1 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
2 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
3 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
4 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
6 o Major features (client security):
7 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
8 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
9 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
10 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
11 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
12 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
17 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
18 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
22 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
23 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
27 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
28 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
30 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
31 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
32 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
33 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
34 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
35 GeoLite2 Country database.
38 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
39 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
40 bugfix on every released Tor.
41 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
42 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
43 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
44 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
45 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
46 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
47 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
48 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
49 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
50 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
51 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
52 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
53 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
54 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
55 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
57 o Documentation fixes:
58 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
59 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
62 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
63 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
64 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
65 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
66 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
67 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
68 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
70 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
71 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
74 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
75 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
76 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
77 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
78 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
79 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
80 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
81 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
83 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
84 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
85 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
86 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
87 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
88 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
91 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
92 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
93 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
94 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
95 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
98 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
99 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
100 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
101 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
102 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
103 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
104 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
105 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
107 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
108 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
109 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
110 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
111 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
112 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
113 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
114 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
115 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
116 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
117 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
118 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
119 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
120 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
121 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
122 security, and privacy fixes.
125 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
126 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
127 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
128 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
131 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
132 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
133 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
134 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
135 them to solve bug 6033.)
138 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
139 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
140 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
141 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
142 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
143 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
144 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
145 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
147 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
148 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
149 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
150 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
152 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
153 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
154 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
155 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
156 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
157 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
158 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
159 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
160 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
161 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
162 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
163 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
165 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
166 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
167 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
168 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
169 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
170 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
171 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
172 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
173 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
174 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
175 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
176 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
177 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
178 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
179 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
180 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
183 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
184 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
185 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
186 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
187 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
188 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
189 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
190 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
191 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
192 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
193 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
194 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
195 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
196 Implements part of proposal 222.
198 o Minor features (other):
199 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
200 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
201 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
202 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
203 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
204 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
205 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
206 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
207 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
209 o Documentation fixes:
210 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
211 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
212 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
213 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
214 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
215 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
218 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
219 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
220 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
221 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
222 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
223 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
224 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
227 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
228 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
229 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
230 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
231 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
232 Implements ticket 9574.
235 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
236 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
237 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
238 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
239 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
240 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
241 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
242 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
243 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
244 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
245 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
246 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
250 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
251 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
252 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
253 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
255 o Minor fixes (config options):
256 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
257 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
258 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
259 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
260 message is logged at notice, not at info.
261 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
262 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
263 or we just won't work.)
266 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
267 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
268 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
269 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
272 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
273 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
274 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
277 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
278 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
279 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
280 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
281 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
282 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
283 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
285 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
286 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
287 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
288 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
291 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
292 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
293 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
294 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
295 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
296 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
297 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
298 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
299 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
300 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
301 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
302 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
303 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
306 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
309 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
310 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
311 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
312 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
315 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
316 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
317 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
320 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
321 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
322 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
325 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
326 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
327 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
330 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
331 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
332 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
333 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
334 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
335 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
337 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
338 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
339 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
340 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
341 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
342 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
344 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
345 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
346 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
349 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
350 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
351 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
352 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
353 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
355 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
356 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
357 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
358 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
359 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
360 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
361 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
363 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
364 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
365 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
367 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
368 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
372 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
373 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
374 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
376 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
377 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
378 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
379 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
380 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
381 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
383 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
384 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
385 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
386 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
387 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
388 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
389 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
392 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
393 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
394 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
395 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
396 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
397 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
398 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
399 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
400 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
401 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
402 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
403 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
404 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
405 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
407 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
408 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
409 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
410 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
413 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
414 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
415 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
416 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
417 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
418 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
420 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
421 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
425 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
426 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
427 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
428 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
429 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
430 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
431 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
433 o Removed documentation:
434 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
435 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
437 o Code simplification and refactoring:
438 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
439 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
440 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
443 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
444 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
445 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
446 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
447 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
448 variety of other issues.
451 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
452 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
453 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
454 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
455 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
456 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
457 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
458 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
460 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
461 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
462 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
464 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
465 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
466 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
467 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
468 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
469 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
470 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
472 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
473 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
474 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
475 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
476 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
477 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
478 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
479 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
480 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
481 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
482 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
483 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
484 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
485 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
486 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
487 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
488 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
489 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
490 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
491 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
492 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
494 o Major bugfixes (other):
495 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
496 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
497 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
498 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
501 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
502 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
503 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
504 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
506 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
507 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
509 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
511 o Minor features (build):
512 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
513 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
515 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
516 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
518 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
519 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
520 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
523 o Minor bugfixes (build):
524 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
525 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
526 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
527 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
528 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
529 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
530 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
531 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
532 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
533 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
534 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
535 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
536 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
539 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
540 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
541 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
542 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
543 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
544 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
545 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
546 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
547 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
548 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
549 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
550 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
551 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
552 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
553 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
555 o Minor bugfixes (other):
556 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
557 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
558 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
559 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
560 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
561 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
562 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
563 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
564 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
565 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
566 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
567 Should help resolve bug 8235.
568 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
569 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
570 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
571 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
573 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
574 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
575 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
576 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
577 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
578 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
579 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
580 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
583 o Minor bugfixes (config):
584 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
585 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
587 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
588 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
589 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
590 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
591 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
592 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
593 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
594 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
595 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
596 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
597 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
598 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
599 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
600 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
601 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
604 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
605 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
606 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
607 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
608 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
609 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
610 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
611 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
613 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
614 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
615 or at least make it more diagnosable.
616 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
617 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
618 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
619 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
621 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
622 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
623 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
624 the relaxed timeout log message.
625 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
626 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
627 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
629 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
630 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
631 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
632 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
633 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
634 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
635 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
638 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
639 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
640 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
641 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
642 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
643 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
644 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
645 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
646 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
647 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
648 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
649 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
650 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
651 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
652 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
653 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
654 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
656 o Documentation fixes:
657 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
658 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
659 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
660 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
661 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
662 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
663 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
664 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
667 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
668 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
672 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
673 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
674 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
675 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
677 o Major features (directory authorities):
678 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
679 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
680 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
681 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
682 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
683 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
684 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
685 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
686 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
687 Implements ticket 8151.
689 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
690 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
691 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
692 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
693 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
695 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
696 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
697 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
698 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
699 whether authentication information is present, causing all
700 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
701 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
703 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
704 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
705 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
707 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
708 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
709 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
710 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
711 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
712 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
713 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
714 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
715 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
716 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
717 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
718 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
719 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
720 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
721 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
722 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
723 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
724 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
727 o Minor features (portability):
728 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
729 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
730 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
731 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
732 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
733 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
734 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
735 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
737 o Minor features (other):
738 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
739 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
740 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
741 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
742 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
743 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
744 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
745 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
747 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
749 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
750 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
751 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
752 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
753 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
754 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
755 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
756 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
757 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
758 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
760 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
761 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
762 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
763 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
765 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
766 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
767 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
768 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
769 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
770 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
771 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
773 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
774 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
775 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
776 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
777 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
779 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
780 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
781 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
782 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
784 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
785 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
786 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
789 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
790 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
791 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
792 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
794 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
795 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
796 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
797 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
799 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
800 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
801 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
803 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
804 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
805 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
806 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
808 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
809 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
810 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
811 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
812 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
813 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
814 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
816 o Code simplification and refactoring:
817 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
821 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
822 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
823 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
824 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
825 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
828 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
829 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
830 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
831 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
833 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
834 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
835 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
839 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
840 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
841 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
842 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
843 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
844 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
845 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
846 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
847 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
848 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
849 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
850 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
851 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
854 o Major features (relay):
855 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
856 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
857 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
858 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
859 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
860 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
861 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
863 o Major features (portability):
864 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
865 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
866 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
867 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
868 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
871 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
872 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
873 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
874 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
875 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
876 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
878 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
879 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
880 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
881 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
882 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
883 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
884 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
885 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
887 o Minor features (path selection):
888 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
889 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
890 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
891 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
892 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
893 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
894 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
895 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
896 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
897 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
898 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
899 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
900 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
901 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
902 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
903 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
904 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
905 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
906 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
908 o Minor features (log messages):
909 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
910 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
911 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
912 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
915 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
916 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
917 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
918 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
919 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
920 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
921 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
922 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
923 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
924 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
925 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
926 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
928 o Build improvements:
929 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
930 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
931 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
932 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
933 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
934 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
935 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
936 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
937 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
938 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
939 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
940 than to perform erroneously.
943 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
944 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
945 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
947 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
948 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
949 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
952 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
953 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
955 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
956 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
960 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
961 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
965 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
966 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
967 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
971 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
972 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
973 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
974 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
977 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
978 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
979 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
980 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
981 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
982 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
983 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
984 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
985 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
986 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
987 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
990 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
991 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
992 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
993 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
994 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
995 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
996 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
997 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
998 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
999 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
1000 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
1002 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
1003 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
1004 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
1006 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
1007 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
1008 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
1010 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
1012 o Major features (better link encryption):
1013 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
1014 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
1015 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
1016 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
1017 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
1018 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
1021 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
1022 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
1023 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
1024 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
1025 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
1026 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
1027 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
1029 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
1030 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
1031 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
1032 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
1034 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
1037 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
1038 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
1039 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1042 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
1043 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
1044 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
1045 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
1046 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
1047 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
1048 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
1049 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
1050 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1052 o Minor features (testing):
1053 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
1054 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
1055 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
1057 o Minor features (path bias detection):
1058 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
1059 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
1060 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
1061 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
1062 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
1063 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
1064 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
1065 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
1066 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
1067 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
1068 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
1069 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
1070 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
1071 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
1072 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
1073 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
1074 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
1075 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
1076 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
1077 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
1078 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
1079 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
1080 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
1081 detection capability loss.
1083 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1084 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
1085 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
1086 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
1087 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1088 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
1089 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
1090 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
1093 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1094 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
1095 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
1096 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
1097 and the different handshakes it supports.
1098 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
1099 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
1100 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
1101 any encoding is overkill.
1104 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
1105 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
1106 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
1107 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
1108 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
1109 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
1110 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
1111 and fixes a variety of other issues.
1113 o Major features (client resilience):
1114 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
1115 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
1116 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
1117 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
1118 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
1119 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
1120 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
1121 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
1122 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
1123 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
1124 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
1125 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
1126 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
1127 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
1128 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
1130 o Major features (IPv6):
1131 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
1132 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
1133 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
1134 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
1135 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
1136 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
1137 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
1138 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
1140 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
1141 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
1143 o Major features (geoip database):
1144 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
1145 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
1146 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
1147 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
1148 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
1149 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
1150 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
1151 Country database, as modified above.
1153 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
1154 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
1155 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
1156 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
1157 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
1158 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
1159 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
1160 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
1161 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
1162 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
1163 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
1164 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
1165 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
1166 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
1167 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
1168 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
1169 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
1172 o Major bugfixes (other):
1173 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
1174 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
1175 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
1176 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
1177 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
1178 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
1179 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
1180 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
1182 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
1183 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
1186 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
1187 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
1188 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
1189 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
1190 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
1191 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
1192 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
1193 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
1195 o Minor features (IPv6):
1196 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
1197 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
1198 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
1199 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
1200 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
1201 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
1202 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
1203 connect to the wrong addresses.
1204 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
1205 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
1206 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
1207 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
1211 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
1212 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
1213 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
1215 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
1216 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
1217 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
1219 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
1220 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
1221 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
1224 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
1225 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
1227 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1228 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
1229 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
1230 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
1231 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
1234 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
1235 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
1236 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
1237 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
1238 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
1239 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
1240 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
1241 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
1243 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
1244 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
1245 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
1246 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
1247 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
1248 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
1249 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
1250 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
1251 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
1252 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
1253 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
1256 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1257 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1258 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1259 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1260 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1261 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1262 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1263 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1264 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1265 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1268 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1269 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1273 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
1274 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
1275 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
1276 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
1279 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
1280 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
1282 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1283 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1284 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1285 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1286 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1287 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1288 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1289 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1290 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1291 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1294 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
1296 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
1297 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
1298 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
1299 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
1300 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
1303 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
1304 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
1305 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1306 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1307 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1309 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
1310 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1311 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
1312 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
1313 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
1314 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
1315 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
1317 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
1318 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1319 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
1320 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
1321 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
1322 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1323 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
1324 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1326 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1327 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
1328 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
1329 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
1330 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
1331 present the same extensions.)
1334 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
1335 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
1336 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
1337 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
1338 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
1340 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1341 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1342 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1343 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1345 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1346 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1347 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1348 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1350 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1351 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1352 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1353 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1354 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1355 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1356 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1357 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1358 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1360 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1361 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1362 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1363 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1364 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1367 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
1368 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
1369 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
1371 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1372 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
1374 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
1375 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
1379 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
1380 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
1381 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
1382 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
1385 o Major bugfixes (security):
1386 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1387 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1388 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1390 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1391 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1392 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1393 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1396 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1397 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1398 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1399 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1400 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1401 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1402 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1403 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1406 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1407 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1408 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1409 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1412 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
1413 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1414 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
1415 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
1416 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
1417 scheduling algorithms.
1419 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1420 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1421 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1423 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1424 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1425 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1426 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1427 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1428 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1429 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1430 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1431 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1432 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1433 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1435 o Internal abstraction features:
1436 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
1437 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
1438 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
1439 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
1440 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
1441 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
1442 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
1443 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
1444 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
1445 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
1446 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
1447 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
1448 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
1449 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
1450 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
1451 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
1452 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
1454 o Required libraries:
1455 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
1456 strongly recommended.
1459 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
1460 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
1461 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
1462 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
1463 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
1464 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
1465 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
1466 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
1467 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
1469 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1470 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
1471 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
1472 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1473 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1474 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1475 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1476 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1477 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1478 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1479 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1480 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1481 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1482 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1483 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1486 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
1487 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
1488 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
1489 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
1490 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
1491 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
1492 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
1493 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
1494 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
1495 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
1496 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
1497 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1498 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
1499 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
1500 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1501 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
1502 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
1503 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
1504 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
1506 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
1507 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
1508 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
1509 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
1510 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
1511 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
1512 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
1515 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
1516 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1517 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
1518 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
1520 o New directory authorities:
1521 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1522 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1524 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
1525 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1526 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1527 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1528 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1529 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1530 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1531 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1532 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1533 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1534 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1537 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1538 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1539 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1541 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1542 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1543 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1544 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1545 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1546 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1547 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1548 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1549 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1551 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1552 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
1553 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
1554 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1555 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1556 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1557 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1558 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1559 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1560 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
1561 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1562 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1563 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1564 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1565 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1566 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1567 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1568 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1570 o Documentation fixes:
1571 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1574 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
1575 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1576 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
1577 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
1580 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1581 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1582 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1585 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1586 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1587 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1588 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
1589 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
1590 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
1591 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
1592 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1594 o Security features:
1595 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
1596 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
1597 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
1598 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
1599 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
1600 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
1601 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
1602 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
1603 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
1607 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
1608 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
1609 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
1612 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1613 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1614 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1615 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
1616 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1617 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
1618 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
1619 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
1620 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1621 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1622 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1623 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
1624 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
1625 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
1627 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
1628 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1629 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
1630 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
1631 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1633 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
1634 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
1635 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
1636 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1637 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
1638 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
1639 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1640 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1641 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1642 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1643 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1644 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1645 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
1646 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1647 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
1648 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
1649 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1650 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
1651 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
1652 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
1654 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1655 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
1656 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
1657 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
1658 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
1659 testable, and a little less fragile too.
1660 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
1661 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1663 o Documentation fixes:
1664 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1665 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
1669 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
1670 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1674 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1675 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1676 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1679 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1680 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1684 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
1685 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
1689 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1690 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1691 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1692 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1693 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1694 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1695 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1699 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
1700 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
1701 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
1702 log messages less noisy.
1705 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
1706 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
1710 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
1711 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
1712 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
1713 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
1714 last time we raised it).
1717 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
1718 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
1720 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
1721 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
1722 part of ticket 6736.
1723 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
1724 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
1725 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
1729 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
1730 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
1731 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
1732 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1733 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1735 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
1736 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1737 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
1738 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
1739 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1740 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
1741 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
1742 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1743 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
1744 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1745 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
1746 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1749 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
1750 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
1751 bunch of compatibility code.
1754 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
1755 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
1756 the ORPort and the DirPort.
1759 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
1760 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
1761 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
1762 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
1764 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1765 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1766 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
1768 o Major features (bridges):
1769 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
1770 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
1771 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
1774 o Major features (IPv6):
1775 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
1776 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
1777 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
1778 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
1779 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
1780 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
1781 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
1782 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
1783 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
1785 o Major features (build):
1786 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
1787 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
1788 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
1789 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
1790 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
1791 fixes by Jim Meyering.
1792 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
1793 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
1794 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
1796 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
1797 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
1798 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
1799 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in end_service_load_keys().
1800 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
1801 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
1802 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
1803 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
1804 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
1805 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
1806 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
1808 o Minor features (streamlining);
1809 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
1810 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
1812 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
1813 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
1814 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
1815 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
1816 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
1817 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1819 o Minor features (controller):
1820 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
1822 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
1823 Implements ticket 4971.
1825 o Minor features (IPv6):
1826 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
1827 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
1828 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
1829 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
1830 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
1832 o Minor features (log messages):
1833 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
1834 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
1835 Resolves ticket 6758.
1836 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
1837 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
1838 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
1839 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1840 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
1841 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
1842 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
1844 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
1845 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
1846 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
1847 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1848 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
1851 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1852 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
1853 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
1854 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
1855 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
1857 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
1858 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
1859 Implements ticket 5529.
1860 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
1861 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
1862 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
1863 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
1864 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
1865 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
1866 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
1867 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
1868 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
1869 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
1872 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
1873 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
1874 from a source distribution.)
1877 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
1878 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1879 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
1880 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
1881 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
1882 and cleans up other smaller issues.
1884 o Major bugfixes (security):
1885 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
1886 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
1887 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
1888 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
1889 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
1890 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
1891 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
1892 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
1893 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
1894 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
1895 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
1896 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1897 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1898 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1899 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1900 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1904 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
1905 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
1906 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
1907 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1908 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
1909 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
1910 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
1911 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
1912 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
1913 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1916 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
1917 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
1918 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
1919 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1920 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1921 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
1922 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
1923 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
1924 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
1925 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
1926 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
1928 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
1929 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
1930 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
1932 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
1933 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
1934 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
1935 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
1936 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1937 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
1938 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
1939 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
1940 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1941 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
1942 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1943 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
1944 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
1945 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
1948 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1949 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
1950 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
1951 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
1952 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1953 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
1954 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
1955 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
1956 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
1957 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
1958 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1959 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
1960 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
1961 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
1962 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
1965 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
1966 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
1967 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
1968 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
1969 Resolves ticket 6732.
1972 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
1973 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
1974 attack that could in theory leak path information.
1977 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1978 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1979 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1980 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1981 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1982 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1983 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1984 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1985 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1986 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1987 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1988 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1989 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1990 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1993 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
1994 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1995 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
1996 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
1999 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
2000 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
2001 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2002 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2003 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2004 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2005 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2006 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2007 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2008 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2009 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2010 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2011 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2012 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2013 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2014 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2015 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2018 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
2019 a little more useful.
2020 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
2021 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2022 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
2023 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
2024 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
2025 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
2026 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
2029 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
2030 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2031 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
2032 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2033 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
2034 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
2038 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
2039 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
2040 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
2041 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
2042 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
2045 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
2046 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
2047 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
2050 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
2052 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
2054 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2055 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
2056 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
2057 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
2058 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
2061 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
2062 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2063 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
2064 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
2065 since the beginning of Tor.
2068 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
2069 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
2070 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
2071 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
2072 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
2073 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
2074 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
2075 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2076 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
2077 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2080 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
2081 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2084 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
2085 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2086 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2087 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2090 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
2091 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2092 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
2093 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
2094 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
2095 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2097 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2098 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
2099 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2100 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
2101 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
2102 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
2103 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2104 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
2105 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
2106 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
2107 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
2108 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
2109 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
2110 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2111 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
2112 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
2113 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2114 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
2115 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2118 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
2119 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
2121 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
2122 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2123 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
2124 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
2126 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
2127 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2128 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
2129 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2130 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
2131 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
2132 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2133 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
2134 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2135 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
2136 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2137 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
2138 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
2139 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2140 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
2141 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
2144 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
2145 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
2146 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
2147 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
2148 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
2151 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
2152 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
2153 options. Closes bug 4748.
2156 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
2157 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
2158 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
2159 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
2160 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
2164 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
2165 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
2167 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
2168 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
2169 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
2170 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
2171 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
2172 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
2173 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
2174 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
2175 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
2178 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
2179 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
2180 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
2181 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
2182 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
2183 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
2184 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
2185 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2188 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
2189 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
2190 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
2191 case for flushing marked connections.
2192 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
2193 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2194 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
2195 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
2196 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
2197 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
2198 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2199 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
2200 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2201 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
2202 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
2203 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
2204 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2205 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
2206 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
2207 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
2208 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2209 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
2210 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2211 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
2212 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
2213 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
2214 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2215 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
2216 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
2218 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
2219 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2220 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
2224 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
2225 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
2226 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
2227 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
2228 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
2229 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
2230 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
2231 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
2232 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
2233 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
2234 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
2235 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
2236 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
2237 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
2238 Addresses ticket 5458.
2239 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2241 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2242 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
2243 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
2246 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
2247 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2248 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2252 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2253 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2254 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2255 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2256 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2257 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2258 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2259 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2260 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2261 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2262 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2265 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2266 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2269 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2270 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2273 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
2274 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2275 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2276 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
2277 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2279 o Major bugfixes (general):
2280 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2281 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2282 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2283 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2284 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2285 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2286 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2287 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
2288 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
2290 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
2291 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
2292 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
2293 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
2296 o Major bugfixes (clients):
2297 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
2298 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
2299 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
2300 which introduced predicted ports.
2301 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2302 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2303 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2304 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2305 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
2306 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
2307 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
2308 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
2309 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
2310 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
2311 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2312 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
2313 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
2315 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2316 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
2317 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
2318 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
2319 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
2320 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
2321 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
2322 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
2323 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
2324 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
2325 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
2329 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
2330 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
2331 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
2332 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
2333 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
2334 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
2335 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
2336 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
2337 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
2338 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
2339 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
2340 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
2341 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
2342 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
2344 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
2345 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
2346 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
2347 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
2348 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
2349 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
2350 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
2351 sure. Closes bug 5139.
2352 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
2353 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
2354 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
2355 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
2356 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2357 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2358 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
2361 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2362 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2363 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2364 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2365 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2366 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2367 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2368 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2369 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2370 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2371 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2372 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2373 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2374 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2375 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2376 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2377 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2378 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2379 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2381 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2382 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
2383 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
2384 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
2385 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
2386 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
2387 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2388 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
2389 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
2390 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
2391 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
2392 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
2393 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
2395 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
2396 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2397 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
2398 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
2400 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
2401 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
2402 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2403 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
2404 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
2405 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2406 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2407 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2408 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
2409 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
2411 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
2412 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
2413 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
2415 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2416 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
2417 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
2418 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
2419 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
2420 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
2421 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
2422 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
2423 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2424 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
2425 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
2426 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2427 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
2428 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
2429 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
2430 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2431 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
2432 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
2433 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
2434 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
2436 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
2437 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
2438 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2439 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
2440 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
2441 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
2443 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
2444 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
2445 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
2447 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
2448 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
2449 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2450 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2451 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
2452 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2455 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
2456 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
2458 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
2459 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
2460 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2461 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
2462 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
2463 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2464 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
2465 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
2466 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2467 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2468 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
2469 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
2470 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
2471 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
2472 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
2473 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
2475 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
2476 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
2477 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2478 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
2479 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
2480 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2481 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
2482 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2483 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
2484 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2485 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
2486 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2487 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
2490 o Documentation fixes:
2491 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
2492 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
2493 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
2494 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
2495 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
2496 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
2499 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
2500 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
2504 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
2505 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
2506 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
2507 and fixes several crash bugs.
2509 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
2510 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
2511 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
2512 those packages and upgrade anyway.
2514 o Directory authority changes:
2515 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2516 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2520 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2521 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2522 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2523 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2524 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2525 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2526 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2527 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2528 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2529 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2530 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2531 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2532 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2533 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2534 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2535 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2536 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2537 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2538 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2539 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2540 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2541 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2542 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2543 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2544 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2545 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2546 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
2549 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2550 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2551 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2552 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2554 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2555 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2557 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2558 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2559 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2560 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2561 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2562 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2563 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2564 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2567 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2568 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2569 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2570 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2571 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2572 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2573 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2574 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2575 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2576 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2577 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2578 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2579 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2580 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2581 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2582 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2583 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2584 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2585 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2586 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2587 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2588 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2589 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2590 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2591 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2592 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2593 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2594 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2595 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2596 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2597 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2598 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2599 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2600 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2601 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2602 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2603 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2604 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2605 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2606 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2607 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
2608 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2609 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2610 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2611 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2612 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2614 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2615 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2616 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2617 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2618 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2619 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2620 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2621 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2622 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2623 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2624 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2625 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2626 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2627 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2628 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2631 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2632 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2633 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2634 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2636 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2639 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2640 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2641 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2642 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2643 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2644 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2645 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2648 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
2649 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
2650 the development branch build on Windows again.
2652 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2653 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
2654 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
2655 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
2656 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
2657 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
2658 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
2659 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
2660 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
2661 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
2662 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
2663 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
2664 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2665 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
2666 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
2668 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2669 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
2670 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
2671 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2672 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
2674 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
2675 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2676 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
2677 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
2678 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
2679 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2682 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
2683 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
2684 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
2685 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
2686 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
2687 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
2688 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
2689 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
2690 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
2693 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
2694 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
2695 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
2696 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
2700 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
2701 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
2702 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
2703 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
2705 o Directory authority changes:
2706 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2710 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2711 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2712 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2713 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2715 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
2716 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
2717 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
2718 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
2720 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
2721 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
2722 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2724 o Major features (performance):
2725 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
2726 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
2727 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
2728 much faster than other AES implementations.
2730 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
2731 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
2732 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
2733 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
2734 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
2735 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
2736 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2737 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2738 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2739 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2740 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2741 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
2742 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
2743 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2744 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2745 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
2746 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
2747 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2749 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
2750 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
2751 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
2752 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2753 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
2754 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2755 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
2756 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
2757 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
2759 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
2760 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
2761 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2762 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
2763 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
2764 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2767 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
2768 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
2769 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
2770 please let us know about it.
2771 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
2772 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
2773 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
2774 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
2775 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2776 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2777 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
2778 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
2780 o Default torrc changes:
2781 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
2782 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
2784 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
2785 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
2786 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
2790 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
2791 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
2792 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
2793 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
2796 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
2797 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
2798 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
2799 it would be a bad idea to start.
2802 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
2803 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
2804 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
2805 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2807 o Directory authority changes:
2808 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2811 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2812 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2813 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2814 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2815 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2816 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2817 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
2818 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2819 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2820 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2821 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2822 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2823 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2824 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2825 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2826 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2828 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
2829 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
2830 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
2831 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
2832 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
2833 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2834 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
2835 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
2836 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2837 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
2838 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
2839 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
2841 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
2842 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
2843 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2844 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
2845 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
2847 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2848 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
2849 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
2850 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
2851 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
2852 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2853 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2854 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2855 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2856 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2857 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2858 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2859 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2860 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2861 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2862 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
2863 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
2864 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
2865 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
2866 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
2867 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
2868 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
2871 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2872 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
2873 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2874 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
2875 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
2876 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
2877 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
2878 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
2879 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2880 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
2881 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
2882 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
2883 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
2884 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
2885 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
2886 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
2887 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
2890 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
2891 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
2892 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2895 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
2896 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
2897 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
2898 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
2901 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2902 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2904 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
2905 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
2906 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
2907 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2908 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
2909 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
2910 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
2911 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2912 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
2913 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
2914 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
2915 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2918 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
2919 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
2920 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
2921 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
2922 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
2923 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
2924 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2927 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2928 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2929 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2930 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2931 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
2932 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
2933 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
2934 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
2935 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
2936 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
2938 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
2939 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
2940 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
2941 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
2942 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2943 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2944 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2945 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
2946 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
2949 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2950 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
2951 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
2955 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
2956 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
2957 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
2958 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
2959 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
2960 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
2963 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
2964 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
2965 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
2966 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
2967 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
2968 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
2969 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
2970 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
2972 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
2973 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
2974 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
2975 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
2976 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
2977 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
2978 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
2979 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
2981 o Major security workaround:
2982 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2983 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2984 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2985 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2986 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2987 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2988 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2989 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2990 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2991 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2992 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2995 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2996 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2997 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2998 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2999 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
3000 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
3001 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
3002 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3003 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
3004 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
3005 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
3006 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
3007 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
3009 o Minor features (controller):
3010 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
3011 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
3012 file. Resolves bug 1101.
3013 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
3014 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
3015 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
3016 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
3017 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
3018 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
3020 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
3021 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
3022 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
3023 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
3024 part of ticket 3457.
3025 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
3026 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
3027 circuit-status' control-port command.
3029 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3030 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
3031 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
3032 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
3033 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
3035 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
3036 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
3037 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
3038 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
3039 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
3040 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
3041 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
3043 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
3044 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
3046 o Minor features (other):
3047 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
3048 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
3049 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
3050 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
3051 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
3052 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
3053 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
3054 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
3056 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
3057 them from the other auths.
3058 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
3059 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
3060 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
3061 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
3063 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3065 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3066 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
3067 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
3068 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
3069 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
3070 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
3071 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
3072 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
3073 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
3074 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
3075 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3076 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
3077 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
3078 be disabled using the new
3079 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
3080 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3081 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
3082 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
3083 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
3084 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
3085 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
3086 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
3087 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
3088 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
3089 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
3090 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
3092 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
3093 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
3094 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
3097 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3098 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
3099 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
3101 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
3102 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
3103 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
3104 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
3105 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3106 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
3107 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3109 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
3110 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
3111 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
3112 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
3113 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
3114 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
3115 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
3116 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
3118 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
3119 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
3120 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3121 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
3122 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
3123 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
3124 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
3125 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
3126 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
3129 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3130 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
3131 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
3132 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
3133 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
3134 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
3135 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
3136 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
3137 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3138 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
3139 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
3140 accidentally been reverted.
3141 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
3142 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
3143 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
3144 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
3145 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
3146 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
3147 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3148 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
3149 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
3150 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3151 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
3152 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
3153 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
3154 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
3155 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3156 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
3157 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3158 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
3159 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3162 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
3163 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
3164 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
3165 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
3166 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
3167 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
3168 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
3170 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3171 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
3172 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
3173 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
3174 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
3175 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
3176 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
3178 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
3179 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
3180 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
3181 invalid value, rather than just -1.
3182 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
3183 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
3184 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
3185 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
3186 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
3187 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
3188 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
3192 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
3193 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
3194 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3196 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3197 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3198 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3199 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3200 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3201 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3202 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3203 (which Tor does not do by default).
3205 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3206 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3207 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3208 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3209 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3211 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
3215 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3216 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3217 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3218 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3221 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
3222 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
3223 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
3224 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
3225 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
3226 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
3227 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
3228 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
3229 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
3230 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
3231 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3234 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3237 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
3238 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
3239 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3241 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3242 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3243 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3244 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3245 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3246 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3247 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3248 (which Tor does not do by default).
3250 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3251 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3252 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3253 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3254 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3256 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
3257 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
3258 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
3261 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
3262 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
3263 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
3264 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
3265 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
3267 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
3268 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
3271 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3272 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3273 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3274 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3275 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3276 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3277 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3278 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3280 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3281 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3282 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3283 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3284 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3285 close based on processing a cell on it.
3286 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3287 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3288 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3289 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3290 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3291 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3292 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3293 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
3294 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
3295 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
3296 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3297 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3298 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3299 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3300 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
3303 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3304 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3305 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3306 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3307 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3308 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3309 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3311 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3312 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3313 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3314 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3315 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3316 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3317 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3318 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3319 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3320 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3321 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3322 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3323 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3324 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3325 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
3326 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
3327 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
3328 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
3329 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3330 Reported by "troll_un".
3331 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3332 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3333 Reported by "troll_un".
3334 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3335 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3336 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3337 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3340 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3341 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3342 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3343 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3344 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3345 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3346 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3347 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3348 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3349 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3350 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3352 o Packaging changes:
3353 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3354 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3357 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
3358 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3359 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3360 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3361 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3363 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
3364 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
3366 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3367 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3368 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3369 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3370 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3371 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3372 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3373 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3374 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3377 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3380 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
3381 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
3382 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
3383 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
3384 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
3385 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
3386 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
3389 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
3390 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
3391 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
3392 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
3393 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
3394 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
3395 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
3396 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
3397 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
3398 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
3399 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
3400 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
3401 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
3402 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
3403 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
3404 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
3405 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
3406 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
3407 Resolves ticket 4526.
3408 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
3409 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
3410 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
3411 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
3412 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
3413 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
3414 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
3415 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
3416 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
3417 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
3418 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
3419 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
3420 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
3421 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
3422 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
3423 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
3426 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
3427 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
3428 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
3429 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
3430 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
3431 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
3432 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
3433 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
3434 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
3435 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3437 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
3438 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
3439 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
3440 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
3441 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
3442 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
3443 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
3444 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
3445 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
3447 o Minor features (new/different config options):
3448 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
3449 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
3450 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
3451 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
3452 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
3453 Implements issue 933.
3454 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
3455 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
3456 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
3457 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
3458 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
3459 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
3460 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
3461 appending to the list.
3462 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
3463 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
3464 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
3465 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
3467 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
3468 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
3469 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
3470 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
3471 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
3472 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
3473 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
3474 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
3477 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
3478 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
3479 Resolves ticket 2474.
3480 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
3481 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
3482 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
3483 Required by fix for bug 3460.
3484 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
3485 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
3486 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
3487 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
3488 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
3489 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
3490 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
3491 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
3492 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
3494 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3495 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3496 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3498 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
3500 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
3501 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
3503 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
3504 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
3505 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3506 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3507 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
3508 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
3509 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
3511 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
3512 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
3513 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3514 Reported by "troll_un".
3515 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3516 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3517 Reported by "troll_un".
3518 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3519 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3520 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
3521 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
3523 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
3524 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
3526 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
3527 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
3528 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
3529 with help from wanoskarnet.
3530 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
3531 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3534 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
3535 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
3536 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
3537 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3539 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
3540 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
3541 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
3542 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
3543 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
3544 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
3545 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
3546 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
3549 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
3550 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
3551 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
3552 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
3553 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
3554 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
3555 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
3556 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
3557 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
3560 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3561 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3562 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3563 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3565 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3566 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3567 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3568 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3569 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
3570 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
3571 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
3572 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
3573 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
3574 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
3575 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
3576 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
3577 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
3578 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
3579 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
3580 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
3581 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
3582 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
3583 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
3584 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3585 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3586 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3587 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3588 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
3591 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
3592 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
3593 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
3594 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
3595 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
3596 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3597 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
3598 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
3601 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3602 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3603 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3604 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3605 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3606 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3607 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3608 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3609 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3610 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
3611 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
3612 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
3613 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
3614 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
3615 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
3617 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
3618 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
3619 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3620 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3621 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3622 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3623 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3624 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3625 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
3626 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
3627 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
3628 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3629 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3630 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3631 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3632 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3633 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3635 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3636 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
3637 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
3638 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
3639 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3641 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
3642 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
3643 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
3645 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
3646 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
3647 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
3649 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
3650 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
3652 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
3653 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3656 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3657 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3658 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3659 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3660 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3661 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3662 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3663 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3664 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3665 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3666 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
3667 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
3668 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
3669 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
3671 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
3672 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
3673 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3675 o Packaging changes:
3676 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3677 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3679 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3680 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
3681 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
3682 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
3683 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
3684 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
3685 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
3686 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
3687 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
3690 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
3692 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
3693 ./src/test/bench binary.
3694 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
3695 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
3698 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
3699 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
3700 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
3704 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3705 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3706 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3707 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3708 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3709 close based on processing a cell on it.
3710 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
3711 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
3712 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3713 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
3714 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
3715 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
3716 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
3717 cells were introduced.
3720 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3721 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3724 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
3725 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
3726 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
3727 users. Everybody should upgrade.
3729 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
3730 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
3733 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
3734 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
3735 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
3736 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
3737 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
3738 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
3740 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3741 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3742 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3743 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3744 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3745 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3746 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3747 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3748 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3749 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3750 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3751 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3752 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3753 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3754 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3755 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3756 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3757 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3760 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3761 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
3762 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
3763 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
3764 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
3765 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
3766 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
3767 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
3768 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
3769 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
3770 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
3771 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
3772 Partly fixes bug 3825.
3773 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3774 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3775 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3776 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3777 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3778 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3779 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3781 o Major bugfixes (other):
3782 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3783 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3784 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3785 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3786 Found by "frosty_un".
3787 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
3788 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
3789 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
3790 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
3791 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
3792 immensely in tracking this bug down.
3793 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3794 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3797 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3798 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3799 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3800 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3801 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3802 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3803 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
3804 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
3805 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3806 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3807 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3808 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3809 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3810 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3811 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3812 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3813 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3814 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3815 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3816 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3817 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3819 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3820 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
3821 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
3822 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3823 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
3824 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
3825 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
3826 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
3827 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
3828 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
3829 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
3832 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
3833 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
3834 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
3835 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
3836 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3837 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3838 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3839 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3840 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
3841 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
3842 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
3843 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
3844 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
3845 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3847 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3848 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
3849 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
3850 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
3851 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
3852 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
3853 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
3854 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
3857 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
3858 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
3859 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
3861 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
3862 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
3863 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
3864 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
3865 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
3866 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
3867 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
3868 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
3869 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
3870 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
3871 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
3872 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
3873 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
3875 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
3876 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
3877 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
3878 currently connected to them.
3880 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
3881 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
3882 remain; see for example proposal 188.
3884 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3885 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3886 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3887 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3888 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3889 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3890 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3891 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3892 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3893 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3894 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3895 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3896 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3897 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3898 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3899 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3900 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3901 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3904 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
3905 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3906 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3907 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3908 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
3909 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
3910 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
3911 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3912 when bridges were introduced.
3913 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3914 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3915 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3916 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3917 Found by "frosty_un".
3920 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3921 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3923 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3924 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3925 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3926 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3927 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3928 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3929 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3932 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
3933 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
3934 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
3935 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3936 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3937 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3938 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3939 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3940 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3941 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3942 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3943 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3944 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3945 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3946 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3947 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3948 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3949 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3951 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
3952 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3953 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3954 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3955 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3956 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3957 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3958 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3959 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
3960 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
3961 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
3962 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3965 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
3966 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
3967 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
3968 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3971 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
3972 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3973 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3974 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3975 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3977 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3978 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
3979 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
3980 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
3981 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
3982 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
3983 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
3984 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3985 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3986 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3988 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3989 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3990 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3991 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3992 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3993 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3994 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3995 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3996 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3997 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3998 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3999 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4000 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4001 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4002 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4003 Found by "frosty_un".
4004 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4005 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4006 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4007 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4008 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4009 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4010 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
4011 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
4012 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4013 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
4014 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
4015 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
4016 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4017 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4018 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4019 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4020 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4021 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4022 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4024 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4025 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
4026 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
4027 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
4028 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
4029 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
4030 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
4031 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
4033 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4034 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
4035 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4036 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4037 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
4038 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
4039 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
4040 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
4041 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
4042 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
4043 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
4044 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
4046 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
4047 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4048 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
4049 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4050 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
4051 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4052 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4053 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4054 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4056 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4058 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4059 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4060 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4061 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4062 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4063 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4064 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4065 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4067 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
4068 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
4069 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
4070 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
4071 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
4073 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4074 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4075 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4076 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4077 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4080 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
4081 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
4082 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
4083 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
4084 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
4087 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
4088 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
4089 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
4090 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
4091 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
4092 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
4093 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4094 when bridges were introduced.
4097 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
4098 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
4099 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4101 o Major features (networking):
4102 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
4103 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
4104 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
4105 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
4106 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
4110 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4111 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4112 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4114 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4115 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4116 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4117 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4118 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4120 o Minor features (diagnostics):
4121 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
4122 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
4125 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
4126 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
4127 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
4128 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
4129 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
4130 listed in the network consensus and republish.
4132 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4133 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4134 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4135 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4137 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
4138 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4139 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4140 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4141 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4142 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4143 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4144 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4145 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4146 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4147 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4149 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4150 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4151 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4152 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4153 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4154 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4155 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4156 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4157 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4158 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4160 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4161 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4162 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4163 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4164 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4165 fixes part of bug 2442.
4166 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4167 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4168 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4170 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4171 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4172 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4173 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4174 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4176 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4177 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4178 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4179 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4180 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4183 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
4184 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
4185 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
4189 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
4190 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
4191 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
4192 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
4193 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
4194 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
4195 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
4198 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
4199 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
4200 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
4201 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
4202 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
4203 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
4204 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
4207 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
4208 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
4209 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
4210 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
4211 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
4212 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4213 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
4214 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
4215 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4218 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
4219 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
4222 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
4223 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
4224 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
4225 reachable from Iran again.
4228 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4229 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4230 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4232 o Minor features (security):
4233 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4234 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4235 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4236 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4237 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4238 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4239 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4240 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4241 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4242 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4245 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4246 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4247 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4248 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4249 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4250 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4251 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4252 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4253 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4255 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4256 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4257 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4258 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4259 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4261 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4262 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4263 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4264 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4265 fixes part of bug 2442.
4266 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4267 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4268 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4270 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4271 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4272 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4273 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4274 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4277 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4278 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4279 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4280 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4281 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4282 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4285 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
4286 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
4287 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
4288 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
4289 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
4290 bufferevent-based networking backend.
4292 o Major features (stream isolation):
4293 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
4294 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
4295 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
4296 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
4297 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
4298 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
4299 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
4300 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
4301 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
4302 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
4303 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
4304 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
4305 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
4306 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
4308 o Major features (other):
4309 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
4310 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
4311 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
4312 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
4313 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
4314 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
4315 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
4316 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
4317 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
4318 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
4319 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
4320 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
4321 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
4323 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4324 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
4326 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
4327 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
4328 Fixes part of bug 3752.
4329 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
4330 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
4331 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
4332 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
4333 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
4334 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
4335 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4336 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
4337 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
4338 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
4339 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4340 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
4341 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
4342 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
4343 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
4344 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
4345 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
4347 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4348 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4349 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4350 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4351 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4352 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4355 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
4356 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
4357 user. Implements ticket 1692.
4358 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
4359 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
4360 best copy data out of a buffer.
4361 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
4362 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
4363 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
4365 o Minor features (build compatibility):
4366 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
4367 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4368 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4370 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4371 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4373 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
4374 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
4375 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4376 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
4377 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
4378 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
4379 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
4382 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4383 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4384 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4385 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4387 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
4388 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
4389 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
4392 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4393 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4394 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4395 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4396 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4397 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4398 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4399 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4400 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4401 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4402 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4403 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4404 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4405 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4406 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4407 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4408 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4409 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4410 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4413 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4414 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
4415 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
4419 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
4420 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
4421 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
4422 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
4423 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
4424 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
4427 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
4428 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
4429 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
4430 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
4431 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
4432 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
4433 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
4434 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
4435 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
4436 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
4438 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
4439 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
4440 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
4441 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
4442 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
4443 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
4444 many many other features and bugfixes.
4447 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
4448 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
4449 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
4452 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4453 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4454 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4455 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4456 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4457 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4458 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4459 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4462 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4465 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4466 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4467 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4468 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4469 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4470 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4471 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4472 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4473 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4474 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4475 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4476 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4477 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4478 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4479 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4480 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4481 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4482 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4486 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
4487 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
4488 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
4489 up a variety of recently introduced features.
4492 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
4493 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
4494 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
4495 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
4496 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
4497 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
4498 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
4499 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
4500 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
4501 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
4502 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
4503 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
4504 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
4505 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
4506 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
4507 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
4509 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4510 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
4511 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
4512 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
4513 order. Fixes bug 2798.
4514 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
4515 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
4516 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
4517 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
4518 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
4519 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
4523 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4524 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
4525 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
4526 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
4528 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
4529 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
4530 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
4531 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
4532 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
4533 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
4534 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
4535 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
4536 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
4537 Implements ticket 3264.
4538 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
4539 implements ticket 3439.
4541 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4542 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
4543 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
4544 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
4545 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
4546 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
4547 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
4548 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
4549 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
4550 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
4551 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
4552 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
4553 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
4554 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
4555 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
4556 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
4557 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
4558 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
4559 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
4560 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
4561 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
4562 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
4563 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
4564 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
4565 fails. Spotted by coverity.
4566 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
4567 present. Found by coverity.
4568 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
4569 a directory cache that provides them.
4571 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4572 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
4573 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
4574 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
4575 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
4576 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
4578 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
4579 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
4580 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4581 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4582 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4583 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4584 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
4585 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
4587 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4588 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
4589 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
4590 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
4591 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
4592 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
4593 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
4595 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
4599 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
4600 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
4601 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
4604 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
4605 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
4606 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4607 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4610 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
4611 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
4612 discovered by katmagic.
4613 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4614 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4615 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4616 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4617 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4618 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4619 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4620 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4621 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
4622 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
4623 fixes part of bug 3465.
4624 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
4625 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
4629 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4632 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
4633 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
4634 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
4635 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
4636 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
4639 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
4640 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
4641 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
4642 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
4643 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
4646 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4647 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4648 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4649 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4650 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4651 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4654 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
4655 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
4656 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
4657 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4658 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4659 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
4660 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
4661 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
4662 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
4663 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
4664 fixes part of bug 3407.
4665 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4666 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
4667 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
4668 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
4669 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
4670 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
4671 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
4672 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
4673 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
4674 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
4676 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
4677 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
4678 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
4679 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
4682 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4684 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4685 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
4686 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
4688 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
4690 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
4693 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
4694 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
4695 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
4696 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
4697 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
4698 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
4702 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
4703 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
4704 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
4705 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4706 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
4707 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
4708 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
4710 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
4711 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4712 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
4713 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
4714 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
4715 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
4716 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
4717 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
4718 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
4719 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
4720 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
4721 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
4722 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
4723 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
4724 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
4725 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
4726 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
4727 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
4728 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
4732 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
4733 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
4734 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
4735 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
4736 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
4737 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
4738 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
4739 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
4740 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
4744 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4745 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
4746 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
4748 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
4750 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
4751 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
4752 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
4753 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
4754 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4755 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
4756 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
4757 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
4758 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
4760 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
4761 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4762 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
4763 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
4764 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
4765 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
4767 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
4768 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
4770 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
4771 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
4772 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4775 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
4776 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
4777 Resolves ticket 3252.
4778 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
4779 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
4780 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
4781 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
4782 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
4783 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4786 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4787 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4790 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
4791 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
4792 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
4795 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
4796 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4797 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
4798 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
4799 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
4802 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
4803 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4804 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
4805 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
4806 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
4807 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
4808 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
4809 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
4810 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
4814 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
4815 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
4816 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
4817 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
4818 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
4820 o Security/privacy fixes:
4821 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4822 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4823 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4824 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4825 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4826 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4827 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4828 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4829 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4830 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4831 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4832 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4833 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
4834 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
4835 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4838 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
4839 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
4840 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
4841 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
4842 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
4843 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
4844 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
4845 part of ticket 3076.
4846 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
4847 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
4848 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
4852 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
4853 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
4854 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
4855 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
4856 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
4857 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
4858 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
4859 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
4861 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
4862 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
4863 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
4864 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
4865 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
4866 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
4867 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
4868 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
4869 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
4870 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
4871 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
4872 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
4873 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4876 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4877 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4878 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4879 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
4880 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4881 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4882 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4884 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
4885 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
4886 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
4887 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
4888 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
4889 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
4890 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
4891 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
4892 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
4893 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
4894 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
4895 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
4896 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
4897 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
4898 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
4899 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
4901 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
4902 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
4904 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
4905 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
4907 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
4908 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
4910 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
4911 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
4912 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4914 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
4915 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
4916 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
4917 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
4918 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4919 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
4920 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
4921 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
4922 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
4923 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
4924 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
4926 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
4927 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
4928 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
4929 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
4930 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
4931 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
4932 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
4933 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
4934 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
4935 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
4936 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4937 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
4938 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
4942 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
4943 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
4944 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
4948 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
4949 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
4950 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
4951 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
4952 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
4953 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
4955 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
4956 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4957 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
4960 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
4961 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
4962 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
4963 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
4964 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
4965 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
4966 zero-copy transports where available.
4967 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
4968 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
4969 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
4970 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
4971 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
4972 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
4973 debug it as it breaks.
4974 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
4975 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
4976 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
4977 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
4978 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
4979 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
4980 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
4981 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
4982 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
4983 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
4984 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
4985 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
4986 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
4987 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
4988 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
4989 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
4990 PortForwarding option.
4991 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
4992 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
4993 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
4994 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
4995 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
4996 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
4997 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
5000 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
5001 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
5002 Implements enhancement 1668.
5003 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
5005 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
5006 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
5007 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
5008 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
5009 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
5010 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
5011 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
5013 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
5014 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
5015 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5016 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5017 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5018 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
5019 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
5021 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
5022 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
5023 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
5024 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
5025 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
5026 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
5027 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
5030 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
5031 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
5032 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
5033 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5034 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
5035 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
5036 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
5037 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
5038 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
5039 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
5040 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
5041 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
5042 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
5043 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
5046 o Minor features (controller):
5047 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
5048 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
5049 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
5050 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
5051 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
5052 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
5053 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
5056 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
5057 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
5058 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
5059 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
5060 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
5061 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
5062 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
5063 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
5065 o Minor packaging issues:
5066 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
5067 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5069 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5070 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
5071 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
5072 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
5073 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
5074 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
5075 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
5076 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
5077 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
5078 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
5079 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
5080 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
5081 our library structure used to force them to link it.
5084 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
5085 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
5086 are no longer in use as servers.
5088 o Documentation fixes:
5089 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
5090 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
5091 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
5095 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
5096 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
5097 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
5098 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
5099 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
5100 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
5101 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
5102 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
5103 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
5104 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
5107 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
5108 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
5109 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
5110 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5111 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
5112 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
5113 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
5114 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
5115 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
5116 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5117 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
5118 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
5119 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5120 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
5121 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
5122 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
5124 o Security and stability fixes:
5125 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
5126 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
5127 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
5128 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
5129 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
5130 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
5131 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
5132 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
5133 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
5134 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
5135 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
5136 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5137 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5138 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5139 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5140 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5143 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
5144 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
5145 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
5146 contributions to the network.
5148 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
5149 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
5150 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
5151 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
5152 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
5153 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
5154 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
5155 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
5156 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
5157 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
5158 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
5159 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
5160 connections to directory servers.
5161 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
5162 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
5163 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
5164 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
5165 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
5166 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
5167 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
5168 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
5169 information, or fetch directory information.
5170 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
5171 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
5172 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
5173 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
5174 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
5175 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
5176 unless you really want your Tor to break.
5177 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
5178 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
5179 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
5180 - When StrictNodes is 1:
5181 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
5182 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
5183 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
5184 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
5185 reachability self-tests.
5186 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
5187 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
5188 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
5189 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
5190 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5191 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
5192 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
5194 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
5195 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5196 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
5197 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
5198 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
5199 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5200 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
5201 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
5202 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
5203 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
5204 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
5207 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
5208 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
5209 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
5210 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
5211 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
5212 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5213 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
5214 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5215 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
5216 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
5217 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
5218 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5219 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
5220 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
5221 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5222 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5223 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5225 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
5226 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
5227 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
5228 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
5229 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5230 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
5231 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5232 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
5233 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5234 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
5235 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
5236 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
5237 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
5238 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
5239 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
5240 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5241 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
5242 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
5243 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
5244 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
5247 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
5248 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
5249 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
5250 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
5251 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
5252 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
5253 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
5254 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
5255 Required by fix for bug 3000.
5256 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
5257 by fix for bug 3000.
5258 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
5259 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
5261 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5262 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
5263 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
5264 send a body too). Since only server versions before
5265 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
5266 keep the workaround in place.
5267 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
5268 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
5269 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
5270 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
5271 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
5272 want to do it differently.
5273 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5274 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5275 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5276 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
5277 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
5281 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
5282 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
5283 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
5284 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
5285 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
5288 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
5289 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
5290 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
5291 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
5292 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
5294 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
5295 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
5296 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
5297 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
5298 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
5299 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
5300 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
5301 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
5302 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
5303 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
5304 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
5305 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
5308 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5309 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5310 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5311 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5312 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5313 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5314 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5316 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
5317 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
5318 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
5319 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
5320 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
5321 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
5322 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
5323 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
5324 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
5325 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
5326 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
5327 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
5328 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
5329 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
5330 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
5331 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
5332 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5333 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
5334 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
5335 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
5336 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
5337 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5338 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5341 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
5343 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
5344 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
5345 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
5347 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
5348 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
5349 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
5350 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
5352 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
5353 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
5354 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
5355 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5358 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
5359 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5361 o Documentation changes:
5362 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
5363 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
5365 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
5368 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
5369 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
5370 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
5371 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
5372 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
5373 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
5376 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5377 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5378 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5379 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5380 the rest of bug 1074.
5381 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5382 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5383 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5384 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5385 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5386 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5387 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5388 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5389 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5390 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5391 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5392 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5393 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5394 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5397 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
5398 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
5399 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
5400 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
5401 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
5402 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
5403 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
5404 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
5405 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
5406 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
5407 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
5408 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
5409 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
5410 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
5412 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5413 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5414 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5415 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5416 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5417 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
5419 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
5420 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
5421 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
5422 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
5423 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
5424 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
5425 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
5426 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
5427 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
5429 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
5430 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
5431 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
5432 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
5433 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
5434 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
5435 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
5436 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
5437 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
5438 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
5439 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
5440 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
5441 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
5442 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5443 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
5444 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
5446 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
5447 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
5448 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
5449 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
5450 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
5451 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
5453 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
5454 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
5455 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
5457 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5458 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
5459 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
5460 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
5461 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
5462 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
5463 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
5465 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
5466 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
5467 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
5468 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
5469 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
5473 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
5474 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
5475 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
5476 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
5477 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
5478 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
5479 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
5480 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
5481 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
5482 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
5483 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
5484 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
5486 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5488 o Minor features (log subsystem):
5489 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
5490 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
5491 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
5493 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
5494 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
5496 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
5497 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
5498 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
5501 o Packaging changes:
5502 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5503 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5504 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5507 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
5508 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
5509 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
5510 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5511 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5512 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
5515 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5516 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5517 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5518 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5519 the rest of bug 1074.
5520 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5521 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5523 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5524 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5525 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5526 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5527 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5528 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5529 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5532 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5534 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5537 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5538 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5539 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
5540 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5541 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5542 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5543 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5544 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5545 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5546 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5547 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5549 o Packaging changes:
5550 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5551 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5552 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5553 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
5554 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
5555 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5558 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
5559 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
5560 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
5561 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5562 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5563 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
5566 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5567 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5569 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
5570 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
5571 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
5572 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
5575 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5577 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
5578 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
5579 Implements ticket 2432.
5582 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5583 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5584 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
5587 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
5588 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
5589 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
5590 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
5591 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
5592 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5594 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5595 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5596 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5597 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5599 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5600 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5601 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5602 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5603 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5604 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5605 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5606 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5608 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5609 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5610 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5611 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5612 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5613 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5614 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5615 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5616 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5617 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5618 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5619 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5620 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5621 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5624 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5625 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5626 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5627 bug reported by doorss.
5628 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5629 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5630 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5631 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5632 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5634 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5635 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5636 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5637 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
5638 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5640 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5641 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5642 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5644 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5645 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5646 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5647 Automake 1.7 or later.
5648 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5649 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5650 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5651 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5653 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5654 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
5655 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
5658 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5659 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
5660 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
5661 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
5663 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5664 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
5665 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
5666 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
5667 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
5668 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
5669 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
5670 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
5671 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
5673 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
5674 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
5675 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
5678 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5679 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
5680 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
5681 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
5682 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
5683 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
5684 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
5685 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
5686 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
5687 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
5688 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
5689 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
5690 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
5692 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5693 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
5697 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
5698 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
5699 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
5700 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
5701 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5703 o Major bugfixes (security):
5704 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5705 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5706 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5708 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5709 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5710 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5711 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5712 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5713 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5714 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5715 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5717 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5718 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5719 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5720 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5721 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5722 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5723 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5724 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5725 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5726 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5727 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5728 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5729 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5730 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5733 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5734 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5735 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5736 bug reported by doorss.
5737 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5738 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5739 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5740 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5741 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5743 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5744 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5745 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5746 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
5747 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5748 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5749 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5750 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5751 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5754 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5755 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5758 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5759 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5760 Automake 1.7 or later.
5763 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
5764 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5765 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
5766 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
5767 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
5770 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5771 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5772 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5773 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5774 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
5775 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
5776 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
5777 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
5778 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
5779 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
5780 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
5782 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
5783 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
5784 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
5785 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
5787 o Directory authority changes:
5788 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5791 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
5792 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
5793 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
5794 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
5795 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
5796 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5797 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
5798 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
5799 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
5802 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5803 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
5804 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
5805 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
5806 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
5807 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
5808 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
5809 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
5810 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
5811 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
5815 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
5816 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5817 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
5818 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
5822 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5823 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5824 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5825 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5827 o Directory authority changes:
5828 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5831 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5834 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
5835 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5836 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
5837 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
5838 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
5841 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5842 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5843 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5844 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5845 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5846 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5847 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5848 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5849 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5850 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5851 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5852 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5853 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5854 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5855 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5856 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5857 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5858 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5859 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5860 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5861 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5862 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5863 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5866 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
5867 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
5868 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
5869 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
5871 o New directory authorities:
5872 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
5876 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
5877 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
5878 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
5880 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5881 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5882 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
5883 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
5884 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
5885 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
5887 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
5888 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
5889 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
5892 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
5893 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
5894 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
5895 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
5896 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
5897 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
5898 Patch from mingw-san.
5901 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
5902 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
5903 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
5904 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
5905 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
5906 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
5909 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
5910 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5911 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
5914 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5915 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5916 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5917 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5918 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5921 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
5922 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
5923 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
5924 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
5925 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
5926 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
5927 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
5928 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
5929 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
5932 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
5933 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
5934 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
5935 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
5936 to a stable release.
5939 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5940 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5941 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5942 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5943 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5944 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5945 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5946 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5947 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5948 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5949 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5950 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5951 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5952 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
5953 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
5954 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
5955 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
5956 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
5957 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
5958 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
5959 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
5960 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
5961 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
5962 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
5963 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5964 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
5965 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
5966 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
5967 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
5968 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
5969 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
5972 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5973 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
5974 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
5975 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
5976 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
5977 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
5978 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5979 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5980 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5981 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5982 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5983 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5984 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5985 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5986 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
5987 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
5988 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
5990 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5991 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5992 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
5993 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
5994 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
5996 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
5997 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
5998 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
5999 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
6002 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
6003 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
6004 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
6005 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
6006 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
6007 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
6008 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
6009 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6011 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6012 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
6013 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
6014 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
6015 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
6016 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
6017 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
6018 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
6019 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
6020 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
6021 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
6022 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
6023 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
6024 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
6025 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
6028 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
6029 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
6030 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
6031 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
6032 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
6033 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
6034 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
6035 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
6036 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
6039 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
6040 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
6041 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
6042 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
6043 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
6045 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
6046 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
6047 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
6048 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
6049 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
6050 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
6051 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6052 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
6053 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
6054 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
6055 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
6056 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
6057 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
6058 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
6060 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6061 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
6063 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
6064 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6065 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
6066 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
6067 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
6068 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
6069 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
6070 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
6071 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6072 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
6073 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
6074 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
6075 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
6076 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
6077 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
6078 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
6079 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
6080 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6082 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
6083 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
6084 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
6085 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
6086 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
6087 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
6088 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
6089 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
6090 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
6091 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
6092 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
6093 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
6094 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
6096 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
6097 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
6098 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
6099 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6102 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
6103 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
6104 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
6105 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
6106 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
6107 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
6108 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
6109 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
6110 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
6111 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
6112 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
6113 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
6114 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
6115 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
6116 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
6117 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
6118 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
6119 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
6120 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
6123 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6124 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
6125 based on the time during which we were active and not in
6126 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
6127 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
6128 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
6129 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
6130 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6133 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
6134 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
6135 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
6136 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
6137 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
6138 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
6139 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
6140 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
6141 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6144 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
6145 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
6146 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
6147 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
6149 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
6150 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
6151 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
6152 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
6153 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
6154 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
6155 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
6156 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
6157 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
6158 the longest-lived bug prize.
6159 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
6160 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
6161 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
6162 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
6163 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
6164 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
6166 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
6167 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
6168 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
6169 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
6170 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
6171 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
6175 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6176 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
6177 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
6178 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
6179 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
6180 got suppressed since the last warning.
6181 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
6182 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
6183 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
6184 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
6185 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
6186 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
6187 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
6188 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
6189 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
6190 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
6191 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
6192 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
6193 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
6194 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
6195 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
6196 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
6197 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
6198 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
6199 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
6201 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
6202 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
6203 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
6205 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6206 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
6207 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
6208 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
6209 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
6210 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
6211 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
6212 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
6213 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
6214 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
6215 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
6216 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
6217 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
6218 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
6219 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
6221 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
6222 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
6223 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
6224 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
6225 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
6226 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6227 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
6229 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
6230 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
6231 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
6232 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
6233 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
6236 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6237 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
6238 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
6239 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
6240 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
6241 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
6242 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
6243 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
6244 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
6245 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
6246 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6247 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
6248 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
6249 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
6250 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
6251 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
6252 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
6253 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
6256 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
6259 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
6260 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
6261 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
6262 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
6263 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
6267 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
6268 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
6269 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
6270 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
6271 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
6272 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
6273 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
6274 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
6275 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
6276 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
6277 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
6278 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
6279 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
6280 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
6281 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
6282 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
6283 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
6286 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
6287 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
6288 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
6289 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
6290 they first get the Guard flag.
6291 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
6295 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6296 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
6297 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
6298 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
6299 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
6300 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
6301 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
6302 Patch from mingw-san.
6303 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
6304 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
6306 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
6307 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
6308 Implements enhancement 1790.
6310 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6311 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
6312 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
6313 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
6314 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
6315 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
6316 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
6317 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
6318 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
6319 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
6320 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
6321 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
6322 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6323 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
6324 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
6325 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
6326 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
6327 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
6328 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
6329 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
6331 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
6332 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
6333 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
6334 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
6335 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
6336 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
6337 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
6338 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
6339 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
6340 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
6341 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
6342 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
6343 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
6345 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
6346 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
6347 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
6348 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
6349 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
6350 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6352 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6353 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
6354 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
6355 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
6356 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6357 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
6358 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
6359 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6360 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
6361 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
6362 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
6363 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
6365 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
6366 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
6367 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
6368 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
6369 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
6370 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
6371 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
6373 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
6375 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
6376 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6377 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
6378 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
6379 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
6380 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
6382 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6383 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
6384 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
6385 structures and defines in or.h for now.
6386 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
6387 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
6388 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
6389 statistics code to be more easily tested.
6390 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
6391 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
6392 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
6395 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
6396 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
6397 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
6398 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
6399 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
6400 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
6404 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
6405 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
6406 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
6407 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
6408 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
6409 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
6410 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
6411 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
6412 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
6413 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
6414 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
6415 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
6416 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
6418 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
6419 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
6420 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
6421 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
6422 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
6423 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
6424 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
6425 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
6426 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
6427 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
6428 can be controlled by the consensus.
6431 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
6432 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
6433 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
6434 more accurate data for many African countries.
6435 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
6436 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
6437 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6438 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
6439 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
6440 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
6441 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
6442 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
6443 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
6444 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6445 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
6446 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
6448 o New directory authorities:
6449 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
6453 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
6454 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
6455 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
6456 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
6457 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
6458 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
6459 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
6460 what should go in a patch.
6461 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
6462 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
6463 over our stored history.
6464 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
6465 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
6466 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
6467 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
6468 file. Fixes bug 1296.
6469 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
6470 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
6471 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
6475 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6477 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
6478 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
6479 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
6480 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
6481 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
6482 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
6483 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
6484 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
6485 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
6486 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
6487 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
6488 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6489 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
6490 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
6491 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
6492 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
6493 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
6494 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
6495 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
6496 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
6497 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
6498 two-hop circuits are actually created.
6499 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
6500 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6501 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
6502 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6505 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
6506 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6507 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6508 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6509 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6511 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
6512 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6515 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6516 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6517 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6518 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6519 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6520 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6521 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6522 their directory fetches over TLS).
6523 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6524 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6525 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6526 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6527 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6528 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6529 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6530 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6533 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6534 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6538 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6539 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6540 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6541 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6542 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6543 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6544 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6547 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
6548 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6549 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6550 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6551 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6554 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6555 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6556 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6557 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6558 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6559 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6560 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6561 their directory fetches over TLS).
6564 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6565 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6567 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
6568 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
6569 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
6570 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
6571 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
6572 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
6573 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
6574 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
6575 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
6576 hour of their uptime.
6579 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
6580 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
6581 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
6585 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
6586 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
6587 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
6588 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
6589 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
6590 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
6592 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
6593 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
6594 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
6596 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
6597 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
6601 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
6602 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
6603 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
6607 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
6608 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
6609 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6612 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6613 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6614 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6615 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6616 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
6617 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
6618 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
6619 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
6620 about the option without breaking older ones.
6621 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6622 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6623 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6624 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6627 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
6628 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
6629 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
6630 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
6632 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
6633 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
6634 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
6637 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
6638 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
6640 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
6641 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
6642 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
6643 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
6644 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
6645 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
6646 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6647 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
6648 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
6649 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
6650 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
6653 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6654 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6655 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6656 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6657 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6658 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6659 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6662 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
6663 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
6664 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
6665 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
6666 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
6667 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
6670 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6671 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6672 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6673 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
6675 o Major features (performance):
6676 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
6677 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
6678 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
6679 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
6680 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
6681 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
6682 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
6684 o Minor features (performance):
6685 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
6686 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
6687 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
6688 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
6689 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
6693 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
6694 speeds up the build considerably.
6696 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6697 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
6698 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6699 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
6700 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6701 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
6702 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
6703 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6705 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
6706 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6707 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6709 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6710 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6711 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6712 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6714 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6715 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
6716 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
6717 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
6718 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
6719 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
6722 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
6723 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
6724 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
6726 o Directory authority changes:
6727 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6728 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6729 service directory authority) from the list.
6732 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6733 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6734 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6735 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6736 libraries in a security patch.
6737 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6738 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6739 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6740 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6742 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
6743 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
6744 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
6745 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
6746 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6747 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6748 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6751 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
6752 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
6753 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
6754 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
6755 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
6756 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
6757 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
6758 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
6759 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
6760 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
6761 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
6762 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
6763 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
6765 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
6766 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
6767 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
6768 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
6769 control-spec.txt said they were.
6770 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6771 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6772 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
6773 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
6774 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6776 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6777 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
6778 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
6780 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
6781 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
6782 iPhone SDK versions.
6783 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
6784 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
6785 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
6786 projects directory in svn.
6787 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
6788 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
6789 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
6793 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
6794 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
6795 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
6797 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
6798 to the circuit build timeout.
6799 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
6800 arguments we do not recognize.
6801 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
6802 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
6803 open() without checking it.
6806 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
6807 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
6808 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
6809 several minor potential security bugs.
6812 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6813 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6814 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6815 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
6816 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6817 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6818 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6821 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6822 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6824 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6825 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6826 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6827 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6831 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
6832 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
6836 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
6837 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
6838 customized patches to run/build.
6841 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
6842 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
6843 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
6846 o Major bugfixes (performance):
6847 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6848 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6849 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6850 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6851 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6852 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6853 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6856 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6857 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6858 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6859 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6860 libraries in a security patch.
6861 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6862 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6863 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6864 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6867 o Directory authority changes:
6868 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6869 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6870 service directory authority) from the list.
6873 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6874 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6877 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6878 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6879 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6880 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6881 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6884 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
6885 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
6886 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
6890 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
6891 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
6892 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
6893 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
6894 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6897 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
6898 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
6899 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
6903 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
6904 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
6905 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
6906 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
6907 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
6909 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
6910 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
6912 o Directory authority changes:
6913 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
6916 o Major features (performance):
6917 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6918 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6919 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6920 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6921 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6922 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6923 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6924 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
6925 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
6926 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
6927 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
6928 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
6929 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
6931 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
6932 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
6933 but never per-conn write limits.
6934 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
6935 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
6936 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
6937 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
6939 o Major features (relay selection options):
6940 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
6941 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
6942 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
6943 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
6944 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
6945 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
6946 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
6948 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
6949 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
6951 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
6952 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
6953 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
6954 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
6955 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
6956 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
6957 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
6958 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
6959 the network changes.
6962 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
6963 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
6964 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6967 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
6968 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
6969 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
6970 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
6971 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
6972 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
6973 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
6974 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
6975 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
6976 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
6977 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
6978 generated while acting as a relay.
6979 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
6980 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6981 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6982 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6983 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6984 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6986 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
6987 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
6988 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6989 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
6990 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
6991 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
6994 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
6995 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
6996 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
6998 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
6999 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
7000 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
7002 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
7003 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
7006 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
7007 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
7009 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
7010 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
7013 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7014 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
7015 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7016 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
7017 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
7018 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
7019 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
7020 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
7021 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
7023 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
7027 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
7028 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
7029 hidden service usage.
7032 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
7033 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
7034 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
7035 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
7036 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
7038 o Directory authority changes:
7039 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
7043 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
7044 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
7045 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7048 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
7049 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
7050 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
7051 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
7052 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
7055 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7056 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7057 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
7058 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
7059 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
7060 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
7061 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
7064 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7065 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7066 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7067 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7068 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
7069 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
7071 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
7072 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
7075 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
7076 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
7077 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
7078 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
7079 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
7080 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
7083 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
7084 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
7085 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
7087 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
7088 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
7089 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
7090 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
7091 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
7092 download consensus + microdescriptors".
7093 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
7094 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
7095 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
7096 hash algorithm in the future.
7097 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
7098 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
7099 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
7100 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
7101 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
7102 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
7103 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
7104 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
7105 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
7108 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7109 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7110 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
7111 won't work unless we say we are.
7114 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
7115 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
7116 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
7117 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
7118 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
7119 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
7120 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7121 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7122 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7123 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7124 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
7125 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
7126 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
7127 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
7128 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
7129 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
7130 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
7131 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
7132 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
7133 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
7134 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
7135 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
7138 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
7139 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
7140 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
7141 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7143 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
7144 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
7146 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
7147 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
7148 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
7149 in the Vidalia Settings window.
7152 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7153 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7154 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7155 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7156 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7158 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7159 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7161 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
7162 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
7163 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
7166 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7167 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7168 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7170 o New directory authorities:
7171 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7173 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7176 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
7177 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7179 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7180 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7181 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7182 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7183 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7184 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7185 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7186 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7187 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7188 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7189 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7190 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7191 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7192 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7193 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7194 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7195 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7197 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7198 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7199 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
7201 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7202 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7206 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7207 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7208 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7209 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7210 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7213 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
7214 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7217 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7219 o Directory authorities:
7220 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
7224 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
7225 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
7226 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
7227 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
7228 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
7231 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
7232 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
7233 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
7234 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
7236 o New directory authorities:
7237 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7240 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
7241 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
7242 SSL handshake issues.
7243 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
7244 during the TLS handshake.
7245 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
7246 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
7247 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
7248 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
7249 none of which are very big.
7252 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
7254 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
7255 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7256 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
7257 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
7258 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7259 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
7260 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
7261 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7264 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7265 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
7266 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
7267 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
7268 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
7271 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
7272 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7275 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
7276 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
7279 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
7280 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
7281 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7284 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
7285 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
7286 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
7287 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
7288 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
7289 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
7292 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
7293 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
7294 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
7295 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
7296 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
7297 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
7298 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
7299 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
7300 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
7301 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
7302 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
7303 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
7304 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
7305 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
7306 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
7307 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7308 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7309 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7312 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7313 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7317 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7318 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7319 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7320 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
7321 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
7322 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
7323 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7324 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7325 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7326 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7327 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7328 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7329 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7330 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7331 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7332 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7333 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7334 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7335 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7336 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7337 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7339 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7340 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7341 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
7342 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7343 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7344 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7346 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
7347 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
7348 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
7351 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7352 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7353 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7354 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7355 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7356 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
7359 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
7360 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
7361 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
7362 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
7363 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
7366 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
7367 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
7368 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
7371 o New directory authorities:
7372 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7376 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
7377 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
7378 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
7379 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
7380 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
7383 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7384 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7385 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7386 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7387 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7390 o New options for gathering stats safely:
7391 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
7392 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
7393 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
7394 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
7395 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
7396 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
7397 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
7398 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7399 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
7401 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
7402 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
7403 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7404 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
7406 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
7407 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
7408 their extra-info documents.
7411 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
7412 source files Tor was built with.
7413 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
7414 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
7415 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
7416 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
7417 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
7418 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
7420 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
7421 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
7422 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
7423 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
7424 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
7426 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
7427 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
7430 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
7431 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
7432 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
7433 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
7434 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7436 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
7437 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
7439 o Deprecated and removed features:
7440 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
7441 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
7442 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
7443 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
7444 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
7445 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
7446 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
7447 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
7449 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
7450 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
7451 via application-level web tricks.
7453 o Packaging changes:
7454 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
7455 installer bundles. See
7456 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
7457 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
7458 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
7459 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
7460 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
7461 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
7462 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7463 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
7464 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7465 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
7466 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
7467 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
7470 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
7471 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
7472 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
7475 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
7476 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
7477 part of patch provided by "optimist".
7480 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
7481 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
7482 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
7483 and confuse fewer users.
7486 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
7487 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
7488 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
7489 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
7490 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
7491 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
7492 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
7495 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
7496 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
7497 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
7498 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
7499 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
7500 other features and bug fixes.
7503 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
7506 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
7507 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
7508 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
7509 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
7510 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
7513 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
7514 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
7515 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
7516 failure message (oops).
7519 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
7520 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
7521 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
7522 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
7526 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
7527 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
7528 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
7529 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
7530 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
7531 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
7532 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7533 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
7534 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
7535 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
7536 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
7537 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
7538 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
7539 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
7540 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7543 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
7544 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7545 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
7546 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
7547 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
7548 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
7549 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
7550 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
7551 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
7552 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
7553 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
7554 Workaround for bug 1024.
7555 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
7559 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
7560 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
7561 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
7564 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
7566 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7567 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7568 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7569 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7570 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7573 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7574 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7575 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7576 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7577 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7578 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7579 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7580 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7581 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7582 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7585 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7586 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7587 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
7588 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7589 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7590 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7591 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7592 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7595 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
7596 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
7597 a bunch of minor bugs.
7600 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7601 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7602 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7604 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
7605 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
7606 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
7607 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
7609 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
7613 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7614 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
7615 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
7617 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7618 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
7620 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
7621 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
7623 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
7624 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
7625 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
7626 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7627 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7628 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7629 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7630 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7632 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7633 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
7634 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
7636 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
7637 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
7638 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
7639 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
7640 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
7644 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
7645 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7646 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
7649 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7650 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7651 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7652 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7654 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7655 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
7656 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
7657 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7658 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
7659 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
7660 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
7661 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
7662 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
7663 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
7664 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
7665 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7666 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
7667 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
7668 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
7669 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
7670 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
7672 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
7673 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
7674 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
7675 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7678 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
7679 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7682 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
7683 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7684 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
7685 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
7686 addresses to fall out of the directory.
7689 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
7690 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
7691 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
7692 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
7694 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
7695 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7696 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7697 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7698 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7699 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7700 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7701 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7702 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
7703 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
7704 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
7705 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
7706 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
7708 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7709 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7712 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
7713 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
7714 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
7715 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
7716 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
7717 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
7719 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
7720 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
7721 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
7722 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
7723 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
7725 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7728 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
7729 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
7731 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
7732 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
7733 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7734 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7735 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7736 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7738 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
7739 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7740 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
7741 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
7742 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
7743 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7744 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
7745 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
7746 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
7747 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
7748 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
7749 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
7753 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
7754 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
7755 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
7758 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
7759 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
7760 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7762 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
7763 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
7764 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
7765 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
7766 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
7767 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
7768 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
7769 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
7770 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
7771 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
7772 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
7773 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7774 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
7775 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
7776 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
7777 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
7778 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
7779 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
7780 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
7781 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
7782 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
7783 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
7784 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
7785 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
7786 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
7787 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
7789 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
7790 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
7791 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
7792 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
7793 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
7794 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
7795 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
7796 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
7797 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
7798 of 0. Suggested by lark.
7800 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7801 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
7802 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
7803 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
7804 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7807 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
7809 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
7810 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
7811 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
7812 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
7815 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
7816 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
7817 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
7818 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7819 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
7821 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
7822 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
7823 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
7824 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7827 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7828 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7829 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7830 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7831 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7832 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
7833 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
7834 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
7837 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
7838 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7839 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7840 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7843 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
7844 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
7845 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
7846 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7847 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
7848 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
7851 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7852 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7853 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7854 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7855 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7856 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7859 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
7860 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
7861 reported by Matt Edman.
7862 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
7864 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
7865 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
7866 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
7867 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
7869 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
7870 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7871 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
7872 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7873 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7874 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7875 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
7876 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
7877 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
7878 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
7879 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
7880 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
7881 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
7882 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7883 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
7884 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7885 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
7886 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
7887 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7890 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
7891 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7892 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
7893 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
7896 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
7897 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
7898 the letter of C99's alias rules.
7901 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
7902 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
7903 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
7904 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
7906 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
7907 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
7908 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
7911 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
7912 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
7915 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
7916 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
7917 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
7918 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
7919 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
7921 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
7922 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
7923 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
7924 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
7925 identify a connection.
7926 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
7927 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
7928 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
7929 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
7930 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
7931 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
7932 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7933 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
7934 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
7935 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
7937 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
7938 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
7939 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
7940 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
7941 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
7942 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
7943 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
7946 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
7947 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
7949 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
7950 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
7951 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
7952 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
7953 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
7954 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
7955 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7956 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
7958 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
7959 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
7960 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
7961 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
7962 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
7963 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
7964 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
7965 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
7966 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
7967 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
7968 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
7969 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
7970 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
7971 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
7972 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7973 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
7974 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
7975 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
7976 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
7977 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
7978 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
7979 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
7980 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
7981 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
7982 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
7983 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
7984 840. Patch from rovv.
7985 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
7986 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
7987 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
7989 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
7990 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
7991 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
7992 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
7993 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
7994 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
7995 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7997 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7998 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
7999 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8002 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
8003 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
8005 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8006 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
8007 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8008 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8009 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8010 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8011 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8012 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8013 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8015 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
8017 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
8018 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
8022 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
8023 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
8024 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
8025 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
8026 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
8027 have had some time to upgrade.)
8030 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
8031 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
8034 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
8035 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
8036 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
8037 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
8038 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
8041 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
8042 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
8044 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
8045 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8046 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
8047 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
8048 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
8049 entirely. Patch from coderman.
8052 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
8053 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8054 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
8055 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
8056 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
8057 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8058 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
8062 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
8063 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
8064 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
8065 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
8066 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
8067 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
8068 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
8071 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
8072 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
8073 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
8074 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
8075 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
8077 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
8078 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
8079 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
8080 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
8081 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
8082 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
8083 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8084 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
8085 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
8086 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
8090 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
8091 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
8092 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
8094 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
8095 without support for deprecated functions.
8096 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
8098 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8099 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
8100 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
8101 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
8102 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8103 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
8104 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
8105 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
8106 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
8107 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
8108 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
8109 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
8110 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
8111 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
8112 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
8113 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
8114 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
8115 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8116 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8117 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8118 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8119 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
8120 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
8122 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
8123 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
8124 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
8125 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
8126 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
8127 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
8129 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
8130 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
8131 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
8132 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
8133 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
8135 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
8136 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
8137 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
8139 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
8140 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
8143 o Deprecated and removed features:
8144 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
8145 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
8146 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
8149 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8150 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
8151 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
8152 with log.h on Android.
8153 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
8154 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
8157 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
8158 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
8160 o New directory authorities:
8161 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
8165 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
8166 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
8167 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
8168 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
8169 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
8170 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8173 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
8174 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
8175 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
8176 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8177 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8178 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8179 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8180 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8182 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8183 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
8184 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8185 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8188 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
8189 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
8191 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
8192 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
8193 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
8194 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
8195 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
8196 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
8197 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
8198 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
8199 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
8200 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8201 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
8202 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8203 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
8204 Implements proposal 148.
8205 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
8206 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
8207 system to do it for us.
8208 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
8209 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
8210 this fix will be slightly helpful.
8211 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
8212 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
8213 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
8214 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
8215 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
8216 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
8217 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
8218 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
8219 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
8222 o Minor features (controller):
8223 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
8224 been fetched and validated.
8225 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8226 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
8227 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8228 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
8229 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
8230 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
8233 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
8234 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8235 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
8236 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
8237 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
8239 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8240 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8241 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8242 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8243 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8244 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8245 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8246 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8247 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8249 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8250 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
8251 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
8252 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
8253 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8254 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
8255 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
8256 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8258 o Deprecated and removed features:
8259 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
8261 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
8262 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8263 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
8265 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8266 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
8267 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
8269 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
8270 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
8271 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
8272 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
8273 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
8274 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
8277 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
8278 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
8279 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
8280 fixes a variety of other issues.
8283 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
8284 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
8285 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
8286 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
8289 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
8290 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
8291 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
8292 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8295 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8296 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8297 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
8301 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
8303 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
8304 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
8305 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8306 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
8307 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
8308 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
8309 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8311 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
8312 rest, and don't automatically fail.
8313 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
8314 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8315 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8316 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8318 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8319 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8320 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8321 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
8322 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
8323 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
8324 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
8325 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
8326 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8327 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
8329 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8333 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
8334 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
8335 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
8337 o Minor features (controller):
8338 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
8342 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
8343 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8344 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8345 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8346 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8347 variety of other issues.
8350 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8351 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8352 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8353 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8354 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8355 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8356 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
8357 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8358 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8359 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8360 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8361 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8364 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8365 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8367 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8368 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8369 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8370 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8371 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8372 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8373 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8374 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8375 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8376 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
8377 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
8378 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
8379 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
8380 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
8381 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8385 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
8386 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8387 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8388 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8389 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8390 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8391 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8392 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8393 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8394 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8395 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8396 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8397 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8398 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8399 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
8400 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8401 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8402 list. It has been gone for many months.
8403 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8404 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
8405 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8408 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8409 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
8410 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
8413 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
8414 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8415 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8416 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8417 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
8418 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8419 variety of other issues.
8422 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8423 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8424 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8425 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8426 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8427 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8428 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8429 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8430 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8431 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8432 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8433 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
8434 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
8435 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
8438 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
8439 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
8440 Suggested by Lucky Green.
8441 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8442 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8443 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8444 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8445 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8446 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8448 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
8449 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
8451 o Hidden service performance improvements:
8452 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
8453 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
8454 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
8455 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
8456 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
8457 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
8458 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
8459 faster after restart.
8462 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
8463 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
8464 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
8465 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8466 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8467 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8468 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8469 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8470 840. Patch from rovv.
8471 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8472 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8473 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8474 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8475 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8476 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8477 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8478 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8479 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8481 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
8482 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
8483 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
8484 have already been marked for close.
8485 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
8486 introduction points.
8487 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
8488 memory performance during directory parsing.
8489 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
8490 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
8491 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
8492 because of a pending download.
8495 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
8496 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
8497 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
8498 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8501 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
8502 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
8503 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
8504 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
8505 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
8506 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
8507 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
8508 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
8509 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
8510 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
8511 lookups more reliable.
8512 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
8513 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
8514 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
8515 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
8516 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
8517 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
8518 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8521 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
8522 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
8523 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8524 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8525 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8526 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
8527 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
8528 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
8529 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
8530 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
8531 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8533 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8534 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8535 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8536 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8537 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8538 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8539 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
8540 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
8541 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8544 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
8545 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
8546 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
8547 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
8548 locked down these days.
8549 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
8550 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
8551 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
8552 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
8553 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
8555 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
8556 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
8557 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
8558 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
8559 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
8560 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
8561 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
8562 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
8563 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
8564 people find host:port too confusing.
8565 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
8566 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8567 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
8570 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8572 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
8573 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
8574 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8575 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8576 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
8578 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
8579 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
8580 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8581 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8582 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8583 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8584 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8585 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8586 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8587 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8588 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
8589 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
8591 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8592 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8593 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8594 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
8595 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8596 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
8597 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8598 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
8599 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
8601 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
8602 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
8603 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
8604 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
8605 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
8606 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8607 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
8608 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
8609 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
8610 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
8611 bug 820, reported by seeess.
8612 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8613 list. It has been gone for many months.
8615 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8616 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
8617 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
8618 actual mistakes we're making here.
8619 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
8620 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
8621 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
8622 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
8625 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
8626 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
8627 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
8628 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8631 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8632 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8633 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8634 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8635 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8636 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8638 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8639 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8640 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8641 pointed out by rovv.
8644 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8645 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8646 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8647 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8648 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
8649 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
8650 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8651 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8652 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8653 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8654 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8655 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
8656 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
8657 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8658 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8659 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8660 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8661 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8662 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
8663 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
8664 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8667 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
8668 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
8669 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
8670 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
8671 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
8672 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
8673 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8676 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
8678 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
8679 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
8680 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
8681 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
8682 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
8683 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
8684 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
8686 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
8687 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
8688 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
8689 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
8690 known descriptor before building circuits.
8692 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
8693 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8694 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8695 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8696 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8697 identify a connection.
8698 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8699 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8700 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8702 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8703 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8704 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8705 pointed out by rovv.
8708 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8709 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8710 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8711 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
8712 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
8713 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8714 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8715 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8716 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
8717 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8718 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8719 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8720 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8721 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8722 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8725 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
8726 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
8727 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
8728 answer sections match.
8729 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
8730 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
8733 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
8734 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8737 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
8738 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
8739 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
8741 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
8742 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
8743 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8746 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
8747 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
8748 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
8749 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
8753 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
8754 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
8757 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
8758 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
8759 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
8760 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
8761 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
8762 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
8764 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
8765 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
8766 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
8769 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
8770 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
8771 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
8772 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
8773 be sent using an "early" cell.
8776 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8777 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8778 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8779 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8780 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8781 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8782 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8785 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
8786 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
8787 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
8788 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
8789 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
8790 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
8791 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
8792 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
8793 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
8794 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
8795 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
8796 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
8797 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
8798 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
8799 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
8800 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
8803 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
8804 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
8805 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
8806 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8807 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8808 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8809 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
8810 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
8811 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
8813 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
8814 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
8815 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
8816 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
8817 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
8820 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8821 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
8822 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
8823 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8826 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
8827 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
8831 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
8833 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8834 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8835 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8838 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
8839 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
8840 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8843 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
8844 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
8845 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8846 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8847 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8848 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
8849 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
8850 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
8851 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8852 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8853 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
8854 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
8855 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8856 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8857 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
8858 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
8859 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
8860 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
8861 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
8862 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
8863 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
8864 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
8865 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
8868 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
8869 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
8871 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
8872 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
8873 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
8874 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
8875 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
8876 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
8877 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
8879 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
8880 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
8881 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
8882 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
8883 found by Geoff Goodell.
8886 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
8887 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
8888 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
8889 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
8890 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
8891 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
8894 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
8895 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
8896 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
8899 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8900 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
8901 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8902 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8903 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8904 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8905 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
8906 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
8907 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8908 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
8909 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
8910 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
8911 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
8912 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
8915 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
8916 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
8917 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
8919 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
8920 fingerprints with or without space.
8921 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
8922 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
8923 partway through and wants to catch up.
8924 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
8925 state to start out in.
8928 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
8929 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
8930 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8931 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
8932 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
8935 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
8936 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
8937 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
8938 some of the connection attempts fail.
8939 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
8940 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
8941 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
8942 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
8943 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
8944 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
8946 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
8947 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
8948 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
8951 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
8952 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
8953 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
8954 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
8955 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
8956 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
8957 and adds a variety of smaller features.
8960 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
8961 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
8962 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
8963 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
8965 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
8966 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
8967 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
8968 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
8970 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
8971 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
8972 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
8973 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
8974 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
8975 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
8976 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
8979 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
8980 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
8981 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
8982 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
8983 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
8985 o Memory fixes and improvements:
8986 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
8987 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
8988 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
8989 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
8990 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
8991 on a typical directory cache.
8992 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
8993 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
8994 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
8995 and may reduce fragmentation.
8996 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
8997 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
8998 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
9000 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
9001 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
9002 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
9004 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9005 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
9009 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
9010 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
9011 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
9012 done that for a long time.
9013 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
9014 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
9015 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
9016 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
9019 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
9020 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
9021 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
9022 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
9023 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
9024 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
9026 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
9027 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
9028 output to messages of warning and error severity.
9029 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
9030 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
9031 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
9032 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
9033 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
9034 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
9035 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
9036 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
9037 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
9038 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
9039 directory requests we should expect to see.
9040 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
9042 - Lots of new unit tests.
9043 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
9044 two parallel lists in lockstep.
9047 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
9048 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
9049 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9052 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
9053 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
9054 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
9055 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
9056 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
9057 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
9058 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
9061 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
9062 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
9063 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
9067 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
9068 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
9069 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
9072 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
9073 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
9074 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
9076 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
9077 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
9079 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
9080 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
9081 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
9082 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
9083 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9084 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
9085 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
9087 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
9088 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
9089 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
9090 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
9091 - Fix compile on Windows.
9094 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
9095 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
9096 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
9097 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
9098 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
9099 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
9100 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
9103 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
9104 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
9107 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
9108 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
9109 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
9110 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
9112 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
9113 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
9114 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
9117 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
9118 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
9119 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
9120 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
9124 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
9125 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
9126 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
9127 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
9129 o Major security fixes:
9130 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
9131 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
9132 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
9133 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
9134 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
9137 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
9138 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9141 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
9142 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
9145 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
9146 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
9149 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
9150 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
9151 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
9154 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
9155 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9158 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
9159 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
9160 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
9161 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
9162 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
9164 o New directory authorities:
9165 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
9166 it has been down for months.
9167 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
9171 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
9172 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
9174 o Minor features (security):
9175 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
9176 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
9177 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
9180 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9181 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
9182 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
9183 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
9184 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
9185 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
9186 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
9187 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
9188 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9190 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
9191 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
9192 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9193 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
9194 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9195 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
9196 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9197 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
9198 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
9200 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9201 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
9202 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
9203 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
9204 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
9205 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
9206 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
9207 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
9208 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
9209 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
9210 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9211 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
9212 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
9213 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
9214 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
9215 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
9216 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
9217 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
9218 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
9221 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
9222 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9223 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
9224 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
9227 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
9228 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
9229 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
9230 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
9233 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
9234 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9235 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
9236 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
9237 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
9240 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
9241 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
9242 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
9243 certain censored countries by default again.
9246 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
9247 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9248 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
9249 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
9250 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9251 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
9252 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
9253 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
9255 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9256 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
9257 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
9258 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
9259 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
9260 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
9261 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
9262 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
9263 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
9264 a directory. Fix from lodger.
9266 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9267 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
9268 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
9269 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
9270 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
9271 RelayBandwidth* values.
9272 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
9273 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
9274 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
9275 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
9276 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
9277 get_interface_address6().
9278 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
9279 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
9280 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
9282 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
9283 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
9284 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
9285 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9286 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
9287 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
9288 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9289 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
9290 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
9291 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9294 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
9295 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
9296 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
9299 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
9300 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9301 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
9302 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
9303 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
9306 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
9307 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
9308 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
9309 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
9310 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
9311 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
9312 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
9313 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
9314 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
9317 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
9318 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
9319 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
9320 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9323 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
9324 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9325 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
9326 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
9327 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
9328 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
9329 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
9332 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
9333 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
9334 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
9335 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
9336 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
9337 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
9338 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
9340 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
9341 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
9342 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
9343 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
9344 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
9347 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
9348 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
9350 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
9351 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
9352 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
9353 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9354 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
9355 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
9356 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
9357 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
9358 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
9359 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
9360 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
9361 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
9362 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9363 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
9364 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9365 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9366 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
9367 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
9368 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
9369 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
9370 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
9371 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
9372 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
9374 o Minor features (performance):
9375 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
9377 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
9378 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
9379 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
9380 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
9381 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
9382 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
9383 non-system include paths.
9384 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
9385 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
9388 o Minor features (other):
9389 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
9391 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
9392 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
9393 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
9396 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
9397 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
9398 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
9399 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
9401 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
9402 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
9403 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
9404 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
9406 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
9407 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
9408 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9409 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
9410 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9412 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9413 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
9414 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
9415 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
9416 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
9417 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
9418 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
9419 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
9420 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
9421 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
9422 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
9423 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
9424 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
9425 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
9426 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
9427 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9428 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
9429 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
9430 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
9431 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
9432 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
9433 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
9434 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
9435 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
9436 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
9439 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9440 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
9441 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
9445 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
9446 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
9447 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
9448 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
9449 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
9452 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
9453 Tor's x509 certificates.
9456 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
9457 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
9458 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9459 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
9460 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
9461 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9463 o Minor features (security):
9464 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
9465 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
9467 o Minor features (directory authority):
9468 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
9469 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
9470 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
9471 bandwidthburst values.
9473 o Minor features (controller):
9474 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
9475 processes from running us out of memory.
9477 o Minor features (misc):
9478 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
9479 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
9480 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
9481 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
9483 o Deprecated features (controller):
9484 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
9485 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
9486 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
9489 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
9490 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
9492 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
9493 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
9494 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9495 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
9496 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
9497 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9498 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
9499 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
9501 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
9502 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9503 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
9504 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9505 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
9506 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
9507 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
9508 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
9510 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
9511 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
9512 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
9513 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
9514 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9515 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
9516 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9517 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
9518 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9519 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
9520 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
9521 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9523 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9524 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
9526 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
9527 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
9528 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
9529 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
9530 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
9531 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
9534 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
9535 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
9536 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
9537 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
9538 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
9540 o New directory authorities:
9541 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
9545 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
9546 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
9547 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
9548 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
9549 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
9550 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
9551 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
9552 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
9556 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
9557 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
9558 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
9559 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
9560 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
9561 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
9562 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
9563 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
9564 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
9565 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
9568 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
9569 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
9570 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
9571 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
9575 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
9576 the request isn't encrypted.
9577 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
9578 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
9579 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
9580 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
9581 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
9584 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
9585 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
9588 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
9591 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
9592 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
9593 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
9595 o New directory authorities:
9596 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
9599 o Major performance improvements:
9600 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
9601 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
9602 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
9603 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
9604 memory fragmentation.
9607 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
9608 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
9609 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
9610 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9611 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
9612 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
9613 bodies when they receive them.
9614 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
9615 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
9616 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
9618 o Minor performance improvements:
9619 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
9620 of them were actually distinct.
9621 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
9622 interested in a given message.
9625 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
9626 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
9627 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
9628 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
9629 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
9630 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
9631 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
9632 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
9633 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
9634 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
9635 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
9637 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
9638 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
9639 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
9640 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
9641 this country" and "1 person from this country".
9642 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9643 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
9644 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9645 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
9646 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
9648 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9649 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9650 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
9652 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
9653 but client versions are not.
9654 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9655 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9657 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
9658 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
9659 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9660 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
9661 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
9663 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
9664 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
9665 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
9668 o Minor features (controller):
9669 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
9670 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
9671 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
9672 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
9674 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9675 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
9676 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
9677 running a test network on a single host.
9678 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
9679 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
9681 o Minor features (bridges):
9682 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
9683 unencrypted connections.
9685 o Minor features (other):
9686 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
9687 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
9688 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
9689 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
9692 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
9693 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
9694 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
9695 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9698 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9699 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9700 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9701 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9705 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9706 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
9707 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9708 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
9709 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9710 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
9711 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9712 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9713 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
9714 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
9715 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
9716 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
9719 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9720 rebuild our server descriptor.
9721 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9722 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
9723 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
9724 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9725 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9726 nonstandard integer types.
9727 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
9728 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
9729 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
9730 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
9731 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
9733 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9734 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
9735 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
9736 when they receive them.
9737 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
9738 This includes some 64-bit systems.
9739 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
9740 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
9741 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
9742 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
9743 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9744 router_get_by_hexdigest().
9745 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9746 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9750 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
9751 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
9752 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9755 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
9756 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
9757 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
9758 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
9759 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
9760 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
9761 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
9762 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9765 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
9766 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
9767 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
9768 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
9770 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
9771 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
9774 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
9775 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
9778 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
9780 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
9781 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
9783 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
9784 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
9785 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
9786 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9787 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
9788 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
9789 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
9790 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9791 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
9792 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
9796 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
9797 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
9798 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
9801 - Make the unit tests build again.
9802 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
9803 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
9804 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
9805 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
9806 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
9807 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9808 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
9809 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
9810 the next one as a duplicate.
9813 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
9814 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
9815 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
9816 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
9819 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
9820 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
9821 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
9824 o New directory authorities:
9825 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
9829 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
9830 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
9831 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
9832 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
9833 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
9834 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9835 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
9837 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
9838 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
9840 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9841 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9842 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
9843 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
9844 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
9845 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
9847 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
9848 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
9849 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9850 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
9851 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
9852 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9855 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
9856 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
9857 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
9858 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
9859 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
9860 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
9861 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
9862 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
9863 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
9864 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
9865 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
9866 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
9867 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
9868 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
9869 where Tor is blocked.
9870 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
9871 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
9872 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
9873 to a file periodically.
9874 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
9875 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
9876 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
9880 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
9881 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
9882 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
9883 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
9884 in the relevant networkstatus document.
9885 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
9886 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
9887 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9888 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
9889 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
9890 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
9891 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
9893 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
9894 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
9895 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
9896 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
9897 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
9898 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9899 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
9900 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
9901 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
9902 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9903 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
9904 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
9905 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
9906 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9907 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9908 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
9909 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
9910 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9911 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9912 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9913 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9914 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
9915 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9916 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
9917 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
9918 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9919 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
9920 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9923 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
9924 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
9925 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
9926 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
9927 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
9928 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
9929 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
9930 even if your DirPort isn't on.
9931 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
9932 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
9933 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
9935 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
9936 multiple controller passwords.
9937 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
9938 router based on the router's purpose.
9939 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
9940 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
9941 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
9942 the approved-routers file.
9945 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
9946 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
9947 well as a few minor bugs.
9950 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
9951 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
9952 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
9954 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9955 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9956 rebuild our server descriptor.
9958 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9959 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
9960 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
9961 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
9962 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
9963 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
9964 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
9965 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
9966 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
9967 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
9969 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
9970 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
9971 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
9972 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
9973 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
9974 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
9975 then be flexible about families.
9978 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
9979 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
9980 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
9984 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
9985 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
9986 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
9987 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
9988 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
9991 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9992 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9993 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9994 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9995 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9998 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9999 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
10001 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
10002 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
10003 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
10004 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
10005 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
10006 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
10007 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10009 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
10010 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
10011 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
10012 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
10015 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
10016 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
10019 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
10020 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
10021 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10024 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
10025 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
10026 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
10027 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
10028 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
10029 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
10030 addresses many more minor issues.
10032 o New directory authorities:
10033 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
10036 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
10037 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
10038 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
10039 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
10041 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
10042 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
10043 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
10044 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
10045 and are reaching it.
10046 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
10047 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
10048 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
10049 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
10050 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
10051 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
10054 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
10055 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
10057 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
10058 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
10059 no longer work for clients.
10060 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
10061 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
10063 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
10064 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
10065 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
10066 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
10067 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
10068 enough directory information to build a circuit.
10069 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
10070 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
10071 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
10072 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
10073 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
10074 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
10076 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
10077 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
10078 requests for all of them.
10079 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
10081 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
10082 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
10083 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
10085 o New requirements:
10086 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
10087 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
10091 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
10092 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
10093 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
10094 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
10095 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
10096 networkstatuses that we already have.
10097 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
10098 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
10099 we start knowing some directory caches.
10100 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
10101 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
10102 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
10103 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
10104 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
10105 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
10106 Good in combination with --hash-password.
10107 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
10108 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
10110 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
10111 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
10112 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
10114 o Minor features (bridges):
10115 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
10116 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
10117 back to trying the bridge directly.
10118 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
10119 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
10121 o Minor features (controller):
10122 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
10123 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
10124 report the value as a "minimum skew."
10127 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
10128 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
10132 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
10133 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
10134 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
10135 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
10136 reported by tup and ioerror.
10137 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
10138 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
10140 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10141 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10143 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10144 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
10145 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
10147 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
10148 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10149 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
10150 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10151 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
10152 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10153 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
10155 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
10156 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
10157 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10159 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
10160 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
10161 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
10162 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
10163 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
10166 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
10167 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
10168 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
10169 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
10170 lists for a few hours each day.
10172 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10173 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10174 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10175 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
10176 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
10177 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10178 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10179 rend_process_relay_cell().
10181 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10182 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10183 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10184 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10185 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10186 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10187 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
10188 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
10190 o Major bugfixes (other):
10191 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
10192 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
10193 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
10194 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10195 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10196 circuit cannibalization).
10197 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10198 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10199 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10200 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10201 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10202 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
10205 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10206 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
10208 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10209 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
10210 absent. Resolves bug 467.
10211 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
10212 a way to trigger this remotely.)
10213 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10214 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10215 were reporting the dir port.)
10216 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10217 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
10218 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10219 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10220 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10222 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10223 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10224 the onion key from getting rotated.
10225 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10226 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10227 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10228 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
10229 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10230 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10231 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10232 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
10233 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
10236 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
10237 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
10238 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
10239 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
10240 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
10241 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
10243 o Major features (directory system):
10244 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
10245 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
10246 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
10247 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
10248 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
10249 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
10250 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
10251 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
10252 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
10253 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
10254 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
10255 Partially implements proposal 122.
10256 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
10257 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
10260 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
10261 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
10262 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
10263 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
10265 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10266 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10267 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10268 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10269 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10270 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10271 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
10272 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
10273 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10275 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
10276 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
10278 - Allow certificates to include an address.
10279 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
10280 and download operations.
10281 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
10282 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
10283 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
10284 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
10285 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
10286 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
10288 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
10289 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
10292 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
10293 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
10294 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
10295 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
10297 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
10298 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
10299 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
10301 o Minor features (performance):
10302 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
10303 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
10304 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
10305 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
10306 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
10307 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
10308 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
10311 o Minor features (compilation):
10312 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
10313 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
10315 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10316 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
10317 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
10318 stick around indefinitely.
10319 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
10321 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
10322 v3 directory authority.
10323 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
10324 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
10326 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
10327 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
10328 "moria on moria:9031."
10329 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
10330 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
10331 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
10332 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
10333 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
10334 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
10335 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
10336 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
10338 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10339 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
10340 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
10341 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
10342 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
10343 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
10344 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
10345 downloads than for other types.
10347 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
10348 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
10350 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
10351 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
10352 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10354 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10355 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10356 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10357 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
10358 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
10359 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
10360 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
10361 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
10363 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10364 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
10365 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
10366 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
10367 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10368 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
10369 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
10370 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10371 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
10372 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
10373 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
10375 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
10376 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
10379 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10380 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
10381 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
10382 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
10383 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
10384 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
10385 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
10386 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
10387 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
10388 so that they all take the same named flags.
10391 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
10392 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
10393 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
10396 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
10397 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
10398 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
10399 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
10400 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
10401 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
10403 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
10404 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
10405 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
10406 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
10407 annotations along with descriptors.
10408 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
10409 source, and its purpose.
10410 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
10412 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
10413 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
10414 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
10415 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
10418 o Major features (directory authorities):
10419 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
10421 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
10422 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
10423 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
10424 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
10425 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
10426 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
10428 o Major features (v3 directory system):
10429 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
10430 and download the descriptors listed in them.
10431 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
10432 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
10433 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
10435 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10436 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10437 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10438 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
10441 o Major bugfixes (performance):
10442 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
10443 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
10444 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
10445 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
10447 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
10448 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
10449 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
10450 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
10451 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
10452 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10454 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
10455 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
10457 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
10458 certificate is requested.
10459 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
10460 certificate requests.
10462 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
10463 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
10464 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
10465 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
10468 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10469 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10470 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10471 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10473 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
10474 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
10476 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
10477 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
10478 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10479 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
10480 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
10481 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
10482 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
10483 downloads more sensible.
10484 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
10485 another when serving certificates.
10487 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10488 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
10489 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
10490 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
10492 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
10493 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10494 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
10496 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10497 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10499 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10500 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10501 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10502 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
10503 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10505 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
10506 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
10507 WARN-severity events.
10508 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10509 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
10510 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10512 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
10513 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
10514 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
10516 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10517 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10518 circuit cannibalization).
10520 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10521 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
10522 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
10523 new module, networkstatus.c.
10524 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
10525 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
10526 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
10527 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
10528 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
10529 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
10530 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
10531 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
10532 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
10534 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
10536 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
10537 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10540 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
10541 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
10542 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
10543 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
10545 o New directory authorities:
10546 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
10547 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
10549 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10550 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10551 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10553 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
10554 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
10555 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
10556 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
10557 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10558 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
10559 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
10560 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
10561 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
10562 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
10563 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10565 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10566 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10567 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10568 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10569 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10570 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10571 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
10572 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
10573 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
10575 o Minor features (security):
10576 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
10577 address maps to an internal address space.
10578 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
10579 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
10581 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10582 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
10583 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
10584 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
10585 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
10587 o Minor features (speed):
10588 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
10589 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
10590 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
10591 on big-endian hosts.)
10593 o Minor features (controller):
10594 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
10595 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
10596 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
10597 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
10600 o Removed features:
10601 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
10602 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
10603 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
10604 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
10605 implementation of proposal 104.
10606 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
10607 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
10608 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
10609 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
10610 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
10611 patch from Karsten Loesing.
10612 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
10613 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
10616 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10617 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
10618 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10619 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
10620 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10621 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
10622 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10623 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10624 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
10625 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10626 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
10627 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
10628 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
10629 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10630 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
10631 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
10632 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
10633 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10634 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
10635 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
10637 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10638 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
10639 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
10641 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
10642 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
10643 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
10644 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
10647 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
10648 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
10649 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
10650 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10651 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
10654 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
10655 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
10658 o Major bugfixes (security):
10659 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
10660 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10661 become more of a headache than it's worth.
10663 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10664 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10665 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10667 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10668 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10669 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10670 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10671 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10672 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10674 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10675 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10676 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10677 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10678 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
10680 o Minor features (controller):
10681 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10682 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10683 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10684 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10686 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10687 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
10688 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
10689 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10690 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
10691 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
10692 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
10693 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10695 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10696 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10697 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10698 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
10699 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10700 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10701 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10702 if we ran off the end of the list.
10703 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10704 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10705 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10706 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10707 every time we change any piece of our config.
10708 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10709 encourage people using them to stop.
10710 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
10712 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10713 servers to choose a circuit.
10714 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10715 unparseable piece of it.
10718 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
10719 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
10720 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
10721 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10724 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
10725 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
10726 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
10727 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
10728 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
10730 o New directory authorities:
10731 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
10734 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
10735 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
10736 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
10737 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
10739 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10740 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10741 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10743 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10744 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10745 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10746 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10747 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10748 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10750 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
10751 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
10752 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10755 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
10756 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
10757 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
10758 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
10762 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
10763 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
10764 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
10765 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
10767 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
10768 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
10770 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
10771 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
10772 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
10773 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
10774 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
10775 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10776 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10777 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10778 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10779 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
10782 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
10783 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
10784 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
10785 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
10786 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
10787 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
10789 o Removed features:
10790 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
10791 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
10792 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
10793 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
10796 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
10797 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
10798 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
10799 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
10800 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
10803 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10804 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10805 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10806 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10807 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
10808 reported by lodger.
10810 o Minor features (directory servers):
10811 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
10812 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
10814 o Minor features (directory voting):
10815 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
10818 o Minor features (security):
10819 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
10820 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10821 encourage people using them to stop.
10823 o Minor features (controller):
10824 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10825 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10826 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10827 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10828 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
10829 cookie authentication file, and config option
10830 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
10832 o Minor features (unit testing):
10833 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
10834 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
10835 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
10836 logging for the unit tests.
10838 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10839 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10840 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10841 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10842 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10843 every time we change any piece of our config.
10844 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10845 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10846 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10848 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10849 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10850 the onion key from getting rotated.
10851 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
10852 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
10853 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
10856 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10857 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
10858 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
10860 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
10861 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
10862 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
10863 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
10866 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
10867 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
10868 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
10869 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
10870 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
10871 TorK, etc. Or worse.
10873 o Major security fixes:
10874 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10875 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10878 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
10879 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
10880 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
10881 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
10883 o Major security fixes:
10884 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10885 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10887 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10888 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
10891 o Minor features (performance):
10892 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
10893 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
10894 performance-intensive.
10895 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10896 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
10897 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
10898 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
10899 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10900 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
10904 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
10905 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
10906 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
10907 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
10911 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
10912 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
10913 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
10914 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
10915 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
10917 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
10918 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
10919 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
10920 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
10922 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
10923 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
10924 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
10925 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
10926 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
10928 o Major features (experimental):
10929 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
10930 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
10931 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
10932 handling before it's ready for use.
10935 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
10936 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
10937 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
10938 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10939 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
10940 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
10942 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
10943 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
10944 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
10945 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
10946 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
10948 o Major bugfixes (directory):
10949 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
10950 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10952 o Minor features (controller):
10953 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
10954 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10955 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
10956 from Robert Hogan.)
10957 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
10958 from Robert Hogan.)
10959 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
10960 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
10962 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
10963 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
10964 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
10965 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
10966 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10967 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
10968 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
10971 o Minor features (misc):
10972 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
10974 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
10975 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
10976 the authority identity key.
10977 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
10979 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
10980 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
10981 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
10984 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
10985 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10986 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10987 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
10988 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10989 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10990 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10991 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
10993 o Performance improvements:
10994 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
10996 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
10997 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
11000 o Deprecated and removed features:
11001 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
11002 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
11003 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
11004 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
11006 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11007 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
11008 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11009 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
11010 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
11011 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11012 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
11013 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
11014 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
11017 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11018 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
11019 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11020 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
11021 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
11023 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
11024 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
11027 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11028 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
11029 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
11030 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
11031 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
11032 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
11033 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
11034 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
11035 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
11038 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
11039 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
11040 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
11041 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
11043 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11044 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
11046 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11047 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
11048 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
11049 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
11050 routerlist while inserting a new router.
11051 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
11052 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
11054 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
11055 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
11056 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
11058 o Major bugfixes (security):
11059 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
11061 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
11062 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
11063 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
11064 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
11065 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
11066 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
11067 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
11068 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
11069 guard list unless we need to.
11071 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
11072 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
11073 don't get overused as guards.
11075 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11076 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
11077 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
11078 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
11079 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
11081 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11082 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
11083 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
11086 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11087 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11088 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
11089 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
11090 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
11091 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
11092 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
11093 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
11096 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
11097 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
11098 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
11099 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
11101 o Minor features (directory):
11102 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
11103 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
11104 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
11105 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
11107 o Minor build issues:
11108 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
11109 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
11110 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
11111 in the tarball, not as "x".
11114 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
11115 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
11116 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
11117 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
11118 forward on a lot of fronts.
11120 o Major features, server usability:
11121 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
11122 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
11123 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
11124 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
11126 o Major features, client usability:
11127 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
11128 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
11129 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
11130 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
11131 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
11132 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
11133 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
11134 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
11136 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
11137 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
11138 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
11139 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
11140 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
11141 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
11143 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
11144 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
11145 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
11147 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
11148 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
11149 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
11150 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
11151 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
11153 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
11154 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
11155 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
11156 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
11158 o Major features, other:
11159 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
11160 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
11161 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
11162 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
11163 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
11166 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
11167 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
11168 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
11171 o Minor fixes (resource management):
11172 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
11173 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
11174 our allocated connection limit.
11175 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
11176 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
11177 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
11178 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
11179 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
11181 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
11182 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
11183 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
11185 o Minor features (build):
11186 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
11187 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
11188 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
11189 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
11191 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
11192 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
11193 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
11194 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
11195 Use this version consistently in log messages.
11197 o Minor features (logging):
11198 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
11199 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
11200 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
11201 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
11202 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
11205 o Minor features (directory system):
11206 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
11207 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
11208 not to serve V2 directory information.
11209 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
11210 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
11211 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
11213 o Minor features (controller):
11214 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
11215 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
11217 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
11218 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
11219 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
11220 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
11221 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
11222 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
11224 o Minor features (hidden services):
11225 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
11226 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
11227 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
11228 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
11230 o Minor features (other):
11232 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
11233 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
11234 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
11235 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
11236 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
11237 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
11238 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
11239 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
11240 longer a completely silly thing to do.
11241 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
11242 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
11243 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
11244 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
11246 o Removed features:
11247 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
11248 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
11249 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
11250 back an error and close the connection.
11251 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
11252 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
11255 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11256 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
11257 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
11258 makes the log messages nicer.
11259 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
11260 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11261 partial results on small file reads.
11263 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11264 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
11265 more often than they are allowed to appear.
11266 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
11267 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
11269 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11270 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
11271 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
11272 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
11274 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11275 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
11276 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
11277 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
11278 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
11279 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
11280 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
11281 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11282 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
11283 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
11284 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
11286 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
11287 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
11288 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
11290 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11291 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
11292 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
11293 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
11295 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11296 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
11297 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
11299 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
11300 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
11303 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11304 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
11305 implicit in other procedure arguments.
11306 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
11307 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
11308 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
11309 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
11310 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
11311 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
11312 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
11313 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
11314 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
11317 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
11318 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
11319 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
11320 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
11322 o Directory authority changes:
11323 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
11324 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
11325 or use hidden services.
11327 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11328 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
11329 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
11330 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
11331 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
11332 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
11333 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
11334 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
11335 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
11338 o Major bugfixes (security):
11339 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
11340 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
11341 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
11343 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
11344 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
11345 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
11346 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
11347 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
11348 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
11349 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
11350 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
11351 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
11352 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
11355 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
11356 purpose=controller.
11357 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
11358 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
11360 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
11361 having a hard time downloading.
11362 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11363 partial results on small file reads.
11364 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
11365 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
11366 the gaps in the store get very large.
11369 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
11370 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
11372 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
11373 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
11376 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
11377 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
11378 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
11379 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
11380 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
11381 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
11383 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
11384 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
11385 free speech on the Internet.
11388 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
11389 get one we don't recognize.
11390 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11391 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
11394 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
11396 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
11397 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
11398 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
11399 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
11402 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
11403 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
11406 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
11407 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
11408 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
11409 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
11410 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
11411 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
11412 ask for GUARDS too.
11415 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
11416 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11417 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
11418 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
11419 on Win98 and friends again.
11421 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11422 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
11423 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
11426 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
11427 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11428 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
11429 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
11430 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
11431 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
11432 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
11433 and maybe also bug 397.)
11435 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11436 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
11437 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
11439 o Minor bugfixes (server):
11440 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
11443 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
11444 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
11445 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
11446 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
11447 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
11449 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11450 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
11451 load on authorities.
11453 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11454 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
11455 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
11456 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
11458 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
11460 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
11461 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
11462 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
11463 the last of bug 326.)
11464 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
11465 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
11469 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
11470 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11471 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
11472 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
11473 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
11474 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
11475 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
11477 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
11478 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
11480 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11481 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
11482 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
11484 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
11485 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
11486 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
11488 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11489 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
11490 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
11491 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
11493 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
11494 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
11496 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
11497 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
11498 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
11501 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11502 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
11503 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
11504 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
11505 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
11506 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
11507 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
11508 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
11509 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
11510 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
11511 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
11512 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
11513 other than file-not-found.
11514 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
11515 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
11516 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
11517 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
11518 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
11519 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
11520 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
11521 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
11522 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
11523 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
11524 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
11525 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
11526 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
11527 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
11528 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
11530 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
11532 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
11533 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
11535 o Minor features (controller):
11536 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
11537 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
11538 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
11540 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
11541 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11542 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
11543 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
11544 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
11545 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
11546 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
11547 connected or resolved cell.
11549 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11550 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
11551 some profiles, but not others.)
11552 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
11553 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
11554 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
11557 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
11559 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
11560 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
11561 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
11562 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
11563 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
11564 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
11565 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
11566 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
11567 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
11568 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
11569 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
11570 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
11571 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
11572 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
11573 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
11575 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
11578 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
11579 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
11580 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
11581 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
11582 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
11583 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
11584 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
11586 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
11587 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
11588 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
11589 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
11590 buckets go absurdly negative.
11591 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
11592 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
11595 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
11596 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
11597 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
11598 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
11599 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
11600 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
11601 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
11602 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
11605 o Major bugfixes (other):
11606 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
11607 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
11608 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
11609 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
11611 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
11613 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
11614 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
11616 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
11617 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
11618 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
11619 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
11620 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
11621 to wait for 0.2.0.)
11623 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11624 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
11625 possible memory-stomping bugs.
11626 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
11627 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
11629 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
11630 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
11631 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
11632 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
11633 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
11634 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
11636 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11637 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
11638 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
11639 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
11641 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
11642 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
11643 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
11644 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
11645 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
11646 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
11647 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
11648 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
11649 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
11650 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
11651 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
11652 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
11653 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
11655 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
11656 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
11657 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
11658 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
11659 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
11660 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
11661 to the resulting address.
11664 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
11665 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
11666 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
11667 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
11670 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
11671 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
11673 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
11674 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
11675 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
11676 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
11677 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
11678 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
11679 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
11680 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
11681 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
11682 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
11683 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
11684 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
11685 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
11686 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
11687 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
11688 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
11689 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
11692 o Minor features (controller):
11693 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
11694 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
11695 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
11696 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
11697 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
11698 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
11699 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
11703 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
11705 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
11706 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
11707 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
11708 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
11709 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
11710 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
11713 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
11714 weren't planning to resolve.
11715 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
11716 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
11717 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
11718 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
11719 the controller from learning about current events.
11721 o Minor features (more controller status events):
11722 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
11723 learn when our address changes.
11724 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
11725 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
11726 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
11727 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
11729 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
11730 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
11731 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
11732 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
11733 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
11734 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
11735 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
11736 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
11737 are accepted by a directory.
11738 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
11739 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
11740 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
11741 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
11742 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
11744 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
11745 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
11746 about changes to DNS server status.
11748 o Minor features (directory):
11749 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
11750 too much load to the exit nodes.
11753 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
11755 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
11756 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
11757 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
11758 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
11759 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
11761 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
11762 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
11763 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
11765 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
11766 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
11767 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
11768 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
11769 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
11770 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
11771 config options if you like.
11773 o Minor features (config and docs):
11774 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
11775 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
11776 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11777 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
11778 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
11780 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
11781 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
11782 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
11783 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
11784 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
11786 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
11787 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
11788 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
11789 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
11790 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
11791 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
11792 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
11793 documentation: "make check-docs".
11794 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
11795 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
11797 o Minor features (DNS):
11798 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
11799 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
11800 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
11801 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
11802 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
11803 our tests for DNS hijacking.
11805 o Minor features (directory):
11806 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
11807 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
11808 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
11809 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
11810 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
11811 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
11812 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
11813 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
11814 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
11815 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
11816 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
11817 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
11818 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
11819 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
11820 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
11821 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
11822 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
11823 for the thing we're trying to download.
11824 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
11825 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
11826 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
11828 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
11829 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
11830 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
11833 o Minor features (controller):
11834 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
11835 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
11837 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
11838 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
11839 entry guard status as it changes.
11841 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
11842 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
11843 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
11844 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
11845 to set log options.
11846 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
11847 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
11848 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
11849 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
11852 o Major bugfixes (security):
11853 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11854 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11855 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11856 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11858 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
11859 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
11860 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
11861 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
11862 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
11864 o Major bugfixes (other):
11865 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
11866 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
11867 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
11868 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
11870 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
11871 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
11872 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
11873 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
11874 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
11875 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
11879 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11880 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11881 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
11882 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
11883 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
11885 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
11886 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
11888 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
11889 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
11890 family lists conveniently.
11891 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
11892 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
11893 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
11895 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
11896 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
11898 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
11899 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
11900 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
11901 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
11902 if their identity keys are as expected.
11903 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
11904 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
11905 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
11907 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11908 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
11909 reported by Mike Perry.
11910 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
11911 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
11912 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
11913 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
11916 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
11917 o Security bugfixes:
11918 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11919 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11920 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11921 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11925 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11926 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11927 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
11930 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
11932 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
11933 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
11934 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
11937 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
11938 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
11939 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
11940 watching for STREAM events.
11941 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
11942 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
11943 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
11944 operations, for profiling.
11947 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
11948 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
11949 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
11950 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
11951 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
11952 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
11954 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
11958 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
11959 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
11960 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
11961 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
11962 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
11964 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
11965 correctly in the Windows installer.
11966 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
11967 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
11968 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
11969 MIPSpro C compiler.
11970 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
11971 when we're running as a client.
11974 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
11976 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
11977 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
11978 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
11979 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
11980 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
11981 its circuits on demand.
11982 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
11983 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
11984 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
11985 connections more stable on average.
11986 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
11987 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
11988 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
11990 o Security bugfixes:
11991 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
11992 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
11995 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
11997 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
11998 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
11999 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12000 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12001 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
12002 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
12003 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
12004 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
12007 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
12009 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
12010 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
12011 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
12012 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
12013 routers for even longer.
12014 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
12015 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
12016 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
12017 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
12018 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
12019 caching HTTP proxies.
12020 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
12023 o Minor features, controller:
12024 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
12025 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
12026 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
12027 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
12029 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
12030 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
12031 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
12032 working much like those for circuit events.
12033 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
12034 about the current status of a router.
12035 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
12036 a router's status has changed.
12037 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
12038 can tell which events and features are supported.
12039 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
12040 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
12042 o Security bugfixes:
12043 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
12044 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
12047 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
12048 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
12049 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
12050 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
12051 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12052 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
12053 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
12054 long nicknames where appropriate.
12055 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
12056 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
12057 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
12058 chews through many circuits before giving up.
12059 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
12060 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
12061 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
12062 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
12063 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
12064 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
12066 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
12067 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
12068 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
12070 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
12071 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
12072 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
12073 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
12074 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
12075 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
12076 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
12077 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
12078 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
12079 (reported by fookoowa).
12080 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
12081 and reported by some Centos users.
12082 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
12083 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
12084 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
12085 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
12086 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
12087 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
12088 before we check for libevent.
12091 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
12093 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
12094 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
12095 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
12096 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
12097 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
12098 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
12099 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
12100 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
12101 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
12102 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
12103 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
12104 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
12105 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
12106 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
12107 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
12108 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
12109 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
12110 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
12111 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
12112 lets you turn it off.
12113 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
12114 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
12115 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
12116 us into the directory more quickly.
12118 o New/improved config options:
12119 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
12120 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
12121 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
12122 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
12123 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
12124 all the machines on the same subnet.
12125 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
12126 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
12127 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
12128 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
12129 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
12130 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
12131 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
12132 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
12133 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
12134 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
12136 o Minor features, controller:
12137 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
12138 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
12139 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
12140 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
12141 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
12142 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
12143 for more information.
12144 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
12145 best guess to the user.
12146 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
12147 descriptor has changed.
12148 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
12150 o Minor features, other:
12151 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
12152 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
12153 useful to the network.
12154 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
12155 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
12156 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
12157 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
12158 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
12159 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
12160 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
12161 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
12162 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
12163 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
12164 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
12165 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
12166 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
12167 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
12168 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
12170 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
12171 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
12172 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
12173 could return an unnamed server instead.
12174 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
12175 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
12176 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
12177 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
12178 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
12179 a more attractive target for compromise.)
12180 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
12181 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
12182 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
12184 o Major bugfixes, other:
12185 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
12186 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
12187 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
12188 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
12189 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12190 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12191 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
12192 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12193 its circuits on demand.
12194 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
12195 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12196 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12197 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12199 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
12200 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12201 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12202 we don't recognize.
12203 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12205 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
12206 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
12207 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12208 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
12209 "extendcircuit" request.
12210 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12211 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12212 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
12214 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
12215 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
12216 instead of "X resolved to X".
12217 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
12218 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
12219 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
12220 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
12221 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
12222 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
12223 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
12224 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
12225 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
12227 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
12228 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
12229 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
12230 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
12231 result more than once.
12232 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
12233 non-versioning dirservers.
12234 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
12235 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
12237 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
12238 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
12239 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
12240 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
12241 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
12242 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
12243 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
12244 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
12245 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
12247 o Packaging, features:
12248 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
12249 now universal binaries.
12250 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
12251 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
12252 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
12254 o Packaging, bugfixes:
12255 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
12256 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
12257 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
12258 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
12260 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
12261 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
12262 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
12265 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
12266 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
12267 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
12271 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
12273 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12274 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12275 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
12276 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
12277 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
12278 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
12279 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
12280 it can't resolve its hostname.
12283 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12284 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
12285 "extendcircuit" request.
12286 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12287 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12288 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12289 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12291 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
12292 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
12293 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
12295 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
12296 methods: these are known to be buggy.
12297 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12298 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12299 we don't recognize.
12302 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
12304 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
12305 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
12306 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
12307 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
12308 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
12309 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
12310 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
12311 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
12312 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
12313 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
12314 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
12315 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
12316 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
12317 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
12318 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
12319 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
12320 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
12321 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
12322 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
12323 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
12324 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
12325 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
12326 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
12327 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
12330 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
12331 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
12332 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
12333 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
12334 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
12335 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
12336 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
12337 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
12338 recommendation system saner.)
12339 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
12341 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
12342 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
12343 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
12344 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
12345 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
12346 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
12347 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
12348 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
12349 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
12350 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
12351 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
12352 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
12353 your ORPort is set.
12354 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
12355 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
12356 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
12357 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
12358 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
12359 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
12360 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
12361 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
12362 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
12363 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
12364 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
12365 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
12367 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
12368 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
12369 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
12370 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
12371 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
12372 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
12375 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
12376 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
12377 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
12378 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
12379 our DirPort now, etc.
12380 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12381 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
12382 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
12383 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
12384 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
12385 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12386 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12388 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
12389 whether the config options are bad or good.
12390 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
12391 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
12392 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
12393 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
12394 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
12395 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
12396 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
12397 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
12400 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
12401 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
12402 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
12403 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
12404 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
12405 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
12406 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
12407 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
12408 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
12409 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
12410 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
12411 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
12412 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
12413 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
12414 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
12415 of it), is not therefore "up".
12416 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
12417 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
12418 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
12419 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
12420 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
12421 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
12424 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
12426 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
12427 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
12428 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
12429 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
12430 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
12431 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
12432 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
12433 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
12434 test reachability, so you won't publish.
12437 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
12438 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
12439 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
12440 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
12441 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
12443 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
12444 own server descriptor yet.
12447 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
12449 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
12450 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
12451 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
12452 make sure to test via one of these.
12453 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
12454 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
12455 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
12456 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
12457 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
12459 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
12460 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
12461 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
12464 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
12465 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
12466 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
12467 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
12468 directory authority.
12469 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
12470 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
12471 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
12472 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
12475 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
12476 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
12477 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
12479 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
12480 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
12481 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
12482 current guards when picking a new guard.
12483 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
12484 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
12485 when we had more than one pending.
12486 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
12487 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
12488 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
12489 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
12490 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
12491 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
12492 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
12493 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
12494 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
12495 debug the reachability problems better.
12497 o Log / documentation fixes:
12498 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
12499 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
12500 about protocol violations by others.
12501 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
12502 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
12503 about what happened to our old torrc.
12506 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
12508 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
12510 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
12511 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
12512 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
12513 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
12516 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
12518 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
12519 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
12520 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
12521 old ORPort and receive connections.
12522 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
12524 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
12525 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
12526 and network-statuses.
12527 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
12528 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
12529 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
12530 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
12532 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
12535 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
12536 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
12537 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
12540 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
12542 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
12543 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
12544 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
12545 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
12546 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
12549 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
12550 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
12552 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
12553 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
12554 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
12555 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
12556 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
12557 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
12558 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
12559 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
12560 rather than not sending anything back at all.
12561 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
12562 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
12563 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
12564 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
12565 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
12566 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
12567 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
12568 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
12569 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
12570 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
12571 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
12572 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
12573 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
12574 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
12575 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
12576 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
12577 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
12578 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
12579 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
12580 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
12581 default ulimit -n is 1024.
12584 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
12585 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
12586 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
12587 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
12590 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
12592 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
12593 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
12594 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
12595 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
12596 entry guards running these flawed versions.
12597 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
12598 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
12599 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
12600 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
12601 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
12604 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
12605 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
12607 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
12608 and it is confusing some users.
12609 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
12610 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
12611 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
12612 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
12613 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
12616 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
12618 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
12619 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
12620 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
12621 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
12622 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
12623 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
12624 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
12625 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
12626 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
12627 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
12628 dirport is set for now.
12630 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
12631 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
12632 unattached before we fail it?
12633 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
12634 at least this many seconds ago.
12635 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
12636 at least this many seconds ago.
12639 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
12640 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
12641 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
12642 or resolve-wait stream.
12643 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
12644 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
12645 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
12646 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
12647 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
12648 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
12649 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
12650 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
12652 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
12653 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
12654 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
12655 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
12656 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
12657 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
12658 given as hex digests.
12659 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
12660 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
12661 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
12662 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
12663 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
12664 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
12665 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
12666 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
12669 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12670 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
12671 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
12672 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
12673 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
12674 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
12675 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
12676 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
12677 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
12678 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
12679 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
12682 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
12683 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
12684 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
12685 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
12686 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
12687 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
12688 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
12691 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
12692 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
12693 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
12694 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
12695 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
12696 misreading their logs.
12697 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
12698 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
12699 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
12700 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
12701 valid router descriptors.
12702 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
12703 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
12704 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
12705 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
12706 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
12707 silently resetting it to its default.
12708 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
12710 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
12713 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
12714 use clean circuits.
12715 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
12716 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
12717 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
12718 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
12719 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
12721 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
12722 because older Tors do not understand it.
12723 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
12727 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
12728 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12729 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
12730 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
12731 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
12732 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
12733 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
12734 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
12735 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
12736 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
12737 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
12739 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
12740 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
12741 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
12742 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
12744 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
12745 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
12748 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
12749 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
12750 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12751 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12752 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12753 without getting overloaded.
12754 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
12756 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
12757 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
12758 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
12759 be forward-compatible.
12760 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
12761 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
12762 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
12763 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
12765 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
12766 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
12767 and OR conns to port 443.
12768 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
12769 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
12771 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
12772 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
12773 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
12774 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
12775 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
12776 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
12777 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
12780 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
12781 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12782 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
12783 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
12785 o Other important bugfixes:
12786 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12787 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12788 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12789 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12791 o Backported features:
12792 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12793 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12794 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12795 without getting overloaded.
12796 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
12797 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
12798 503's whenever they feel busy.
12799 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
12800 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
12801 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
12802 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
12803 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
12806 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
12807 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12808 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
12809 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
12810 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
12811 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
12812 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
12813 know if the crashes continue.
12814 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
12815 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
12816 seg faults in at least some cases.)
12817 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
12818 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
12819 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
12822 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
12823 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
12824 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
12825 try to be a bit more fair.
12826 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
12827 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
12828 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
12829 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
12830 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
12831 bug that let it go negative.
12832 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
12833 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
12834 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
12835 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
12836 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12837 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12838 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12839 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12840 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
12841 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
12842 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
12845 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
12847 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
12848 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
12849 service descriptors.
12852 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
12853 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
12854 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
12855 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
12857 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
12858 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
12859 versions *are* still recommended.
12860 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
12861 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
12862 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
12863 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
12864 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
12865 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
12866 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
12867 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
12869 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
12870 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
12871 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
12872 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
12873 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
12874 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
12875 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
12876 on it. Not used by clients yet.
12877 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
12878 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
12879 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
12880 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
12881 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
12882 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
12883 established a circuit.
12884 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
12885 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
12886 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
12887 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
12890 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
12891 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12892 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
12893 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
12894 quickly enough. Oops.
12895 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
12897 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12898 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
12901 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
12902 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12903 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
12904 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
12905 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
12906 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
12907 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
12908 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
12909 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
12910 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
12911 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
12912 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
12913 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
12914 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
12915 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
12916 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
12917 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
12920 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
12921 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
12922 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
12923 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
12924 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
12925 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
12926 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
12927 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
12928 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
12929 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
12930 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
12931 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
12932 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
12933 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
12934 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
12935 connections more reliable.
12938 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
12939 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
12940 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
12941 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
12942 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
12943 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
12944 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
12945 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
12946 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
12947 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
12948 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
12949 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
12950 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
12951 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
12955 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
12956 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
12957 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
12958 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
12959 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
12960 need to be uint64_t's.
12961 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
12962 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
12963 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
12965 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
12967 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
12968 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
12969 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
12970 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
12971 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
12972 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
12973 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
12975 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
12976 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
12977 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
12978 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
12979 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
12980 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
12981 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
12982 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
12983 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
12984 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
12985 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
12986 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
12987 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
12990 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
12991 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
12992 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
12993 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
12994 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
12995 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
12996 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
12998 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
12999 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
13000 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
13001 can answer v2 directory requests too.
13002 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
13003 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
13004 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
13005 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
13007 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
13008 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
13009 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
13010 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
13011 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
13012 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
13013 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
13014 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
13015 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
13016 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
13017 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
13018 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
13019 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
13020 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
13021 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
13023 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
13024 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
13027 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
13028 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13029 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13030 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13031 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13032 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
13033 too -- so detect and avoid this.
13034 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
13036 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
13037 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13038 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13039 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
13040 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
13041 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13042 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13043 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
13044 rendezvous circuits.
13045 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
13047 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13048 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
13049 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
13050 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
13051 advertising it because of hibernation.
13052 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
13053 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13054 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13055 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13056 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13057 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13058 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
13059 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
13060 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
13061 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
13062 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
13063 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
13064 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
13065 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
13068 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
13069 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13070 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13071 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13072 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13073 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
13074 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
13075 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13076 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13077 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13078 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13079 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13080 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13081 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13082 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
13083 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
13084 connections once a week.
13085 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13086 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13087 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
13088 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
13089 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
13090 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
13092 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
13093 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
13094 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
13096 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13097 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
13098 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
13099 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
13100 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
13101 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
13102 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
13103 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
13104 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
13105 firewall options forbid.
13106 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
13107 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
13108 can only proxy to certain destinations.
13109 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
13110 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
13111 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
13112 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
13113 aids some statistical attacks.
13114 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
13115 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
13116 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
13117 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
13119 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13120 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
13121 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
13122 server descriptor sometimes.
13123 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
13124 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
13125 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
13126 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
13127 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
13128 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
13129 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
13130 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
13132 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
13133 case the controller wants to change that too.
13134 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
13135 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
13136 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
13137 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
13139 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
13140 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
13141 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
13143 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
13144 descriptors that they know they will reject.
13146 o Features and updates:
13147 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
13148 significantly faster.
13149 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
13150 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
13151 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
13152 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
13153 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
13154 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
13155 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
13156 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
13157 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
13158 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
13159 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
13160 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
13161 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
13162 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
13163 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
13164 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
13165 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
13166 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
13167 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
13168 as authoritative dirserver.
13169 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
13170 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
13171 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
13174 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
13175 o Usability improvements:
13176 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
13177 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
13179 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
13180 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
13181 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
13183 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
13184 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
13185 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
13186 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
13187 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
13188 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
13189 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
13190 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
13191 memory leaks better.
13192 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
13193 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
13194 their operators to pay close attention.
13195 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
13196 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
13198 o Performance improvements:
13199 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
13200 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
13201 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
13202 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
13203 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
13204 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
13205 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
13206 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
13207 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
13208 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
13209 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
13210 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
13211 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
13212 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
13213 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
13214 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
13215 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
13217 o Security improvements:
13218 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
13219 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
13220 fingerprint of server.
13221 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
13222 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
13223 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
13225 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13226 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
13227 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
13228 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
13229 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
13230 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
13231 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
13232 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
13233 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
13234 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
13235 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
13236 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
13237 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
13238 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
13239 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
13240 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
13241 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
13242 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
13243 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
13244 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
13245 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
13247 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
13248 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
13249 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
13251 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
13252 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
13254 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
13255 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
13256 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
13257 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
13258 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
13259 of the controller protocol.
13260 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
13261 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
13262 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
13265 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
13266 o New features (major):
13267 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
13268 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
13269 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
13270 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
13271 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
13272 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
13273 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
13274 we're using a default DirPort.
13275 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
13277 o New features (minor):
13278 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
13279 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
13280 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
13281 mirrors still cache and serve it).
13282 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
13283 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
13284 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
13285 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
13286 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
13287 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
13288 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
13289 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
13290 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
13291 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
13292 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
13293 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
13294 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
13295 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
13296 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
13298 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
13299 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
13300 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
13301 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
13302 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
13303 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
13304 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
13305 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
13307 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
13308 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
13309 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
13310 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
13311 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
13312 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
13313 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
13314 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
13315 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
13316 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
13318 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
13319 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13320 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13321 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13322 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13324 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13325 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
13326 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
13328 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
13329 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
13331 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
13332 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
13333 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
13334 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
13335 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
13336 don't warn twice about the same name.
13337 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
13338 if we've not heard of the server.
13339 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
13340 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
13343 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
13344 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13345 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
13346 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13347 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13348 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13349 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13350 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
13351 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
13352 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13353 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13354 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
13355 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
13356 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
13357 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
13360 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
13361 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
13362 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
13363 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
13364 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
13366 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
13367 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
13368 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
13369 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
13370 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
13371 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
13375 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
13376 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
13377 nickname) is reachable by you.
13378 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
13381 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13382 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
13383 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
13384 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
13385 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
13386 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
13387 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
13388 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
13389 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
13390 we fail to connect).
13391 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
13392 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
13393 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
13394 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
13396 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
13397 it was self-testing that told us so.
13400 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
13401 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
13402 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13403 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13404 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
13405 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
13406 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
13407 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
13408 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
13409 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
13410 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
13411 exit policy using him for any exits.
13412 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
13415 o New controller features/fixes:
13416 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
13417 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
13418 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
13419 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
13420 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
13421 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
13422 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
13423 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
13424 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
13426 o Start on the new directory design:
13427 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
13428 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
13430 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
13431 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
13432 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
13433 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
13435 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
13436 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
13437 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
13438 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
13439 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
13440 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
13441 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
13442 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
13445 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
13446 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
13447 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
13448 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
13449 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
13450 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
13451 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
13452 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
13453 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
13454 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
13456 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
13457 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
13458 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
13459 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
13460 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
13461 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
13462 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
13463 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
13464 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
13466 o Config option changes:
13467 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
13468 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
13469 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
13470 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13471 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13472 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
13474 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13475 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
13476 people have started using them for spam too.
13477 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
13478 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
13479 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
13480 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
13481 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
13482 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
13483 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
13484 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
13485 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
13486 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
13487 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
13488 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
13489 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
13490 services faster on the service end.
13491 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
13492 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
13493 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
13494 it a fair shake next time we try.
13495 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
13496 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
13497 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
13498 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
13499 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
13500 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
13501 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
13502 able to discover them.
13503 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
13504 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
13505 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
13506 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
13507 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
13508 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
13509 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
13510 testing for reachability.
13511 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
13512 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
13514 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
13516 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
13517 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
13520 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
13521 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
13523 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13524 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
13525 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
13526 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
13529 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
13530 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13531 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
13533 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
13534 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
13537 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
13538 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
13541 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
13542 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
13543 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
13544 options, getinfo keys.
13547 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
13548 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13549 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
13550 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13551 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13552 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
13553 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
13555 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
13556 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
13560 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
13561 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13562 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
13564 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
13566 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
13567 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
13568 circuit events and we go offline.
13569 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
13570 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
13571 you don't have enough intro points already.
13573 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13574 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
13575 many bytes we've used in this time period.
13576 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
13577 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
13578 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
13579 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
13580 enabled by default yet.
13582 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
13583 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
13584 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
13585 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13586 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13589 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
13590 o New directory servers:
13591 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13593 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13594 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13595 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13596 pthreads libraries.
13597 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
13598 claims its dirport is 0.
13599 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
13600 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
13604 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
13605 o New directory servers:
13606 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13608 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
13609 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
13611 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
13612 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
13613 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
13614 ports that have changed.
13615 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13617 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
13618 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
13619 Windows-style errno back.
13620 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
13622 want to make it an NT service.
13623 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
13624 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
13625 name, give the full name in our response.
13626 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
13627 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
13628 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
13629 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13630 pthreads libraries.
13632 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13633 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
13637 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
13638 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
13639 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
13640 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
13641 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
13644 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
13645 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13646 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
13647 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
13648 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13649 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13650 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13651 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
13654 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
13656 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13657 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13658 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13659 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
13660 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
13661 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
13663 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
13664 temporarily unreachable.
13665 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
13669 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
13670 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
13671 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
13672 our protocol works.
13673 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
13677 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
13678 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
13679 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
13680 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
13681 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
13685 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
13686 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
13687 libevent before 1.1a.
13690 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
13692 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
13693 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
13694 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
13695 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
13696 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
13698 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
13699 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
13700 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
13701 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
13702 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
13703 of CPU time plus memory.
13704 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
13705 normal web requests.
13706 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
13707 tor_lookup_hostname().
13708 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
13709 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
13710 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
13711 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
13712 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
13713 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
13715 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
13716 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
13717 HttpProxyAuthenticator
13718 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
13719 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
13720 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
13722 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
13723 the user asks you to.
13724 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
13725 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
13726 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
13727 their descriptors are being rejected.
13728 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
13732 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
13734 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
13735 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
13736 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
13738 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
13740 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
13742 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
13743 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
13744 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
13745 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
13746 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
13747 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
13748 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
13749 keys) from the exit server's process.
13750 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
13751 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
13752 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
13753 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
13754 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
13755 point at your Tor server.
13756 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
13757 you're not sending a socks reply back.
13760 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
13761 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
13762 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
13763 to make it easier to write controllers.
13766 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
13768 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
13769 installing on Tiger.
13770 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
13771 complain during installation.
13772 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
13773 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
13774 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
13775 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
13776 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
13777 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
13779 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
13780 something more reasonable when first installing.
13781 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
13784 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
13786 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
13787 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
13789 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
13790 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
13791 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
13792 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
13793 when using the default exit policy.
13794 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
13795 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
13796 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
13797 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
13798 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
13799 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
13800 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
13801 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
13802 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
13803 we fetched a new directory.
13804 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
13805 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
13808 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
13809 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
13810 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
13811 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
13812 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
13813 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
13814 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
13815 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
13817 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
13818 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
13819 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
13820 save memory on systems that need to fork.
13821 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
13822 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
13823 is valid without actually launching Tor.
13824 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
13825 rather than just rejecting it.
13828 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
13830 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
13831 we didn't like its cert.
13833 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
13834 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
13835 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
13836 on patch from Adam Langley.
13837 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
13838 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
13839 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
13840 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
13842 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
13843 directory every time you regenerate it.
13844 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
13845 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
13848 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
13849 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13850 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13851 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
13852 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
13855 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
13857 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13858 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
13859 TLS errors better in other situations too.
13860 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
13861 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
13862 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
13863 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
13864 and don't log when you are.
13865 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
13866 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
13868 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
13869 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
13870 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
13871 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
13872 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
13875 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
13876 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13877 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
13878 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
13879 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
13880 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
13881 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
13882 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
13883 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
13884 nickname+key are allowed.
13885 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
13886 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
13887 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
13888 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
13889 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
13890 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
13891 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
13892 have quite wrong clocks).
13893 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
13894 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
13895 - Efficiency improvements:
13896 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
13897 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
13898 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
13899 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
13900 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
13901 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
13902 lowercase and be done with it.
13903 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
13904 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
13905 to abandon partially built circuits.
13906 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
13907 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
13909 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
13911 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
13912 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
13913 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
13914 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
13916 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
13917 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
13919 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13920 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
13921 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
13922 obeying the exit policy internally.
13923 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
13924 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
13926 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
13927 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
13928 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
13929 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
13931 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
13932 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
13933 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
13934 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
13935 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
13937 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
13938 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
13939 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
13940 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
13941 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
13942 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
13943 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
13944 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
13945 descriptors we just dropped.
13946 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
13947 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
13948 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
13949 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
13950 artificially capped at 500kB.
13953 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
13954 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13955 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
13956 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
13957 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
13958 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
13959 busy for more than 100 seconds.
13962 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
13963 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
13964 - Fixes on reachability detection:
13965 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
13966 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
13967 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
13968 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
13969 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
13970 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
13971 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
13972 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
13973 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
13974 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
13975 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
13976 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
13977 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
13978 server not already connected to them.
13979 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
13980 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
13981 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
13983 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
13985 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
13986 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
13987 are in a different state than they actually are.
13988 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
13989 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
13990 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
13992 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
13993 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
13994 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
13996 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
13997 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
13998 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
13999 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
14000 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
14001 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
14002 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
14004 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
14005 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
14006 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
14007 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
14010 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
14011 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14012 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
14013 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
14014 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
14015 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
14016 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
14017 creating actual system users.
14018 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
14019 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
14023 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
14025 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
14026 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
14027 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
14028 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
14029 hidden services better.
14030 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
14032 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
14033 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
14034 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
14035 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
14036 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
14037 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
14038 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
14039 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
14040 patch by Matt Edman).
14041 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
14042 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
14043 required exit node for certain sites.
14044 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
14045 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
14046 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
14047 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
14048 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
14049 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
14050 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
14051 rather than just "success" or "failure".
14052 - A more sane version numbering system. See
14053 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
14054 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
14055 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
14057 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
14058 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
14059 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
14060 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
14061 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
14062 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
14063 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
14065 o Robustness/stability fixes:
14066 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
14067 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
14068 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
14070 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
14071 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
14072 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
14074 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
14075 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
14076 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
14078 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
14079 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
14080 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
14081 that will want high uptime circuits.
14082 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
14083 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
14084 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
14085 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
14086 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
14087 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
14088 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
14089 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
14090 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
14091 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
14092 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
14093 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
14094 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
14095 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
14096 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
14097 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
14098 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
14099 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
14100 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
14101 when we try to launch one.
14102 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
14103 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
14104 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
14105 "ShutdownWaitLength".
14106 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
14107 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
14108 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
14109 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
14110 and to take errno into account where possible.
14113 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
14114 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
14115 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
14116 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
14117 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
14118 file more reasonable.
14119 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
14120 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
14121 addresses -- it won't.
14122 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
14123 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
14124 for google.com" problem.
14125 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
14126 so it's not just "unknown platform".
14127 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
14128 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
14129 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
14130 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
14132 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
14133 they could use instead.
14134 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
14135 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
14136 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
14137 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
14138 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
14139 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
14140 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
14141 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
14142 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
14144 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
14148 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
14149 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
14151 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
14152 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
14153 private-IP addresses.
14154 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
14155 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
14157 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
14158 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
14159 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
14160 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
14161 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
14162 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
14163 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
14165 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
14166 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
14167 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
14168 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
14169 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
14170 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
14171 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
14172 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
14174 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
14176 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
14177 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
14178 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
14179 whether the server is hibernating.
14182 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
14183 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
14184 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
14185 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
14186 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
14187 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
14188 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
14189 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
14190 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
14191 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
14192 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
14193 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
14194 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
14195 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
14196 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
14198 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
14199 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
14200 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
14201 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
14202 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
14203 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
14204 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
14205 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
14206 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
14207 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
14208 existing torrc files.
14209 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
14212 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
14213 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14214 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
14215 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
14216 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
14217 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
14218 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
14219 the win32 SYSTEM account.
14220 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
14221 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
14222 file descriptors available.
14223 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
14224 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
14225 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
14228 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
14229 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14230 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
14231 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
14233 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
14234 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
14235 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
14236 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
14237 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
14239 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
14240 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
14241 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
14242 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
14243 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
14244 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
14245 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
14246 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
14247 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
14248 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
14249 800kB/s of capacity.
14250 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
14253 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
14254 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14255 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
14256 need as much processor time.
14257 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
14258 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
14259 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
14260 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
14261 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
14262 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
14263 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
14264 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
14265 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
14266 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
14267 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
14268 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
14270 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
14271 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
14272 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
14273 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
14274 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
14275 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
14276 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
14279 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
14280 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
14281 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
14283 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
14284 style address, then we'd crash.
14285 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
14286 a dirserver is broken.
14287 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
14289 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
14290 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
14291 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
14293 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
14294 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
14295 name out of the warning/assert messages.
14296 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
14297 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
14298 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
14300 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
14301 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
14302 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
14304 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
14306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
14307 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
14308 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
14309 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
14310 values at once couldn't work.
14311 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
14312 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
14313 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
14314 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
14315 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
14316 they can handle any number of routers.
14317 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
14318 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
14319 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
14320 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
14321 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
14322 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
14323 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
14324 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
14325 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
14328 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
14329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14330 - Make hibernation actually work.
14331 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
14332 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
14333 don't use the stream status code.
14336 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
14338 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
14339 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
14341 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
14344 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
14345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
14346 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
14347 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
14348 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
14349 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
14350 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
14351 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
14352 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
14353 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
14355 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14356 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
14357 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
14358 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
14359 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
14360 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
14361 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
14362 - Make unit tests work on win32.
14365 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
14366 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14367 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
14369 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
14370 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
14371 than just chopping them off.
14372 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
14374 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14375 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
14376 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
14377 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
14378 right after sending the begin cell.
14379 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
14380 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
14381 exit nodes too. Oops.
14384 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
14385 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
14386 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
14387 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
14388 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
14389 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
14390 the user knows which one it's talking about.
14391 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
14392 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
14393 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
14396 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
14397 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14398 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
14399 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
14401 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
14403 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14404 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
14405 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
14407 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
14408 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
14409 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
14410 Clip rather than rejecting.
14411 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
14412 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
14415 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
14416 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
14417 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
14418 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
14420 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
14423 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
14424 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14425 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
14426 win32 socket errors better.
14428 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14429 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
14432 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
14433 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14434 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
14435 so we don't see those messages days later.
14437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14438 - Make tor-resolve work again.
14439 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
14440 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
14443 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
14444 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14445 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
14446 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
14448 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
14449 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
14450 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
14453 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
14454 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14455 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
14456 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
14457 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
14458 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
14459 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
14460 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
14461 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
14463 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
14464 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
14465 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
14466 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
14468 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
14469 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
14472 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
14473 hibernation properties by
14474 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
14475 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
14476 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
14477 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
14478 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
14479 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
14480 get back to normal.)
14481 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
14483 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
14484 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
14485 to fill the last cell completely.
14486 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
14489 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
14490 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14491 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
14492 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
14493 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
14494 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
14495 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
14496 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
14497 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
14498 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
14499 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
14501 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
14502 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
14503 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
14504 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
14505 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
14506 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
14507 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
14508 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
14510 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
14511 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
14512 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
14513 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
14514 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
14515 have it on start-up.
14518 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
14519 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
14520 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
14521 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
14522 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
14523 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
14524 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
14525 configuration to torrc.
14526 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
14527 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
14528 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
14529 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
14530 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
14532 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
14533 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
14534 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
14535 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
14536 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
14537 log more informatively.
14538 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
14539 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
14540 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
14541 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
14542 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
14543 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
14544 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
14545 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
14546 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
14547 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
14548 from each other, to hinder linkability.
14551 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
14552 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
14553 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
14554 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
14555 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
14556 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
14557 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
14559 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
14560 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
14561 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
14562 they ran out of file descriptors.
14563 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
14564 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
14565 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
14566 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
14567 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
14568 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
14569 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
14571 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
14574 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
14575 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
14576 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
14577 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
14578 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
14579 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
14580 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
14581 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
14582 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
14583 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
14584 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
14585 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
14586 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
14587 with the control port.
14588 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
14589 use in authenticating to the control interface.
14590 - New log format in config:
14591 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
14592 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
14595 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
14596 from their dirserver.
14597 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
14599 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
14600 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
14601 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
14602 them act more like real nodes.
14603 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
14604 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
14606 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
14607 nickname to its identity key.
14608 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
14609 not on the command line.
14610 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
14611 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
14612 1024) file descriptors.
14614 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
14615 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
14617 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
14618 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
14619 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
14622 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
14623 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
14624 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
14625 exit policy, not reject *:*.
14626 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
14627 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
14628 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
14629 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
14630 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
14631 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
14632 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
14635 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
14636 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
14637 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
14638 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
14639 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
14640 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
14641 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
14644 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
14645 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14646 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
14647 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
14648 the ones we find in directories.)
14649 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
14651 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
14652 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
14654 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
14655 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
14656 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
14658 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
14659 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
14660 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
14661 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
14663 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
14664 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
14665 any more exit policy lines.
14668 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
14669 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
14670 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
14671 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
14672 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
14673 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
14674 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
14675 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
14676 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
14677 will be able to get a directory.
14678 - Http proxy support
14679 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
14680 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
14681 be routed through this host.
14682 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
14683 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
14684 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
14685 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
14688 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
14690 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
14691 clients/servers with an open dirport.
14692 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14693 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14694 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14695 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14696 intermittent connections.
14697 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
14698 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
14700 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
14701 in reporting stats locally.
14702 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
14703 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
14704 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
14707 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
14709 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
14710 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
14713 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
14715 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
14716 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
14717 if you don't want it open.
14718 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14719 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
14720 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14721 intermittent connections.
14722 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
14724 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
14725 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
14726 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
14727 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
14728 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
14729 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
14730 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
14731 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
14732 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
14733 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
14734 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
14735 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
14736 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
14737 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
14738 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14739 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14742 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
14743 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
14744 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
14745 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
14746 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
14748 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
14750 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
14751 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
14752 specified in HTTP 1.0.
14753 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
14754 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
14755 than once per minute.
14756 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
14757 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
14760 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
14761 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
14764 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
14765 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
14766 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
14767 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
14770 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
14771 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
14773 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
14774 don't put it into the client dns cache.
14775 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
14776 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
14777 until we get our next directory.
14779 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
14780 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
14781 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
14782 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
14783 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
14784 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
14785 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
14786 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
14787 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
14788 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
14789 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
14791 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
14793 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
14794 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
14796 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
14797 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
14798 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
14800 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
14802 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
14803 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
14804 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
14805 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
14806 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
14807 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
14808 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
14809 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
14812 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
14813 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
14814 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
14815 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
14818 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
14819 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
14820 ask them to resolve the host "".
14823 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
14824 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14825 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
14826 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
14827 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
14828 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
14829 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
14830 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
14831 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
14832 clients don't use this yet.)
14833 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
14834 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
14835 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
14836 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
14837 for pointing out this bug.)
14838 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
14839 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
14840 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
14841 kazaa, gnutella ports.
14842 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
14844 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
14845 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
14846 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
14847 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
14848 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
14849 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
14850 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
14851 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
14852 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
14853 wolf unpredictably.
14854 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
14855 that's still handshaking.
14856 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
14857 you'll choose it for your path.
14858 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
14859 end relay cell, etc.
14860 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
14861 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
14862 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
14865 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
14866 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14868 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
14869 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
14870 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
14871 list to decide who's running or verified.
14872 - Bugfixes and features:
14873 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
14874 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
14875 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
14876 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
14877 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
14878 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
14880 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
14881 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
14882 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
14883 know you might want to get it verified.
14884 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
14887 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
14889 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
14890 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
14891 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
14892 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
14894 o Protocol changes:
14895 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
14896 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
14897 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
14898 hadn't heard of before.
14901 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
14902 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
14903 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
14904 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
14905 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
14906 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
14907 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
14908 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
14909 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
14910 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
14911 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
14912 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
14913 - Directory caching.
14914 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
14915 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
14916 directory they've pulled down.
14917 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
14918 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
14919 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
14920 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
14921 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
14922 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
14923 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
14925 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
14926 This isn't used yet.
14927 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
14928 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
14929 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
14930 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
14931 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
14932 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
14933 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
14934 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
14935 - File and name management:
14936 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
14937 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
14939 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
14940 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
14941 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
14942 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
14943 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
14944 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
14945 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
14947 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
14948 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
14949 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
14950 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
14951 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
14953 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
14954 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
14955 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
14956 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
14957 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
14958 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
14959 - New docs in the tarball:
14961 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
14964 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
14965 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
14966 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
14969 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
14970 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
14971 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
14974 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
14975 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
14978 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
14979 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
14980 - Make it build on Win32 again.
14981 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
14982 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
14986 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
14988 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
14989 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
14990 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
14991 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
14992 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
14993 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
14994 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
14995 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
14996 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
14997 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
15000 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
15003 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
15004 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
15005 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
15006 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
15008 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
15009 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
15010 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
15012 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
15013 hidden service per 15-minute period.
15014 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
15015 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
15016 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
15017 o Fixes for security bugs:
15018 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
15019 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
15020 a trusted dirserver.
15022 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
15023 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
15024 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
15025 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
15026 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
15027 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
15028 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
15029 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
15030 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
15031 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
15033 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
15034 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
15035 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
15036 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
15038 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
15039 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
15040 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
15041 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
15042 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
15043 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
15044 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
15045 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
15046 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
15047 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
15048 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
15049 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
15050 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
15053 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
15054 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
15055 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
15056 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15059 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
15060 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
15061 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
15062 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
15063 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
15064 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15065 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
15069 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
15070 [version bump only]
15073 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
15074 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
15075 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
15076 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
15077 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
15079 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
15082 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
15083 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
15084 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
15085 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
15086 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
15087 o Better debugging for tls errors
15088 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
15089 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
15090 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
15091 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
15092 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
15093 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
15094 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
15095 o win32's close can't close a socket.
15098 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
15099 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
15100 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
15101 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
15102 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
15103 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
15104 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
15105 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
15106 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
15107 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
15108 just close the circ.
15109 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
15110 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
15111 (this was quite rare).
15114 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
15115 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
15116 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
15117 if you decrypted them correctly.
15118 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
15119 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
15120 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
15123 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
15124 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
15125 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
15126 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
15127 a second one and it works.
15128 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
15129 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
15130 alice would just have to wait to time out.
15131 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
15132 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
15133 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
15134 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
15135 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
15136 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
15137 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
15138 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
15139 i'd still like to find the bug though.
15140 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
15142 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
15146 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
15147 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
15148 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
15149 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
15150 he retries a couple of times
15151 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
15152 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
15153 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
15154 too long (they were sticking around forever).
15155 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
15159 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
15160 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
15161 - make hup work again
15162 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
15163 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
15164 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
15165 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
15166 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
15167 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
15169 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
15170 o changes from 0.0.5:
15171 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
15172 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
15173 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
15174 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
15175 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
15177 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
15178 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
15179 in-memory directories too
15182 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
15183 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
15186 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
15188 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
15189 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
15190 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
15191 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
15194 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
15195 [version bump only]
15198 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
15199 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
15201 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
15202 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
15203 but that aren't warnings
15206 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
15207 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
15208 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
15209 the dns farm to do it.
15210 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
15211 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
15213 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
15214 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
15215 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
15218 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
15219 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
15220 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
15221 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
15222 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
15223 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
15224 expect it to have a nickname.
15225 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
15226 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
15229 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
15230 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
15234 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
15235 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
15236 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
15237 - include missing header fcntl.h
15238 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
15239 - deal with hardware word alignment
15240 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
15241 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
15242 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
15243 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
15244 by kill -USR1 currently.
15245 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
15246 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
15247 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
15250 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
15251 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
15252 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
15255 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
15257 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
15258 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
15259 - And fix a few endian issues.
15262 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
15264 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
15265 try that circuit again: try a new one.
15266 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
15267 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
15268 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
15269 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
15270 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
15271 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
15273 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
15274 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
15275 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
15277 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
15279 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
15280 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
15281 side isn't reading right then.
15282 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
15283 RecommendedVersions
15284 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
15285 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
15286 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
15289 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
15291 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
15292 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
15295 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
15299 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
15301 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
15302 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
15303 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
15304 connection is finished.
15305 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
15306 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
15307 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
15308 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
15309 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
15310 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
15311 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
15312 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
15313 rather than warn and continue.
15314 - Make --version work
15315 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
15318 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
15320 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
15321 knows it's working.
15322 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
15323 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
15325 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
15326 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
15327 so you can collect coredumps there.
15329 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
15330 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
15331 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
15332 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
15333 dns cache actually gets populated.
15334 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
15335 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
15336 end cell down it first.
15337 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
15338 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
15341 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
15343 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
15344 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
15346 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
15347 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
15348 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
15349 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
15350 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
15351 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
15353 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
15355 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
15356 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
15357 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
15358 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
15359 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
15360 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
15362 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
15363 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
15366 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
15368 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
15369 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
15370 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
15371 tor. It even has a man page.
15372 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
15373 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
15374 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
15375 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
15377 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
15379 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
15382 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
15384 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
15385 it, apt-getters. :)
15386 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
15387 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
15388 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
15389 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
15390 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
15391 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
15392 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
15393 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
15394 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
15395 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
15396 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
15398 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
15399 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
15402 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
15404 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
15405 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
15408 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
15410 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
15411 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
15412 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
15413 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
15414 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
15415 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
15416 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
15417 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
15418 logfile so you know it's working.
15419 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
15420 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
15423 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
15425 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
15426 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
15427 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
15430 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
15432 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
15433 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
15434 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
15437 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
15438 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
15439 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
15441 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
15442 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
15444 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
15445 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
15446 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
15448 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
15449 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
15453 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
15455 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
15456 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
15457 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
15460 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
15461 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
15462 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
15463 - Add port ranges to exit policies
15464 - Add a conservative default exit policy
15465 - Warn if you're running tor as root
15466 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
15467 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
15468 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
15469 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
15471 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
15474 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
15475 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15476 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
15477 really screw things up.
15478 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
15480 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
15481 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
15483 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
15484 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
15485 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
15486 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
15487 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
15488 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
15491 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
15494 - Change default loglevel to warn.
15495 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
15496 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
15498 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
15501 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
15502 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15503 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
15504 - to get ownership/permissions right
15505 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
15506 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
15507 pull down a directory again
15508 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
15509 causing server crashes
15510 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
15511 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
15512 - exit if bind() fails
15513 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
15514 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
15515 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
15516 - fix minor bias in PRNG
15517 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
15520 - Wrote the design document (woo)
15522 o Circuit building and exit policies:
15523 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
15525 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
15526 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
15527 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
15528 exists, rather than failing
15529 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
15530 which AP connections are standing by
15531 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
15532 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
15533 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
15535 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
15536 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
15539 - APPort is now called SocksPort
15540 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
15542 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
15543 hardcoded (for dirservers)
15544 - Reloads config on HUP
15545 - Usage info on -h or --help
15546 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
15549 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
15550 o General stability:
15551 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
15552 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
15553 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
15554 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
15555 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
15556 to take down the network when I approve a new router
15557 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
15560 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
15561 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
15563 o Autoconf improvements:
15564 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
15565 - Make install now works
15566 - create var/lib/tor on make install
15567 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
15568 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
15570 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
15571 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
15572 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
15573 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup