
4791 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
4792 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
4793 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
4794 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
4795 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
4796 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
4797 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
4798 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
4799 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
4800 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
4802 o Minor features (streamlining);
4803 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
4804 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
4806 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
4807 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
4808 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
4809 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
4810 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
4811 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4813 o Minor features (controller):
4814 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
4816 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
4817 Implements ticket 4971.
4819 o Minor features (IPv6):
4820 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
4821 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
4822 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
4823 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
4824 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
4826 o Minor features (log messages):
4827 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
4828 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
4829 Resolves ticket 6758.
4830 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
4831 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
4832 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
4833 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4834 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
4835 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
4836 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
4838 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
4839 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
4840 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
4841 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4842 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
4845 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4846 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
4847 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
4848 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
4849 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
4851 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
4852 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
4853 Implements ticket 5529.
4854 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
4855 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
4856 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
4857 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
4858 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
4859 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
4860 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
4861 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
4862 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
4863 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
4866 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
4867 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
4868 from a source distribution.)
4871 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
4872 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4873 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
4874 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
4875 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
4876 and cleans up other smaller issues.
4878 o Major bugfixes (security):
4879 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
4880 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
4881 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
4882 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
4883 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
4884 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
4885 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
4886 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
4887 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
4888 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
4889 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
4890 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4891 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4892 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4893 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4894 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4898 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
4899 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
4900 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
4901 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4902 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
4903 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
4904 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
4905 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
4906 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
4907 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4910 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
4911 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
4912 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
4913 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
4914 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4915 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
4916 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
4917 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
4918 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
4919 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
4920 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
4922 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
4923 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
4924 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
4926 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
4927 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
4928 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
4929 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
4930 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4931 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
4932 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
4933 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
4934 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4935 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
4936 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4937 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
4938 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
4939 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
4942 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4943 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
4944 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
4945 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
4946 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4947 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
4948 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
4949 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
4950 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
4951 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
4952 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4953 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
4954 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
4955 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
4956 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4959 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
4960 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
4961 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
4962 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
4963 Resolves ticket 6732.
4966 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
4967 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
4968 attack that could in theory leak path information.
4971 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4972 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4973 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4974 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
4975 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
4976 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
4977 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
4978 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
4979 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
4980 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
4981 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
4982 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
4983 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
4984 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4987 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
4988 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4989 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
4990 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
4993 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
4994 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
4995 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4996 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
4997 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
4998 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4999 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
5000 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
5001 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
5002 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
5003 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
5004 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
5005 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
5006 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
5007 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
5008 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
5009 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
5012 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
5013 a little more useful.
5014 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
5015 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5016 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
5017 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
5018 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
5019 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
5020 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
5023 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
5024 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5025 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
5026 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5027 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
5028 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
5032 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
5033 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
5034 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
5035 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
5036 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
5039 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
5040 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
5041 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
5044 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
5046 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
5048 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5049 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
5050 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
5051 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
5052 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
5055 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
5056 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5057 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
5058 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
5059 since the beginning of Tor.
5062 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
5063 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
5064 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
5065 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
5066 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
5067 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
5068 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
5069 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5070 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
5071 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5074 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
5075 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5078 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
5079 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5080 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
5081 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
5084 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
5085 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5086 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
5087 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
5088 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
5089 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5091 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5092 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
5093 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
5094 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
5095 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
5096 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
5097 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5098 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
5099 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
5100 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
5101 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
5102 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
5103 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
5104 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5105 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
5106 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
5107 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5108 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
5109 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5111 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5112 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
5113 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
5115 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
5116 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5117 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
5118 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
5120 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
5121 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5122 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
5123 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5124 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
5125 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
5126 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5127 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
5128 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5129 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
5130 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5131 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
5132 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
5133 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5134 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
5135 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
5138 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
5139 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
5140 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
5141 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
5142 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
5145 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
5146 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
5147 options. Closes bug 4748.
5150 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
5151 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
5152 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
5153 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
5154 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
5158 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
5159 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
5161 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
5162 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
5163 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
5164 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
5165 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
5166 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
5167 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
5168 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
5169 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
5172 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
5173 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
5174 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
5175 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
5176 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
5177 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
5178 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
5179 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5182 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
5183 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
5184 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
5185 case for flushing marked connections.
5186 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
5187 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5188 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
5189 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
5190 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
5191 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
5192 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5193 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
5194 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5195 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
5196 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
5197 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
5198 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5199 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
5200 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
5201 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
5202 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5203 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
5204 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5205 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
5206 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
5207 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
5208 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5209 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
5210 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
5212 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
5213 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5214 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
5218 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
5219 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
5220 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
5221 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
5222 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
5223 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
5224 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
5225 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
5226 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
5227 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
5228 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
5229 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
5230 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
5231 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
5232 Addresses ticket 5458.
5233 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5235 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5236 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
5237 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
5240 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
5241 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5242 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5246 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5247 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5248 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5249 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5250 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5251 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5252 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5253 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5254 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5255 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5256 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5259 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5260 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5263 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5264 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5267 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
5268 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5269 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5270 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
5271 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5273 o Major bugfixes (general):
5274 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5275 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5276 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5277 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5278 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5279 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5280 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5281 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
5282 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
5284 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
5285 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
5286 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
5287 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
5290 o Major bugfixes (clients):
5291 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
5292 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
5293 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
5294 which introduced predicted ports.
5295 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5296 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5297 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5298 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5299 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
5300 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
5301 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
5302 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
5303 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
5304 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
5305 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5306 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
5307 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
5309 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
5310 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
5311 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
5312 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
5313 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
5314 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5315 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
5316 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
5317 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
5318 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
5319 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
5323 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
5324 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
5325 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
5326 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
5327 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
5328 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
5329 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
5330 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
5331 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
5332 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
5333 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
5334 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
5335 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
5336 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
5338 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
5339 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
5340 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
5341 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
5342 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
5343 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
5344 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
5345 sure. Closes bug 5139.
5346 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
5347 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
5348 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
5349 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
5350 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5351 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5352 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
5355 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5356 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5357 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5358 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5359 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5360 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5361 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5362 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5363 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5364 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5365 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5366 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5367 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5368 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5369 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5370 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5371 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5372 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5373 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5375 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5376 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
5377 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
5378 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
5379 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
5380 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
5381 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
5382 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
5383 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
5384 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
5385 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
5386 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
5387 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
5389 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
5390 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5391 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
5392 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
5394 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
5395 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
5396 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5397 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
5398 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
5399 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5400 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5401 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5402 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
5403 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
5405 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
5406 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
5407 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
5409 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5410 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
5411 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
5412 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
5413 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
5414 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
5415 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
5416 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
5417 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5418 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
5419 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
5420 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5421 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
5422 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
5423 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
5424 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5425 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
5426 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
5427 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
5428 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
5430 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
5431 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
5432 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5433 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
5434 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
5435 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
5437 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
5438 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
5439 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
5441 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
5442 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
5443 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5444 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5445 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
5446 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5449 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
5450 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
5452 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
5453 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
5454 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5455 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
5456 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
5457 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5458 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
5459 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
5460 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5461 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5462 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
5463 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
5464 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5465 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
5466 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
5467 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
5469 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
5470 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
5471 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5472 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
5473 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
5474 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5475 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
5476 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5477 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
5478 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5479 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
5480 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5481 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
5484 o Documentation fixes:
5485 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
5486 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
5487 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
5488 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
5489 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
5490 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
5493 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
5494 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
5498 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
5499 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
5500 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
5501 and fixes several crash bugs.
5503 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
5504 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
5505 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
5506 those packages and upgrade anyway.
5508 o Directory authority changes:
5509 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5510 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5514 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5515 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5516 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5517 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5518 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5519 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5520 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5521 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5522 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5523 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5524 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5525 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5526 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5527 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5528 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5529 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5530 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5531 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5532 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5533 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5534 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5535 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5536 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5537 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5538 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5539 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5540 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
5543 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5544 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5545 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5546 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5548 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5549 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5551 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5552 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5553 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5554 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5555 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5556 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5557 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5558 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5561 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5562 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5563 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5564 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5565 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5566 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5567 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5568 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5569 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5570 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5571 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5572 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5573 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5574 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5575 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5576 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5577 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5578 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5579 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5580 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5581 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5582 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5583 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5584 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5585 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5586 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5587 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5588 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5589 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5590 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5591 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5592 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5593 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5594 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5595 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5596 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5597 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5598 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5599 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5600 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5601 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
5602 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5603 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5604 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5605 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5606 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5608 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
5609 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5610 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5611 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5612 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5613 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5614 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5615 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5616 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5617 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5618 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5619 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5620 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5621 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5622 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5625 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5626 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5627 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5628 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5630 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5633 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5634 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5635 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5636 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5637 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5638 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5639 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5642 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
5643 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
5644 the development branch build on Windows again.
5646 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5647 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
5648 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
5649 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
5650 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
5651 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
5652 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
5653 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
5654 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5655 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
5656 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
5657 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
5658 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5659 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
5660 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
5662 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5663 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
5664 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
5665 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5666 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
5668 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
5669 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5670 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
5671 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
5672 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
5673 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5676 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
5677 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
5678 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
5679 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
5680 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
5681 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
5682 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
5683 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
5684 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
5687 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
5688 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
5689 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
5690 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
5694 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
5695 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
5696 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
5697 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
5699 o Directory authority changes:
5700 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5704 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5705 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5706 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5707 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5709 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
5710 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
5711 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
5712 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
5714 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
5715 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
5716 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5718 o Major features (performance):
5719 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
5720 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
5721 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
5722 much faster than other AES implementations.
5724 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
5725 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
5726 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
5727 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
5728 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
5729 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
5730 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5731 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5732 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5733 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5734 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5735 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
5736 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
5737 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5738 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5739 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
5740 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
5741 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5743 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
5744 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
5745 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
5746 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5747 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
5748 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5749 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
5750 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
5751 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
5753 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
5754 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
5755 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5756 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
5757 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
5758 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5761 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
5762 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
5763 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
5764 please let us know about it.
5765 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
5766 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
5767 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
5768 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
5769 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5770 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5771 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
5772 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
5774 o Default torrc changes:
5775 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
5776 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
5778 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
5779 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
5780 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
5784 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
5785 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
5786 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
5787 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
5790 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
5791 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
5792 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
5793 it would be a bad idea to start.
5796 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
5797 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
5798 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
5799 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5801 o Directory authority changes:
5802 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5805 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5806 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5807 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5808 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5809 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5810 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5811 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
5812 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5813 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5814 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5815 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5816 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5817 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5818 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5819 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5820 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5822 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5823 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
5824 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
5825 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
5826 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
5827 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5828 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
5829 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
5830 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5831 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
5832 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
5833 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
5835 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
5836 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
5837 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5838 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
5839 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5842 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
5843 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
5844 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
5845 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
5846 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5847 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5848 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5849 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5850 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5851 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5852 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5853 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5854 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5855 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5856 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
5857 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
5858 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
5859 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
5860 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
5861 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
5862 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
5865 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5866 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
5867 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5868 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
5869 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
5870 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
5871 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
5872 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
5873 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5874 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
5875 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
5876 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
5877 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
5878 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
5879 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
5880 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
5881 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
5884 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
5885 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
5886 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5889 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
5890 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
5891 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
5892 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
5895 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5896 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5898 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
5899 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
5900 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
5901 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5902 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
5903 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
5904 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
5905 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5906 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
5907 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
5908 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
5909 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5912 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
5913 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
5914 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
5915 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
5916 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
5917 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
5918 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5921 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5922 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5923 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5924 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5925 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
5926 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
5927 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
5928 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
5929 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
5930 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
5932 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
5933 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
5934 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
5935 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
5936 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5937 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5938 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5939 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
5940 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
5943 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5944 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
5945 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
5949 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
5950 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
5951 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
5952 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
5953 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
5954 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
5957 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
5958 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
5959 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
5960 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
5961 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
5962 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
5963 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
5964 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
5966 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
5967 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
5968 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
5969 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
5970 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
5971 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
5972 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
5973 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
5975 o Major security workaround:
5976 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5977 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5978 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5979 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5980 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5981 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5982 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5983 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5984 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5985 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5986 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5989 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5990 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5991 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5992 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5993 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5994 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5995 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5996 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5997 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
5998 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
5999 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
6000 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
6001 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
6003 o Minor features (controller):
6004 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
6005 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
6006 file. Resolves bug 1101.
6007 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
6008 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
6009 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
6010 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
6011 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
6012 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
6014 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
6015 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
6016 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
6017 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
6018 part of ticket 3457.
6019 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
6020 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
6021 circuit-status' control-port command.
6023 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6024 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
6025 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
6026 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
6027 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
6029 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
6030 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
6031 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
6032 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
6033 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
6034 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
6035 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
6037 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
6038 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
6040 o Minor features (other):
6041 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
6042 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
6043 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
6044 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
6045 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
6046 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
6047 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
6048 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
6050 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
6051 them from the other auths.
6052 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
6053 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
6054 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
6055 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
6057 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6059 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6060 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
6061 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
6062 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
6063 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
6064 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
6065 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
6066 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
6067 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
6068 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
6069 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6070 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
6071 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
6072 be disabled using the new
6073 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
6074 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6075 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
6076 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
6077 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
6078 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
6079 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
6080 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
6081 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
6082 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
6083 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
6084 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
6086 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
6087 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
6088 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
6091 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
6092 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
6093 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
6095 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
6096 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
6097 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
6098 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
6099 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6100 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
6101 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6103 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
6104 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
6105 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
6106 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
6107 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
6108 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
6109 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
6110 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
6112 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
6113 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
6114 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6115 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
6116 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
6117 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
6118 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
6119 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
6120 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
6123 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6124 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
6125 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
6126 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
6127 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
6128 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
6129 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
6130 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
6131 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6132 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
6133 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
6134 accidentally been reverted.
6135 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
6136 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
6137 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
6138 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
6139 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
6140 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
6141 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6142 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
6143 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
6144 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6145 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
6146 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
6147 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
6148 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
6149 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6150 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
6151 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6152 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
6153 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6156 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
6157 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
6158 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
6159 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
6160 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
6161 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
6162 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
6164 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6165 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
6166 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
6167 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
6168 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
6169 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
6170 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
6172 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
6173 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
6174 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
6175 invalid value, rather than just -1.
6176 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
6177 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
6178 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
6179 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
6180 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
6181 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
6182 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
6186 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
6187 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
6188 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6190 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6191 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6192 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6193 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6194 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6195 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6196 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6197 (which Tor does not do by default).
6199 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6200 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6201 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6202 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6203 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6205 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
6209 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6210 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6211 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6212 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6215 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
6216 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
6217 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
6218 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
6219 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
6220 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
6221 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
6222 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
6223 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
6224 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
6225 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6228 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6231 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
6232 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
6233 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6235 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6236 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6237 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6238 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6239 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6240 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6241 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6242 (which Tor does not do by default).
6244 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6245 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6246 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6247 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6248 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6250 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
6251 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
6252 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
6255 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
6256 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
6257 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
6258 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
6259 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6261 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
6262 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
6265 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6266 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6267 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6268 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6269 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6270 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6271 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6272 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6274 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6275 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6276 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6277 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6278 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6279 close based on processing a cell on it.
6280 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6281 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6282 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6283 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6284 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6285 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6286 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6287 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
6288 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
6289 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
6290 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6291 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6292 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6293 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6294 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
6297 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6298 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6299 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6300 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6301 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6302 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6303 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6305 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6306 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6307 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6308 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6309 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6310 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6311 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6312 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6313 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6314 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6315 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6316 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6317 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6318 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6319 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
6320 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
6321 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
6322 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
6323 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6324 Reported by "troll_un".
6325 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6326 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6327 Reported by "troll_un".
6328 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6329 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6330 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6331 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6334 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6335 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6336 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6337 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6338 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6339 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6340 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6341 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6342 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6343 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6344 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6346 o Packaging changes:
6347 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6348 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6351 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
6352 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6353 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6354 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6355 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6357 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
6358 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
6360 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6361 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6362 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6363 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6364 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6365 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6366 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6367 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6368 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6371 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6374 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
6375 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
6376 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
6377 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
6378 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
6379 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
6380 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
6383 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
6384 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
6385 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
6386 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
6387 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
6388 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
6389 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
6390 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
6391 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
6392 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
6393 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
6394 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6395 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
6396 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
6397 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
6398 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
6399 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
6400 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
6401 Resolves ticket 4526.
6402 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
6403 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
6404 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
6405 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
6406 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
6407 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
6408 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
6409 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
6410 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
6411 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
6412 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
6413 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
6414 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
6415 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
6416 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
6417 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
6420 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
6421 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
6422 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
6423 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
6424 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
6425 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
6426 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
6427 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
6428 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
6429 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6431 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
6432 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
6433 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
6434 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
6435 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
6436 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
6437 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
6438 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
6439 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
6441 o Minor features (new/different config options):
6442 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
6443 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
6444 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
6445 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
6446 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
6447 Implements issue 933.
6448 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
6449 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
6450 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
6451 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
6452 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
6453 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
6454 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
6455 appending to the list.
6456 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
6457 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
6458 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
6459 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
6461 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
6462 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
6463 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
6464 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
6465 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
6466 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
6467 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
6468 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
6471 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
6472 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
6473 Resolves ticket 2474.
6474 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
6475 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
6476 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
6477 Required by fix for bug 3460.
6478 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
6479 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
6480 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
6481 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
6482 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
6483 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
6484 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
6485 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
6486 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6489 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6490 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6492 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
6494 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
6495 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
6497 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
6498 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
6499 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6500 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6501 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
6502 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
6503 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
6505 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
6506 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
6507 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6508 Reported by "troll_un".
6509 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6510 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6511 Reported by "troll_un".
6512 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6513 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6514 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
6515 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
6517 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
6518 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
6520 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
6521 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
6522 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
6523 with help from wanoskarnet.
6524 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
6525 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6528 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
6529 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
6530 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
6531 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6533 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
6534 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
6535 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
6536 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
6537 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
6538 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
6539 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
6540 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
6543 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
6544 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
6545 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
6546 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
6547 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
6548 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
6549 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
6550 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
6551 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
6554 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6555 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6556 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6557 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6559 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6560 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6561 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6562 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6563 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
6564 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
6565 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
6566 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
6567 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
6568 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
6569 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
6570 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
6571 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
6572 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
6573 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
6574 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
6575 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
6576 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
6577 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
6578 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6579 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6580 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6581 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6582 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
6585 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
6586 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
6587 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
6588 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
6589 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
6590 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6591 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
6592 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
6595 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6596 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6597 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6598 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6599 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6600 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6601 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6602 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6603 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6604 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
6605 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
6606 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
6607 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
6608 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
6609 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
6611 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
6612 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
6613 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6614 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6615 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6616 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6617 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6618 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6619 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
6620 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
6621 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
6622 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6623 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6624 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6625 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6626 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6627 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6629 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6630 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
6631 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
6632 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
6633 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6635 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
6636 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
6637 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
6639 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
6640 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
6641 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
6643 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
6644 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
6646 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
6647 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6650 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6651 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6652 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6653 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6654 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6655 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6656 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6657 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6658 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6659 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6660 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
6661 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
6662 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
6663 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
6665 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
6666 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
6667 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6669 o Packaging changes:
6670 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6671 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6673 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6674 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
6675 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
6676 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
6677 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
6678 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
6679 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
6680 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
6681 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
6684 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
6686 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
6687 ./src/test/bench binary.
6688 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
6689 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
6692 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
6693 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
6694 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
6698 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6699 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6700 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6701 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6702 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6703 close based on processing a cell on it.
6704 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
6705 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
6706 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6707 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
6708 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
6709 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
6710 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
6711 cells were introduced.
6714 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6715 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6718 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
6719 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
6720 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
6721 users. Everybody should upgrade.
6723 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
6724 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
6727 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
6728 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
6729 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
6730 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
6731 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
6732 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
6734 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6735 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6736 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6737 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6738 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6739 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6740 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6741 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6742 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6743 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6744 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6745 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6746 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6747 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6748 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6749 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6750 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6751 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6754 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6755 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
6756 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
6757 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
6758 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
6759 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
6760 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
6761 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
6762 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
6763 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
6764 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
6765 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
6766 Partly fixes bug 3825.
6767 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6768 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6769 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6770 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6771 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6772 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6773 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6775 o Major bugfixes (other):
6776 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6777 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6778 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6779 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6780 Found by "frosty_un".
6781 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
6782 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
6783 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
6784 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
6785 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
6786 immensely in tracking this bug down.
6787 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6788 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6791 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6792 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6793 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6794 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6795 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6796 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6797 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
6798 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
6799 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6800 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6801 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6802 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6803 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6804 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6805 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6806 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6807 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6808 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6809 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6810 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6811 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6813 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6814 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
6815 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
6816 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6817 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
6818 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
6819 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
6820 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
6821 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
6822 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
6823 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
6826 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
6827 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
6828 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
6829 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
6830 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6831 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6832 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6833 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6834 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
6835 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
6836 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
6837 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
6838 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
6839 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6841 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6842 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
6843 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
6844 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
6845 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
6846 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
6847 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
6848 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
6851 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
6852 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
6853 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
6855 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
6856 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
6857 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
6858 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
6859 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
6860 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
6861 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
6862 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
6863 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
6864 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
6865 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
6866 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
6867 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
6869 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
6870 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
6871 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
6872 currently connected to them.
6874 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
6875 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
6876 remain; see for example proposal 188.
6878 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6879 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6880 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6881 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6882 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6883 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6884 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6885 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6886 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6887 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6888 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6889 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6890 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6891 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6892 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6893 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6894 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6895 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6898 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
6899 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6900 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6901 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6902 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6903 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6904 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6905 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6906 when bridges were introduced.
6907 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6908 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6909 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6910 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6911 Found by "frosty_un".
6914 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6915 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6917 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6918 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6919 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6920 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6921 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6922 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6923 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6926 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6927 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6928 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6929 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6930 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6931 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6932 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6933 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6934 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6935 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6936 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6937 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6938 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6939 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6940 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6941 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6942 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6943 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6945 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
6946 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6947 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6948 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6949 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6950 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6951 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6952 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6953 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6954 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6955 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6956 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6959 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6960 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6961 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
6962 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6965 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
6966 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6967 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6968 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6969 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6971 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6972 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6973 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6974 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6975 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6976 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6977 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6978 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6979 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6980 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6982 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6983 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6984 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6985 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6986 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6987 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6988 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6989 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6990 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6991 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6992 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6993 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6994 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6995 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6996 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6997 Found by "frosty_un".
6998 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6999 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7000 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7001 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7002 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7003 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7004 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7005 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7006 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7007 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
7008 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
7009 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
7010 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7011 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7012 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7013 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7014 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7015 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7016 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7018 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7019 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
7020 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
7021 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
7022 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
7023 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
7024 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
7025 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
7027 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
7028 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
7029 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7030 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7031 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
7032 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
7033 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
7034 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
7035 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
7036 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
7037 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7038 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7040 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
7041 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7042 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
7043 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7044 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
7045 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7046 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
7047 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
7048 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
7050 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7052 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7053 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7054 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7055 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7056 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7057 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7058 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7059 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7061 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
7062 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
7063 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
7064 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
7065 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
7067 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7068 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7069 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7070 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7071 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7074 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
7075 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
7076 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
7077 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
7078 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
7081 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
7082 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
7083 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
7084 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
7085 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
7086 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
7087 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7088 when bridges were introduced.
7091 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
7092 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
7093 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7095 o Major features (networking):
7096 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
7097 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
7098 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
7099 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
7100 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
7104 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
7105 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
7106 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
7108 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7109 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
7110 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
7111 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
7112 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7114 o Minor features (diagnostics):
7115 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
7116 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
7119 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
7120 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
7121 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
7122 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
7123 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
7124 listed in the network consensus and republish.
7126 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7127 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
7128 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
7129 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7131 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
7132 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7133 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7134 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7135 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7136 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7137 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7138 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7139 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7140 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7141 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7143 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7144 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7145 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7146 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7147 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7148 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7149 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7150 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7151 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7152 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7154 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7155 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7156 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7157 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7158 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7159 fixes part of bug 2442.
7160 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7161 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7162 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7164 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7165 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7166 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7167 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7168 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7170 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7171 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7172 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7173 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7174 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7177 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
7178 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
7179 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
7183 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
7184 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
7185 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
7186 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
7187 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
7188 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
7189 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
7192 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
7193 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
7194 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
7195 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
7196 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
7197 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
7198 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
7201 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
7202 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
7203 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
7204 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
7205 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
7206 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
7207 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
7208 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
7209 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7212 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
7213 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
7216 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
7217 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
7218 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
7219 reachable from Iran again.
7222 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
7223 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
7224 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7226 o Minor features (security):
7227 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7228 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7229 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7230 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7231 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7232 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7233 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7234 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7235 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7236 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7239 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7240 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7241 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7242 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7243 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7244 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7245 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7246 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7247 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7249 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
7250 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7251 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7252 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7253 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7255 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7256 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7257 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7258 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7259 fixes part of bug 2442.
7260 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7261 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7262 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7264 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7265 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7266 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7267 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7268 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7271 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7272 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7273 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7274 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7275 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7276 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7279 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
7280 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
7281 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
7282 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
7283 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
7284 bufferevent-based networking backend.
7286 o Major features (stream isolation):
7287 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
7288 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
7289 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
7290 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
7291 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
7292 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
7293 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
7294 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
7295 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
7296 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
7297 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
7298 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
7299 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
7300 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
7302 o Major features (other):
7303 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
7304 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
7305 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
7306 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
7307 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
7308 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
7309 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
7310 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
7311 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
7312 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
7313 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
7314 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
7315 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
7317 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7318 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
7320 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
7321 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
7322 Fixes part of bug 3752.
7323 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
7324 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
7325 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
7326 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
7327 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
7328 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
7329 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7330 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
7331 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
7332 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
7333 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7334 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
7335 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
7336 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
7337 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
7338 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
7339 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
7341 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7342 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7343 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7344 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7345 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7346 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7349 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
7350 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
7351 user. Implements ticket 1692.
7352 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
7353 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
7354 best copy data out of a buffer.
7355 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
7356 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
7357 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
7359 o Minor features (build compatibility):
7360 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
7361 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7362 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7364 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7365 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
7368 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
7369 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7370 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
7371 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
7372 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
7373 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7375 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
7376 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7377 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7378 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7379 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7381 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
7382 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
7383 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
7386 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7387 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7388 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7389 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7390 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7391 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7392 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7393 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7394 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7395 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7396 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7397 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7398 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7399 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7400 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7401 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7402 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7403 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7404 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7407 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7408 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
7409 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
7413 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
7414 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
7415 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
7416 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
7417 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
7418 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
7421 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
7422 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
7423 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
7424 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
7425 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
7426 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
7427 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
7428 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
7429 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
7430 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
7432 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
7433 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
7434 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
7435 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
7436 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
7437 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
7438 many many other features and bugfixes.
7441 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
7442 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
7443 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
7446 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7447 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7448 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7449 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7450 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7451 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7452 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7453 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7456 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7459 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7460 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7461 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7462 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7463 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7464 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7465 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7466 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7467 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7468 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7469 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7470 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7471 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7472 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7473 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7474 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7475 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7476 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7480 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
7481 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
7482 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
7483 up a variety of recently introduced features.
7486 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
7487 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
7488 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
7489 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
7490 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
7491 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
7492 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
7493 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
7494 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7495 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
7496 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
7497 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
7498 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
7499 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
7500 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
7501 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
7503 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7504 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
7505 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
7506 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
7507 order. Fixes bug 2798.
7508 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
7509 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
7510 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
7511 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
7512 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
7513 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
7517 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7518 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
7519 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
7520 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
7522 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
7523 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
7524 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
7525 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
7526 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
7527 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
7528 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
7529 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
7530 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
7531 Implements ticket 3264.
7532 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
7533 implements ticket 3439.
7535 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7536 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
7537 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
7538 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
7539 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
7540 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
7541 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
7542 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
7543 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
7544 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
7545 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
7546 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
7547 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
7548 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
7549 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
7550 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
7551 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
7552 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
7553 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
7554 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
7555 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
7556 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
7557 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
7558 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
7559 fails. Spotted by coverity.
7560 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
7561 present. Found by coverity.
7562 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
7563 a directory cache that provides them.
7565 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7566 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
7567 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
7568 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
7569 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
7570 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
7572 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
7573 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
7574 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7575 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7576 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7577 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7578 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
7579 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
7581 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7582 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
7583 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
7584 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
7585 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
7586 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
7587 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
7589 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
7593 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
7594 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
7595 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
7598 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
7599 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
7600 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
7601 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
7604 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
7605 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
7606 discovered by katmagic.
7607 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7608 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7609 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7610 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7611 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7612 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7613 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7614 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7615 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
7616 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
7617 fixes part of bug 3465.
7618 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
7619 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
7623 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7626 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
7627 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
7628 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
7629 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
7630 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
7633 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
7634 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
7635 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
7636 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
7637 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
7640 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7641 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7642 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7643 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7644 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7645 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7648 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
7649 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
7650 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
7651 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7652 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7653 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
7654 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
7655 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
7656 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
7657 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
7658 fixes part of bug 3407.
7659 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7660 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
7661 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
7662 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
7663 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
7664 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
7665 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
7666 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
7667 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
7668 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
7670 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
7671 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
7672 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
7673 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
7676 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7678 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7679 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
7680 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
7682 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
7684 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
7687 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
7688 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
7689 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
7690 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
7691 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
7692 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
7696 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
7697 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
7698 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
7699 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7700 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
7701 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
7702 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
7704 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
7705 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
7706 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
7707 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
7708 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
7709 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
7710 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
7711 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
7712 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
7713 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
7714 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
7715 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
7716 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
7717 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
7718 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
7719 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
7720 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
7721 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
7722 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
7726 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
7727 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
7728 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
7729 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
7730 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
7731 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
7732 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
7733 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
7734 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
7738 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7739 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
7740 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
7742 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
7744 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
7745 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
7746 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
7747 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
7748 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7749 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
7750 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
7751 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
7752 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
7754 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
7755 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7756 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
7757 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
7758 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
7759 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
7761 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
7762 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
7764 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
7765 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
7766 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7769 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
7770 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
7771 Resolves ticket 3252.
7772 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
7773 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
7774 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
7775 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
7776 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
7777 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7780 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7781 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7784 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
7785 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
7786 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
7789 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
7790 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7791 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
7792 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
7793 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
7796 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
7797 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7798 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
7799 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
7800 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
7801 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
7802 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
7803 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
7804 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
7808 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
7809 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
7810 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
7811 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
7812 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
7814 o Security/privacy fixes:
7815 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7816 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7817 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7818 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
7819 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
7820 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
7821 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7822 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7823 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7824 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7825 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7826 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7827 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
7828 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
7829 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7832 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
7833 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
7834 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
7835 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
7836 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
7837 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
7838 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
7839 part of ticket 3076.
7840 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
7841 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
7842 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
7846 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
7847 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
7848 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
7849 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
7850 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
7851 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
7852 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
7853 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
7855 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
7856 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
7857 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
7858 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
7859 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
7860 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
7861 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
7862 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
7863 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
7864 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
7865 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
7866 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
7867 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7870 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7871 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7872 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7873 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
7874 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
7875 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
7876 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
7878 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
7879 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
7880 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
7881 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
7882 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
7883 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
7884 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
7885 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
7886 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
7887 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
7888 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
7889 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
7890 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
7891 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
7892 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
7893 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
7895 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
7896 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
7898 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
7899 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
7901 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
7902 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
7904 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
7905 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
7906 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7908 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
7909 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7910 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7911 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7912 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7913 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7914 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7915 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7916 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7917 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
7918 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
7920 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
7921 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
7922 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
7923 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
7924 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
7925 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7926 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
7927 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
7928 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
7929 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
7930 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7931 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
7932 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
7936 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
7937 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
7938 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
7942 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
7943 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
7944 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
7945 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
7946 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
7947 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
7949 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
7950 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
7951 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
7954 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
7955 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
7956 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
7957 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
7958 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
7959 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
7960 zero-copy transports where available.
7961 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
7962 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
7963 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
7964 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
7965 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
7966 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
7967 debug it as it breaks.
7968 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
7969 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
7970 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
7971 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
7972 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
7973 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
7974 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
7975 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
7976 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
7977 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
7978 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
7979 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
7980 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
7981 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
7982 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
7983 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
7984 PortForwarding option.
7985 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
7986 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
7987 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
7988 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
7989 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
7990 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
7991 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
7994 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
7995 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
7996 Implements enhancement 1668.
7997 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
7999 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
8000 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
8001 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
8002 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
8003 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
8004 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
8005 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
8007 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
8008 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
8009 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
8010 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
8011 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
8012 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
8013 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
8015 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
8016 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
8017 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
8018 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
8019 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
8020 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
8021 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
8023 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
8024 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
8025 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
8026 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
8027 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8028 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
8029 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
8030 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
8031 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
8032 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
8033 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
8034 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
8035 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
8036 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
8037 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
8040 o Minor features (controller):
8041 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
8042 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
8043 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
8044 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
8045 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
8046 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
8047 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
8050 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
8051 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
8052 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
8053 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
8054 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
8055 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
8056 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
8057 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
8059 o Minor packaging issues:
8060 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
8061 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8063 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8064 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
8065 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
8066 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
8067 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
8068 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
8069 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
8070 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
8071 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
8072 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
8073 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
8074 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
8075 our library structure used to force them to link it.
8078 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
8079 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
8080 are no longer in use as servers.
8082 o Documentation fixes:
8083 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
8084 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
8085 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
8089 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
8090 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
8091 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
8092 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
8093 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
8094 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
8095 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
8096 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
8097 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
8098 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
8101 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
8102 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
8103 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
8104 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
8105 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
8106 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
8107 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
8108 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
8109 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
8110 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8111 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
8112 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
8113 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8114 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
8115 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
8116 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
8118 o Security and stability fixes:
8119 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
8120 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
8121 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
8122 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
8123 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
8124 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
8125 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
8126 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
8127 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
8128 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
8129 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
8130 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
8131 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8132 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
8133 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
8134 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8137 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
8138 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
8139 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
8140 contributions to the network.
8142 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
8143 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
8144 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
8145 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
8146 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
8147 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
8148 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
8149 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
8150 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
8151 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
8152 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
8153 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
8154 connections to directory servers.
8155 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
8156 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
8157 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
8158 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
8159 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
8160 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
8161 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
8162 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
8163 information, or fetch directory information.
8164 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
8165 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
8166 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
8167 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
8168 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
8169 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
8170 unless you really want your Tor to break.
8171 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
8172 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
8173 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
8174 - When StrictNodes is 1:
8175 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
8176 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
8177 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
8178 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
8179 reachability self-tests.
8180 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
8181 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
8182 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
8183 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
8184 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8185 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
8186 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
8188 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
8189 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8190 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
8191 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
8192 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
8193 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8194 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
8195 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
8196 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
8197 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
8198 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
8201 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
8202 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
8203 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
8204 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
8205 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
8206 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8207 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
8208 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
8209 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
8210 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
8211 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
8212 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8213 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
8214 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
8215 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8216 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
8217 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
8219 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
8220 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
8221 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
8222 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
8223 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8224 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
8225 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8226 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
8227 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8228 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
8229 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
8230 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
8231 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
8232 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
8233 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
8234 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8235 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
8236 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
8237 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
8238 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
8241 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
8242 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
8243 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
8244 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
8245 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
8246 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
8247 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
8248 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
8249 Required by fix for bug 3000.
8250 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
8251 by fix for bug 3000.
8252 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
8253 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
8255 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8256 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
8257 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
8258 send a body too). Since only server versions before
8259 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
8260 keep the workaround in place.
8261 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
8262 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
8263 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
8264 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
8265 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
8266 want to do it differently.
8267 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8268 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8269 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8270 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
8271 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
8275 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
8276 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
8277 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
8278 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
8279 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
8282 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
8283 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
8284 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
8285 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
8286 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
8288 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
8289 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
8290 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
8291 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
8292 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
8293 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
8294 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
8295 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
8296 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
8297 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
8298 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
8299 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
8302 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8303 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8304 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8305 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8306 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8307 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8308 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8310 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
8311 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
8312 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
8313 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
8314 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
8315 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
8316 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
8317 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
8318 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
8319 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
8320 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
8321 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
8322 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
8323 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
8324 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
8325 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
8326 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8327 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
8328 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
8329 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
8330 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
8331 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8332 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8335 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
8337 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
8338 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
8339 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
8341 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
8342 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
8343 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
8344 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
8346 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
8347 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
8348 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
8349 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8352 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
8353 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8355 o Documentation changes:
8356 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
8357 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
8359 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
8362 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
8363 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
8364 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
8365 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
8366 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
8367 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
8370 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8371 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8372 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8373 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8374 the rest of bug 1074.
8375 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8376 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8377 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8378 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8379 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8380 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8381 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8382 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8383 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8384 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8385 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8386 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8387 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8388 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8391 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
8392 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
8393 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
8394 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
8395 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
8396 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
8397 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
8398 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
8399 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
8400 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
8401 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
8402 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
8403 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
8404 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
8406 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8407 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8408 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8409 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8410 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8411 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
8413 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
8414 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
8415 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
8416 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
8417 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
8418 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
8419 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
8420 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
8421 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
8423 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
8424 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
8425 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
8426 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
8427 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
8428 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
8429 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
8430 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
8431 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
8432 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
8433 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
8434 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
8435 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
8436 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8437 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
8438 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
8440 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
8441 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
8442 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
8443 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
8444 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
8445 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
8447 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
8448 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
8449 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
8451 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8452 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
8453 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
8454 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
8455 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
8456 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
8457 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
8459 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
8460 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
8461 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
8462 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
8463 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
8467 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
8468 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
8469 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
8470 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
8471 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
8472 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
8473 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
8474 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
8475 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
8476 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
8477 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
8478 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
8480 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8482 o Minor features (log subsystem):
8483 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
8484 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
8485 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
8487 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
8488 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
8490 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
8491 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
8492 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
8495 o Packaging changes:
8496 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8497 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8498 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8501 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
8502 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
8503 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
8504 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8505 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8506 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
8509 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8510 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8511 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8512 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8513 the rest of bug 1074.
8514 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8515 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8517 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8518 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8519 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8520 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8521 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8522 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8523 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8526 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8528 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8531 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8532 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8533 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
8534 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8535 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8536 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8537 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8538 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8539 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8540 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8541 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8543 o Packaging changes:
8544 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8545 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8546 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8547 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
8548 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
8549 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8552 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
8553 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
8554 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
8555 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8556 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8557 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
8560 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8561 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8563 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
8564 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
8565 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
8566 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
8569 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8571 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
8572 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
8573 Implements ticket 2432.
8576 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8577 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8578 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
8581 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
8582 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
8583 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
8584 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
8585 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
8586 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8588 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8589 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8590 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8591 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8593 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8594 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8595 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8596 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8597 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8598 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8599 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8600 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8602 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8603 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8604 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8605 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8606 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8607 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8608 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8609 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8610 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8611 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8612 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8613 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8614 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8615 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8618 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8619 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8620 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8621 bug reported by doorss.
8622 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8623 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8624 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8625 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8626 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8628 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8629 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8630 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8631 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
8632 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8634 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8635 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8636 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8638 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8639 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8640 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8641 Automake 1.7 or later.
8642 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8643 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8644 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8645 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8647 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8648 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
8649 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
8652 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8653 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
8654 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
8655 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
8657 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8658 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
8659 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
8660 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
8661 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
8662 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
8663 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
8664 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
8665 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
8667 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
8668 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
8669 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
8672 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8673 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
8674 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
8675 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
8676 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
8677 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
8678 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
8679 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
8680 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
8681 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
8682 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
8683 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
8684 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
8686 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8687 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
8691 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
8692 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
8693 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
8694 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
8695 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8697 o Major bugfixes (security):
8698 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8699 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8700 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8702 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8703 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8704 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8705 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8706 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8707 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8708 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8709 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8711 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8712 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8713 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8714 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8715 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8716 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8717 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8718 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8719 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8720 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8721 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8722 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8723 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8724 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8727 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8728 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8729 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8730 bug reported by doorss.
8731 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8732 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8733 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8734 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8735 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8737 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8738 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8739 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8740 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
8741 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8742 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8743 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8744 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8745 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8748 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8749 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8752 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8753 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8754 Automake 1.7 or later.
8757 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
8758 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8759 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
8760 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
8761 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
8764 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8765 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8766 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8767 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8768 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
8769 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
8770 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
8771 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
8772 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
8773 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
8774 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
8776 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
8777 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
8778 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
8779 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
8781 o Directory authority changes:
8782 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8785 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
8786 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
8787 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
8788 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
8789 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
8790 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8791 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
8792 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
8793 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
8796 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8797 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
8798 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
8799 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
8800 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
8801 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
8802 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
8803 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
8804 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
8805 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
8809 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
8810 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8811 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
8812 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
8816 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8817 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8818 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8819 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8821 o Directory authority changes:
8822 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8825 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8828 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
8829 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8830 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
8831 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
8832 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
8835 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8836 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8837 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8838 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8839 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8840 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8841 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8842 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8843 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8844 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8845 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8846 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8847 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8848 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8849 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8850 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8851 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8852 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8853 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8854 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8855 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8856 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8857 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8860 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
8861 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
8862 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
8863 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
8865 o New directory authorities:
8866 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8870 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
8871 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
8872 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
8874 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8875 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8876 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8877 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8878 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8879 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8881 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8882 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8883 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8886 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8887 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8888 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8889 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8890 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8891 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8892 Patch from mingw-san.
8895 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8896 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8897 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8898 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
8899 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
8900 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
8903 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
8904 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8905 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
8908 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8909 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8910 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8911 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8912 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8915 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
8916 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
8917 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
8918 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
8919 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
8920 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
8921 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
8922 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
8923 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
8926 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
8927 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
8928 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
8929 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
8930 to a stable release.
8933 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8934 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8935 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8936 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8937 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8938 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8939 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8940 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8941 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8942 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8943 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8944 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8945 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8946 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
8947 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
8948 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
8949 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
8950 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
8951 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
8952 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
8953 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
8954 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
8955 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
8956 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
8957 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8958 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
8959 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
8960 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
8961 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
8962 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
8963 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
8966 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8967 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
8968 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
8969 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
8970 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
8971 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
8972 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8973 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8974 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8975 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8976 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8977 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8978 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8979 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8980 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
8981 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
8982 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
8984 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8985 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8986 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
8987 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
8988 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
8990 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
8991 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
8992 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
8993 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
8996 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
8997 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
8998 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
8999 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
9000 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
9001 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
9002 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
9003 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9005 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9006 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
9007 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
9008 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
9009 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
9010 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
9011 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
9012 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
9013 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
9014 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
9015 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
9016 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
9017 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
9018 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
9019 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
9022 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
9023 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
9024 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
9025 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
9026 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
9027 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
9028 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
9029 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
9030 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
9033 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
9034 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
9035 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
9036 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
9037 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
9039 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
9040 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
9041 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
9042 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
9043 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
9044 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
9045 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9046 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
9047 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
9048 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
9049 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
9050 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
9051 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
9052 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
9054 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9055 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
9057 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
9058 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9059 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
9060 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
9061 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
9062 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
9063 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
9064 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
9065 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9066 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
9067 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
9068 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
9069 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
9070 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
9071 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
9072 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
9073 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
9074 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9076 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
9077 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
9078 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
9079 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
9080 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
9081 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
9082 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
9083 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
9084 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
9085 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
9086 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
9087 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
9088 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
9090 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
9091 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
9092 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
9093 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9096 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
9097 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
9098 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
9099 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
9100 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
9101 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
9102 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
9103 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
9104 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
9105 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
9106 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
9107 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
9108 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
9109 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
9110 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
9111 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
9112 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
9113 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
9114 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
9117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9118 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
9119 based on the time during which we were active and not in
9120 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
9121 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
9122 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
9123 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
9124 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9126 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9127 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
9128 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
9129 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
9130 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
9131 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
9132 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
9133 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
9134 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
9135 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
9138 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
9139 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
9140 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
9141 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
9143 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
9144 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
9145 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
9146 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
9147 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
9148 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
9149 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
9150 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
9151 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
9152 the longest-lived bug prize.
9153 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
9154 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
9155 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
9156 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
9157 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
9158 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
9160 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
9161 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
9162 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
9163 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
9164 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
9165 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
9169 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9170 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
9171 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
9172 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
9173 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
9174 got suppressed since the last warning.
9175 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
9176 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
9177 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
9178 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
9179 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
9180 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
9181 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
9182 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
9183 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
9184 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
9185 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
9186 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
9187 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
9188 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
9189 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
9190 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
9191 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
9192 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
9193 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
9195 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
9196 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
9197 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
9199 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9200 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
9201 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
9202 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
9203 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
9204 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
9205 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
9206 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
9207 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
9208 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
9209 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
9210 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
9211 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
9212 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
9213 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
9215 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
9216 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
9217 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
9218 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
9219 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
9220 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9221 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
9223 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
9224 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
9225 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
9226 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
9227 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
9230 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9231 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
9232 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
9233 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
9234 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
9235 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
9236 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
9237 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
9238 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
9239 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
9240 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9241 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
9242 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
9243 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
9244 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
9245 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
9246 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
9247 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
9250 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
9253 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
9254 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
9255 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
9256 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
9257 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
9261 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
9262 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
9263 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
9264 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
9265 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
9266 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
9267 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
9268 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
9269 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
9270 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
9271 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
9272 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
9273 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
9274 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
9275 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
9276 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
9277 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
9280 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
9281 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
9282 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
9283 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
9284 they first get the Guard flag.
9285 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
9289 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9290 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
9291 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
9292 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
9293 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
9294 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
9295 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9296 Patch from mingw-san.
9297 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
9298 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
9300 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
9301 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
9302 Implements enhancement 1790.
9304 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9305 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
9306 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
9307 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
9308 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
9309 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
9310 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
9311 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
9312 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
9313 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
9314 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
9315 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
9316 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
9317 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
9318 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
9319 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
9320 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
9321 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
9322 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
9323 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
9325 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
9326 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
9327 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
9328 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9329 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9330 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9331 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9332 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
9333 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9334 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
9335 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
9336 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
9337 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
9339 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
9340 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
9341 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
9342 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
9343 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
9344 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9347 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
9348 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
9349 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
9350 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9351 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
9352 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
9353 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9354 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
9355 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
9356 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
9357 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
9359 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
9360 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
9361 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
9362 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
9363 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
9364 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
9365 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
9367 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
9369 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
9370 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9371 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
9372 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
9373 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
9374 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
9376 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9377 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
9378 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
9379 structures and defines in or.h for now.
9380 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
9381 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
9382 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
9383 statistics code to be more easily tested.
9384 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9385 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9386 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9389 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
9390 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
9391 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
9392 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
9393 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
9394 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
9398 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
9399 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
9400 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
9401 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
9402 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
9403 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
9404 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
9405 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
9406 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
9407 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
9408 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
9409 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
9410 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
9412 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
9413 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
9414 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
9415 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
9416 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
9417 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
9418 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
9419 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
9420 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
9421 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
9422 can be controlled by the consensus.
9425 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
9426 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
9427 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
9428 more accurate data for many African countries.
9429 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
9430 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
9431 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9432 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
9433 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
9434 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
9435 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
9436 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
9437 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
9438 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9439 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
9440 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
9442 o New directory authorities:
9443 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9447 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
9448 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
9449 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
9450 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
9451 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
9452 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
9453 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
9454 what should go in a patch.
9455 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
9456 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
9457 over our stored history.
9458 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
9459 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
9460 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
9461 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
9462 file. Fixes bug 1296.
9463 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
9464 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
9465 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
9469 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
9471 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
9472 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
9473 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
9474 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
9475 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
9476 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
9477 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
9478 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
9479 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
9480 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
9481 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
9482 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9483 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
9484 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
9485 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
9486 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
9487 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
9488 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
9489 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
9490 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
9491 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
9492 two-hop circuits are actually created.
9493 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
9494 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9495 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
9496 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9499 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
9500 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9501 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9502 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9503 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9505 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
9506 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9509 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9510 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9511 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9512 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9513 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9514 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9515 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9516 their directory fetches over TLS).
9517 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9518 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9519 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9520 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9521 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9522 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9523 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9524 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9527 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9528 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9532 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9533 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9534 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9535 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9536 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9537 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9538 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9541 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
9542 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9543 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9544 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9545 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9548 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9549 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9550 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9551 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9552 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9553 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9554 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9555 their directory fetches over TLS).
9558 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9559 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9561 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
9562 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
9563 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
9564 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
9565 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
9566 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
9567 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
9568 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
9569 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
9570 hour of their uptime.
9573 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
9574 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
9575 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
9579 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
9580 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
9581 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
9582 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
9583 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
9584 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
9586 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
9587 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
9588 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
9590 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
9591 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
9595 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
9596 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
9597 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
9601 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
9602 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
9603 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9606 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9607 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9608 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9609 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9610 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
9611 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
9612 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
9613 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
9614 about the option without breaking older ones.
9615 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9616 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9617 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9618 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9621 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
9622 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
9623 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
9624 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
9626 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
9627 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
9628 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
9631 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
9632 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
9634 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
9635 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
9636 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
9637 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
9638 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
9639 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
9640 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9641 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
9642 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
9643 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
9644 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
9647 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9648 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9649 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9650 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9651 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9652 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9653 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9656 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
9657 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
9658 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
9659 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
9660 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
9661 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
9664 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9665 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9666 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9667 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
9669 o Major features (performance):
9670 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
9671 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
9672 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
9673 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
9674 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
9675 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
9676 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
9678 o Minor features (performance):
9679 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
9680 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
9681 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
9682 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
9683 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
9687 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
9688 speeds up the build considerably.
9690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9691 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
9692 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9693 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
9694 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9695 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
9696 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
9697 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9699 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
9700 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9701 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9703 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9704 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9705 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9706 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9708 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9709 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
9710 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
9711 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
9712 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
9713 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
9716 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
9717 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
9718 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
9720 o Directory authority changes:
9721 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9722 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9723 service directory authority) from the list.
9726 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9727 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9728 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9729 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9730 libraries in a security patch.
9731 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9732 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9733 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9734 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9736 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
9737 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
9738 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
9739 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
9740 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9741 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9742 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9745 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
9746 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
9747 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
9748 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
9749 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
9750 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
9751 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
9752 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
9753 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
9754 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
9755 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
9756 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
9757 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
9759 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
9760 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
9761 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
9762 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
9763 control-spec.txt said they were.
9764 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9765 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9766 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
9767 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
9768 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9770 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9771 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
9772 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
9774 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
9775 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
9776 iPhone SDK versions.
9777 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
9778 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
9779 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
9780 projects directory in svn.
9781 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
9782 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
9783 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
9787 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
9788 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
9789 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
9791 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
9792 to the circuit build timeout.
9793 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
9794 arguments we do not recognize.
9795 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
9796 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
9797 open() without checking it.
9800 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
9801 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
9802 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
9803 several minor potential security bugs.
9806 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9807 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9808 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9809 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
9810 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9811 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9812 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9815 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9816 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9818 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9819 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9820 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9821 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9825 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
9826 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
9830 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
9831 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
9832 customized patches to run/build.
9835 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
9836 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
9837 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
9840 o Major bugfixes (performance):
9841 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9842 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9843 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9844 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9845 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9846 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9847 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9850 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9851 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9852 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9853 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9854 libraries in a security patch.
9855 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9856 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9857 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9858 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9861 o Directory authority changes:
9862 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9863 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9864 service directory authority) from the list.
9867 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9868 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9871 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9872 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9873 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9874 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9875 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9878 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
9879 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
9880 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
9884 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
9885 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
9886 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
9887 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
9888 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9891 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
9892 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
9893 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
9897 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
9898 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
9899 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
9900 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
9901 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
9903 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
9904 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
9906 o Directory authority changes:
9907 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9910 o Major features (performance):
9911 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9912 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9913 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9914 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9915 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9916 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9917 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
9918 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
9919 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
9920 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
9921 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
9922 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
9923 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
9925 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
9926 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
9927 but never per-conn write limits.
9928 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
9929 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
9930 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
9931 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
9933 o Major features (relay selection options):
9934 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
9935 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
9936 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
9937 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
9938 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
9939 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
9940 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
9942 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
9943 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
9945 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
9946 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
9947 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
9948 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
9949 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
9950 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
9951 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
9952 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
9953 the network changes.
9956 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9957 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9958 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9961 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
9962 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
9963 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
9964 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
9965 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
9966 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
9967 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
9968 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
9969 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
9970 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
9971 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
9972 generated while acting as a relay.
9973 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
9974 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
9975 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
9976 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
9977 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
9978 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
9980 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
9981 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
9982 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9983 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
9984 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
9985 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
9988 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9989 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
9990 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
9992 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
9993 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
9994 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
9996 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
9997 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
10000 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
10001 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
10003 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
10004 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
10007 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10008 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
10009 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
10010 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
10011 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
10012 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
10013 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
10014 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
10015 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
10017 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
10020 o Removed features:
10021 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
10022 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
10023 hidden service usage.
10026 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
10027 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
10028 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
10029 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
10030 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
10032 o Directory authority changes:
10033 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
10037 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
10038 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
10039 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10042 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
10043 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
10044 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
10045 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
10046 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
10049 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
10050 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
10051 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
10052 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
10053 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
10054 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
10055 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
10058 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
10059 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
10060 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10061 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
10062 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
10063 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
10065 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
10066 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
10069 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
10070 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
10071 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
10072 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
10073 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
10074 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
10077 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
10078 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
10079 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
10081 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
10082 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
10083 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
10084 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
10085 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
10086 download consensus + microdescriptors".
10087 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
10088 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
10089 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
10090 hash algorithm in the future.
10091 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
10092 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
10093 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
10094 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
10095 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
10096 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
10097 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
10098 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
10099 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
10102 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
10103 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
10104 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
10105 won't work unless we say we are.
10108 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
10109 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
10110 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
10111 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
10112 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
10113 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
10114 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
10115 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
10116 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10117 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
10118 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
10119 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
10120 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
10121 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
10122 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
10123 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
10124 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
10125 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
10126 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
10127 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
10128 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
10129 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
10132 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
10133 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
10134 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
10135 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10137 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
10138 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
10140 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
10141 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
10142 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
10143 in the Vidalia Settings window.
10146 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10147 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10148 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10149 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10150 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10152 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10153 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10155 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
10156 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
10157 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
10160 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10161 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10162 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10164 o New directory authorities:
10165 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10167 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10170 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
10171 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10173 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10174 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10175 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10176 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10177 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10178 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10179 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10180 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10181 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10182 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10183 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10184 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10185 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10186 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10187 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10188 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10189 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10191 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10192 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10193 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
10195 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10196 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10200 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10201 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10202 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10203 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10204 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10207 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
10208 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10211 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10213 o Directory authorities:
10214 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
10218 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
10219 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
10220 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
10221 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
10222 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
10225 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
10226 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
10227 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
10228 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
10230 o New directory authorities:
10231 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10234 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
10235 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
10236 SSL handshake issues.
10237 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
10238 during the TLS handshake.
10239 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
10240 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
10241 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
10242 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
10243 none of which are very big.
10246 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
10248 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
10249 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10250 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
10251 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
10252 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10253 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
10254 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
10255 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10258 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10259 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
10260 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
10261 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
10262 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
10265 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
10266 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10269 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
10270 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
10273 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
10274 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
10275 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10278 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
10279 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
10280 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
10281 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
10282 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
10283 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
10286 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
10287 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
10288 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
10289 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
10290 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
10291 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
10292 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
10293 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
10294 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
10295 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
10296 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
10297 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
10298 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
10299 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
10300 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
10301 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10302 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10303 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10306 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10307 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10311 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10312 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10313 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10314 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
10315 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
10316 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
10317 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10318 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10319 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10320 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10321 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10322 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10323 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10324 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10325 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10326 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10327 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10328 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10329 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10330 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10331 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10333 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10334 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10335 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
10336 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10337 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10338 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10340 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
10341 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
10342 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
10345 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10346 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10347 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10348 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10349 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10350 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
10353 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
10354 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
10355 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
10356 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
10357 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
10360 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
10361 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
10362 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
10365 o New directory authorities:
10366 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10370 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
10371 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
10372 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
10373 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
10374 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
10377 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10378 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10379 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10380 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10381 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10384 o New options for gathering stats safely:
10385 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
10386 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
10387 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
10388 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
10389 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
10390 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
10391 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
10392 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10393 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
10395 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
10396 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
10397 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10398 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
10400 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
10401 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
10402 their extra-info documents.
10405 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
10406 source files Tor was built with.
10407 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
10408 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
10409 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
10410 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
10411 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
10412 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
10414 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
10415 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
10416 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
10417 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
10418 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
10420 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
10421 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
10424 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
10425 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
10426 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
10427 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
10428 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10430 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
10431 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
10433 o Deprecated and removed features:
10434 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
10435 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
10436 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
10437 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
10438 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
10439 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
10440 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
10441 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
10443 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
10444 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
10445 via application-level web tricks.
10447 o Packaging changes:
10448 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
10449 installer bundles. See
10450 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
10451 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
10452 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
10453 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
10454 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
10455 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
10456 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10457 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
10458 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10459 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
10460 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
10461 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
10464 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
10465 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
10466 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
10469 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
10470 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
10471 part of patch provided by "optimist".
10474 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
10475 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
10476 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
10477 and confuse fewer users.
10480 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
10481 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
10482 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
10483 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
10484 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
10485 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
10486 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
10489 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
10490 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
10491 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
10492 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
10493 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
10494 other features and bug fixes.
10497 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
10500 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
10501 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
10502 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
10503 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
10504 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
10507 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
10508 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
10509 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
10510 failure message (oops).
10513 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
10514 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
10515 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
10516 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
10520 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
10521 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
10522 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
10523 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
10524 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
10525 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
10526 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10527 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
10528 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
10529 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
10530 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
10531 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
10532 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
10533 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
10534 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10537 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
10538 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10539 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
10540 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
10541 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
10542 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
10543 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
10544 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
10545 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
10546 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
10547 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
10548 Workaround for bug 1024.
10549 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
10553 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
10554 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
10555 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
10558 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
10560 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10561 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10562 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10563 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10564 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10567 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10568 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10569 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10570 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10571 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10572 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10573 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10574 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10575 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10576 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10579 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10580 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10581 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
10582 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10583 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10584 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10585 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10586 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10589 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
10590 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
10591 a bunch of minor bugs.
10594 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10595 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10596 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10598 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
10599 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
10600 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
10601 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
10603 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
10607 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10608 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
10609 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
10611 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10612 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
10614 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
10615 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
10617 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
10618 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
10619 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
10620 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10621 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10622 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10623 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10624 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10626 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10627 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
10628 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
10630 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
10631 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
10632 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
10633 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
10634 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
10638 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
10639 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10640 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
10641 of more minor bugs.
10643 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10644 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10645 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10646 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10648 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10649 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
10650 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
10651 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10652 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
10653 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
10654 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
10655 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
10656 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
10657 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
10658 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
10659 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10660 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
10661 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
10662 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
10663 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
10664 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
10666 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
10667 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
10668 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
10669 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10671 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10672 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
10673 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10676 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
10677 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10678 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
10679 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
10680 addresses to fall out of the directory.
10683 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
10684 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
10685 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
10686 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
10688 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
10689 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10690 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10691 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10692 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10693 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10694 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10695 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10696 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
10697 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
10698 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
10699 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
10700 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
10701 patch by Sebastian.
10702 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10703 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10706 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
10707 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
10708 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
10709 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
10710 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
10711 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
10713 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
10714 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
10715 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
10716 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
10717 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
10719 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10722 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
10723 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
10725 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
10726 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
10727 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10728 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10729 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10730 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10732 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
10733 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10734 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
10735 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
10736 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
10737 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10738 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
10739 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
10740 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
10741 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
10742 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
10743 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
10747 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
10748 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
10749 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
10752 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
10753 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
10754 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10756 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
10757 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
10758 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
10759 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
10760 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
10761 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
10762 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
10763 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
10764 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
10765 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
10766 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
10767 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10768 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
10769 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
10770 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10771 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
10772 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
10773 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
10774 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
10775 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
10776 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
10777 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
10778 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
10779 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
10780 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
10781 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
10783 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
10784 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
10785 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
10786 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
10787 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
10788 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
10789 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
10790 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
10791 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
10792 of 0. Suggested by lark.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10795 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
10796 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
10797 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
10798 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10801 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
10803 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
10804 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
10805 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
10806 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
10809 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
10810 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
10811 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
10812 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10813 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
10815 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
10816 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
10817 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
10818 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
10821 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10822 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10823 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10824 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10825 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10826 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
10827 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10828 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10831 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
10832 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10833 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10834 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10837 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
10838 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
10839 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
10840 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10841 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
10842 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
10845 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10846 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10847 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10848 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10849 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10850 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10853 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
10854 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
10855 reported by Matt Edman.
10856 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
10858 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
10859 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
10860 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
10861 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
10863 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
10864 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10865 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
10866 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10867 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10868 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10869 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
10870 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
10871 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
10872 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
10873 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
10874 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
10875 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
10876 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10877 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
10878 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10879 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
10880 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
10881 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10884 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
10885 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10886 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
10887 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
10890 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
10891 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
10892 the letter of C99's alias rules.
10895 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
10896 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
10897 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
10898 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
10900 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
10901 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
10902 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
10905 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10906 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10909 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10910 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10911 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10912 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10913 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10914 reported by "wood".
10915 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10916 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10917 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10918 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10919 identify a connection.
10920 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10921 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10922 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10923 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10924 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10925 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10926 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10927 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10928 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10929 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10931 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10932 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
10933 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
10934 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
10935 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
10936 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
10937 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10940 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
10941 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
10943 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
10944 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
10945 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
10946 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
10947 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
10948 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
10949 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10950 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
10952 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10953 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
10954 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10955 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10956 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10957 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10958 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
10959 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
10960 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
10961 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
10962 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
10963 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
10964 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
10965 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
10966 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10967 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
10968 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
10969 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10970 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
10971 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
10972 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
10973 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
10974 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
10975 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
10976 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
10977 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
10978 840. Patch from rovv.
10979 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
10980 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
10981 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
10983 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
10984 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
10985 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
10986 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10987 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10988 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10989 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10991 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10992 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
10993 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
10996 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
10997 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
10999 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
11000 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
11001 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
11002 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11003 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11004 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11005 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11006 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11007 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11009 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
11011 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
11012 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
11016 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
11017 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
11018 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
11019 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
11020 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
11021 have had some time to upgrade.)
11024 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
11025 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
11028 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
11029 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
11030 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
11031 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
11032 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
11035 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
11036 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
11038 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
11039 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11040 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
11041 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
11042 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
11043 entirely. Patch from coderman.
11046 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
11047 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11048 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
11049 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
11050 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
11051 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11052 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
11056 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
11057 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
11058 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
11059 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
11060 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
11061 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
11062 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
11065 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
11066 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
11067 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
11068 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
11069 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
11071 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
11072 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
11073 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
11074 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
11075 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
11076 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
11077 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11078 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
11079 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
11080 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
11084 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
11085 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
11086 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
11088 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
11089 without support for deprecated functions.
11090 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
11092 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11093 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
11094 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
11095 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
11096 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11097 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
11098 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
11099 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
11100 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
11101 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
11102 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
11103 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
11104 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
11105 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
11106 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
11107 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
11108 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
11109 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
11110 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
11111 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
11112 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11113 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
11114 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
11116 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
11117 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
11118 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
11119 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
11120 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
11121 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
11123 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
11124 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
11125 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
11126 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
11127 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
11129 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
11130 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
11131 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
11133 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
11134 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
11137 o Deprecated and removed features:
11138 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
11139 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
11140 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
11143 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11144 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
11145 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
11146 with log.h on Android.
11147 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
11148 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
11151 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
11152 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
11154 o New directory authorities:
11155 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
11159 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
11160 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
11161 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
11162 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
11163 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
11164 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11167 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
11168 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
11169 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
11170 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
11171 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
11172 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
11173 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
11174 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
11175 reported by "wood".
11176 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
11177 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
11178 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
11179 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
11182 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
11183 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
11185 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
11186 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
11187 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
11188 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
11189 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
11190 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
11191 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
11192 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
11193 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
11194 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11195 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
11196 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11197 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
11198 Implements proposal 148.
11199 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
11200 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
11201 system to do it for us.
11202 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
11203 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
11204 this fix will be slightly helpful.
11205 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
11206 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
11207 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
11208 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
11209 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
11210 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
11211 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
11212 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
11213 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
11216 o Minor features (controller):
11217 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
11218 been fetched and validated.
11219 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
11220 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
11221 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
11222 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
11223 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
11224 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
11227 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
11228 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11229 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
11230 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
11231 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
11233 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11234 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11235 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11236 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11237 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11238 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11239 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11240 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11241 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
11243 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11244 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
11245 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
11246 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
11247 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
11248 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
11249 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
11250 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11252 o Deprecated and removed features:
11253 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
11255 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
11256 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11257 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
11259 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11260 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
11261 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
11263 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
11264 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
11265 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
11266 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
11267 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
11268 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
11271 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
11272 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
11273 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
11274 fixes a variety of other issues.
11277 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
11278 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
11279 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
11280 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
11283 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
11284 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
11285 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
11286 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11289 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11290 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11291 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
11295 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
11297 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
11298 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
11299 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11300 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
11301 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
11302 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
11303 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11305 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
11306 rest, and don't automatically fail.
11307 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
11308 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11309 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11310 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11312 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11313 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11314 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11315 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
11316 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
11317 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
11318 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
11319 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
11320 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11321 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
11323 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11327 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
11328 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
11329 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
11331 o Minor features (controller):
11332 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
11336 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
11337 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11338 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11339 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11340 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11341 variety of other issues.
11344 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11345 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11346 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11347 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11348 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11349 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11350 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
11351 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11352 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11353 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11354 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11355 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11358 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11359 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11361 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11362 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11363 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11364 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11365 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11366 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11367 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11368 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11369 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11370 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
11371 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
11372 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
11373 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
11374 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
11375 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11379 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
11380 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11381 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11382 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11383 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11384 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11385 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11386 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11387 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11388 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11389 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11390 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11391 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11392 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11393 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
11394 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11395 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11396 list. It has been gone for many months.
11397 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11398 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
11399 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11402 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11403 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
11404 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
11407 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
11408 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11409 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11410 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11411 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
11412 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11413 variety of other issues.
11416 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11417 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11418 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11419 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11420 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11421 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11422 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11423 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11424 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11425 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11426 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11427 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
11428 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
11429 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
11432 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
11433 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
11434 Suggested by Lucky Green.
11435 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11436 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11437 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11438 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11439 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11440 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11442 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
11443 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
11445 o Hidden service performance improvements:
11446 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
11447 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
11448 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
11449 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
11450 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
11451 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
11452 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
11453 faster after restart.
11456 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
11457 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
11458 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
11459 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11460 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11461 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11462 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
11463 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
11464 840. Patch from rovv.
11465 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
11466 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
11467 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
11468 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11469 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11470 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11471 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
11472 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
11473 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
11475 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
11476 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
11477 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
11478 have already been marked for close.
11479 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
11480 introduction points.
11481 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
11482 memory performance during directory parsing.
11483 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
11484 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
11485 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
11486 because of a pending download.
11489 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
11490 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
11491 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
11492 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11495 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
11496 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
11497 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
11498 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
11499 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
11500 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
11501 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
11502 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
11503 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
11504 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
11505 lookups more reliable.
11506 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
11507 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
11508 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
11509 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
11510 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
11511 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
11512 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11515 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
11516 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
11517 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11518 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11519 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11520 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
11521 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
11522 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
11523 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
11524 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
11525 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11527 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11528 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11529 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11530 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11531 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11532 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11533 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
11534 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
11535 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11538 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
11539 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
11540 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
11541 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
11542 locked down these days.
11543 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
11544 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
11545 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
11546 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
11547 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
11549 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
11550 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
11551 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
11552 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
11553 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
11554 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
11555 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
11556 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
11557 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
11558 people find host:port too confusing.
11559 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
11560 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11561 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
11564 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11566 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
11567 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
11568 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11569 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11570 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
11572 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
11573 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
11574 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11575 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11576 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11577 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11578 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11579 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11580 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11581 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11582 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
11583 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
11585 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11586 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11587 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11588 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
11589 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11590 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
11591 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11592 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
11593 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
11595 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
11596 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
11597 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
11598 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
11599 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
11600 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11601 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
11602 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
11603 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
11604 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
11605 bug 820, reported by seeess.
11606 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11607 list. It has been gone for many months.
11609 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11610 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
11611 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
11612 actual mistakes we're making here.
11613 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
11614 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
11615 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
11616 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
11619 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
11620 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
11621 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
11622 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11625 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11626 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11627 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11628 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11629 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11630 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11632 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11633 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11634 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11635 pointed out by rovv.
11638 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11639 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11640 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11641 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11642 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
11643 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
11644 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11645 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11646 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11647 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11648 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11649 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
11650 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
11651 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11652 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11653 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11654 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11655 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11656 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
11657 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
11658 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11661 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
11662 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
11663 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
11664 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
11665 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
11666 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
11667 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11670 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
11672 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
11673 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
11674 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
11675 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
11676 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
11677 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
11678 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
11680 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
11681 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
11682 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
11683 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
11684 known descriptor before building circuits.
11686 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
11687 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11688 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11689 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11690 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11691 identify a connection.
11692 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11693 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11694 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11696 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11697 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11698 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11699 pointed out by rovv.
11702 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11703 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11704 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11705 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
11706 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
11707 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11708 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11709 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11710 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
11711 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11712 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11713 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11714 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11715 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11716 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11719 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
11720 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
11721 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
11722 answer sections match.
11723 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
11724 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
11727 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
11728 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11731 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
11732 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
11733 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
11735 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
11736 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
11737 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11740 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
11741 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
11742 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
11743 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
11746 o Removed features:
11747 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
11748 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
11751 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
11752 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
11753 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
11754 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
11755 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
11756 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
11758 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
11759 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
11760 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
11763 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
11764 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
11765 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
11766 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
11767 be sent using an "early" cell.
11770 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11771 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11772 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11773 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11774 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11775 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11776 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11779 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
11780 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
11781 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
11782 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
11783 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
11784 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
11785 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
11786 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
11787 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
11788 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
11789 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
11790 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
11791 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
11792 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
11793 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
11794 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
11797 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
11798 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
11799 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
11800 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11801 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11802 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11803 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
11804 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
11805 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
11807 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
11808 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
11809 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
11810 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
11811 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
11814 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11815 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
11816 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
11817 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11819 o Removed features:
11820 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
11821 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
11825 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
11827 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11828 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11829 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11832 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
11833 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
11834 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11837 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
11838 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
11839 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11840 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11841 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11842 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
11843 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
11844 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
11845 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11846 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11847 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
11848 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
11849 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
11850 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11851 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
11852 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
11853 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
11854 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
11855 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
11856 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
11857 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
11858 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
11859 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
11862 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
11863 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
11865 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
11866 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
11867 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
11868 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
11869 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
11870 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
11871 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
11873 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
11874 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
11875 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
11876 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
11877 found by Geoff Goodell.
11880 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
11881 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
11882 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
11883 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
11884 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
11885 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
11888 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
11889 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
11890 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
11893 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11894 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
11895 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11896 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11897 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11898 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
11899 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
11900 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
11901 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11902 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
11903 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
11904 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
11905 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
11906 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
11909 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
11910 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
11911 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
11913 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
11914 fingerprints with or without space.
11915 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
11916 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
11917 partway through and wants to catch up.
11918 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
11919 state to start out in.
11922 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
11923 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
11924 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11925 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
11926 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
11929 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
11930 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
11931 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
11932 some of the connection attempts fail.
11933 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
11934 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
11935 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
11936 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
11937 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
11938 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
11940 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
11941 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
11942 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
11945 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
11946 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
11947 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
11948 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
11949 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
11950 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
11951 and adds a variety of smaller features.
11954 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
11955 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
11956 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
11957 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
11959 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
11960 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
11961 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
11962 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
11964 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
11965 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
11966 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
11967 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
11968 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
11969 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
11970 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
11973 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
11974 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
11975 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
11976 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
11977 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
11979 o Memory fixes and improvements:
11980 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
11981 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
11982 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
11983 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
11984 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
11985 on a typical directory cache.
11986 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
11987 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
11988 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
11989 and may reduce fragmentation.
11990 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
11991 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
11992 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
11994 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
11995 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
11996 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
11998 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
11999 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
12003 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
12004 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
12005 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
12006 done that for a long time.
12007 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
12008 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
12009 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
12010 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
12013 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
12014 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
12015 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
12016 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
12017 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
12018 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
12020 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
12021 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
12022 output to messages of warning and error severity.
12023 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
12024 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
12025 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
12026 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
12027 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
12028 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
12029 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
12030 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
12031 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
12032 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
12033 directory requests we should expect to see.
12034 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
12036 - Lots of new unit tests.
12037 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
12038 two parallel lists in lockstep.
12041 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
12042 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
12043 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
12046 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
12047 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
12048 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
12049 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
12050 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
12051 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
12052 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
12055 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
12056 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
12057 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
12061 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
12062 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
12063 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
12066 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
12067 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
12068 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
12070 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
12071 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
12073 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
12074 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
12075 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
12076 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
12077 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12078 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
12079 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
12081 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
12082 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
12083 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
12084 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
12085 - Fix compile on Windows.
12088 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
12089 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
12090 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
12091 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
12092 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
12093 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
12094 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
12097 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
12098 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
12101 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
12102 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
12103 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
12104 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
12106 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
12107 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
12108 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
12111 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
12112 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
12113 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
12114 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
12118 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
12119 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
12120 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
12121 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
12123 o Major security fixes:
12124 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
12125 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
12126 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
12127 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
12128 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
12131 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
12132 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12135 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
12136 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
12139 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
12140 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
12143 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
12144 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
12145 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
12148 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
12149 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12152 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
12153 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
12154 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
12155 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
12156 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
12158 o New directory authorities:
12159 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
12160 it has been down for months.
12161 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
12165 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
12166 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
12168 o Minor features (security):
12169 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
12170 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
12171 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
12174 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
12175 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
12176 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
12177 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
12178 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
12179 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
12180 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
12181 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
12182 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12184 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
12185 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
12186 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12187 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
12188 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12189 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
12190 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12191 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
12192 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
12194 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12195 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
12196 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
12197 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
12198 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
12199 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
12200 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
12201 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
12202 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
12203 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
12204 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12205 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
12206 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
12207 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
12208 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
12209 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
12210 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
12211 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
12212 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
12215 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
12216 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12217 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
12218 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
12221 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
12222 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
12223 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
12224 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
12227 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
12228 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12229 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
12230 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
12231 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
12234 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
12235 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
12236 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
12237 certain censored countries by default again.
12240 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
12241 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12242 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
12243 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
12244 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12245 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
12246 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
12247 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
12249 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12250 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
12251 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
12252 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
12253 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
12254 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
12255 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
12256 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
12257 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
12258 a directory. Fix from lodger.
12260 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12261 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
12262 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
12263 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
12264 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
12265 RelayBandwidth* values.
12266 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
12267 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
12268 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
12269 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
12270 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
12271 get_interface_address6().
12272 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
12273 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
12274 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
12276 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
12277 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
12278 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
12279 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12280 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
12281 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
12282 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12283 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
12284 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
12285 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12288 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
12289 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
12290 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
12293 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
12294 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12295 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
12296 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
12297 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
12300 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
12301 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
12302 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
12303 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
12304 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
12305 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
12306 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
12307 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
12308 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
12311 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
12312 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
12313 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
12314 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12317 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
12318 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12319 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
12320 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
12321 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
12322 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
12323 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
12326 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
12327 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
12328 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
12329 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
12330 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
12331 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
12332 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
12334 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
12335 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
12336 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
12337 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
12338 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
12341 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
12342 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
12343 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12344 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
12345 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
12346 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
12347 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12348 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
12349 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
12350 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
12351 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
12352 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
12353 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
12354 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
12355 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
12356 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12357 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
12358 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12359 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12360 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
12361 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
12362 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
12363 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
12364 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
12365 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
12366 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
12368 o Minor features (performance):
12369 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
12371 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
12372 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
12373 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
12374 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
12375 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
12376 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
12377 non-system include paths.
12378 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
12379 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
12382 o Minor features (other):
12383 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
12385 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
12386 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
12387 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
12390 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
12391 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
12392 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
12393 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
12395 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
12396 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
12397 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
12398 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
12399 Should fix bug 537.
12400 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
12401 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
12402 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12403 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
12404 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12406 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12407 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
12408 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
12409 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
12410 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
12411 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
12412 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
12413 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
12414 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
12415 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
12416 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
12417 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
12418 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
12419 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
12420 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
12421 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12422 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
12423 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
12424 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
12425 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
12426 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
12427 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
12428 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
12429 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
12430 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
12433 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12434 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
12435 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
12439 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
12440 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
12441 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
12442 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
12443 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
12446 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
12447 Tor's x509 certificates.
12450 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
12451 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
12452 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12453 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
12454 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
12455 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12457 o Minor features (security):
12458 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
12459 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
12461 o Minor features (directory authority):
12462 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
12463 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
12464 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
12465 bandwidthburst values.
12467 o Minor features (controller):
12468 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
12469 processes from running us out of memory.
12471 o Minor features (misc):
12472 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
12473 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
12474 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
12475 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
12477 o Deprecated features (controller):
12478 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
12479 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
12480 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
12483 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
12484 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
12486 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
12487 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
12488 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12489 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
12490 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
12491 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12492 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
12493 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
12495 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
12496 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12497 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
12498 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12499 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
12500 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
12501 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
12502 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
12504 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
12505 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
12506 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
12507 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
12508 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12509 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
12510 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12511 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
12512 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12513 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
12514 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
12515 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12517 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12518 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
12520 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
12521 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
12522 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
12523 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
12524 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
12525 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
12528 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
12529 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
12530 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
12531 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
12532 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
12534 o New directory authorities:
12535 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
12539 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
12540 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
12541 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
12542 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
12543 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
12544 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
12545 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
12546 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
12550 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
12551 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
12552 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
12553 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
12554 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
12555 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
12556 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
12557 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
12558 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
12559 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
12562 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
12563 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
12564 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
12565 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
12569 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
12570 the request isn't encrypted.
12571 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
12572 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
12573 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
12574 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
12575 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
12578 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
12579 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
12582 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
12585 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
12586 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
12587 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
12589 o New directory authorities:
12590 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
12593 o Major performance improvements:
12594 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
12595 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
12596 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
12597 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
12598 memory fragmentation.
12601 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
12602 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
12603 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
12604 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12605 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
12606 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
12607 bodies when they receive them.
12608 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
12609 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
12610 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
12612 o Minor performance improvements:
12613 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
12614 of them were actually distinct.
12615 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
12616 interested in a given message.
12619 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
12620 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
12621 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
12622 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
12623 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
12624 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
12625 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
12626 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
12627 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
12628 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
12629 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
12631 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
12632 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
12633 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
12634 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
12635 this country" and "1 person from this country".
12636 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12637 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
12638 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12639 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
12640 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
12642 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12643 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12644 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
12646 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
12647 but client versions are not.
12648 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12649 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12651 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
12652 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
12653 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12654 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
12655 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
12657 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
12658 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
12659 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
12662 o Minor features (controller):
12663 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
12664 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
12665 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
12666 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
12668 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12669 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
12670 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
12671 running a test network on a single host.
12672 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
12673 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
12675 o Minor features (bridges):
12676 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
12677 unencrypted connections.
12679 o Minor features (other):
12680 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
12681 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
12682 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
12683 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
12686 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
12687 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
12688 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
12689 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12692 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12693 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12694 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12695 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12696 on network address.
12699 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12700 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
12701 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12702 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
12703 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12704 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
12705 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12706 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12707 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
12708 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
12709 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
12710 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
12713 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12714 rebuild our server descriptor.
12715 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12716 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
12717 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
12718 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12719 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12720 nonstandard integer types.
12721 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12722 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12723 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
12724 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
12725 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
12727 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12728 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
12729 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
12730 when they receive them.
12731 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
12732 This includes some 64-bit systems.
12733 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
12734 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
12735 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
12736 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
12737 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12738 router_get_by_hexdigest().
12739 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12740 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12744 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
12745 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
12746 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12749 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
12750 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
12751 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
12752 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
12753 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
12754 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
12755 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
12756 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12759 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
12760 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
12761 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
12762 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
12764 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
12765 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
12768 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
12769 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
12772 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
12774 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
12775 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
12777 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
12778 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
12779 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
12780 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12781 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
12782 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
12783 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
12784 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12785 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
12786 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
12790 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
12791 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
12792 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
12795 - Make the unit tests build again.
12796 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
12797 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
12798 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
12799 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
12800 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
12801 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12802 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
12803 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
12804 the next one as a duplicate.
12807 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
12808 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
12809 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
12810 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
12813 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
12814 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
12815 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
12818 o New directory authorities:
12819 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
12823 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
12824 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
12825 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
12826 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
12827 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
12828 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12829 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
12831 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
12832 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
12834 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12835 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12836 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
12837 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
12838 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
12839 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
12841 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
12842 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
12843 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12844 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
12845 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
12846 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12849 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
12850 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
12851 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
12852 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
12853 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
12854 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
12855 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
12856 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
12857 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
12858 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
12859 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
12860 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
12861 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
12862 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
12863 where Tor is blocked.
12864 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
12865 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
12866 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
12867 to a file periodically.
12868 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
12869 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
12870 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
12874 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
12875 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
12876 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
12877 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
12878 in the relevant networkstatus document.
12879 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
12880 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
12881 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12882 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
12883 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
12884 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
12885 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
12886 by Karsten Loesing.
12887 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
12888 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
12889 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
12890 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
12891 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
12892 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12893 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
12894 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
12895 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
12896 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12897 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
12898 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
12899 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
12900 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12901 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12902 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
12903 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
12904 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12905 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12906 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12907 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12908 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
12909 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12910 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
12911 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
12912 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12913 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
12914 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12917 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
12918 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
12919 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
12920 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
12921 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
12922 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
12923 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
12924 even if your DirPort isn't on.
12925 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
12926 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
12927 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
12929 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
12930 multiple controller passwords.
12931 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
12932 router based on the router's purpose.
12933 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
12934 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
12935 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
12936 the approved-routers file.
12939 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
12940 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
12941 well as a few minor bugs.
12944 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
12945 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
12946 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
12948 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12949 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12950 rebuild our server descriptor.
12952 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12953 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
12954 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
12955 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
12956 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
12957 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
12958 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
12959 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
12960 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
12961 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
12963 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
12964 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
12965 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
12966 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
12967 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
12968 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
12969 then be flexible about families.
12972 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
12973 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
12974 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
12978 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
12979 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
12980 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
12981 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
12982 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
12985 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12986 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12987 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12988 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12989 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12992 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12993 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
12995 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
12996 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
12997 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
12998 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
12999 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
13000 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
13001 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13003 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
13004 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
13005 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
13006 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
13009 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
13010 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
13013 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
13014 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
13015 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13018 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
13019 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
13020 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
13021 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
13022 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
13023 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
13024 addresses many more minor issues.
13026 o New directory authorities:
13027 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
13030 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
13031 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
13032 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
13033 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
13035 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
13036 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
13037 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
13038 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
13039 and are reaching it.
13040 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
13041 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
13042 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
13043 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
13044 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
13045 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
13048 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
13049 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
13051 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
13052 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
13053 no longer work for clients.
13054 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
13055 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
13057 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
13058 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
13059 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
13060 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
13061 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
13062 enough directory information to build a circuit.
13063 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
13064 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
13065 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
13066 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
13067 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
13068 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
13070 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
13071 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
13072 requests for all of them.
13073 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
13075 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
13076 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
13077 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
13079 o New requirements:
13080 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
13081 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
13085 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
13086 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
13087 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
13088 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
13089 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
13090 networkstatuses that we already have.
13091 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
13092 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
13093 we start knowing some directory caches.
13094 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
13095 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
13096 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
13097 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
13098 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
13099 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
13100 Good in combination with --hash-password.
13101 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
13102 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
13104 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
13105 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
13106 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
13108 o Minor features (bridges):
13109 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
13110 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
13111 back to trying the bridge directly.
13112 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
13113 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
13115 o Minor features (controller):
13116 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
13117 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
13118 report the value as a "minimum skew."
13121 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
13122 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
13126 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
13127 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
13128 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
13129 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
13130 reported by tup and ioerror.
13131 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
13132 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
13134 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13135 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
13137 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
13138 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
13139 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
13141 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
13142 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13143 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
13144 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13145 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
13146 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13147 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
13149 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
13150 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
13151 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13153 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
13154 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
13155 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
13156 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
13157 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
13160 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
13161 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
13162 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
13163 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
13164 lists for a few hours each day.
13166 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13167 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13168 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13169 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
13170 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
13171 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13172 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13173 rend_process_relay_cell().
13175 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13176 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13177 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13178 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13179 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13180 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13181 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
13182 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
13184 o Major bugfixes (other):
13185 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
13186 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
13187 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
13188 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13189 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13190 circuit cannibalization).
13191 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13192 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13193 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13194 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13195 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13196 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
13199 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13200 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
13202 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13203 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
13204 absent. Resolves bug 467.
13205 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
13206 a way to trigger this remotely.)
13207 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13208 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13209 were reporting the dir port.)
13210 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13211 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
13212 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13213 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13214 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13216 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13217 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13218 the onion key from getting rotated.
13219 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13220 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13221 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13222 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
13223 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13224 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13225 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
13226 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
13227 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
13230 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
13231 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
13232 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
13233 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
13234 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
13235 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
13237 o Major features (directory system):
13238 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
13239 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
13240 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
13241 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
13242 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
13243 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
13244 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
13245 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
13246 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
13247 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
13248 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
13249 Partially implements proposal 122.
13250 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
13251 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
13254 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
13255 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
13256 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
13257 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
13259 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13260 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13261 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13262 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13263 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13264 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13265 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
13266 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
13267 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13269 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
13270 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
13272 - Allow certificates to include an address.
13273 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
13274 and download operations.
13275 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
13276 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
13277 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
13278 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
13279 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
13280 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
13282 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
13283 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
13286 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
13287 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
13288 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
13289 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
13291 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
13292 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
13293 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
13295 o Minor features (performance):
13296 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
13297 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
13298 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
13299 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
13300 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
13301 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
13302 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
13305 o Minor features (compilation):
13306 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
13307 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
13309 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13310 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
13311 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
13312 stick around indefinitely.
13313 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
13315 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
13316 v3 directory authority.
13317 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
13318 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
13320 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
13321 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
13322 "moria on moria:9031."
13323 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
13324 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
13325 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
13326 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
13327 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
13328 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
13329 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
13330 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
13332 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13333 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
13334 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
13335 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
13336 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
13337 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
13338 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
13339 downloads than for other types.
13341 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
13342 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
13344 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
13345 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
13346 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13348 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13349 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13350 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13351 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
13352 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
13353 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
13354 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
13355 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
13357 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13358 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
13359 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
13360 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
13361 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13362 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
13363 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
13364 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13365 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
13366 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
13367 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
13369 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
13370 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
13373 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13374 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
13375 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
13376 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
13377 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
13378 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
13379 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
13380 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
13381 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
13382 so that they all take the same named flags.
13385 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
13386 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
13387 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
13390 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
13391 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
13392 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
13393 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
13394 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
13395 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
13397 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
13398 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
13399 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
13400 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
13401 annotations along with descriptors.
13402 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
13403 source, and its purpose.
13404 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
13406 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
13407 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
13408 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
13409 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
13412 o Major features (directory authorities):
13413 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
13415 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
13416 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
13417 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
13418 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
13419 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
13420 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
13422 o Major features (v3 directory system):
13423 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
13424 and download the descriptors listed in them.
13425 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
13426 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
13427 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
13429 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13430 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13431 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13432 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
13435 o Major bugfixes (performance):
13436 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
13437 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
13438 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
13439 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
13441 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
13442 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
13443 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
13444 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
13445 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
13446 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13448 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
13449 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
13451 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
13452 certificate is requested.
13453 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
13454 certificate requests.
13456 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
13457 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
13458 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
13459 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
13462 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13463 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13464 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13465 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13467 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
13468 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
13470 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
13471 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
13472 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13473 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
13474 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
13475 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
13476 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
13477 downloads more sensible.
13478 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
13479 another when serving certificates.
13481 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13482 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
13483 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
13484 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
13486 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
13487 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13488 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
13490 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13491 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13493 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13494 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13495 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13496 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
13497 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13499 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
13500 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
13501 WARN-severity events.
13502 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13503 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
13504 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13506 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
13507 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
13508 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
13510 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13511 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13512 circuit cannibalization).
13514 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13515 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
13516 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
13517 new module, networkstatus.c.
13518 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
13519 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
13520 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
13521 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
13522 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
13523 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
13524 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
13525 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
13526 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
13528 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
13530 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
13531 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13534 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
13535 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
13536 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
13537 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
13539 o New directory authorities:
13540 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
13541 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
13543 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13544 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13545 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13547 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
13548 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
13549 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
13550 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
13551 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13552 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
13553 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
13554 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
13555 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
13556 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
13557 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13559 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13560 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13561 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13562 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13563 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13564 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13565 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
13566 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
13567 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
13569 o Minor features (security):
13570 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
13571 address maps to an internal address space.
13572 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
13573 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
13575 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13576 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
13577 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
13578 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
13579 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
13581 o Minor features (speed):
13582 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
13583 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
13584 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
13585 on big-endian hosts.)
13587 o Minor features (controller):
13588 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
13589 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
13590 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
13591 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
13594 o Removed features:
13595 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
13596 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
13597 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
13598 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
13599 implementation of proposal 104.
13600 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
13601 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
13602 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
13603 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
13604 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
13605 patch from Karsten Loesing.
13606 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
13607 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
13610 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13611 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
13612 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13613 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
13614 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13615 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
13616 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13617 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13618 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
13619 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13620 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
13621 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
13622 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
13623 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13624 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
13625 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
13626 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
13627 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13628 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
13629 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
13631 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13632 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
13633 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
13635 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
13636 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
13637 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
13638 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
13641 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
13642 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
13643 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
13644 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13645 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
13648 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
13649 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
13652 o Major bugfixes (security):
13653 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
13654 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
13655 become more of a headache than it's worth.
13657 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13658 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13659 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13661 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13662 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13663 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13664 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13665 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13666 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13668 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13669 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13670 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13671 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13672 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
13674 o Minor features (controller):
13675 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13676 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13677 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13678 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13680 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13681 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
13682 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
13683 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13684 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
13685 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
13686 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
13687 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13689 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13690 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13691 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13692 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
13693 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13694 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13695 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13696 if we ran off the end of the list.
13697 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13698 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13699 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13700 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13701 every time we change any piece of our config.
13702 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13703 encourage people using them to stop.
13704 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
13706 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13707 servers to choose a circuit.
13708 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13709 unparseable piece of it.
13712 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
13713 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
13714 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
13715 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13718 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
13719 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
13720 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
13721 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
13722 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
13724 o New directory authorities:
13725 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
13728 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
13729 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
13730 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
13731 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
13733 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13734 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13735 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13737 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13738 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13739 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13740 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13741 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13742 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13744 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
13745 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
13746 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13749 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
13750 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
13751 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
13752 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
13756 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
13757 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
13758 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
13759 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
13761 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
13762 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
13764 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
13765 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
13766 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
13767 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
13768 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
13769 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13770 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13771 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13772 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13773 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
13776 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
13777 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
13778 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
13779 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
13780 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
13781 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
13783 o Removed features:
13784 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
13785 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
13786 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
13787 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
13790 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
13791 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
13792 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
13793 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
13794 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
13797 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13798 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13799 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13800 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13801 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
13802 reported by lodger.
13804 o Minor features (directory servers):
13805 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
13806 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
13808 o Minor features (directory voting):
13809 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
13812 o Minor features (security):
13813 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
13814 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13815 encourage people using them to stop.
13817 o Minor features (controller):
13818 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13819 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13820 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13821 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13822 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
13823 cookie authentication file, and config option
13824 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
13826 o Minor features (unit testing):
13827 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
13828 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
13829 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
13830 logging for the unit tests.
13832 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13833 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13834 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13835 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13836 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13837 every time we change any piece of our config.
13838 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13839 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13840 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13842 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13843 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13844 the onion key from getting rotated.
13845 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
13846 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
13847 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
13850 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13851 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
13852 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
13854 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
13855 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
13856 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
13857 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
13860 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
13861 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
13862 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
13863 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
13864 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
13865 TorK, etc. Or worse.
13867 o Major security fixes:
13868 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13869 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13872 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
13873 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
13874 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
13875 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
13877 o Major security fixes:
13878 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
13879 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
13881 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13882 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
13885 o Minor features (performance):
13886 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
13887 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
13888 performance-intensive.
13889 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13890 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
13891 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
13892 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
13893 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13894 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
13898 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
13899 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
13900 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
13901 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
13905 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
13906 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
13907 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
13908 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
13909 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
13911 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
13912 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
13913 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
13914 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
13916 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
13917 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
13918 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
13919 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
13920 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
13922 o Major features (experimental):
13923 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
13924 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
13925 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
13926 handling before it's ready for use.
13929 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
13930 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
13931 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
13932 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13933 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
13934 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
13936 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
13937 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
13938 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
13939 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
13940 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
13942 o Major bugfixes (directory):
13943 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
13944 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13946 o Minor features (controller):
13947 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
13948 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13949 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
13950 from Robert Hogan.)
13951 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
13952 from Robert Hogan.)
13953 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
13954 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
13956 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
13957 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
13958 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
13959 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
13960 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13961 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
13962 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
13965 o Minor features (misc):
13966 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
13968 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
13969 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
13970 the authority identity key.
13971 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
13973 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
13974 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
13975 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
13978 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
13979 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13980 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13981 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
13982 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13983 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13984 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13985 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
13987 o Performance improvements:
13988 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
13990 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
13991 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
13994 o Deprecated and removed features:
13995 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
13996 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
13997 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
13998 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
14000 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14001 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
14002 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14003 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
14004 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
14005 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14006 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
14007 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
14008 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
14011 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14012 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
14013 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14014 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
14015 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
14017 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
14018 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
14021 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14022 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
14023 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
14024 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
14025 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
14026 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
14027 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
14028 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
14029 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
14032 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
14033 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
14034 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
14035 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
14037 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
14038 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
14040 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14041 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
14042 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
14043 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
14044 routerlist while inserting a new router.
14045 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
14046 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
14048 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
14049 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
14050 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
14052 o Major bugfixes (security):
14053 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
14055 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
14056 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
14057 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
14058 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
14059 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
14060 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
14061 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
14062 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
14063 guard list unless we need to.
14065 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
14066 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
14067 don't get overused as guards.
14069 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14070 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
14071 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
14072 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
14073 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
14075 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14076 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
14077 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
14080 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14081 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14082 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
14083 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
14084 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
14085 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
14086 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
14087 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
14090 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
14091 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
14092 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
14093 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
14095 o Minor features (directory):
14096 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
14097 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
14098 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
14099 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
14101 o Minor build issues:
14102 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
14103 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
14104 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
14105 in the tarball, not as "x".
14108 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
14109 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
14110 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
14111 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
14112 forward on a lot of fronts.
14114 o Major features, server usability:
14115 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
14116 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
14117 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
14118 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
14120 o Major features, client usability:
14121 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
14122 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
14123 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
14124 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
14125 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
14126 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
14127 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
14128 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
14130 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
14131 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
14132 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
14133 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
14134 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
14135 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
14137 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
14138 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
14139 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
14141 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
14142 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
14143 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
14144 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
14145 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
14147 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
14148 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
14149 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
14150 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
14152 o Major features, other:
14153 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
14154 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
14155 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
14156 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
14157 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
14160 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
14161 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
14162 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
14165 o Minor fixes (resource management):
14166 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
14167 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
14168 our allocated connection limit.
14169 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
14170 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
14171 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
14172 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
14173 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
14175 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
14176 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
14177 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
14179 o Minor features (build):
14180 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
14181 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
14182 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
14183 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
14185 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
14186 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
14187 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
14188 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
14189 Use this version consistently in log messages.
14191 o Minor features (logging):
14192 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
14193 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
14194 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
14195 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
14196 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
14199 o Minor features (directory system):
14200 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
14201 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
14202 not to serve V2 directory information.
14203 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
14204 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
14205 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
14207 o Minor features (controller):
14208 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
14209 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
14211 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
14212 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
14213 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
14214 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
14215 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
14216 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
14218 o Minor features (hidden services):
14219 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
14220 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
14221 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
14222 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
14224 o Minor features (other):
14226 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
14227 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
14228 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
14229 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
14230 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
14231 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
14232 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
14233 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
14234 longer a completely silly thing to do.
14235 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
14236 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
14237 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
14238 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
14240 o Removed features:
14241 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
14242 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
14243 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
14244 back an error and close the connection.
14245 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
14246 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
14249 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14250 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
14251 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
14252 makes the log messages nicer.
14253 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
14254 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14255 partial results on small file reads.
14257 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14258 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
14259 more often than they are allowed to appear.
14260 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
14261 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
14263 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14264 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
14265 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
14266 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
14268 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14269 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
14270 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
14271 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
14272 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
14273 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
14274 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
14275 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14276 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
14277 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
14278 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
14280 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
14281 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
14282 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
14284 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14285 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
14286 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
14287 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
14289 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14290 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
14291 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
14293 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
14294 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
14297 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14298 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
14299 implicit in other procedure arguments.
14300 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
14301 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
14302 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
14303 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
14304 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
14305 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
14306 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
14307 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
14308 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
14311 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
14312 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
14313 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
14314 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
14316 o Directory authority changes:
14317 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
14318 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
14319 or use hidden services.
14321 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14322 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
14323 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
14324 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
14325 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
14326 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
14327 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
14328 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
14329 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
14332 o Major bugfixes (security):
14333 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
14334 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
14335 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
14337 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
14338 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
14339 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
14340 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
14341 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
14342 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
14343 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
14344 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
14345 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
14346 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
14349 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
14350 purpose=controller.
14351 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
14352 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
14354 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
14355 having a hard time downloading.
14356 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14357 partial results on small file reads.
14358 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
14359 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
14360 the gaps in the store get very large.
14363 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
14364 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
14366 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
14367 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
14370 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
14371 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
14372 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
14373 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
14374 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
14375 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
14377 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
14378 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
14379 free speech on the Internet.
14382 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
14383 get one we don't recognize.
14384 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14385 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
14388 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
14390 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
14391 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
14392 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
14393 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
14396 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
14397 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
14400 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
14401 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
14402 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
14403 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
14404 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
14405 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
14406 ask for GUARDS too.
14409 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
14410 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14411 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
14412 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
14413 on Win98 and friends again.
14415 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14416 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
14417 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
14420 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
14421 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14422 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
14423 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
14424 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
14425 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
14426 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
14427 and maybe also bug 397.)
14429 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14430 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
14431 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
14433 o Minor bugfixes (server):
14434 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
14437 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14438 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
14439 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
14440 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
14441 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
14443 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14444 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
14445 load on authorities.
14447 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14448 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
14449 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
14450 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
14452 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
14454 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
14455 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
14456 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
14457 the last of bug 326.)
14458 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
14459 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
14463 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
14464 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14465 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
14466 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
14467 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
14468 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
14469 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
14471 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
14472 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
14474 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14475 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
14476 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
14478 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
14479 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
14480 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
14482 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14483 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
14484 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
14485 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
14487 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
14488 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
14490 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
14491 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
14492 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
14495 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14496 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
14497 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
14498 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
14499 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
14500 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
14501 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
14502 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
14503 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
14504 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
14505 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
14506 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
14507 other than file-not-found.
14508 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
14509 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
14510 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
14511 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
14512 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
14513 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
14514 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
14515 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
14516 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
14517 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
14518 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
14519 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
14520 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
14521 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
14522 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
14524 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
14526 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
14527 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
14529 o Minor features (controller):
14530 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
14531 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
14532 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
14534 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
14535 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14536 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
14537 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
14538 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
14539 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
14540 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
14541 connected or resolved cell.
14543 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14544 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
14545 some profiles, but not others.)
14546 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
14547 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
14548 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
14551 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
14553 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
14554 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
14555 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
14556 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
14557 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
14558 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
14559 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
14560 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
14561 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
14562 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
14563 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
14564 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
14565 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
14566 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
14567 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
14569 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
14572 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
14573 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
14574 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
14575 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
14576 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
14577 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
14578 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
14580 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
14581 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
14582 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
14583 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
14584 buckets go absurdly negative.
14585 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
14586 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
14589 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
14590 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
14591 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
14592 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
14593 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
14594 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
14595 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
14596 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
14599 o Major bugfixes (other):
14600 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
14601 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
14602 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
14603 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
14605 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
14607 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
14608 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
14610 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
14611 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
14612 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
14613 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
14614 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
14615 to wait for 0.2.0.)
14617 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14618 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
14619 possible memory-stomping bugs.
14620 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
14621 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
14623 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
14624 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
14625 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
14626 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
14627 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
14628 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
14630 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14631 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
14632 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
14633 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
14635 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
14636 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
14637 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
14638 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
14639 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
14640 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
14641 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
14642 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
14643 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
14644 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
14645 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
14646 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
14647 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
14649 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
14650 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
14651 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
14652 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
14653 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
14654 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
14655 to the resulting address.
14658 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
14659 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
14660 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
14661 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
14664 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
14665 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
14667 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
14668 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
14669 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
14670 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
14671 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
14672 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
14673 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
14674 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
14675 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
14676 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
14677 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
14678 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
14679 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
14680 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
14681 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
14682 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
14683 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
14686 o Minor features (controller):
14687 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
14688 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
14689 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
14690 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
14691 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
14692 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
14693 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
14697 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
14699 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
14700 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
14701 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
14702 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
14703 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
14704 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
14707 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
14708 weren't planning to resolve.
14709 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
14710 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
14711 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
14712 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
14713 the controller from learning about current events.
14715 o Minor features (more controller status events):
14716 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
14717 learn when our address changes.
14718 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
14719 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
14720 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
14721 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
14723 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
14724 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
14725 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
14726 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
14727 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
14728 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
14729 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
14730 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
14731 are accepted by a directory.
14732 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
14733 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
14734 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
14735 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
14736 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
14738 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
14739 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
14740 about changes to DNS server status.
14742 o Minor features (directory):
14743 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
14744 too much load to the exit nodes.
14747 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
14749 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
14750 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
14751 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
14752 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
14753 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
14755 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
14756 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
14757 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
14759 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
14760 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
14761 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
14762 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
14763 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
14764 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
14765 config options if you like.
14767 o Minor features (config and docs):
14768 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
14769 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
14770 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
14771 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
14772 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
14774 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
14775 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
14776 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
14777 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
14778 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
14780 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
14781 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
14782 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
14783 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
14784 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
14785 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
14786 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
14787 documentation: "make check-docs".
14788 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
14789 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
14791 o Minor features (DNS):
14792 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
14793 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
14794 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
14795 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
14796 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
14797 our tests for DNS hijacking.
14799 o Minor features (directory):
14800 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
14801 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
14802 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
14803 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
14804 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
14805 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
14806 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
14807 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
14808 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
14809 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
14810 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
14811 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
14812 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
14813 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
14814 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
14815 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
14816 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
14817 for the thing we're trying to download.
14818 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
14819 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
14820 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
14822 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
14823 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
14824 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
14827 o Minor features (controller):
14828 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
14829 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
14831 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
14832 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
14833 entry guard status as it changes.
14835 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
14836 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
14837 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
14838 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
14839 to set log options.
14840 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
14841 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
14842 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
14843 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
14846 o Major bugfixes (security):
14847 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14848 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14849 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14850 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14852 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
14853 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
14854 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
14855 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
14856 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
14858 o Major bugfixes (other):
14859 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
14860 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
14861 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
14862 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
14864 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
14865 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
14866 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
14867 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
14868 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
14869 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
14873 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14874 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14875 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
14876 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
14877 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
14879 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
14880 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
14882 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
14883 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
14884 family lists conveniently.
14885 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
14886 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
14887 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
14889 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
14890 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
14892 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
14893 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
14894 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
14895 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
14896 if their identity keys are as expected.
14897 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
14898 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
14899 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
14901 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14902 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
14903 reported by Mike Perry.
14904 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
14905 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
14906 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
14907 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
14910 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
14911 o Security bugfixes:
14912 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14913 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
14914 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
14915 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
14919 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
14920 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
14921 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
14924 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
14926 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
14927 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
14928 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
14931 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
14932 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
14933 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
14934 watching for STREAM events.
14935 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
14936 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
14937 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
14938 operations, for profiling.
14941 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
14942 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
14943 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
14944 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
14945 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
14946 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
14948 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
14952 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14953 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14954 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
14955 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
14956 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
14958 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
14959 correctly in the Windows installer.
14960 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14961 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
14962 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
14963 MIPSpro C compiler.
14964 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
14965 when we're running as a client.
14968 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
14970 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
14971 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
14972 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
14973 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
14974 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14975 its circuits on demand.
14976 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
14977 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
14978 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
14979 connections more stable on average.
14980 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14981 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14982 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14984 o Security bugfixes:
14985 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14986 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14989 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14991 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
14992 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
14993 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14994 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14995 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
14996 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
14997 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
14998 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
15001 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
15003 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
15004 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
15005 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
15006 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
15007 routers for even longer.
15008 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
15009 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
15010 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
15011 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
15012 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
15013 caching HTTP proxies.
15014 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
15017 o Minor features, controller:
15018 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
15019 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
15020 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
15021 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
15023 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
15024 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
15025 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
15026 working much like those for circuit events.
15027 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
15028 about the current status of a router.
15029 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
15030 a router's status has changed.
15031 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
15032 can tell which events and features are supported.
15033 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
15034 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
15036 o Security bugfixes:
15037 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
15038 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
15041 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
15042 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
15043 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
15044 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
15045 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
15046 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
15047 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
15048 long nicknames where appropriate.
15049 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
15050 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
15051 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
15052 chews through many circuits before giving up.
15053 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
15054 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
15055 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
15056 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
15057 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
15058 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
15060 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
15061 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
15062 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
15064 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
15065 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
15066 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
15067 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
15068 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
15069 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
15070 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
15071 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
15072 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
15073 (reported by fookoowa).
15074 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
15075 and reported by some Centos users.
15076 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
15077 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
15078 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
15079 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
15080 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
15081 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
15082 before we check for libevent.
15085 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
15087 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
15088 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
15089 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
15090 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
15091 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
15092 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
15093 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
15094 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
15095 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
15096 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
15097 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
15098 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
15099 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
15100 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
15101 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
15102 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
15103 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
15104 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
15105 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
15106 lets you turn it off.
15107 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
15108 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
15109 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
15110 us into the directory more quickly.
15112 o New/improved config options:
15113 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
15114 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
15115 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
15116 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
15117 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
15118 all the machines on the same subnet.
15119 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
15120 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
15121 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
15122 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
15123 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
15124 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
15125 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
15126 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
15127 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
15128 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
15130 o Minor features, controller:
15131 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
15132 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
15133 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
15134 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
15135 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
15136 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
15137 for more information.
15138 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
15139 best guess to the user.
15140 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
15141 descriptor has changed.
15142 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
15144 o Minor features, other:
15145 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
15146 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
15147 useful to the network.
15148 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
15149 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
15150 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
15151 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
15152 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
15153 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
15154 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
15155 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
15156 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
15157 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
15158 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
15159 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
15160 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
15161 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
15162 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
15164 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
15165 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
15166 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
15167 could return an unnamed server instead.
15168 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
15169 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
15170 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
15171 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
15172 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
15173 a more attractive target for compromise.)
15174 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
15175 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
15176 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
15178 o Major bugfixes, other:
15179 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
15180 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
15181 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
15182 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
15183 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15184 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15185 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
15186 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
15187 its circuits on demand.
15188 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
15189 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
15190 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
15191 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
15193 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
15194 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15195 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15196 we don't recognize.
15197 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
15199 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
15200 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
15201 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
15202 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
15203 "extendcircuit" request.
15204 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15205 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15206 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
15208 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
15209 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
15210 instead of "X resolved to X".
15211 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
15212 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
15213 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
15214 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
15215 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
15216 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
15217 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
15218 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
15219 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
15221 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
15222 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
15223 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
15224 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
15225 result more than once.
15226 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
15227 non-versioning dirservers.
15228 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
15229 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
15231 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
15232 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
15233 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
15234 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
15235 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
15236 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
15237 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
15238 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
15239 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
15241 o Packaging, features:
15242 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
15243 now universal binaries.
15244 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
15245 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
15246 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
15248 o Packaging, bugfixes:
15249 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
15250 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
15251 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
15252 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
15254 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
15255 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
15256 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
15259 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
15260 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
15261 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
15265 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
15267 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15268 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15269 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
15270 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
15271 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
15272 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
15273 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
15274 it can't resolve its hostname.
15277 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15278 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
15279 "extendcircuit" request.
15280 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15281 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15282 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15283 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15285 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
15286 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
15287 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
15289 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
15290 methods: these are known to be buggy.
15291 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15292 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15293 we don't recognize.
15296 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
15298 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
15299 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
15300 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
15301 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
15302 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
15303 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
15304 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
15305 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
15306 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
15307 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
15308 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
15309 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
15310 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
15311 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
15312 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
15313 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
15314 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
15315 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
15316 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
15317 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
15318 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
15319 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
15320 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
15321 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
15324 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
15325 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
15326 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
15327 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
15328 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
15329 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
15330 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
15331 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
15332 recommendation system saner.)
15333 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
15335 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
15336 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
15337 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
15338 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
15339 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
15340 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
15341 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
15342 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
15343 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
15344 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
15345 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
15346 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
15347 your ORPort is set.
15348 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
15349 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
15350 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
15351 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
15352 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
15353 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
15354 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
15355 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
15356 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
15357 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
15358 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
15359 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
15361 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
15362 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
15363 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
15364 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
15365 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
15366 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
15369 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
15370 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
15371 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
15372 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
15373 our DirPort now, etc.
15374 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15375 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
15376 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
15377 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
15378 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
15379 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15380 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15382 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
15383 whether the config options are bad or good.
15384 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
15385 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
15386 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
15387 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
15388 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
15389 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
15390 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
15391 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
15394 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
15395 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
15396 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
15397 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
15398 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
15399 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
15400 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
15401 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
15402 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
15403 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
15404 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
15405 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
15406 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
15407 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
15408 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
15409 of it), is not therefore "up".
15410 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
15411 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
15412 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
15413 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
15414 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
15415 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
15418 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
15420 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
15421 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
15422 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
15423 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
15424 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
15425 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
15426 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
15427 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
15428 test reachability, so you won't publish.
15431 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
15432 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
15433 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
15434 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
15435 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
15437 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
15438 own server descriptor yet.
15441 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
15443 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
15444 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
15445 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
15446 make sure to test via one of these.
15447 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
15448 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
15449 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
15450 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
15451 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
15453 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
15454 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
15455 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
15458 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
15459 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
15460 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
15461 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
15462 directory authority.
15463 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
15464 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
15465 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
15466 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
15469 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
15470 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
15471 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
15473 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
15474 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
15475 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
15476 current guards when picking a new guard.
15477 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
15478 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
15479 when we had more than one pending.
15480 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
15481 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
15482 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
15483 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
15484 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
15485 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
15486 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
15487 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
15488 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
15489 debug the reachability problems better.
15491 o Log / documentation fixes:
15492 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
15493 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
15494 about protocol violations by others.
15495 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
15496 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
15497 about what happened to our old torrc.
15500 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
15502 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
15504 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
15505 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
15506 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
15507 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
15510 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
15512 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
15513 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
15514 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
15515 old ORPort and receive connections.
15516 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
15518 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
15519 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
15520 and network-statuses.
15521 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
15522 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
15523 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
15524 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
15526 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
15529 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
15530 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
15531 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
15534 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
15536 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
15537 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
15538 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
15539 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
15540 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
15543 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
15544 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
15546 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
15547 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
15548 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
15549 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
15550 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
15551 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
15552 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
15553 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
15554 rather than not sending anything back at all.
15555 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
15556 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
15557 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
15558 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
15559 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
15560 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
15561 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
15562 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
15563 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
15564 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
15565 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
15566 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
15567 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
15568 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
15569 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
15570 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
15571 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
15572 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
15573 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
15574 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
15575 default ulimit -n is 1024.
15578 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
15579 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
15580 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
15581 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
15584 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
15586 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
15587 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
15588 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
15589 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
15590 entry guards running these flawed versions.
15591 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
15592 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
15593 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
15594 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
15595 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
15598 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
15599 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
15601 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
15602 and it is confusing some users.
15603 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
15604 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
15605 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
15606 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
15607 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
15610 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
15612 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
15613 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
15614 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
15615 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
15616 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
15617 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
15618 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
15619 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
15620 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
15621 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
15622 dirport is set for now.
15624 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
15625 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
15626 unattached before we fail it?
15627 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
15628 at least this many seconds ago.
15629 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
15630 at least this many seconds ago.
15633 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
15634 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
15635 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
15636 or resolve-wait stream.
15637 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
15638 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
15639 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
15640 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
15641 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
15642 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
15643 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
15644 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
15646 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
15647 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
15648 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
15649 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
15650 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
15651 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
15652 given as hex digests.
15653 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
15654 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
15655 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
15656 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
15657 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
15658 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
15659 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
15660 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
15663 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15664 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
15665 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
15666 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
15667 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
15668 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
15669 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
15670 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
15671 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
15672 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
15673 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
15676 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
15677 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
15678 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
15679 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
15680 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
15681 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
15682 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
15685 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
15686 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
15687 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
15688 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
15689 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
15690 misreading their logs.
15691 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
15692 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
15693 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
15694 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
15695 valid router descriptors.
15696 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
15697 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
15698 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
15699 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
15700 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
15701 silently resetting it to its default.
15702 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
15704 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
15707 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
15708 use clean circuits.
15709 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
15710 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
15711 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
15712 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
15713 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
15715 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
15716 because older Tors do not understand it.
15717 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
15721 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
15722 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15723 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
15724 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
15725 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
15726 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
15727 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
15728 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
15729 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
15730 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
15731 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
15733 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
15734 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
15735 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
15736 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
15738 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
15739 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
15742 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
15743 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
15744 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15745 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15746 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15747 without getting overloaded.
15748 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
15750 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
15751 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
15752 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
15753 be forward-compatible.
15754 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
15755 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
15756 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
15757 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
15759 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
15760 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
15761 and OR conns to port 443.
15762 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
15763 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
15765 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
15766 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
15767 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
15768 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
15769 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
15770 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
15771 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
15774 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
15775 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15776 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
15777 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
15779 o Other important bugfixes:
15780 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15781 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15782 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15783 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15785 o Backported features:
15786 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15787 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15788 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15789 without getting overloaded.
15790 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
15791 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
15792 503's whenever they feel busy.
15793 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
15794 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
15795 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
15796 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
15797 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
15800 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
15801 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15802 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
15803 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
15804 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
15805 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
15806 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
15807 know if the crashes continue.
15808 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
15809 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
15810 seg faults in at least some cases.)
15811 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
15812 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
15813 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
15816 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
15817 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
15818 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
15819 try to be a bit more fair.
15820 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
15821 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
15822 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
15823 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
15824 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
15825 bug that let it go negative.
15826 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
15827 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
15828 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
15829 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
15830 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15831 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15832 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15833 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15834 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
15835 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
15836 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
15839 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
15841 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
15842 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
15843 service descriptors.
15846 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
15847 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
15848 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
15849 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
15851 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
15852 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
15853 versions *are* still recommended.
15854 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
15855 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
15856 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
15857 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
15858 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
15859 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
15860 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
15861 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
15863 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
15864 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
15865 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
15866 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
15867 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
15868 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
15869 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
15870 on it. Not used by clients yet.
15871 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
15872 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
15873 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
15874 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
15875 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
15876 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
15877 established a circuit.
15878 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
15879 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
15880 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
15881 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
15884 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
15885 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15886 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
15887 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
15888 quickly enough. Oops.
15889 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
15891 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15892 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
15895 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
15896 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15897 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
15898 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
15899 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
15900 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
15901 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
15902 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
15903 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
15904 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
15905 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
15906 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
15907 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
15908 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
15909 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
15910 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
15911 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
15914 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
15915 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
15916 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
15917 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
15918 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
15919 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
15920 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
15921 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
15922 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
15923 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
15924 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
15925 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
15926 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
15927 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
15928 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
15929 connections more reliable.
15932 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
15933 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
15934 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
15935 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
15936 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
15937 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
15938 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
15939 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
15940 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
15941 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
15942 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
15943 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
15944 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
15945 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
15949 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
15950 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
15951 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
15952 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
15953 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
15954 need to be uint64_t's.
15955 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
15956 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
15957 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
15959 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
15961 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
15962 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
15963 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
15964 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
15965 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
15966 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
15967 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
15969 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
15970 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
15971 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
15972 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
15973 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
15974 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
15975 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
15976 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
15977 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
15978 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
15979 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
15980 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
15981 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
15984 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
15985 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
15986 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
15987 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
15988 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
15989 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
15990 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
15992 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
15993 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
15994 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
15995 can answer v2 directory requests too.
15996 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
15997 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
15998 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
15999 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
16001 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
16002 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
16003 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
16004 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
16005 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
16006 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
16007 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
16008 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
16009 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
16010 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
16011 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
16012 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
16013 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
16014 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
16015 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
16017 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
16018 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
16021 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
16022 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16023 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
16024 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
16025 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
16026 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
16027 too -- so detect and avoid this.
16028 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
16030 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
16031 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
16032 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
16033 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
16034 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
16035 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
16036 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
16037 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
16038 rendezvous circuits.
16039 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
16041 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16042 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
16043 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
16044 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
16045 advertising it because of hibernation.
16046 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
16047 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
16048 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
16049 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
16050 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
16051 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
16052 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
16053 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
16054 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
16055 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
16056 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
16057 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
16058 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
16059 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
16062 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
16063 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16064 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
16065 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
16066 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
16067 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
16068 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
16069 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
16070 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
16071 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
16072 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
16073 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
16074 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
16075 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
16076 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
16077 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
16078 connections once a week.
16079 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
16080 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
16081 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
16082 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
16083 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
16084 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
16086 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
16087 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
16088 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
16090 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16091 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
16092 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
16093 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
16094 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
16095 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
16096 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
16097 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
16098 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
16099 firewall options forbid.
16100 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
16101 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
16102 can only proxy to certain destinations.
16103 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
16104 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
16105 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
16106 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
16107 aids some statistical attacks.
16108 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
16109 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
16110 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
16111 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
16113 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16114 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
16115 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
16116 server descriptor sometimes.
16117 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
16118 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
16119 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
16120 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
16121 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
16122 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
16123 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
16124 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
16126 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
16127 case the controller wants to change that too.
16128 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
16129 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
16130 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
16131 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
16133 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
16134 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
16135 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
16137 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
16138 descriptors that they know they will reject.
16140 o Features and updates:
16141 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
16142 significantly faster.
16143 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
16144 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
16145 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
16146 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
16147 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
16148 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
16149 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
16150 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
16151 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
16152 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
16153 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
16154 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
16155 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
16156 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
16157 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
16158 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
16159 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
16160 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
16161 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
16162 as authoritative dirserver.
16163 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
16164 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
16165 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
16168 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
16169 o Usability improvements:
16170 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
16171 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
16173 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
16174 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
16175 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
16177 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
16178 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
16179 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
16180 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
16181 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
16182 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
16183 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
16184 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
16185 memory leaks better.
16186 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
16187 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
16188 their operators to pay close attention.
16189 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
16190 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
16192 o Performance improvements:
16193 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
16194 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
16195 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
16196 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
16197 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
16198 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
16199 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
16200 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
16201 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
16202 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
16203 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
16204 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
16205 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
16206 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
16207 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
16208 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
16209 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
16211 o Security improvements:
16212 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
16213 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
16214 fingerprint of server.
16215 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
16216 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
16217 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
16219 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16220 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
16221 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
16222 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
16223 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
16224 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
16225 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
16226 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
16227 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
16228 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
16229 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
16230 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
16231 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
16232 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
16233 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
16234 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
16235 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
16236 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
16237 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
16238 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
16239 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
16241 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
16242 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
16243 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
16245 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
16246 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
16248 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
16249 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
16250 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
16251 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
16252 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
16253 of the controller protocol.
16254 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
16255 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
16256 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
16259 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
16260 o New features (major):
16261 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
16262 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
16263 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
16264 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
16265 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
16266 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
16267 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
16268 we're using a default DirPort.
16269 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
16271 o New features (minor):
16272 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
16273 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
16274 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
16275 mirrors still cache and serve it).
16276 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
16277 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
16278 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
16279 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
16280 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
16281 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
16282 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
16283 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
16284 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
16285 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
16286 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
16287 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
16288 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
16289 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
16290 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
16292 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
16293 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
16294 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
16295 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
16296 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
16297 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
16298 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
16299 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
16301 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
16302 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
16303 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
16304 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
16305 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
16306 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
16307 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
16308 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
16309 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
16310 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
16312 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
16313 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16314 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16315 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16316 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16318 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16319 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
16320 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
16322 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
16323 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
16325 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
16326 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
16327 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
16328 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
16329 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
16330 don't warn twice about the same name.
16331 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
16332 if we've not heard of the server.
16333 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
16334 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
16337 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
16338 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16339 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
16340 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16341 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16342 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16343 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16344 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
16345 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
16346 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16347 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16348 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
16349 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
16350 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
16351 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
16354 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
16355 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
16356 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
16357 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
16358 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
16360 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
16361 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
16362 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
16363 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
16364 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
16365 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
16369 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
16370 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
16371 nickname) is reachable by you.
16372 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
16375 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16376 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
16377 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
16378 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
16379 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
16380 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
16381 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
16382 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
16383 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
16384 we fail to connect).
16385 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
16386 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
16387 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
16388 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
16390 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
16391 it was self-testing that told us so.
16394 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
16395 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
16396 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16397 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16398 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
16399 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
16400 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
16401 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
16402 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
16403 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
16404 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
16405 exit policy using him for any exits.
16406 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
16409 o New controller features/fixes:
16410 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
16411 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
16412 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
16413 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
16414 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
16415 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
16416 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
16417 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
16418 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
16420 o Start on the new directory design:
16421 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
16422 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
16424 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
16425 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
16426 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
16427 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
16429 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
16430 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
16431 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
16432 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
16433 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
16434 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
16435 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
16436 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
16439 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
16440 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
16441 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
16442 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
16443 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
16444 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
16445 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
16446 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
16447 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
16448 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
16450 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
16451 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
16452 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
16453 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
16454 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
16455 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
16456 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
16457 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
16458 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
16460 o Config option changes:
16461 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
16462 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
16463 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
16464 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16465 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16466 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
16468 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16469 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
16470 people have started using them for spam too.
16471 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
16472 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
16473 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
16474 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
16475 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
16476 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
16477 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
16478 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
16479 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
16480 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
16481 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
16482 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
16483 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
16484 services faster on the service end.
16485 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
16486 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
16487 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
16488 it a fair shake next time we try.
16489 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
16490 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
16491 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
16492 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
16493 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
16494 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
16495 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
16496 able to discover them.
16497 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
16498 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
16499 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
16500 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
16501 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
16502 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
16503 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
16504 testing for reachability.
16505 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
16506 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
16508 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
16510 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
16511 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
16514 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
16515 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
16517 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16518 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
16519 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
16520 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
16523 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
16524 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16525 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
16527 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
16528 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
16531 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
16532 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
16535 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
16536 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
16537 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
16538 options, getinfo keys.
16541 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
16542 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16543 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
16544 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16545 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16546 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
16547 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
16549 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
16550 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
16554 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
16555 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16556 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
16558 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
16560 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
16561 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
16562 circuit events and we go offline.
16563 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
16564 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
16565 you don't have enough intro points already.
16567 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16568 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
16569 many bytes we've used in this time period.
16570 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
16571 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
16572 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
16573 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
16574 enabled by default yet.
16576 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
16577 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
16578 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
16579 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16580 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16583 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
16584 o New directory servers:
16585 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16587 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16588 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16589 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16590 pthreads libraries.
16591 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
16592 claims its dirport is 0.
16593 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
16594 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
16598 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
16599 o New directory servers:
16600 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16602 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
16603 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
16605 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
16606 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
16607 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
16608 ports that have changed.
16609 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16611 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
16612 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
16613 Windows-style errno back.
16614 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
16616 want to make it an NT service.
16617 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
16618 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
16619 name, give the full name in our response.
16620 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
16621 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
16622 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
16623 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16624 pthreads libraries.
16626 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16627 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
16631 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
16632 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
16633 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
16634 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
16635 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
16638 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
16639 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16640 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
16641 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
16642 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16643 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16644 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16645 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
16648 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
16650 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16651 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16652 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16653 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
16654 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
16655 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
16657 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
16658 temporarily unreachable.
16659 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
16663 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
16664 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
16665 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
16666 our protocol works.
16667 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
16671 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
16672 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
16673 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
16674 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
16675 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
16679 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
16680 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
16681 libevent before 1.1a.
16684 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
16686 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
16687 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
16688 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
16689 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
16690 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
16692 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
16693 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
16694 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
16695 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
16696 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
16697 of CPU time plus memory.
16698 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
16699 normal web requests.
16700 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
16701 tor_lookup_hostname().
16702 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
16703 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
16704 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
16705 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
16706 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
16707 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
16709 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
16710 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
16711 HttpProxyAuthenticator
16712 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
16713 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
16714 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
16716 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
16717 the user asks you to.
16718 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
16719 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
16720 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
16721 their descriptors are being rejected.
16722 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
16726 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
16728 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
16729 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
16730 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
16732 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
16734 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
16736 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
16737 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
16738 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
16739 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
16740 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
16741 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
16742 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
16743 keys) from the exit server's process.
16744 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
16745 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
16746 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
16747 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
16748 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
16749 point at your Tor server.
16750 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
16751 you're not sending a socks reply back.
16754 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
16755 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
16756 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
16757 to make it easier to write controllers.
16760 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
16762 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
16763 installing on Tiger.
16764 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
16765 complain during installation.
16766 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
16767 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
16768 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
16769 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
16770 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
16771 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
16773 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
16774 something more reasonable when first installing.
16775 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
16778 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
16780 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
16781 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
16783 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
16784 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
16785 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
16786 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
16787 when using the default exit policy.
16788 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
16789 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
16790 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
16791 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
16792 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
16793 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
16794 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
16795 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
16796 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
16797 we fetched a new directory.
16798 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
16799 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
16802 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
16803 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
16804 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
16805 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
16806 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
16807 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
16808 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
16809 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
16811 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
16812 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
16813 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
16814 save memory on systems that need to fork.
16815 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
16816 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
16817 is valid without actually launching Tor.
16818 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
16819 rather than just rejecting it.
16822 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
16824 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
16825 we didn't like its cert.
16827 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
16828 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
16829 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
16830 on patch from Adam Langley.
16831 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
16832 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
16833 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
16834 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
16836 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
16837 directory every time you regenerate it.
16838 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
16839 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
16842 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
16843 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16844 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16845 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
16846 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
16849 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
16851 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16852 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
16853 TLS errors better in other situations too.
16854 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
16855 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
16856 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
16857 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
16858 and don't log when you are.
16859 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
16860 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
16862 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
16863 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
16864 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
16865 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
16866 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
16869 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
16870 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16871 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
16872 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
16873 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
16874 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
16875 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
16876 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
16877 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
16878 nickname+key are allowed.
16879 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
16880 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
16881 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
16882 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
16883 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
16884 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
16885 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
16886 have quite wrong clocks).
16887 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
16888 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
16889 - Efficiency improvements:
16890 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
16891 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
16892 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
16893 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
16894 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
16895 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
16896 lowercase and be done with it.
16897 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
16898 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
16899 to abandon partially built circuits.
16900 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
16901 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
16903 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
16905 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
16906 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
16907 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
16908 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
16910 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
16911 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
16913 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
16914 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
16915 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
16916 obeying the exit policy internally.
16917 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
16918 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
16920 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
16921 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
16922 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
16923 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
16925 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
16926 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
16927 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
16928 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
16929 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
16931 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
16932 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
16933 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
16934 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
16935 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
16936 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
16937 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
16938 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
16939 descriptors we just dropped.
16940 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
16941 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
16942 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
16943 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
16944 artificially capped at 500kB.
16947 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
16948 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16949 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
16950 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
16951 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
16952 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
16953 busy for more than 100 seconds.
16956 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
16957 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
16958 - Fixes on reachability detection:
16959 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
16960 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
16961 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
16962 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
16963 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
16964 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
16965 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
16966 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
16967 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
16968 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
16969 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
16970 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
16971 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
16972 server not already connected to them.
16973 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
16974 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
16975 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
16977 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
16979 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
16980 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
16981 are in a different state than they actually are.
16982 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
16983 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
16984 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
16986 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
16987 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
16988 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
16990 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
16991 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
16992 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
16993 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
16994 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
16995 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
16996 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
16998 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
16999 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
17000 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
17001 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
17004 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
17005 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17006 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
17007 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
17008 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
17009 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
17010 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
17011 creating actual system users.
17012 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
17013 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
17017 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
17019 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
17020 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
17021 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
17022 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
17023 hidden services better.
17024 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
17026 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
17027 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
17028 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
17029 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
17030 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
17031 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
17032 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
17033 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
17034 patch by Matt Edman).
17035 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
17036 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
17037 required exit node for certain sites.
17038 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
17039 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
17040 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
17041 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
17042 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
17043 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
17044 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
17045 rather than just "success" or "failure".
17046 - A more sane version numbering system. See
17047 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
17048 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
17049 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
17051 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
17052 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
17053 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
17054 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
17055 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
17056 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
17057 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
17059 o Robustness/stability fixes:
17060 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
17061 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
17062 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
17064 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
17065 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
17066 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
17068 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
17069 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
17070 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
17072 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
17073 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
17074 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
17075 that will want high uptime circuits.
17076 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
17077 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
17078 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
17079 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
17080 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
17081 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
17082 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
17083 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
17084 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
17085 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
17086 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
17087 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
17088 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
17089 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
17090 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
17091 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
17092 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
17093 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
17094 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
17095 when we try to launch one.
17096 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
17097 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
17098 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
17099 "ShutdownWaitLength".
17100 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
17101 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
17102 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
17103 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
17104 and to take errno into account where possible.
17107 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
17108 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
17109 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
17110 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
17111 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
17112 file more reasonable.
17113 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
17114 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
17115 addresses -- it won't.
17116 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
17117 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
17118 for google.com" problem.
17119 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
17120 so it's not just "unknown platform".
17121 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
17122 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
17123 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
17124 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
17126 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
17127 they could use instead.
17128 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
17129 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
17130 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
17131 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
17132 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
17133 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
17134 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
17135 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
17136 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
17138 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
17142 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
17143 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
17145 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
17146 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
17147 private-IP addresses.
17148 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
17149 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
17151 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
17152 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
17153 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
17154 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
17155 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
17156 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
17157 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
17159 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
17160 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
17161 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
17162 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
17163 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
17164 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
17165 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
17166 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
17168 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
17170 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
17171 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
17172 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
17173 whether the server is hibernating.
17176 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
17177 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
17178 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
17179 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
17180 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
17181 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
17182 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
17183 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
17184 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
17185 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
17186 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
17187 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
17188 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
17189 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
17190 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
17192 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
17193 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
17194 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
17195 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
17196 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
17197 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
17198 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
17199 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
17200 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
17201 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
17202 existing torrc files.
17203 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
17206 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
17207 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17208 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
17209 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
17210 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
17211 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
17212 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
17213 the win32 SYSTEM account.
17214 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
17215 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
17216 file descriptors available.
17217 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
17218 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
17219 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
17222 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
17223 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17224 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
17225 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
17227 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
17228 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
17229 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
17230 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
17231 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
17233 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
17234 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
17235 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
17236 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
17237 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
17238 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
17239 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
17240 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
17241 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
17242 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
17243 800kB/s of capacity.
17244 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
17247 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
17248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17249 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
17250 need as much processor time.
17251 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
17252 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
17253 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
17254 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
17255 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
17256 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
17257 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
17258 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
17259 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
17260 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
17261 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
17262 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
17264 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
17265 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
17266 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
17267 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
17268 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
17269 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
17270 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
17273 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
17274 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
17275 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
17277 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
17278 style address, then we'd crash.
17279 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
17280 a dirserver is broken.
17281 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
17283 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
17284 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
17285 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
17287 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
17288 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
17289 name out of the warning/assert messages.
17290 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
17291 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
17292 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
17294 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
17295 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
17296 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
17298 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
17300 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
17301 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
17302 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
17303 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
17304 values at once couldn't work.
17305 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
17306 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
17307 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
17308 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
17309 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
17310 they can handle any number of routers.
17311 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
17312 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
17313 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
17314 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
17315 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
17316 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
17317 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
17318 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
17319 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
17322 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
17323 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17324 - Make hibernation actually work.
17325 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
17326 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
17327 don't use the stream status code.
17330 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
17332 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
17333 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
17335 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
17338 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
17339 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
17340 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
17341 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
17342 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
17343 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
17344 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
17345 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
17346 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
17347 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
17349 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17350 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
17351 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
17352 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
17353 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
17354 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
17355 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
17356 - Make unit tests work on win32.
17359 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
17360 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17361 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
17363 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
17364 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
17365 than just chopping them off.
17366 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
17368 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17369 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
17370 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
17371 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
17372 right after sending the begin cell.
17373 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
17374 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
17375 exit nodes too. Oops.
17378 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
17379 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
17380 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
17381 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
17382 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
17383 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
17384 the user knows which one it's talking about.
17385 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
17386 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
17387 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
17390 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
17391 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17392 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
17393 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
17395 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
17397 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17398 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
17399 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
17401 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
17402 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
17403 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
17404 Clip rather than rejecting.
17405 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
17406 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
17409 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
17410 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
17411 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
17412 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
17414 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
17417 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
17418 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17419 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
17420 win32 socket errors better.
17422 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17423 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
17426 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
17427 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17428 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
17429 so we don't see those messages days later.
17431 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17432 - Make tor-resolve work again.
17433 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
17434 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
17437 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
17438 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17439 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
17440 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
17442 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
17443 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
17444 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
17447 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
17448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17449 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
17450 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
17451 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
17452 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
17453 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
17454 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
17455 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
17457 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
17458 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
17459 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
17460 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
17462 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
17463 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
17466 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
17467 hibernation properties by
17468 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
17469 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
17470 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
17471 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
17472 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
17473 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
17474 get back to normal.)
17475 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
17477 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
17478 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
17479 to fill the last cell completely.
17480 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
17483 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
17484 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17485 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
17486 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
17487 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
17488 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
17489 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
17490 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
17491 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
17492 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
17493 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
17495 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
17496 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
17497 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
17498 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
17499 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
17500 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
17501 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
17502 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
17504 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
17505 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
17506 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
17507 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
17508 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
17509 have it on start-up.
17512 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
17513 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
17514 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
17515 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
17516 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
17517 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
17518 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
17519 configuration to torrc.
17520 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
17521 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
17522 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
17523 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
17524 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
17526 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
17527 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
17528 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
17529 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
17530 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
17531 log more informatively.
17532 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
17533 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
17534 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
17535 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
17536 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
17537 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
17538 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
17539 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
17540 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
17541 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
17542 from each other, to hinder linkability.
17545 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
17546 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
17547 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
17548 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
17549 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
17550 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
17551 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
17553 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
17554 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
17555 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
17556 they ran out of file descriptors.
17557 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
17558 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
17559 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
17560 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
17561 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
17562 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
17563 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
17565 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
17568 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
17569 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
17570 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
17571 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
17572 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
17573 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
17574 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
17575 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
17576 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
17577 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
17578 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
17579 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
17580 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
17581 with the control port.
17582 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
17583 use in authenticating to the control interface.
17584 - New log format in config:
17585 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
17586 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
17589 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
17590 from their dirserver.
17591 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
17593 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
17594 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
17595 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
17596 them act more like real nodes.
17597 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
17598 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
17600 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
17601 nickname to its identity key.
17602 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
17603 not on the command line.
17604 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
17605 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
17606 1024) file descriptors.
17608 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
17609 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
17611 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
17612 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
17613 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
17616 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
17617 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
17618 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
17619 exit policy, not reject *:*.
17620 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
17621 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
17622 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
17623 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
17624 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
17625 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
17626 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
17629 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
17630 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
17631 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
17632 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
17633 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
17634 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
17635 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
17638 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
17639 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17640 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
17641 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
17642 the ones we find in directories.)
17643 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
17645 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
17646 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
17648 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
17649 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
17650 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
17652 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
17653 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
17654 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
17655 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
17657 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
17658 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
17659 any more exit policy lines.
17662 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
17663 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
17664 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
17665 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
17666 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
17667 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
17668 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
17669 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
17670 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
17671 will be able to get a directory.
17672 - Http proxy support
17673 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
17674 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
17675 be routed through this host.
17676 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
17677 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
17678 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
17679 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
17682 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
17684 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
17685 clients/servers with an open dirport.
17686 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17687 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17688 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17689 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17690 intermittent connections.
17691 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
17692 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
17694 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
17695 in reporting stats locally.
17696 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
17697 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
17698 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
17701 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
17703 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
17704 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
17707 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
17709 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
17710 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
17711 if you don't want it open.
17712 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17713 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
17714 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17715 intermittent connections.
17716 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
17718 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
17719 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
17720 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
17721 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
17722 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
17723 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
17724 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
17725 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
17726 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
17727 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
17728 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
17729 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
17730 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
17731 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
17732 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17733 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17736 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
17737 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
17738 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
17739 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
17740 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
17742 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
17744 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
17745 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
17746 specified in HTTP 1.0.
17747 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
17748 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
17749 than once per minute.
17750 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
17751 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
17754 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
17755 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
17758 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
17759 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
17760 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
17761 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
17764 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
17765 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
17767 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
17768 don't put it into the client dns cache.
17769 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
17770 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
17771 until we get our next directory.
17773 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
17774 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
17775 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
17776 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
17777 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
17778 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
17779 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
17780 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
17781 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
17782 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
17783 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
17785 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
17787 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
17788 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
17790 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
17791 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
17792 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
17794 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
17796 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
17797 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
17798 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
17799 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
17800 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
17801 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
17802 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
17803 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
17806 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
17807 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
17808 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
17809 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
17812 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
17813 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
17814 ask them to resolve the host "".
17817 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
17818 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17819 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
17820 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
17821 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
17822 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
17823 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
17824 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
17825 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
17826 clients don't use this yet.)
17827 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
17828 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
17829 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
17830 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
17831 for pointing out this bug.)
17832 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
17833 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
17834 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
17835 kazaa, gnutella ports.
17836 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
17838 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
17839 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
17840 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
17841 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
17842 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
17843 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
17844 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
17845 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
17846 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
17847 wolf unpredictably.
17848 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
17849 that's still handshaking.
17850 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
17851 you'll choose it for your path.
17852 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
17853 end relay cell, etc.
17854 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
17855 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
17856 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
17859 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
17860 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17862 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
17863 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
17864 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
17865 list to decide who's running or verified.
17866 - Bugfixes and features:
17867 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
17868 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
17869 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
17870 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
17871 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
17872 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
17874 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
17875 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
17876 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
17877 know you might want to get it verified.
17878 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
17881 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
17883 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
17884 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
17885 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
17886 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
17888 o Protocol changes:
17889 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
17890 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
17891 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
17892 hadn't heard of before.
17895 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
17896 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
17897 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
17898 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
17899 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
17900 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
17901 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
17902 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
17903 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
17904 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
17905 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
17906 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
17907 - Directory caching.
17908 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
17909 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
17910 directory they've pulled down.
17911 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
17912 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
17913 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
17914 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
17915 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
17916 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
17917 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
17919 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
17920 This isn't used yet.
17921 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
17922 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
17923 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
17924 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
17925 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
17926 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
17927 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
17928 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
17929 - File and name management:
17930 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
17931 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
17933 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
17934 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
17935 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
17936 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
17937 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
17938 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
17939 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
17941 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
17942 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
17943 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
17944 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
17945 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
17947 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
17948 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
17949 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
17950 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
17951 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
17952 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
17953 - New docs in the tarball:
17955 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
17958 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
17959 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
17960 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
17963 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
17964 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
17965 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
17968 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
17969 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
17972 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
17973 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
17974 - Make it build on Win32 again.
17975 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
17976 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
17980 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
17982 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
17983 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
17984 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
17985 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
17986 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
17987 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
17988 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
17989 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
17990 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
17991 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
17994 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
17997 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
17998 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
17999 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
18000 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
18002 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
18003 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
18004 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
18006 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
18007 hidden service per 15-minute period.
18008 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
18009 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
18010 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
18011 o Fixes for security bugs:
18012 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
18013 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
18014 a trusted dirserver.
18016 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
18017 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
18018 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
18019 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
18020 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
18021 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
18022 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
18023 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
18024 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
18025 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
18027 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
18028 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
18029 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
18030 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
18032 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
18033 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
18034 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
18035 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
18036 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
18037 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
18038 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
18039 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
18040 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
18041 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
18042 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
18043 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
18044 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
18047 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
18048 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
18049 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
18050 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
18053 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
18054 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
18055 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
18056 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
18057 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
18058 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
18059 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
18063 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
18064 [version bump only]
18067 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
18068 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
18069 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
18070 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
18071 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
18073 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
18076 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
18077 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
18078 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
18079 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
18080 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
18081 o Better debugging for tls errors
18082 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
18083 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
18084 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
18085 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
18086 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
18087 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
18088 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
18089 o win32's close can't close a socket.
18092 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
18093 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
18094 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
18095 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
18096 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
18097 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
18098 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
18099 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
18100 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
18101 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
18102 just close the circ.
18103 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
18104 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
18105 (this was quite rare).
18108 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
18109 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
18110 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
18111 if you decrypted them correctly.
18112 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
18113 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
18114 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
18117 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
18118 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
18119 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
18120 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
18121 a second one and it works.
18122 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
18123 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
18124 alice would just have to wait to time out.
18125 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
18126 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
18127 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
18128 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
18129 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
18130 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
18131 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
18132 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
18133 i'd still like to find the bug though.
18134 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
18136 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
18140 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
18141 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
18142 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
18143 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
18144 he retries a couple of times
18145 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
18146 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
18147 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
18148 too long (they were sticking around forever).
18149 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
18153 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
18154 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
18155 - make hup work again
18156 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
18157 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
18158 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
18159 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
18160 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
18161 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
18163 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
18164 o changes from 0.0.5:
18165 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
18166 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
18167 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
18168 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
18169 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
18171 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
18172 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
18173 in-memory directories too
18176 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
18177 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
18180 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
18182 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
18183 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
18184 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
18185 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
18188 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
18189 [version bump only]
18192 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
18193 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
18195 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
18196 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
18197 but that aren't warnings
18200 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
18201 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
18202 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
18203 the dns farm to do it.
18204 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
18205 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
18207 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
18208 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
18209 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
18212 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
18213 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
18214 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
18215 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
18216 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
18217 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
18218 expect it to have a nickname.
18219 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
18220 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
18223 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
18224 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
18228 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
18229 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
18230 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
18231 - include missing header fcntl.h
18232 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
18233 - deal with hardware word alignment
18234 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
18235 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
18236 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
18237 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
18238 by kill -USR1 currently.
18239 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
18240 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
18241 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
18244 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
18245 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
18246 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
18249 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
18251 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
18252 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
18253 - And fix a few endian issues.
18256 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
18258 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
18259 try that circuit again: try a new one.
18260 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
18261 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
18262 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
18263 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
18264 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
18265 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
18267 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
18268 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
18269 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
18271 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
18273 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
18274 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
18275 side isn't reading right then.
18276 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
18277 RecommendedVersions
18278 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
18279 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
18280 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
18283 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
18285 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
18286 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
18289 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
18293 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
18295 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
18296 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
18297 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
18298 connection is finished.
18299 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
18300 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
18301 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
18302 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
18303 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
18304 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
18305 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
18306 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
18307 rather than warn and continue.
18308 - Make --version work
18309 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
18312 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
18314 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
18315 knows it's working.
18316 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
18317 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
18319 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
18320 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
18321 so you can collect coredumps there.
18323 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
18324 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
18325 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
18326 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
18327 dns cache actually gets populated.
18328 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
18329 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
18330 end cell down it first.
18331 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
18332 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
18335 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
18337 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
18338 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
18340 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
18341 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
18342 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
18343 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
18344 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
18345 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
18347 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
18349 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
18350 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
18351 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
18352 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
18353 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
18354 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
18356 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
18357 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
18360 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
18362 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
18363 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
18364 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
18365 tor. It even has a man page.
18366 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
18367 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
18368 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
18369 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
18371 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
18373 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
18376 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
18378 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
18379 it, apt-getters. :)
18380 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
18381 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
18382 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
18383 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
18384 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
18385 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
18386 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
18387 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
18388 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
18389 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
18390 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
18392 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
18393 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
18396 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
18398 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
18399 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
18402 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
18404 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
18405 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
18406 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
18407 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
18408 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
18409 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
18410 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
18411 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
18412 logfile so you know it's working.
18413 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
18414 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
18417 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
18419 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
18420 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
18421 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
18424 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
18426 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
18427 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
18428 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
18431 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
18432 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
18433 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
18435 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
18436 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
18438 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
18439 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
18440 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
18442 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
18443 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
18447 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
18449 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
18450 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
18451 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
18454 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
18455 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
18456 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
18457 - Add port ranges to exit policies
18458 - Add a conservative default exit policy
18459 - Warn if you're running tor as root
18460 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
18461 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
18462 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
18463 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
18465 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
18468 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
18469 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18470 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
18471 really screw things up.
18472 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
18474 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
18475 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
18477 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
18478 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
18479 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
18480 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
18481 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
18482 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
18485 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
18488 - Change default loglevel to warn.
18489 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
18490 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
18492 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
18495 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
18496 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18497 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
18498 - to get ownership/permissions right
18499 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
18500 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
18501 pull down a directory again
18502 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
18503 causing server crashes
18504 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
18505 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
18506 - exit if bind() fails
18507 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
18508 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
18509 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
18510 - fix minor bias in PRNG
18511 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
18514 - Wrote the design document (woo)
18516 o Circuit building and exit policies:
18517 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
18519 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
18520 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
18521 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
18522 exists, rather than failing
18523 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
18524 which AP connections are standing by
18525 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
18526 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
18527 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
18529 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
18530 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
18533 - APPort is now called SocksPort
18534 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
18536 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
18537 hardcoded (for dirservers)
18538 - Reloads config on HUP
18539 - Usage info on -h or --help
18540 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
18543 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
18544 o General stability:
18545 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
18546 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
18547 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
18548 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
18549 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
18550 to take down the network when I approve a new router
18551 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
18554 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
18555 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
18557 o Autoconf improvements:
18558 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
18559 - Make install now works
18560 - create var/lib/tor on make install
18561 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
18562 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
18564 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
18565 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
18566 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
18567 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup