1 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-??-??
3 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured User and
4 Group. This way, you can choose port values under 1024, start Tor as
5 root, and have Tor bind those ports before it changes to another UID.
6 - tor-gencert creates all files as readable to the file creator only, and
7 write-protects the authority identity key.
8 - New ConstrainedSockets option to set SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF on TCP
9 sockets. (Patch from coderman.)
11 o Minor features (directory authority):
12 - Fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly if we generate a network
13 status document that is somehow malformed.
15 o Minor features (controller):
16 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
17 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
18 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
20 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
22 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
23 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch from Tup.)
24 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that support
26 them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
27 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for tunneled
28 directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
29 - New GETINFO address-mappings/* command to get address mappings with
30 expiry information. addr-mappings/* is now deprecated.
33 o Performance improvements (win32):
34 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
38 o Deprecated features:
39 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
41 o Major bugfixes (directory):
42 - Fix a crash bug when router descriptors end at a 4096-byte boundary
43 on disk. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
44 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
45 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
47 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
48 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
49 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
50 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
51 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
52 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
54 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
55 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
56 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
57 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
58 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by mwenge) [Bugfix on
62 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
63 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
64 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
65 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
67 o Minor features (directory):
68 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
69 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
70 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
71 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
74 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
75 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
76 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
77 in the tarball, not as "x".
80 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
81 o Major features, server usability:
82 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
83 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
84 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
85 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
87 o Major features, client usability:
88 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
89 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
90 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
91 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
92 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
93 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
94 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
95 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
97 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
98 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
99 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
100 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
101 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
102 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
104 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
105 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
106 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
108 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
109 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
110 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
111 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
112 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
114 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
115 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
116 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
117 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
119 o Major features, other:
120 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
121 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
122 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
123 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
124 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
127 - Directory authorities now call routers stable if they have an
128 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
129 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
132 o Minor fixes (resource management):
133 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
134 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
135 our allocated connection limit.
136 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
137 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
138 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
139 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
140 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
142 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
143 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
144 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
146 o Minor features (build):
147 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
148 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
149 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
150 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
152 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
153 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
154 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
155 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
156 Use this version consistently in log messages.
158 o Minor features (logging):
159 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
160 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
161 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
162 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
163 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
166 o Minor features (directory system):
167 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
168 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
169 not to serve V2 directory information.
170 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
171 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
172 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
174 o Minor features (controller):
175 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
176 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
178 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
179 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
180 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
181 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
182 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
183 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
185 o Minor features (hidden services):
186 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
187 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
188 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
189 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
191 o Minor features (other):
193 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
194 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
195 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
196 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
197 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
198 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
199 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
200 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
201 longer a completely silly thing to do.
202 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
203 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
204 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
205 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
208 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
209 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
210 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
211 back an error and close the connection.
212 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
213 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
216 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
217 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
218 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
219 makes the log messages nicer.
220 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
221 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
222 partial results on small file reads.
224 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
225 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
226 more often than they are allowed to appear.
227 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
228 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
230 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
231 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
232 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
233 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
235 o Minor bugfixes (other):
236 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
237 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
238 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
239 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
240 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
241 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
242 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
243 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
244 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
245 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
247 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
248 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
249 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
251 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
252 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
253 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
254 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
256 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
257 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
258 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
260 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
261 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
264 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
265 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
266 implicit in other procedure arguments.
267 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
268 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
269 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
270 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
271 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
272 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
273 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
274 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
275 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
278 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
279 o Directory authority changes:
280 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
281 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
282 or use hidden services.
284 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
285 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
286 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
287 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
288 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
289 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
290 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
291 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
292 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
295 o Major bugfixes (security):
296 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
297 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
298 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
300 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
301 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
302 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
303 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
304 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
305 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
306 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
307 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
308 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
309 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
312 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
314 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
315 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
317 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
318 having a hard time downloading.
319 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
320 partial results on small file reads.
321 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
322 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
323 the gaps in the store get very large.
326 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
327 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
329 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
330 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
333 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
335 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
336 get one we don't recognize.
337 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
338 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
341 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
343 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
344 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
345 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
346 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
349 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
350 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
353 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
354 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
355 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
356 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
357 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
358 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
362 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
363 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
364 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
365 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
366 on Win98 and friends again.
368 o Minor bugfixes (other):
369 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
370 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
373 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
374 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
375 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
376 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
377 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
378 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
379 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
380 and maybe also bug 397.)
382 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
383 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
384 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
386 o Minor bugfixes (server):
387 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
391 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
392 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
393 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
394 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
396 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
397 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
400 o Minor bugfixes (other):
401 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
402 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
403 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
405 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
407 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
408 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
409 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
410 the last of bug 326.)
411 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
412 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
416 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
417 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
418 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
419 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
420 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
421 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
422 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
424 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
425 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
427 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
428 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
429 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
431 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
432 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
433 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
435 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
436 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
437 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
438 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
440 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
441 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
443 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
444 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
445 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
448 o Minor bugfixes (other):
449 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
450 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
451 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
452 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
453 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
454 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
455 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
456 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
457 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
458 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
459 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
460 other than file-not-found.
461 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
462 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
463 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
464 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
465 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
466 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
467 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
468 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
469 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
470 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
471 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
472 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
473 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
474 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
475 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
477 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
479 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
480 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
482 o Minor features (controller):
483 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
484 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
485 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
487 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
488 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
489 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
490 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
491 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
492 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
493 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
494 connected or resolved cell.
496 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
497 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
498 some profiles, but not others.)
499 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
500 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
501 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
504 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
506 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
507 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
508 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
509 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
510 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
511 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
512 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
513 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
514 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
515 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
516 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
517 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
518 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
519 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
520 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
522 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
525 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
526 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
527 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
528 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
529 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
530 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
531 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
533 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
534 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
535 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
536 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
537 buckets go absurdly negative.
538 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
539 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
542 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
543 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
544 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
545 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
546 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
547 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
548 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
549 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
552 o Major bugfixes (other):
553 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
554 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
555 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
556 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
558 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
560 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
561 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
563 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
564 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
565 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
566 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
567 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
570 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
571 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
572 possible memory-stomping bugs.
573 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
574 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
576 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
577 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
578 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
579 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
580 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
581 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
583 o Minor bugfixes (other):
584 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
585 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
586 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
588 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
589 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
590 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
591 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
592 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
593 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
594 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
595 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
596 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
597 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
598 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
599 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
600 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
602 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
603 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
604 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
605 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
606 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
607 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
608 to the resulting address.
611 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
612 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
613 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
614 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
617 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
618 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
620 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
621 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
622 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
623 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
624 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
625 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
626 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
627 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
628 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
629 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
630 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
631 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
632 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
633 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
634 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
635 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
636 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
639 o Minor features (controller):
640 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
641 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
642 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
643 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
644 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
645 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
646 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
650 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
652 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
653 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
654 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
655 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
656 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
657 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
660 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
661 weren't planning to resolve.
662 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
663 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
664 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
665 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
666 the controller from learning about current events.
668 o Minor features (more controller status events):
669 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
670 learn when our address changes.
671 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
672 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
673 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
674 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
676 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
677 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
678 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
679 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
680 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
681 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
682 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
683 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
684 are accepted by a directory.
685 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
686 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
687 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
688 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
689 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
691 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
692 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
693 about changes to DNS server status.
695 o Minor features (directory):
696 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
697 too much load to the exit nodes.
700 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
702 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
703 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
704 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
705 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
706 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
708 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
709 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
710 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
712 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
713 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
714 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
715 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
716 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
717 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
718 config options if you like.
720 o Minor features (config and docs):
721 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
722 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
723 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
724 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
725 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
727 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
728 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
729 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
730 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
731 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
733 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
734 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
735 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
736 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
737 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
738 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
739 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
740 documentation: "make check-docs".
741 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
742 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
744 o Minor features (DNS):
745 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
746 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
747 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
748 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
749 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
750 our tests for DNS hijacking.
752 o Minor features (directory):
753 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
754 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
755 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
756 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
757 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
758 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
759 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
760 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
761 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
762 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
763 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
764 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
765 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
766 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
767 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
768 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
769 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
770 for the thing we're trying to download.
771 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
772 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
773 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
775 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
776 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
777 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
780 o Minor features (controller):
781 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
782 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
784 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
785 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
786 entry guard status as it changes.
788 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
789 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
790 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
791 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
793 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
794 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
795 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
796 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
799 o Major bugfixes (security):
800 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
801 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
802 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
803 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
805 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
806 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
807 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
808 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
809 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
811 o Major bugfixes (other):
812 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
813 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
814 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
815 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
817 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
818 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
819 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
820 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
821 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
822 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
826 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
827 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
828 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
829 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
830 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
832 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
833 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
835 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
836 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
837 family lists conveniently.
838 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
839 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
840 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
842 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
843 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
845 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
846 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
847 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
848 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
849 if their identity keys are as expected.
850 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
851 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
852 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
854 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
855 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
856 reported by Mike Perry.
857 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
858 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
859 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
860 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
863 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
865 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
866 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
867 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
868 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
872 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
873 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
874 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
877 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
879 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
880 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
881 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
884 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
885 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
886 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
887 watching for STREAM events.
888 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
889 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
890 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
891 operations, for profiling.
894 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
895 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
896 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
897 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
898 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
899 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
901 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
905 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
906 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
907 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
908 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
909 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
911 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
912 correctly in the Windows installer.
913 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
914 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
915 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
917 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
918 when we're running as a client.
921 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
923 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
924 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
925 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
926 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
927 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
928 its circuits on demand.
929 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
930 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
931 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
932 connections more stable on average.
933 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
934 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
935 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
938 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
939 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
942 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
944 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
945 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
946 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
947 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
948 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
949 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
950 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
951 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
954 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
956 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
957 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
958 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
959 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
960 routers for even longer.
961 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
962 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
963 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
964 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
965 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
966 caching HTTP proxies.
967 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
970 o Minor features, controller:
971 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
972 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
973 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
974 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
976 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
977 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
978 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
979 working much like those for circuit events.
980 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
981 about the current status of a router.
982 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
983 a router's status has changed.
984 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
985 can tell which events and features are supported.
986 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
987 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
990 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
991 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
994 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
995 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
996 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
997 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
998 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
999 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
1000 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
1001 long nicknames where appropriate.
1002 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
1003 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
1004 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
1005 chews through many circuits before giving up.
1006 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
1007 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
1008 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
1009 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
1010 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
1011 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
1013 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
1014 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
1015 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
1017 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
1018 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
1019 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
1020 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
1021 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
1022 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
1023 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
1024 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
1025 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
1026 (reported by fookoowa).
1027 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
1028 and reported by some Centos users.
1029 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
1030 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
1031 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
1032 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
1033 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
1034 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
1035 before we check for libevent.
1038 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
1040 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
1041 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
1042 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
1043 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
1044 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
1045 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
1046 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
1047 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
1048 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
1049 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
1050 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
1051 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
1052 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
1053 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
1054 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
1055 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
1056 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
1057 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
1058 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
1059 lets you turn it off.
1060 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
1061 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
1062 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
1063 us into the directory more quickly.
1065 o New/improved config options:
1066 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
1067 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
1068 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
1069 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
1070 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
1071 all the machines on the same subnet.
1072 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
1073 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
1074 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
1075 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
1076 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
1077 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
1078 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
1079 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
1080 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
1081 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
1083 o Minor features, controller:
1084 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
1085 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
1086 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
1087 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
1088 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
1089 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
1090 for more information.
1091 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
1092 best guess to the user.
1093 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
1094 descriptor has changed.
1095 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
1097 o Minor features, other:
1098 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
1099 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
1100 useful to the network.
1101 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
1102 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
1103 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
1104 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
1105 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
1106 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
1107 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
1108 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
1109 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
1110 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
1111 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
1112 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
1113 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
1114 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
1115 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
1117 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
1118 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
1119 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
1120 could return an unnamed server instead.
1121 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
1122 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
1123 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
1124 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
1125 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
1126 a more attractive target for compromise.)
1127 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
1128 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
1129 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
1131 o Major bugfixes, other:
1132 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
1133 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
1134 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
1135 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
1136 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
1137 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
1138 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
1139 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
1140 its circuits on demand.
1141 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
1142 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
1143 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
1144 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
1146 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
1147 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
1148 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
1150 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
1152 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
1153 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
1154 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
1155 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
1156 "extendcircuit" request.
1157 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
1158 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
1159 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
1161 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
1162 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
1163 instead of "X resolved to X".
1164 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
1165 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
1166 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
1167 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
1168 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
1169 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
1170 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
1171 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
1172 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
1174 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
1175 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
1176 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
1177 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
1178 result more than once.
1179 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
1180 non-versioning dirservers.
1181 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
1182 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
1184 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
1185 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
1186 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
1187 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
1188 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
1189 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
1190 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
1191 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
1192 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
1194 o Packaging, features:
1195 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
1196 now universal binaries.
1197 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
1198 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
1199 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
1201 o Packaging, bugfixes:
1202 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
1203 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
1204 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
1205 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
1207 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
1208 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
1209 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
1212 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
1213 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
1214 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
1218 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
1220 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
1221 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
1222 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
1223 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
1224 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
1225 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
1226 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
1227 it can't resolve its hostname.
1230 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
1231 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
1232 "extendcircuit" request.
1233 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
1234 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
1235 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
1236 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
1238 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
1239 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
1240 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
1242 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
1243 methods: these are known to be buggy.
1244 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
1245 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
1249 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
1251 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
1252 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
1253 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
1254 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
1255 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
1256 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
1257 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
1258 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
1259 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
1260 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
1261 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
1262 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
1263 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
1264 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
1265 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
1266 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
1267 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
1268 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
1269 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
1270 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
1271 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
1272 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
1273 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
1274 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
1277 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
1278 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
1279 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
1280 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
1281 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
1282 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
1283 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
1284 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
1285 recommendation system saner.)
1286 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
1288 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
1289 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
1290 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
1291 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
1292 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
1293 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
1294 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
1295 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
1296 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
1297 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
1298 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
1299 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
1301 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
1302 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
1303 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
1304 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
1305 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
1306 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
1307 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
1308 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
1309 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
1310 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
1311 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
1312 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
1314 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
1315 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
1316 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
1317 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
1318 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
1319 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
1322 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
1323 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
1324 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
1325 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
1326 our DirPort now, etc.
1327 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
1328 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
1329 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
1330 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
1331 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
1332 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
1333 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
1335 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
1336 whether the config options are bad or good.
1337 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
1338 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
1339 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
1340 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
1341 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
1342 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
1343 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
1344 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
1347 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
1348 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
1349 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
1350 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
1351 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
1352 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
1353 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
1354 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
1355 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
1356 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
1357 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
1358 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
1359 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
1360 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
1361 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
1362 of it), is not therefore "up".
1363 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
1364 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
1365 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
1366 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
1367 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
1368 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
1371 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
1373 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
1374 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
1375 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
1376 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
1377 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
1378 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
1379 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
1380 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
1381 test reachability, so you won't publish.
1384 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
1385 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
1386 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
1387 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
1388 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
1390 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
1391 own server descriptor yet.
1394 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
1396 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
1397 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
1398 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
1399 make sure to test via one of these.
1400 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
1401 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
1402 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
1403 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
1404 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
1406 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
1407 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
1408 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
1411 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
1412 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
1413 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
1414 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
1415 directory authority.
1416 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
1417 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
1418 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
1419 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
1422 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
1423 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
1424 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
1426 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
1427 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
1428 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
1429 current guards when picking a new guard.
1430 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
1431 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
1432 when we had more than one pending.
1433 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
1434 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
1435 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
1436 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
1437 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
1438 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
1439 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
1440 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
1441 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
1442 debug the reachability problems better.
1444 o Log / documentation fixes:
1445 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
1446 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
1447 about protocol violations by others.
1448 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
1449 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
1450 about what happened to our old torrc.
1453 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
1455 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
1457 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
1458 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
1459 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
1460 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
1463 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
1465 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
1466 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
1467 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
1468 old ORPort and receive connections.
1469 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
1471 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
1472 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
1473 and network-statuses.
1474 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
1475 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
1476 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
1477 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
1479 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
1482 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
1483 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
1484 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
1487 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
1489 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
1490 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
1491 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
1492 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
1493 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
1496 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
1497 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
1499 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
1500 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
1501 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
1502 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
1503 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
1504 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
1505 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
1506 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
1507 rather than not sending anything back at all.
1508 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
1509 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
1510 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
1511 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
1512 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
1513 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
1514 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
1515 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
1516 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
1517 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
1518 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
1519 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
1520 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
1521 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
1522 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
1523 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
1524 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
1525 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
1526 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
1527 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
1528 default ulimit -n is 1024.
1531 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
1532 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
1533 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
1534 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
1537 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
1539 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
1540 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
1541 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
1542 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
1543 entry guards running these flawed versions.
1544 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
1545 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
1546 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
1547 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
1548 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
1551 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
1552 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
1554 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
1555 and it is confusing some users.
1556 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
1557 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
1558 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
1559 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
1560 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
1563 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
1565 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
1566 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
1567 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
1568 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
1569 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
1570 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
1571 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
1572 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
1573 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
1574 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
1575 dirport is set for now.
1577 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
1578 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
1579 unattached before we fail it?
1580 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
1581 at least this many seconds ago.
1582 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
1583 at least this many seconds ago.
1586 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
1587 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
1588 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
1589 or resolve-wait stream.
1590 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
1591 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
1592 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
1593 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
1594 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
1595 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
1596 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
1597 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
1599 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
1600 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
1601 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
1602 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
1603 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
1604 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
1605 given as hex digests.
1606 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
1607 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
1608 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
1609 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
1610 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
1611 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
1612 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
1613 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
1616 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1617 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
1618 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
1619 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
1620 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
1621 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
1622 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
1623 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
1624 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
1625 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
1626 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
1629 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
1630 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
1631 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
1632 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
1633 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
1634 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
1635 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
1638 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
1639 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
1640 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
1641 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
1642 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
1643 misreading their logs.
1644 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
1645 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
1646 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
1647 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
1648 valid router descriptors.
1649 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
1650 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
1651 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
1652 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
1653 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
1654 silently resetting it to its default.
1655 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
1657 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
1660 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
1662 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
1663 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
1664 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
1665 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
1666 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
1668 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
1669 because older Tors do not understand it.
1670 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
1674 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
1675 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
1676 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
1677 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
1678 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
1679 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
1680 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
1681 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
1682 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
1683 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
1684 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
1686 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
1687 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
1688 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
1689 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
1691 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
1692 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
1695 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
1696 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
1697 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
1698 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
1699 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
1700 without getting overloaded.
1701 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
1703 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
1704 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
1705 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
1706 be forward-compatible.
1707 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
1708 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
1709 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
1710 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
1712 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
1713 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
1714 and OR conns to port 443.
1715 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
1716 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
1718 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
1719 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
1720 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
1721 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
1722 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
1723 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
1724 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
1727 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
1728 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1729 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
1730 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
1732 o Other important bugfixes:
1733 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
1734 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
1735 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
1736 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
1738 o Backported features:
1739 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
1740 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
1741 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
1742 without getting overloaded.
1743 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
1744 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
1745 503's whenever they feel busy.
1746 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
1747 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
1748 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
1749 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
1750 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
1753 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
1754 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
1755 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
1756 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
1757 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
1758 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
1759 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
1760 know if the crashes continue.
1761 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
1762 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
1763 seg faults in at least some cases.)
1764 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
1765 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
1766 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
1769 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
1770 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
1771 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
1772 try to be a bit more fair.
1773 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
1774 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
1775 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
1776 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
1777 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
1778 bug that let it go negative.
1779 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
1780 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
1781 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
1782 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
1783 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
1784 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
1785 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
1786 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
1787 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
1788 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
1789 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
1792 - Clients not longer download descriptors for non-running
1794 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
1795 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
1796 service descriptors.
1799 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
1800 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
1801 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
1802 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
1804 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
1805 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
1806 versions *are* still recommended.
1807 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
1808 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
1809 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
1810 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
1811 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
1812 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
1813 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
1814 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
1816 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
1817 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
1818 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
1819 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
1820 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
1821 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
1822 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
1823 on it. Not used by clients yet.
1824 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
1825 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
1826 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
1827 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
1828 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
1829 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
1830 established a circuit.
1831 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
1832 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
1833 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
1834 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
1837 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
1838 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
1839 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
1840 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
1841 quickly enough. Oops.
1842 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
1844 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1845 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
1848 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
1849 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
1850 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
1851 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
1852 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
1853 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
1854 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
1855 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
1856 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
1857 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
1858 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
1859 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
1860 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
1861 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
1862 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
1863 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
1864 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
1867 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
1868 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
1869 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
1870 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
1871 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
1872 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
1873 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
1874 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
1875 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
1876 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
1877 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
1878 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
1879 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
1880 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
1881 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
1882 connections more reliable.
1885 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
1886 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
1887 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
1888 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
1889 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
1890 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
1891 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
1892 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
1893 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
1894 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
1895 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
1896 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
1897 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
1898 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
1902 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
1903 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
1904 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
1905 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
1906 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
1907 need to be uint64_t's.
1908 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
1909 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
1910 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
1912 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
1914 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
1915 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
1916 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
1917 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
1918 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
1919 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
1920 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
1922 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
1923 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
1924 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
1925 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
1926 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
1927 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
1928 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
1929 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
1930 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
1931 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
1932 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
1933 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
1934 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
1937 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
1938 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
1939 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
1940 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
1941 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
1942 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
1943 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
1945 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
1946 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
1947 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
1948 can answer v2 directory requests too.
1949 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
1950 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
1951 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
1952 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
1954 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
1955 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
1956 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
1957 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
1958 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
1959 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
1960 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
1961 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
1962 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
1963 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
1964 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
1965 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
1966 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
1967 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
1968 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
1970 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
1971 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
1974 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
1975 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1976 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
1977 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
1978 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
1979 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
1980 too -- so detect and avoid this.
1981 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
1983 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
1984 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
1985 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
1986 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
1987 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
1988 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
1989 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
1990 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
1991 rendezvous circuits.
1992 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
1994 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1995 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
1996 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
1997 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
1998 advertising it because of hibernation.
1999 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
2000 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2001 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2002 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2003 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2004 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2005 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
2006 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
2007 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
2008 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
2009 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
2010 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
2011 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
2012 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
2015 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
2016 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2017 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
2018 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
2019 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
2020 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
2021 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
2022 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
2023 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
2024 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
2025 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
2026 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2027 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2028 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2029 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
2030 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
2031 connections once a week.
2032 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2033 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2034 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
2035 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
2036 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
2037 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
2039 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
2040 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
2041 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
2043 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2044 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
2045 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
2046 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
2047 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
2048 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
2049 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
2050 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
2051 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
2052 firewall options forbid.
2053 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
2054 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
2055 can only proxy to certain destinations.
2056 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
2057 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
2058 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
2059 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
2060 aids some statistical attacks.
2061 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
2062 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
2063 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
2064 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
2066 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2067 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
2068 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
2069 server descriptor sometimes.
2070 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
2071 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
2072 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
2073 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
2074 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
2075 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
2076 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
2077 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
2079 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
2080 case the controller wants to change that too.
2081 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
2082 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
2083 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
2084 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
2086 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
2087 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
2088 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
2090 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
2091 descriptors that they know they will reject.
2093 o Features and updates:
2094 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
2095 significantly faster.
2096 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
2097 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
2098 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
2099 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
2100 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
2101 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
2102 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
2103 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
2104 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
2105 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
2106 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
2107 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
2108 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
2109 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
2110 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
2111 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
2112 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
2113 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
2114 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
2115 as authoritative dirserver.
2116 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
2117 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
2118 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
2121 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
2122 o Usability improvements:
2123 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
2124 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
2126 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
2127 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
2128 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
2130 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
2131 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
2132 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
2133 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
2134 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
2135 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
2136 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
2137 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
2138 memory leaks better.
2139 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
2140 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
2141 their operators to pay close attention.
2142 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
2143 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
2145 o Performance improvements:
2146 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
2147 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
2148 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
2149 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
2150 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
2151 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
2152 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
2153 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
2154 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
2155 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
2156 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
2157 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
2158 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
2159 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
2160 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
2161 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
2162 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
2164 o Security improvements:
2165 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
2166 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
2167 fingerprint of server.
2168 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
2169 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
2170 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
2172 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2173 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
2174 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
2175 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
2176 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
2177 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
2178 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
2179 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
2180 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
2181 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
2182 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
2183 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
2184 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
2185 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
2186 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
2187 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
2188 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
2189 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
2190 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
2191 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
2192 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
2194 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
2195 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
2196 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
2198 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
2199 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
2201 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
2202 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
2203 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
2204 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
2205 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
2206 of the controller protocol.
2207 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
2208 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
2209 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
2212 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
2213 o New features (major):
2214 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
2215 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
2216 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
2217 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
2218 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
2219 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
2220 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
2221 we're using a default DirPort.
2222 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
2224 o New features (minor):
2225 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
2226 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
2227 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
2228 mirrors still cache and serve it).
2229 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
2230 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
2231 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
2232 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
2233 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
2234 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
2235 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
2236 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
2237 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
2238 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
2239 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
2240 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
2241 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
2242 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
2243 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
2245 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
2246 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
2247 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
2248 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
2249 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
2250 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
2251 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
2252 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
2254 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
2255 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
2256 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
2257 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
2258 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
2259 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
2260 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
2261 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
2262 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
2263 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
2265 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
2266 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
2267 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
2268 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
2269 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
2272 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
2273 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
2275 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
2276 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
2278 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
2279 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
2280 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
2281 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
2282 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
2283 don't warn twice about the same name.
2284 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
2285 if we've not heard of the server.
2286 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
2287 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
2290 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
2291 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2292 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
2293 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
2294 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
2295 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
2296 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
2297 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
2298 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
2299 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
2300 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
2301 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
2302 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
2303 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
2304 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
2307 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
2308 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
2309 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
2310 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
2311 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
2313 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
2314 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
2315 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
2316 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
2317 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
2318 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
2322 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
2323 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
2324 nickname) is reachable by you.
2325 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
2329 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
2330 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
2331 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
2332 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
2333 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
2334 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
2335 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
2336 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
2337 we fail to connect).
2338 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
2339 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
2340 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
2341 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
2343 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
2344 it was self-testing that told us so.
2347 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
2348 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
2349 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
2350 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
2351 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
2352 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
2353 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
2354 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
2355 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
2356 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
2357 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
2358 exit policy using him for any exits.
2359 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
2362 o New controller features/fixes:
2363 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
2364 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
2365 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
2366 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
2367 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
2368 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
2369 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
2370 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
2371 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
2373 o Start on the new directory design:
2374 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
2375 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
2377 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
2378 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
2379 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
2380 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
2382 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
2383 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
2384 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
2385 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
2386 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
2387 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
2388 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
2389 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
2392 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
2393 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
2394 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
2395 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
2396 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
2397 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
2398 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
2399 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
2400 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
2401 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
2403 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
2404 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
2405 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
2406 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
2407 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
2408 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
2409 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
2410 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
2411 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
2413 o Config option changes:
2414 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
2415 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
2416 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
2417 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
2418 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
2419 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
2422 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
2423 people have started using them for spam too.
2424 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
2425 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
2426 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
2427 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
2428 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
2429 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
2430 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
2431 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
2432 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
2433 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
2434 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
2435 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
2436 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
2437 services faster on the service end.
2438 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
2439 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
2440 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
2441 it a fair shake next time we try.
2442 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
2443 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
2444 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
2445 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
2446 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
2447 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
2448 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
2449 able to discover them.
2450 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
2451 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
2452 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
2453 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
2454 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
2455 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
2456 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
2457 testing for reachability.
2458 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
2459 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
2461 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
2463 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
2464 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
2467 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
2468 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
2470 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2471 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
2472 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
2473 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
2476 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
2477 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2478 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
2480 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
2481 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
2484 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
2485 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
2488 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
2489 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
2490 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
2491 options, getinfo keys.
2494 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
2495 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2496 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
2497 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
2498 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
2499 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
2500 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
2502 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
2503 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
2507 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
2508 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
2509 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
2511 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
2513 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
2514 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
2515 circuit events and we go offline.
2516 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
2517 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
2518 you don't have enough intro points already.
2520 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
2521 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
2522 many bytes we've used in this time period.
2523 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
2524 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
2525 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
2526 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
2527 enabled by default yet.
2529 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
2530 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
2531 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
2532 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
2533 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
2536 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
2537 o New directory servers:
2538 - tor26 has changed IP address.
2540 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2541 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
2542 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
2544 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
2545 claims its dirport is 0.
2546 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
2547 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
2551 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
2552 o New directory servers:
2553 - tor26 has changed IP address.
2555 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
2556 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
2558 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
2559 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
2560 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
2561 ports that have changed.
2562 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
2564 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
2565 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
2566 Windows-style errno back.
2567 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
2569 want to make it an NT service.
2570 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
2571 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
2572 name, give the full name in our response.
2573 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
2574 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
2575 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
2576 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
2579 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2580 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
2584 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
2585 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
2586 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
2587 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
2588 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
2591 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
2592 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2593 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
2594 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
2595 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
2596 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
2597 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
2598 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
2601 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
2603 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
2604 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
2605 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
2606 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
2607 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
2608 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
2610 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
2611 temporarily unreachable.
2612 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
2616 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
2617 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
2618 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
2620 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
2624 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
2625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
2626 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
2627 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
2628 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
2632 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
2633 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
2634 libevent before 1.1a.
2637 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
2639 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
2640 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
2641 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
2642 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
2643 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
2645 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
2646 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
2647 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
2648 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
2649 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
2650 of CPU time plus memory.
2651 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
2652 normal web requests.
2653 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
2654 tor_lookup_hostname().
2655 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
2656 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
2657 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
2658 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
2659 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
2660 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
2662 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
2663 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
2664 HttpProxyAuthenticator
2665 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
2666 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
2667 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
2669 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
2670 the user asks you to.
2671 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
2672 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
2673 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
2674 their descriptors are being rejected.
2675 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
2679 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
2681 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
2682 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
2683 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
2685 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
2687 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
2689 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
2690 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
2691 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
2692 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
2693 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
2694 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
2695 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
2696 keys) from the exit server's process.
2697 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
2698 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
2699 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
2700 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
2701 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
2702 point at your Tor server.
2703 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
2704 you're not sending a socks reply back.
2707 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
2708 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
2709 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
2710 to make it easier to write controllers.
2713 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
2715 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
2716 installing on Tiger.
2717 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
2718 complain during installation.
2719 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
2720 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
2721 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
2722 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
2723 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
2724 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
2726 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
2727 something more reasonable when first installing.
2728 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
2731 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
2733 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
2734 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
2736 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
2737 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
2738 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
2739 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
2740 when using the default exit policy.
2741 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
2742 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
2743 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
2744 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
2745 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
2746 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
2747 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
2748 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
2749 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
2750 we fetched a new directory.
2751 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
2752 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
2755 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
2756 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
2757 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
2758 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
2759 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
2760 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
2761 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
2762 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
2764 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
2765 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
2766 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
2767 save memory on systems that need to fork.
2768 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
2769 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
2770 is valid without actually launching Tor.
2771 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
2772 rather than just rejecting it.
2775 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
2777 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
2778 we didn't like its cert.
2780 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
2781 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
2782 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
2783 on patch from Adam Langley.
2784 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
2785 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
2786 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
2787 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
2789 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
2790 directory every time you regenerate it.
2791 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
2792 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
2795 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
2796 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
2797 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
2798 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
2799 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
2802 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
2804 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
2805 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
2806 TLS errors better in other situations too.
2807 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
2808 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
2809 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
2810 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
2811 and don't log when you are.
2812 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
2813 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
2815 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
2816 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
2817 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
2818 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
2819 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
2822 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
2823 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
2824 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
2825 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
2826 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
2827 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
2828 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
2829 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
2830 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
2831 nickname+key are allowed.
2832 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
2833 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
2834 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
2835 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
2836 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
2837 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
2838 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
2839 have quite wrong clocks).
2840 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
2841 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
2842 - Efficiency improvements:
2843 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
2844 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
2845 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
2846 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
2847 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
2848 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
2849 lowercase and be done with it.
2850 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
2851 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
2852 to abandon partially built circuits.
2853 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
2854 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
2856 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
2858 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
2859 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
2860 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
2861 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
2863 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
2864 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
2866 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
2867 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
2868 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
2869 obeying the exit policy internally.
2870 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
2871 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
2873 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
2874 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
2875 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
2876 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
2878 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
2879 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
2880 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
2881 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
2882 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
2884 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
2885 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
2886 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
2887 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
2888 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
2889 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
2890 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
2891 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
2892 descriptors we just dropped.
2893 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
2894 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
2895 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
2896 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
2897 artificially capped at 500kB.
2900 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
2901 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
2902 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
2903 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
2904 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
2905 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
2906 busy for more than 100 seconds.
2909 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
2910 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
2911 - Fixes on reachability detection:
2912 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
2913 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
2914 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
2915 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
2916 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
2917 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
2918 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
2919 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
2920 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
2921 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
2922 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
2923 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
2924 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
2925 server not already connected to them.
2926 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
2927 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
2928 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
2930 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
2932 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
2933 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
2934 are in a different state than they actually are.
2935 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
2936 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
2937 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
2939 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
2940 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
2941 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
2943 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
2944 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
2945 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
2946 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
2947 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
2948 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
2949 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
2951 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
2952 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
2953 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
2954 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
2957 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
2958 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
2959 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
2960 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
2961 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
2962 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
2963 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
2964 creating actual system users.
2965 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
2966 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
2970 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
2972 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
2973 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
2974 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
2975 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
2976 hidden services better.
2977 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
2979 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
2980 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
2981 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
2982 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
2983 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
2984 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
2985 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
2986 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
2987 patch by Matt Edman).
2988 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
2989 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
2990 required exit node for certain sites.
2991 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
2992 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
2993 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
2994 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
2995 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
2996 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
2997 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
2998 rather than just "success" or "failure".
2999 - A more sane version numbering system. See
3000 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
3001 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
3002 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
3004 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
3005 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
3006 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
3007 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
3008 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
3009 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
3010 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
3012 o Robustness/stability fixes:
3013 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
3014 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
3015 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
3017 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
3018 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
3019 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
3021 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
3022 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
3023 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
3025 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
3026 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
3027 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
3028 that will want high uptime circuits.
3029 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
3030 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
3031 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
3032 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
3033 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
3034 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
3035 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
3036 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
3037 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
3038 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
3039 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
3040 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
3041 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
3042 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
3043 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
3044 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
3045 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
3046 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
3047 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
3048 when we try to launch one.
3049 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
3050 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
3051 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
3052 "ShutdownWaitLength".
3053 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
3054 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
3055 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
3056 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
3057 and to take errno into account where possible.
3060 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
3061 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
3062 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
3063 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
3064 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
3065 file more reasonable.
3066 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
3067 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
3068 addresses -- it won't.
3069 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
3070 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
3071 for google.com" problem.
3072 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
3073 so it's not just "unknown platform".
3074 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
3075 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
3076 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
3077 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
3079 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
3080 they could use instead.
3081 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
3082 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
3083 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
3084 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
3085 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
3086 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
3087 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
3088 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
3089 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
3091 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
3095 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
3096 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
3098 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
3099 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
3100 private-IP addresses.
3101 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
3102 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
3104 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
3105 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
3106 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
3107 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
3108 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
3109 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
3110 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
3112 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
3113 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
3114 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
3115 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
3116 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
3117 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
3118 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
3119 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
3121 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
3123 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
3124 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
3125 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
3126 whether the server is hibernating.
3129 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
3130 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
3131 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
3132 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
3133 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
3134 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
3135 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
3136 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
3137 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
3138 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
3139 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
3140 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
3141 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
3142 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
3143 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
3145 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
3146 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
3147 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
3148 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
3149 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
3150 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
3151 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
3152 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
3153 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
3154 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
3155 existing torrc files.
3156 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
3159 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
3160 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3161 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
3162 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
3163 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
3164 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
3165 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
3166 the win32 SYSTEM account.
3167 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
3168 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
3169 file descriptors available.
3170 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
3171 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
3172 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
3175 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
3176 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3177 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
3178 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
3180 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
3181 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
3182 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
3183 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
3184 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
3186 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
3187 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
3188 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
3189 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
3190 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
3191 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
3192 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
3193 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
3194 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
3195 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
3196 800kB/s of capacity.
3197 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
3200 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
3201 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3202 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
3203 need as much processor time.
3204 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
3205 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
3206 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
3207 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
3208 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
3209 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
3210 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
3211 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
3212 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
3213 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
3214 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
3215 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
3217 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
3218 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
3219 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
3220 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
3221 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
3222 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
3223 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
3226 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
3227 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
3228 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
3230 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
3231 style address, then we'd crash.
3232 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
3233 a dirserver is broken.
3234 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
3236 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
3237 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
3238 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
3240 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
3241 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
3242 name out of the warning/assert messages.
3243 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
3244 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
3245 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
3247 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
3248 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
3249 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
3251 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
3253 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
3254 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
3255 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
3256 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
3257 values at once couldn't work.
3258 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
3259 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
3260 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
3261 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
3262 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
3263 they can handle any number of routers.
3264 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
3265 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
3266 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
3267 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
3268 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
3269 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
3270 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
3271 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
3272 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
3275 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
3276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3277 - Make hibernation actually work.
3278 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
3279 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
3280 don't use the stream status code.
3283 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
3285 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
3286 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
3288 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
3291 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
3292 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
3293 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
3294 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
3295 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
3296 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
3297 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
3298 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
3299 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
3300 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
3302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3303 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
3304 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
3305 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
3306 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
3307 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
3308 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
3309 - Make unit tests work on win32.
3312 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
3313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
3314 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
3316 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
3317 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
3318 than just chopping them off.
3319 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
3321 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3322 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
3323 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
3324 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
3325 right after sending the begin cell.
3326 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
3327 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
3328 exit nodes too. Oops.
3331 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
3332 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
3333 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
3334 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
3335 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
3336 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
3337 the user knows which one it's talking about.
3338 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
3339 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
3340 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
3343 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
3344 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3345 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
3346 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
3348 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
3350 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
3351 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
3352 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
3354 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
3355 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
3356 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
3357 Clip rather than rejecting.
3358 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
3359 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
3362 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
3363 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
3364 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
3365 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
3367 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
3370 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
3371 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3372 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
3373 win32 socket errors better.
3375 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3376 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
3379 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
3380 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3381 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
3382 so we don't see those messages days later.
3384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3385 - Make tor-resolve work again.
3386 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
3387 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
3390 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
3391 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
3392 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
3393 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
3395 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
3396 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
3397 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
3400 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
3401 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3402 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
3403 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
3404 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
3405 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
3406 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
3407 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
3408 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
3410 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
3411 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
3412 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
3413 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
3415 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
3416 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
3419 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
3420 hibernation properties by
3421 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
3422 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
3423 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
3424 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
3425 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
3426 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
3427 get back to normal.)
3428 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
3430 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
3431 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
3432 to fill the last cell completely.
3433 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
3436 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
3437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3438 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
3439 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
3440 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
3441 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
3442 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
3443 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
3444 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
3445 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
3446 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
3448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
3449 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
3450 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
3451 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
3452 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
3453 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
3454 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
3455 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
3457 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
3458 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
3459 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
3460 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
3461 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
3462 have it on start-up.
3465 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
3466 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
3467 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
3468 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
3469 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
3470 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
3471 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
3472 configuration to torrc.
3473 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
3474 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
3475 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
3476 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
3477 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
3479 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
3480 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
3481 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
3482 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
3483 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
3484 log more informatively.
3485 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
3486 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
3487 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
3488 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
3489 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
3490 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
3491 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
3492 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
3493 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
3494 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
3495 from each other, to hinder linkability.
3498 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
3499 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
3500 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
3501 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
3502 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
3503 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
3504 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
3506 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
3507 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
3508 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
3509 they ran out of file descriptors.
3510 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
3511 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
3512 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
3513 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
3514 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
3515 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
3516 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
3518 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
3521 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
3522 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
3523 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
3524 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
3525 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
3526 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
3527 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
3528 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
3529 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
3530 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
3531 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
3532 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
3533 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
3534 with the control port.
3535 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
3536 use in authenticating to the control interface.
3537 - New log format in config:
3538 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
3539 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
3542 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
3543 from their dirserver.
3544 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
3546 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
3547 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
3548 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
3549 them act more like real nodes.
3550 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
3551 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
3553 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
3554 nickname to its identity key.
3555 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
3556 not on the command line.
3557 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
3558 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
3559 1024) file descriptors.
3561 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
3562 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
3564 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
3565 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
3566 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
3569 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
3570 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
3571 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
3572 exit policy, not reject *:*.
3573 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
3574 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
3575 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
3576 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
3577 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
3578 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
3579 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
3582 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
3583 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
3584 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
3585 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
3586 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
3587 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
3588 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
3591 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
3592 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
3593 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
3594 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
3595 the ones we find in directories.)
3596 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
3598 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
3599 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
3601 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
3602 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
3603 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
3605 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
3606 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
3607 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
3608 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
3610 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
3611 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
3612 any more exit policy lines.
3615 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
3616 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
3617 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
3618 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
3619 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
3620 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
3621 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
3622 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
3623 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
3624 will be able to get a directory.
3625 - Http proxy support
3626 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
3627 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
3628 be routed through this host.
3629 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
3630 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
3631 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
3632 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
3635 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
3637 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
3638 clients/servers with an open dirport.
3639 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
3640 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
3641 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
3642 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
3643 intermittent connections.
3644 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
3645 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
3647 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
3648 in reporting stats locally.
3649 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
3650 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
3651 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
3654 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
3656 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
3657 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
3660 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
3662 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
3663 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
3664 if you don't want it open.
3665 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
3666 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
3667 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
3668 intermittent connections.
3669 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
3671 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
3672 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
3673 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
3674 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
3675 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
3676 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
3677 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
3678 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
3679 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
3680 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
3681 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
3682 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
3683 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
3684 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
3685 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
3686 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
3689 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
3690 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
3691 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
3692 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
3693 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
3695 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
3697 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
3698 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
3699 specified in HTTP 1.0.
3700 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
3701 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
3702 than once per minute.
3703 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
3704 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
3707 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
3708 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
3711 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
3712 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
3713 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
3714 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
3717 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
3718 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
3720 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
3721 don't put it into the client dns cache.
3722 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
3723 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
3724 until we get our next directory.
3726 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
3727 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
3728 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
3729 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
3730 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
3731 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
3732 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
3733 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
3734 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
3735 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
3736 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
3738 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
3740 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
3741 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
3743 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
3744 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
3745 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
3747 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
3749 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
3750 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
3751 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
3752 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
3753 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
3754 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
3755 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
3756 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
3759 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
3760 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
3761 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
3762 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
3765 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
3766 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
3767 ask them to resolve the host "".
3770 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
3771 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
3772 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
3773 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
3774 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
3775 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
3776 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
3777 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
3778 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
3779 clients don't use this yet.)
3780 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
3781 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
3782 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
3783 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
3784 for pointing out this bug.)
3785 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
3786 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
3787 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
3788 kazaa, gnutella ports.
3789 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
3791 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
3792 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
3793 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
3794 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
3795 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
3796 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
3797 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
3798 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
3799 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
3801 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
3802 that's still handshaking.
3803 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
3804 you'll choose it for your path.
3805 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
3806 end relay cell, etc.
3807 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
3808 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
3809 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
3812 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
3813 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
3815 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
3816 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
3817 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
3818 list to decide who's running or verified.
3819 - Bugfixes and features:
3820 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
3821 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
3822 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
3823 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
3824 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
3825 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
3827 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
3828 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
3829 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
3830 know you might want to get it verified.
3831 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
3834 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
3836 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
3837 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
3838 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
3839 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
3842 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
3843 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
3844 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
3845 hadn't heard of before.
3848 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
3849 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
3850 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
3851 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
3852 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
3853 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
3854 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
3855 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
3856 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
3857 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
3858 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
3859 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
3860 - Directory caching.
3861 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
3862 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
3863 directory they've pulled down.
3864 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
3865 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
3866 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
3867 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
3868 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
3869 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
3870 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
3872 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
3873 This isn't used yet.
3874 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
3875 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
3876 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
3877 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
3878 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
3879 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
3880 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
3881 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
3882 - File and name management:
3883 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
3884 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
3886 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
3887 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
3888 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
3889 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
3890 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
3891 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
3892 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
3894 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
3895 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
3896 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
3897 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
3898 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
3900 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
3901 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
3902 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
3903 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
3904 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
3905 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
3906 - New docs in the tarball:
3908 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
3911 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
3912 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
3913 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
3916 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
3917 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
3918 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
3921 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
3922 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
3925 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
3926 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
3927 - Make it build on Win32 again.
3928 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
3929 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
3933 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
3935 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
3936 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
3937 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
3938 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
3939 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
3940 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
3941 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
3942 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
3943 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
3944 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
3947 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
3950 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
3951 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
3952 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
3953 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
3955 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
3956 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
3957 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
3959 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
3960 hidden service per 15-minute period.
3961 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
3962 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
3963 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
3964 o Fixes for security bugs:
3965 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
3966 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
3967 a trusted dirserver.
3969 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
3970 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
3971 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
3972 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
3973 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
3974 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
3975 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
3976 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
3977 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
3978 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
3980 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
3981 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
3982 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
3983 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
3985 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
3986 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
3987 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
3988 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
3989 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
3990 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
3991 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
3992 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
3993 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
3994 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
3995 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
3996 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
3997 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
4000 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
4001 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
4002 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
4003 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4006 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
4007 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
4008 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
4009 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
4010 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
4011 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4012 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
4016 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
4020 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
4021 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
4022 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
4023 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
4024 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
4026 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
4029 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
4030 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
4031 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
4032 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
4033 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
4034 o Better debugging for tls errors
4035 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
4036 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
4037 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
4038 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
4039 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
4040 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
4041 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
4042 o win32's close can't close a socket.
4045 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
4046 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
4047 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
4048 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
4049 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
4050 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
4051 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
4052 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
4053 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
4054 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
4055 just close the circ.
4056 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
4057 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
4058 (this was quite rare).
4061 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
4062 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
4063 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
4064 if you decrypted them correctly.
4065 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
4066 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
4067 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
4070 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
4071 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
4072 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
4073 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
4074 a second one and it works.
4075 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
4076 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
4077 alice would just have to wait to time out.
4078 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
4079 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
4080 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
4081 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
4082 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
4083 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
4084 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
4085 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
4086 i'd still like to find the bug though.
4087 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
4089 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
4093 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
4094 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
4095 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
4096 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
4097 he retries a couple of times
4098 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
4099 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
4100 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
4101 too long (they were sticking around forever).
4102 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
4106 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
4107 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
4108 - make hup work again
4109 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
4110 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
4111 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
4112 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
4113 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
4114 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
4116 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
4117 o changes from 0.0.5:
4118 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
4119 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
4120 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
4121 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
4122 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
4124 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
4125 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
4126 in-memory directories too
4129 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
4130 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
4133 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
4135 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
4136 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
4137 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
4138 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
4141 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
4145 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
4146 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
4148 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
4149 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
4150 but that aren't warnings
4153 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
4154 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
4155 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
4156 the dns farm to do it.
4157 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
4158 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
4160 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
4161 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
4162 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
4165 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
4166 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
4167 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
4168 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
4169 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
4170 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
4171 expect it to have a nickname.
4172 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
4173 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
4176 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
4177 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
4181 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
4182 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
4183 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
4184 - include missing header fcntl.h
4185 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
4186 - deal with hardware word alignment
4187 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
4188 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
4189 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
4190 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
4191 by kill -USR1 currently.
4192 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
4193 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
4194 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
4197 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
4198 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
4199 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
4202 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
4204 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
4205 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
4206 - And fix a few endian issues.
4209 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
4211 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
4212 try that circuit again: try a new one.
4213 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
4214 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
4215 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
4216 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
4217 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
4218 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
4220 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
4221 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
4222 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
4224 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
4226 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
4227 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
4228 side isn't reading right then.
4229 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
4231 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
4232 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
4233 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
4236 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
4238 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
4239 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
4242 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
4246 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
4248 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
4249 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
4250 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
4251 connection is finished.
4252 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
4253 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
4254 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
4255 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
4256 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
4257 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
4258 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
4259 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
4260 rather than warn and continue.
4261 - Make --version work
4262 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
4265 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
4267 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
4269 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
4270 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
4272 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
4273 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
4274 so you can collect coredumps there.
4276 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
4277 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
4278 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
4279 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
4280 dns cache actually gets populated.
4281 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
4282 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
4283 end cell down it first.
4284 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
4285 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
4288 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
4290 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
4291 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
4293 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
4294 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
4295 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
4296 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
4297 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
4298 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
4300 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
4302 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
4303 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
4304 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
4305 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
4306 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
4307 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
4309 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
4310 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
4313 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
4315 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
4316 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
4317 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
4318 tor. It even has a man page.
4319 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
4320 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
4321 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
4322 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
4324 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
4326 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
4329 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
4331 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
4333 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
4334 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
4335 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
4336 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
4337 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
4338 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
4339 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
4340 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
4341 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
4342 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
4343 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
4345 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
4346 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
4349 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
4351 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
4352 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
4355 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
4357 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
4358 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
4359 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
4360 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
4361 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
4362 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
4363 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
4364 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
4365 logfile so you know it's working.
4366 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
4367 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
4370 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
4372 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
4373 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
4374 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
4377 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
4379 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
4380 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
4381 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
4384 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
4385 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
4386 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
4388 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
4389 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
4391 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
4392 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
4393 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
4395 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
4396 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
4400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
4402 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
4403 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
4404 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
4407 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
4408 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
4409 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
4410 - Add port ranges to exit policies
4411 - Add a conservative default exit policy
4412 - Warn if you're running tor as root
4413 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
4414 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
4415 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
4416 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
4418 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
4421 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
4422 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4423 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
4424 really screw things up.
4425 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
4427 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
4428 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
4430 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
4431 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
4432 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
4433 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
4434 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
4435 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
4438 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
4441 - Change default loglevel to warn.
4442 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
4443 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
4445 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
4448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
4449 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4450 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
4451 - to get ownership/permissions right
4452 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
4453 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
4454 pull down a directory again
4455 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
4456 causing server crashes
4457 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
4458 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
4459 - exit if bind() fails
4460 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
4461 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
4462 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
4463 - fix minor bias in PRNG
4464 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
4467 - Wrote the design document (woo)
4469 o Circuit building and exit policies:
4470 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
4472 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
4473 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
4474 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
4475 exists, rather than failing
4476 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
4477 which AP connections are standing by
4478 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
4479 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
4480 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
4482 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
4483 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
4486 - APPort is now called SocksPort
4487 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
4489 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
4490 hardcoded (for dirservers)
4491 - Reloads config on HUP
4492 - Usage info on -h or --help
4493 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
4495 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
4496 o General stability:
4497 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
4498 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
4499 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
4500 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
4501 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
4502 to take down the network when I approve a new router
4503 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
4506 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
4507 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
4509 o Autoconf improvements:
4510 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
4511 - Make install now works
4512 - create var/lib/tor on make install
4513 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
4514 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
4516 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
4517 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
4518 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
4519 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup