1 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-1?
2 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
3 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
4 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
5 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
6 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
7 of RAM, and several others.
9 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
10 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
11 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
12 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug #11649; bugfix
15 o Major bugfixes (configuration, security):
16 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
17 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
24 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
25 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
26 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
28 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
29 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
30 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
31 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
32 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
33 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
34 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
35 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
36 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
37 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
38 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
39 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
40 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
41 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
42 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
43 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
44 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
45 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
46 Resolves ticket 11438.
48 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
49 - Avoid sending an garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
50 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
52 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
53 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
54 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
56 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
57 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
58 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
59 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
61 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
62 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
63 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix
66 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
67 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
68 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
69 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
71 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
72 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
73 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
75 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
76 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
77 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
78 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
80 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
81 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-cuve25519.
82 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
85 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
86 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
87 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
88 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
92 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
93 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
94 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
95 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
97 o Major features (client security):
98 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
99 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
100 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
101 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
102 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
103 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
106 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
107 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
108 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
109 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
111 o Code simplification and refactoring:
112 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
113 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
114 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
115 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
118 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
119 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
121 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
122 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
123 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
124 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
125 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
126 GeoLite2 Country database.
129 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
130 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
131 bugfix on every released Tor.
132 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
133 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
134 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
135 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
136 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
137 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
138 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
139 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
140 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
141 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
142 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
143 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
144 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
145 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
146 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
148 o Documentation fixes:
149 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
150 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
153 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
154 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
155 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
156 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
157 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
158 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
159 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
161 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
162 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
165 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
166 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
167 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
168 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
169 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
170 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
171 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
172 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
174 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
175 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
176 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
177 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
178 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
179 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
182 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
183 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
184 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
185 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
186 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
189 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
190 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
191 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
192 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
193 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
194 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
195 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
196 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
198 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
199 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
200 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
201 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
202 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
203 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
204 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
205 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
206 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
207 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
208 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
209 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
210 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
211 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
212 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
213 security, and privacy fixes.
216 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
217 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
218 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
219 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
222 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
223 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
224 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
225 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
226 them to solve bug 6033.)
229 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
230 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
231 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
232 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
233 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
234 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
235 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
236 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
238 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
239 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
240 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
241 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
244 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
245 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
246 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
247 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
248 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
249 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
250 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
251 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
252 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
253 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
254 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
256 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
257 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
258 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
259 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
260 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
261 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
262 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
263 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
264 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
265 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
266 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
267 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
268 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
269 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
270 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
271 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
274 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
275 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
276 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
277 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
278 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
279 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
280 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
281 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
282 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
283 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
284 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
285 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
286 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
287 Implements part of proposal 222.
289 o Minor features (other):
290 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
291 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
292 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
293 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
294 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
295 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
296 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
297 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
298 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
300 o Documentation fixes:
301 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
302 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
303 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
304 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
305 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
306 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
309 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
310 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
311 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
312 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
313 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
314 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
315 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
318 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
319 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
320 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
321 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
322 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
323 Implements ticket 9574.
326 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
327 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
328 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
329 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
330 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
331 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
332 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
333 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
334 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
335 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
336 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
337 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
341 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
342 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
343 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
344 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
346 o Minor fixes (config options):
347 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
348 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
349 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
350 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
351 message is logged at notice, not at info.
352 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
353 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
354 or we just won't work.)
357 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
358 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
359 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
360 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
363 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
364 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
365 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
368 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
369 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
370 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
371 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
372 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
373 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
374 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
376 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
377 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
378 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
379 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
382 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
383 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
384 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
385 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
386 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
387 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
388 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
389 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
390 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
391 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
392 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
393 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
394 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
397 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
400 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
401 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
402 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
403 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
406 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
407 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
408 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
411 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
412 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
413 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
416 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
417 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
418 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
421 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
422 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
423 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
424 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
425 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
426 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
428 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
429 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
430 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
431 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
432 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
433 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
435 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
436 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
437 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
440 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
441 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
442 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
443 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
444 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
446 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
447 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
448 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
449 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
450 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
451 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
452 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
454 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
455 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
456 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
458 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
459 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
463 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
464 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
465 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
467 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
468 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
469 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
470 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
471 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
472 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
474 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
475 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
476 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
477 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
478 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
479 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
480 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
483 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
484 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
485 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
486 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
487 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
488 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
489 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
490 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
491 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
492 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
493 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
494 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
495 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
496 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
498 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
499 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
500 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
501 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
504 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
505 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
506 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
507 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
508 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
509 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
511 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
512 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
516 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
517 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
518 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
519 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
520 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
521 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
522 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
524 o Removed documentation:
525 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
526 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
528 o Code simplification and refactoring:
529 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
530 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
531 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
534 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
535 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
536 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
537 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
538 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
539 variety of other issues.
542 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
543 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
544 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
545 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
546 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
547 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
548 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
549 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
551 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
552 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
553 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
555 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
556 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
557 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
558 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
559 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
560 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
561 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
563 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
564 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
565 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
566 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
567 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
568 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
569 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
570 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
571 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
572 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
573 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
574 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
575 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
576 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
577 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
578 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
579 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
580 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
581 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
582 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
583 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
585 o Major bugfixes (other):
586 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
587 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
588 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
589 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
592 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
593 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
594 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
595 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
597 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
598 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
600 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
602 o Minor features (build):
603 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
604 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
606 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
607 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
609 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
610 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
611 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
614 o Minor bugfixes (build):
615 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
616 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
617 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
618 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
619 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
620 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
621 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
622 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
623 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
624 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
625 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
626 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
627 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
630 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
631 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
632 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
633 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
634 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
635 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
636 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
637 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
638 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
639 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
640 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
641 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
642 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
643 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
644 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
646 o Minor bugfixes (other):
647 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
648 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
649 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
650 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
651 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
652 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
653 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
654 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
655 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
656 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
657 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
658 Should help resolve bug 8235.
659 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
660 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
661 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
662 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
664 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
665 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
666 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
667 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
668 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
669 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
670 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
671 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
674 o Minor bugfixes (config):
675 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
676 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
678 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
679 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
680 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
681 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
682 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
683 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
684 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
685 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
686 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
687 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
688 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
689 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
690 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
691 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
692 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
695 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
696 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
697 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
698 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
699 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
700 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
701 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
702 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
704 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
705 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
706 or at least make it more diagnosable.
707 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
708 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
709 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
710 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
712 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
713 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
714 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
715 the relaxed timeout log message.
716 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
717 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
718 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
720 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
721 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
722 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
723 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
724 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
725 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
726 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
729 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
730 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
731 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
732 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
733 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
734 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
735 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
736 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
737 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
738 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
739 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
740 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
741 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
742 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
743 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
744 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
745 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
747 o Documentation fixes:
748 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
749 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
750 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
751 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
752 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
753 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
754 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
755 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
758 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
759 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
763 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
764 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
765 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
766 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
768 o Major features (directory authorities):
769 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
770 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
771 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
772 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
773 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
774 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
775 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
776 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
777 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
778 Implements ticket 8151.
780 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
781 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
782 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
783 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
784 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
786 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
787 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
788 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
789 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
790 whether authentication information is present, causing all
791 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
792 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
794 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
795 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
796 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
798 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
799 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
800 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
801 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
802 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
803 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
804 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
805 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
806 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
807 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
808 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
809 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
810 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
811 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
812 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
813 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
814 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
815 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
818 o Minor features (portability):
819 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
820 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
821 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
822 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
823 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
824 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
825 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
826 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
828 o Minor features (other):
829 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
830 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
831 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
832 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
833 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
834 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
835 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
836 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
838 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
840 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
841 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
842 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
843 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
844 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
845 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
846 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
847 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
848 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
849 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
851 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
852 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
853 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
854 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
856 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
857 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
858 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
859 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
860 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
861 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
862 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
864 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
865 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
866 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
867 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
868 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
870 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
871 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
872 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
873 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
875 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
876 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
877 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
880 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
881 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
882 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
883 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
885 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
886 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
887 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
888 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
890 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
891 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
892 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
894 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
895 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
896 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
897 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
899 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
900 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
901 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
902 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
903 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
904 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
905 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
907 o Code simplification and refactoring:
908 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
912 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
913 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
914 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
915 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
916 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
919 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
920 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
921 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
922 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
924 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
925 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
926 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
930 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
931 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
932 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
933 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
934 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
935 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
936 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
937 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
938 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
939 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
940 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
941 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
942 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
945 o Major features (relay):
946 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
947 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
948 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
949 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
950 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
951 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
952 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
954 o Major features (portability):
955 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
956 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
957 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
958 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
959 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
962 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
963 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
964 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
965 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
966 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
967 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
969 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
970 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
971 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
972 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
973 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
974 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
975 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
976 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
978 o Minor features (path selection):
979 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
980 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
981 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
982 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
983 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
984 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
985 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
986 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
987 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
988 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
989 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
990 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
991 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
992 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
993 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
994 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
995 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
996 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
997 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
999 o Minor features (log messages):
1000 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
1001 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
1002 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
1003 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
1006 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
1007 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
1008 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1009 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
1010 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
1011 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
1012 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
1013 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
1014 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
1015 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1016 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
1017 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1019 o Build improvements:
1020 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
1021 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
1022 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
1023 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
1024 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
1025 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
1026 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
1027 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
1028 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
1029 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
1030 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
1031 than to perform erroneously.
1034 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
1035 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
1036 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
1038 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
1039 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
1040 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
1043 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1044 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
1046 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
1047 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
1051 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
1052 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
1056 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
1057 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
1058 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
1062 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
1063 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
1064 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
1065 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
1068 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
1069 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
1070 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
1071 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
1072 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
1073 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
1074 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
1075 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
1076 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
1077 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
1078 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
1081 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
1082 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
1083 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
1084 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
1085 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
1086 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
1087 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
1088 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
1089 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
1090 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
1091 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
1093 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
1094 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
1095 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
1097 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
1098 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
1099 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
1101 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
1103 o Major features (better link encryption):
1104 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
1105 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
1106 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
1107 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
1108 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
1109 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
1112 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
1113 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
1114 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
1115 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
1116 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
1117 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
1118 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
1120 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
1121 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
1122 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
1123 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
1125 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
1128 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
1129 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
1130 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1133 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
1134 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
1135 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
1136 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
1137 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
1138 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
1139 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
1140 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
1141 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1143 o Minor features (testing):
1144 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
1145 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
1146 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
1148 o Minor features (path bias detection):
1149 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
1150 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
1151 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
1152 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
1153 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
1154 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
1155 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
1156 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
1157 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
1158 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
1159 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
1160 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
1161 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
1162 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
1163 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
1164 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
1165 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
1166 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
1167 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
1168 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
1169 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
1170 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
1171 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
1172 detection capability loss.
1174 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1175 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
1176 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
1177 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
1178 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1179 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
1180 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
1181 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
1184 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1185 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
1186 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
1187 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
1188 and the different handshakes it supports.
1189 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
1190 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
1191 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
1192 any encoding is overkill.
1195 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
1196 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
1197 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
1198 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
1199 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
1200 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
1201 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
1202 and fixes a variety of other issues.
1204 o Major features (client resilience):
1205 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
1206 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
1207 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
1208 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
1209 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
1210 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
1211 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
1212 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
1213 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
1214 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
1215 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
1216 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
1217 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
1218 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
1219 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
1221 o Major features (IPv6):
1222 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
1223 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
1224 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
1225 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
1226 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
1227 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
1228 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
1229 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
1231 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
1232 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
1234 o Major features (geoip database):
1235 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
1236 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
1237 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
1238 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
1239 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
1240 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
1241 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
1242 Country database, as modified above.
1244 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
1245 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
1246 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
1247 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
1248 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
1249 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
1250 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
1251 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
1252 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
1253 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
1254 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
1255 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
1256 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
1257 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
1258 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
1259 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
1260 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
1263 o Major bugfixes (other):
1264 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
1265 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
1266 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
1267 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
1268 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
1269 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
1270 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
1271 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
1273 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
1274 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
1277 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
1278 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
1279 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
1280 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
1281 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
1282 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
1283 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
1284 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
1286 o Minor features (IPv6):
1287 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
1288 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
1289 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
1290 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
1291 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
1292 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
1293 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
1294 connect to the wrong addresses.
1295 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
1296 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
1297 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
1298 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
1302 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
1303 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
1304 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
1306 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
1307 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
1308 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
1310 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
1311 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
1312 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
1315 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
1316 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
1318 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1319 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
1320 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
1321 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
1322 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
1325 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
1326 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
1327 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
1328 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
1329 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
1330 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
1331 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
1332 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
1334 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
1335 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
1336 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
1337 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
1338 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
1339 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
1340 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
1341 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
1342 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
1343 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
1344 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
1347 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1348 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1349 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1350 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1351 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1352 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1353 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1354 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1355 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1356 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1359 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1360 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1364 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
1365 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
1366 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
1367 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
1370 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
1371 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
1373 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1374 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1375 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1376 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1377 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1378 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1379 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1380 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1381 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1382 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1385 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
1387 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
1388 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
1389 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
1390 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
1391 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
1394 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
1395 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
1396 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1397 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
1398 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
1400 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
1401 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1402 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
1403 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
1404 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
1405 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
1406 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
1408 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
1409 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1410 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
1411 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
1412 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
1413 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1414 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
1415 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1418 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
1419 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
1420 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
1421 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
1422 present the same extensions.)
1425 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
1426 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
1427 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
1428 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
1429 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
1431 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1432 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1433 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1434 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1436 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1437 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1438 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1439 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1441 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1442 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1443 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1444 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1445 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1446 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1447 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1448 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1449 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1451 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
1452 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1453 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1454 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1455 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1458 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
1459 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
1460 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
1462 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1463 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
1465 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
1466 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
1470 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
1471 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
1472 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
1473 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
1476 o Major bugfixes (security):
1477 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
1478 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
1479 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
1481 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1482 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1483 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1484 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1487 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
1488 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
1489 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
1490 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
1491 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
1492 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
1493 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
1494 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1497 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
1498 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
1499 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
1500 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1503 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
1504 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1505 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
1506 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
1507 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
1508 scheduling algorithms.
1510 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1511 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1512 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1514 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1515 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1516 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1517 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1518 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1519 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1520 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1521 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1522 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1523 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1524 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1526 o Internal abstraction features:
1527 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
1528 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
1529 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
1530 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
1531 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
1532 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
1533 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
1534 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
1535 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
1536 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
1537 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
1538 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
1539 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
1540 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
1541 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
1542 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
1543 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
1545 o Required libraries:
1546 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
1547 strongly recommended.
1550 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
1551 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
1552 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
1553 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
1554 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
1555 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
1556 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
1557 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
1558 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
1560 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
1561 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
1562 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
1563 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1564 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1565 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1566 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1567 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1568 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1569 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1570 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1571 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1572 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1573 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1574 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1577 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
1578 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
1579 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
1580 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
1581 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
1582 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
1583 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
1584 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
1585 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
1586 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
1587 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
1588 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1589 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
1590 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
1591 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1592 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
1593 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
1594 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
1595 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
1597 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
1598 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
1599 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
1600 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
1601 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
1602 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
1603 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
1606 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
1607 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
1608 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
1609 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
1611 o New directory authorities:
1612 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1613 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1615 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
1616 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1617 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1618 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1619 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1620 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1621 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1622 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
1623 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
1624 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
1625 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
1628 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1629 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1630 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1632 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1633 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
1634 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
1635 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1636 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1637 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1638 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1639 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
1640 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
1642 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1643 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
1644 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
1645 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1646 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1647 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1648 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1649 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1650 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1651 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
1652 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1653 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1654 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1655 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1656 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1657 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1658 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1659 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1661 o Documentation fixes:
1662 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1665 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
1666 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1667 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
1668 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
1671 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1672 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1673 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1676 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1677 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1678 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1679 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
1680 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
1681 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
1682 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
1683 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1685 o Security features:
1686 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
1687 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
1688 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
1689 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
1690 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
1691 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
1692 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
1693 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
1694 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
1698 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
1699 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
1700 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
1703 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1704 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1705 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1706 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
1707 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1708 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
1709 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
1710 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
1711 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
1712 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
1713 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1714 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
1715 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
1716 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
1718 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
1719 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1720 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
1721 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
1722 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1724 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
1725 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
1726 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
1727 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1728 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
1729 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
1730 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1731 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1732 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1733 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1734 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1735 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1736 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
1737 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1738 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
1739 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
1740 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1741 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
1742 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
1743 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
1745 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1746 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
1747 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
1748 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
1749 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
1750 testable, and a little less fragile too.
1751 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
1752 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1754 o Documentation fixes:
1755 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1756 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
1760 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
1761 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
1765 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1766 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1767 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1770 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1771 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1775 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
1776 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
1780 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1781 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1782 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1783 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1784 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1785 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1786 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1790 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
1791 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
1792 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
1793 log messages less noisy.
1796 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
1797 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
1801 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
1802 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
1803 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
1804 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
1805 last time we raised it).
1808 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
1809 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
1811 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
1812 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
1813 part of ticket 6736.
1814 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
1815 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
1816 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
1820 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
1821 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
1822 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
1823 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1824 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1826 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
1827 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1828 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
1829 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
1830 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1831 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
1832 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
1833 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1834 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
1835 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1836 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
1837 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1840 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
1841 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
1842 bunch of compatibility code.
1845 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
1846 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
1847 the ORPort and the DirPort.
1850 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
1851 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
1852 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
1853 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
1855 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1856 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1857 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
1859 o Major features (bridges):
1860 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
1861 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
1862 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
1865 o Major features (IPv6):
1866 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
1867 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
1868 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
1869 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
1870 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
1871 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
1872 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
1873 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
1874 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
1876 o Major features (build):
1877 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
1878 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
1879 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
1880 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
1881 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
1882 fixes by Jim Meyering.
1883 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
1884 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
1885 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
1887 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
1888 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
1889 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
1890 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in end_service_load_keys().
1891 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
1892 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
1893 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
1894 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
1895 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
1896 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
1897 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
1899 o Minor features (streamlining);
1900 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
1901 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
1903 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
1904 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
1905 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
1906 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
1907 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
1908 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1910 o Minor features (controller):
1911 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
1913 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
1914 Implements ticket 4971.
1916 o Minor features (IPv6):
1917 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
1918 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
1919 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
1920 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
1921 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
1923 o Minor features (log messages):
1924 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
1925 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
1926 Resolves ticket 6758.
1927 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
1928 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
1929 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
1930 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1931 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
1932 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
1933 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
1935 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
1936 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
1937 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
1938 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
1939 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
1942 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1943 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
1944 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
1945 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
1946 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
1948 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
1949 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
1950 Implements ticket 5529.
1951 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
1952 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
1953 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
1954 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
1955 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
1956 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
1957 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
1958 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
1959 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
1960 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
1963 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
1964 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
1965 from a source distribution.)
1968 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
1969 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
1970 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
1971 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
1972 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
1973 and cleans up other smaller issues.
1975 o Major bugfixes (security):
1976 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
1977 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
1978 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
1979 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
1980 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
1981 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
1982 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
1983 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
1984 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
1985 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
1986 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
1987 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1988 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1989 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1990 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1991 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1995 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
1996 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
1997 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
1998 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1999 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
2000 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
2001 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
2002 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
2003 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
2004 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2007 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
2008 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
2009 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
2010 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
2011 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2012 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
2013 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
2014 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
2015 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
2016 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
2017 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
2019 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
2020 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
2021 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
2023 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
2024 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
2025 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
2026 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
2027 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2028 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
2029 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
2030 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
2031 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2032 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
2033 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2034 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
2035 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
2036 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
2039 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2040 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
2041 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
2042 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
2043 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2044 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
2045 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
2046 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
2047 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
2048 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
2049 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
2050 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
2051 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
2052 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
2053 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2056 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
2057 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
2058 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
2059 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
2060 Resolves ticket 6732.
2063 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
2064 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
2065 attack that could in theory leak path information.
2068 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2069 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2070 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2071 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2072 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2073 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2074 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2075 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2076 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2077 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2078 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2079 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2080 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2081 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2084 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
2085 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2086 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
2087 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
2090 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
2091 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
2092 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2093 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2094 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2095 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2096 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2097 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2098 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2099 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2100 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2101 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2102 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2103 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2104 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2105 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2106 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2109 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
2110 a little more useful.
2111 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
2112 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2113 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
2114 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
2115 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
2116 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
2117 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
2120 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
2121 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2122 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
2123 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2124 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
2125 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
2129 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
2130 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
2131 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
2132 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
2133 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
2136 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
2137 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
2138 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
2141 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
2143 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
2145 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2146 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
2147 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
2148 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
2149 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
2152 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
2153 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2154 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
2155 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
2156 since the beginning of Tor.
2159 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
2160 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
2161 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
2162 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
2163 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
2164 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
2165 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
2166 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2167 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
2168 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2171 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
2172 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2175 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
2176 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
2177 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2178 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2181 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
2182 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2183 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
2184 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
2185 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
2186 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2188 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2189 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
2190 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2191 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
2192 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
2193 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
2194 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2195 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
2196 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
2197 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
2198 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
2199 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
2200 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
2201 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2202 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
2203 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
2204 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2205 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
2206 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2208 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2209 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
2210 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
2212 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
2213 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2214 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
2215 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
2217 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
2218 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2219 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
2220 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2221 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
2222 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
2223 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2224 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
2225 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2226 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
2227 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2228 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
2229 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
2230 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2231 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
2232 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
2235 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
2236 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
2237 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
2238 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
2239 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
2242 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
2243 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
2244 options. Closes bug 4748.
2247 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
2248 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
2249 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
2250 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
2251 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
2255 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
2256 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
2258 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
2259 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
2260 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
2261 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
2262 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
2263 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
2264 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
2265 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
2266 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
2269 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
2270 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
2271 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
2272 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
2273 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
2274 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
2275 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
2276 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2279 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
2280 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
2281 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
2282 case for flushing marked connections.
2283 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
2284 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2285 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
2286 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
2287 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
2288 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
2289 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2290 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
2291 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2292 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
2293 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
2294 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
2295 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2296 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
2297 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
2298 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
2299 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2300 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
2301 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2302 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
2303 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
2304 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
2305 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2306 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
2307 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
2309 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
2310 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2311 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
2315 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
2316 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
2317 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
2318 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
2319 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
2320 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
2321 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
2322 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
2323 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
2324 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
2325 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
2326 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
2327 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
2328 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
2329 Addresses ticket 5458.
2330 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2333 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
2334 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
2337 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
2338 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2339 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2343 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2344 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2345 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2346 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2347 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2348 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2349 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2350 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2351 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2352 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2353 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2356 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2357 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2360 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2361 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2364 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
2365 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2366 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2367 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
2368 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2370 o Major bugfixes (general):
2371 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2372 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2373 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2374 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2375 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2376 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2377 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2378 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
2379 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
2381 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
2382 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
2383 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
2384 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
2387 o Major bugfixes (clients):
2388 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
2389 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
2390 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
2391 which introduced predicted ports.
2392 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2393 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2394 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2395 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2396 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
2397 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
2398 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
2399 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
2400 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
2401 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
2402 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2403 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
2404 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
2406 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2407 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
2408 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
2409 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
2410 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
2411 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
2412 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
2413 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
2414 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
2415 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
2416 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
2420 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
2421 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
2422 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
2423 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
2424 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
2425 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
2426 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
2427 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
2428 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
2429 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
2430 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
2431 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
2432 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
2433 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
2435 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
2436 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
2437 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
2438 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
2439 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
2440 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
2441 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
2442 sure. Closes bug 5139.
2443 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
2444 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
2445 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
2446 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
2447 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2448 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2449 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2451 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
2452 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2453 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2454 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2455 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2456 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2457 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2458 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2459 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2460 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2461 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2462 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2463 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2464 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2465 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2466 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2467 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2468 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2469 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2470 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2472 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2473 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
2474 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
2475 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
2476 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
2477 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
2478 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2479 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
2480 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
2481 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
2482 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
2483 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
2484 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
2486 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
2487 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2488 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
2489 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
2491 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
2492 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
2493 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2494 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
2495 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
2496 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2497 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2498 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2499 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
2500 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
2502 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
2503 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
2504 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
2506 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2507 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
2508 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
2509 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
2510 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
2511 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
2512 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
2513 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
2514 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2515 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
2516 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
2517 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2518 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
2519 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
2520 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
2521 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2522 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
2523 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
2524 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
2525 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
2527 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
2528 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
2529 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2530 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
2531 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
2532 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
2534 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
2535 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
2536 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
2538 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
2539 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
2540 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2541 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2542 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
2543 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2545 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2546 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
2547 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
2549 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
2550 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
2551 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2552 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
2553 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
2554 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2555 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
2556 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
2557 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
2558 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2559 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
2560 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
2561 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
2562 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
2563 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
2564 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
2566 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
2567 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
2568 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2569 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
2570 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
2571 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2572 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
2573 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2574 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
2575 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2576 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
2577 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2578 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
2581 o Documentation fixes:
2582 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
2583 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
2584 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
2585 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
2586 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
2587 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
2590 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
2591 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
2595 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
2596 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
2597 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
2598 and fixes several crash bugs.
2600 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
2601 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
2602 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
2603 those packages and upgrade anyway.
2605 o Directory authority changes:
2606 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2607 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2611 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2612 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2613 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2614 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2615 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2616 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2617 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2618 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2619 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2620 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2621 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2622 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2623 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2624 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2625 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2626 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2627 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2628 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2629 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2630 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2631 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2632 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2633 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2634 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2635 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2636 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2637 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
2640 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2641 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2642 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2643 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2645 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2646 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2648 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2649 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2650 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2651 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2652 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2653 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2654 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2655 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2658 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2659 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2660 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2661 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2662 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2663 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2664 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2665 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2666 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2667 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2668 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2669 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2670 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2671 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2672 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2673 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2674 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2675 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2676 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2677 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2678 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2679 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2680 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2681 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2682 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2683 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2684 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2685 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2686 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2687 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2688 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2689 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2690 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2691 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2692 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2693 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2694 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2695 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2696 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2697 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2698 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
2699 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2700 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2701 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2702 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2703 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2705 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2706 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2707 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2708 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2709 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2710 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2711 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2712 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2713 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2714 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2715 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2716 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2717 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2718 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2719 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2722 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2723 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2724 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2725 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2727 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2730 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2731 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2732 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2733 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2734 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2735 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2736 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2739 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
2740 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
2741 the development branch build on Windows again.
2743 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2744 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
2745 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
2746 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
2747 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
2748 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
2749 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
2750 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
2751 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
2752 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
2753 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
2754 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
2755 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2756 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
2757 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
2759 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2760 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
2761 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
2762 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2763 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
2765 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
2766 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
2767 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
2768 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
2769 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
2770 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2773 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
2774 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
2775 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
2776 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
2777 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
2778 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
2779 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
2780 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
2781 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
2784 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
2785 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
2786 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
2787 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
2791 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
2792 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
2793 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
2794 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
2796 o Directory authority changes:
2797 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2801 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2802 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2803 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2804 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2806 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
2807 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
2808 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
2809 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
2811 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
2812 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
2813 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2815 o Major features (performance):
2816 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
2817 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
2818 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
2819 much faster than other AES implementations.
2821 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
2822 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
2823 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
2824 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
2825 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
2826 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
2827 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2828 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2829 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2830 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2831 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2832 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
2833 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
2834 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2835 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2836 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
2837 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
2838 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2840 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
2841 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
2842 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
2843 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2844 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
2845 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2846 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
2847 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
2848 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
2850 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
2851 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
2852 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2853 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
2854 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
2855 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2858 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
2859 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
2860 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
2861 please let us know about it.
2862 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
2863 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
2864 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
2865 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
2866 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2867 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2868 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
2869 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
2871 o Default torrc changes:
2872 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
2873 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
2875 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
2876 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
2877 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
2881 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
2882 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
2883 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
2884 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
2887 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
2888 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
2889 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
2890 it would be a bad idea to start.
2893 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
2894 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
2895 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
2896 that get us closer to a release candidate.
2898 o Directory authority changes:
2899 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2902 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2903 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2904 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2905 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2906 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2907 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2908 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
2909 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2910 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2911 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2912 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2913 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2914 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2915 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2916 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2917 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2919 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
2920 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
2921 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
2922 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
2923 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
2924 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2925 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
2926 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
2927 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2928 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
2929 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
2930 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
2932 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
2933 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
2934 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2935 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
2936 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
2938 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2939 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
2940 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
2941 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
2942 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
2943 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2944 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2945 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2946 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2947 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2948 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2949 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2950 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2951 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2952 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2953 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
2954 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
2955 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
2956 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
2957 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
2958 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
2959 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
2962 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2963 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
2964 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2965 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
2966 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
2967 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
2968 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
2969 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
2970 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2971 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
2972 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
2973 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
2974 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
2975 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
2976 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
2977 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
2978 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
2981 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
2982 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
2983 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2986 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
2987 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
2988 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
2989 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
2992 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2993 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2995 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
2996 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
2997 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
2998 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2999 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
3000 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
3001 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
3002 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3003 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
3004 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
3005 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
3006 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3009 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
3010 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
3011 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
3012 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
3013 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
3014 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
3015 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3018 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
3019 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
3020 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
3021 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3022 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
3023 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
3024 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
3025 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
3026 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
3027 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
3029 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
3030 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
3031 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
3032 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
3033 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3034 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
3035 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
3036 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
3037 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
3040 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3041 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
3042 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
3046 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
3047 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
3048 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
3049 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
3050 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
3051 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
3054 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
3055 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
3056 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
3057 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
3058 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
3059 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
3060 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
3061 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
3063 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
3064 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
3065 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
3066 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
3067 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
3068 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
3069 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
3070 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
3072 o Major security workaround:
3073 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
3074 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
3075 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
3076 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
3077 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
3078 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
3079 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
3080 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
3081 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
3082 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
3083 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
3086 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
3087 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
3088 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
3089 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
3090 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
3091 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
3092 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
3093 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3094 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
3095 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
3096 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
3097 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
3098 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
3100 o Minor features (controller):
3101 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
3102 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
3103 file. Resolves bug 1101.
3104 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
3105 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
3106 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
3107 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
3108 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
3109 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
3111 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
3112 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
3113 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
3114 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
3115 part of ticket 3457.
3116 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
3117 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
3118 circuit-status' control-port command.
3120 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3121 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
3122 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
3123 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
3124 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
3126 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
3127 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
3128 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
3129 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
3130 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
3131 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
3132 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
3134 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
3135 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
3137 o Minor features (other):
3138 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
3139 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
3140 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
3141 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
3142 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
3143 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
3144 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
3145 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
3147 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
3148 them from the other auths.
3149 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
3150 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
3151 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
3152 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
3154 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3157 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
3158 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
3159 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
3160 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
3161 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
3162 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
3163 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
3164 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
3165 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
3166 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3167 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
3168 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
3169 be disabled using the new
3170 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
3171 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3172 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
3173 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
3174 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
3175 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
3176 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
3177 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
3178 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
3179 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
3180 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
3181 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
3183 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
3184 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
3185 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
3188 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3189 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
3190 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
3192 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
3193 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
3194 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
3195 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
3196 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3197 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
3198 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3200 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
3201 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
3202 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
3203 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
3204 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
3205 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
3206 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
3207 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
3209 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
3210 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
3211 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3212 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
3213 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
3214 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
3215 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
3216 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
3217 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
3220 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3221 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
3222 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
3223 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
3224 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
3225 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
3226 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
3227 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
3228 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3229 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
3230 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
3231 accidentally been reverted.
3232 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
3233 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
3234 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
3235 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
3236 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
3237 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
3238 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3239 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
3240 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
3241 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3242 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
3243 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
3244 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
3245 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
3246 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3247 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
3248 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3249 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
3250 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3253 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
3254 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
3255 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
3256 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
3257 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
3258 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
3259 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
3261 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3262 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
3263 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
3264 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
3265 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
3266 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
3267 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
3269 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
3270 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
3271 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
3272 invalid value, rather than just -1.
3273 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
3274 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
3275 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
3276 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
3277 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
3278 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
3279 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
3283 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
3284 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
3285 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3287 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3288 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3289 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3290 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3291 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3292 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3293 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3294 (which Tor does not do by default).
3296 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3297 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3298 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3299 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3300 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3302 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
3306 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3307 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3308 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3309 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3312 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
3313 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
3314 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
3315 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
3316 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
3317 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
3318 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
3319 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
3320 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
3321 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
3322 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3325 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3328 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
3329 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
3330 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
3332 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
3333 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
3334 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
3335 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
3336 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
3337 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
3338 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
3339 (which Tor does not do by default).
3341 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
3342 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
3343 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
3344 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
3345 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
3347 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
3348 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
3349 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
3352 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
3353 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
3354 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
3355 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
3356 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
3358 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
3359 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
3362 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3363 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3364 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3365 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3366 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3367 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3368 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3369 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3371 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3372 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3373 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3374 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3375 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3376 close based on processing a cell on it.
3377 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3378 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3379 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3380 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3381 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3382 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3383 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3384 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
3385 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
3386 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
3387 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3388 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3389 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3390 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3391 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
3394 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3395 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3396 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3397 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3398 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3399 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3400 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3402 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3403 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3404 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3405 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3406 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3407 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3408 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3409 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3410 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3411 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3412 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3413 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3414 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3415 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3416 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
3417 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
3418 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
3419 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
3420 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3421 Reported by "troll_un".
3422 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3423 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3424 Reported by "troll_un".
3425 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3426 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3427 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3428 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3431 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3432 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3433 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3434 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3435 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3436 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3437 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3438 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3439 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3440 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3441 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3443 o Packaging changes:
3444 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3445 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3448 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
3449 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
3450 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
3451 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
3452 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
3454 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
3455 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
3457 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
3458 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3459 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3460 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3461 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3462 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
3463 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
3464 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
3465 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
3468 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3471 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
3472 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
3473 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
3474 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
3475 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
3476 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
3477 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
3480 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
3481 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
3482 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
3483 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
3484 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
3485 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
3486 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
3487 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
3488 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
3489 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
3490 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
3491 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
3492 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
3493 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
3494 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
3495 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
3496 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
3497 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
3498 Resolves ticket 4526.
3499 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
3500 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
3501 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
3502 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
3503 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
3504 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
3505 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
3506 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
3507 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
3508 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
3509 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
3510 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
3511 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
3512 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
3513 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
3514 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
3517 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
3518 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
3519 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
3520 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
3521 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
3522 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
3523 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
3524 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
3525 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
3526 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3528 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
3529 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
3530 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
3531 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
3532 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
3533 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
3534 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
3535 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
3536 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
3538 o Minor features (new/different config options):
3539 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
3540 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
3541 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
3542 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
3543 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
3544 Implements issue 933.
3545 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
3546 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
3547 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
3548 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
3549 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
3550 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
3551 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
3552 appending to the list.
3553 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
3554 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
3555 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
3556 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
3558 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
3559 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
3560 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
3561 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
3562 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
3563 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
3564 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
3565 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
3568 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
3569 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
3570 Resolves ticket 2474.
3571 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
3572 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
3573 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
3574 Required by fix for bug 3460.
3575 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
3576 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
3577 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
3578 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
3579 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
3580 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
3581 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
3582 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
3583 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3586 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
3587 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
3589 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
3591 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
3592 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
3594 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
3595 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
3596 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
3597 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
3598 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
3599 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
3600 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
3602 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
3603 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
3604 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3605 Reported by "troll_un".
3606 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
3607 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3608 Reported by "troll_un".
3609 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
3610 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
3611 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
3612 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
3614 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
3615 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
3617 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
3618 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
3619 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
3620 with help from wanoskarnet.
3621 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
3622 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3625 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
3626 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
3627 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
3628 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3630 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
3631 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
3632 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
3633 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
3634 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
3635 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
3636 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
3637 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
3640 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
3641 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
3642 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
3643 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
3644 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
3645 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
3646 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
3647 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
3648 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
3651 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
3652 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
3653 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
3654 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
3656 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
3657 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
3658 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
3659 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3660 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
3661 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
3662 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
3663 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
3664 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
3665 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
3666 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
3667 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
3668 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
3669 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
3670 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
3671 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
3672 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
3673 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
3674 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
3675 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
3676 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
3677 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
3678 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
3679 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
3682 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
3683 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
3684 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
3685 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
3686 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
3687 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3688 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
3689 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
3692 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3693 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
3694 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
3695 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
3696 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
3697 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
3698 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
3699 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
3700 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
3701 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
3702 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
3703 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
3704 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
3705 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
3706 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
3708 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
3709 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
3710 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
3711 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
3712 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3713 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
3714 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
3715 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3716 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
3717 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
3718 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
3719 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
3720 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
3721 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3722 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
3723 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
3724 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3726 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3727 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
3728 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
3729 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
3730 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3732 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
3733 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
3734 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
3736 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
3737 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
3738 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
3740 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
3741 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
3743 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
3744 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3747 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
3748 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
3749 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
3750 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
3751 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
3752 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
3753 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
3754 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
3755 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
3756 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
3757 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
3758 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
3759 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
3760 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
3762 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
3763 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
3764 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3766 o Packaging changes:
3767 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
3768 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
3770 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3771 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
3772 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
3773 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
3774 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
3775 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
3776 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
3777 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
3778 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
3781 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
3783 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
3784 ./src/test/bench binary.
3785 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
3786 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
3789 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
3790 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
3791 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
3795 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
3796 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
3797 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
3798 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
3799 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
3800 close based on processing a cell on it.
3801 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
3802 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
3803 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3804 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
3805 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
3806 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
3807 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
3808 cells were introduced.
3811 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
3812 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
3815 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
3816 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
3817 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
3818 users. Everybody should upgrade.
3820 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
3821 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
3824 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
3825 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
3826 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
3827 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
3828 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
3829 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
3831 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3832 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3833 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3834 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3835 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3836 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3837 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3838 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3839 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3840 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3841 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3842 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3843 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3844 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3845 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3846 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3847 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3848 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3851 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3852 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
3853 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
3854 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
3855 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
3856 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
3857 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
3858 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
3859 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
3860 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
3861 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
3862 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
3863 Partly fixes bug 3825.
3864 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
3865 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
3866 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
3867 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
3868 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
3869 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
3870 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
3872 o Major bugfixes (other):
3873 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
3874 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
3875 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
3876 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3877 Found by "frosty_un".
3878 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
3879 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
3880 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
3881 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
3882 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
3883 immensely in tracking this bug down.
3884 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
3885 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
3888 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3889 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
3890 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
3891 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
3892 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
3893 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
3894 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
3895 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
3896 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
3897 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
3898 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
3899 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
3900 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
3901 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3902 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
3903 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
3904 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
3905 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
3906 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
3907 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
3908 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
3910 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3911 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
3912 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
3913 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3914 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
3915 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
3916 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
3917 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
3918 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
3919 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
3920 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
3923 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
3924 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
3925 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
3926 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
3927 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
3928 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
3929 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
3930 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
3931 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
3932 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
3933 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
3934 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
3935 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
3936 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3938 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3939 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
3940 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
3941 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
3942 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
3943 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
3944 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
3945 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
3948 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
3949 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
3950 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
3952 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
3953 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
3954 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
3955 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
3956 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
3957 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
3958 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
3959 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
3960 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
3961 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
3962 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
3963 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
3964 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
3966 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
3967 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
3968 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
3969 currently connected to them.
3971 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
3972 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
3973 remain; see for example proposal 188.
3975 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
3976 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
3977 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
3978 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
3979 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
3980 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
3981 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
3982 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
3983 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
3984 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
3985 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
3986 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
3987 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
3988 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
3989 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
3990 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
3991 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
3992 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
3995 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
3996 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
3997 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
3998 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
3999 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
4000 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
4001 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
4002 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4003 when bridges were introduced.
4004 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4005 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4006 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4007 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4008 Found by "frosty_un".
4011 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
4012 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
4014 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
4015 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
4016 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
4017 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
4018 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
4019 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
4020 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
4023 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4024 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4025 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4026 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
4027 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
4028 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
4029 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
4030 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
4031 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
4032 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
4033 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
4034 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
4035 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
4036 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
4037 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
4038 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
4039 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
4040 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
4042 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
4043 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
4044 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
4045 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4046 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
4047 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
4048 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
4049 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
4050 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4051 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4052 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4053 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4056 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
4057 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
4058 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
4059 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4062 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
4063 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
4064 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
4065 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
4066 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
4068 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4069 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4070 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4071 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4072 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4073 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4074 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4075 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
4076 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
4077 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4079 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4080 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
4081 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
4082 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
4083 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
4084 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
4085 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
4086 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
4087 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
4088 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
4089 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
4090 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
4091 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
4092 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
4093 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4094 Found by "frosty_un".
4095 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4096 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4097 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4098 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4099 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4100 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4101 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
4102 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
4103 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4104 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
4105 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
4106 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
4107 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4108 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4109 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4110 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4111 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4112 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4113 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4115 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4116 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
4117 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
4118 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
4119 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
4120 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
4121 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
4122 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
4124 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4125 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
4126 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4127 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4128 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
4129 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
4130 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
4131 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
4132 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
4133 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
4134 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
4135 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
4137 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
4138 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4139 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
4140 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4141 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
4142 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4143 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4144 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4145 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4147 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4149 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4150 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4151 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4152 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4153 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4154 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4155 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4156 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4158 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
4159 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
4160 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
4161 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
4162 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
4164 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4165 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4166 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4167 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4168 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4171 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
4172 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
4173 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
4174 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
4175 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
4178 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
4179 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
4180 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
4181 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
4182 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
4183 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
4184 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4185 when bridges were introduced.
4188 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
4189 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
4190 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4192 o Major features (networking):
4193 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
4194 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
4195 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
4196 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
4197 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
4201 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
4202 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
4203 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
4205 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4206 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
4207 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
4208 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
4209 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4211 o Minor features (diagnostics):
4212 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
4213 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
4216 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
4217 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
4218 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
4219 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
4220 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
4221 listed in the network consensus and republish.
4223 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4224 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4225 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4226 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4228 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
4229 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4230 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4231 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4232 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4233 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4234 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4235 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4236 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4237 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4238 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4240 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4241 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4242 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4243 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4244 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4245 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4246 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4247 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4248 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4249 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4251 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4252 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4253 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4254 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4255 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4256 fixes part of bug 2442.
4257 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4258 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4259 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4261 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4262 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4263 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4264 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4265 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4267 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
4268 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4269 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4270 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4271 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4274 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
4275 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
4276 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
4280 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
4281 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
4282 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
4283 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
4284 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
4285 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
4286 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
4289 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
4290 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
4291 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
4292 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
4293 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
4294 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
4295 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
4298 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
4299 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
4300 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
4301 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
4302 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
4303 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4304 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
4305 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
4306 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4309 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
4310 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
4313 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
4314 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
4315 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
4316 reachable from Iran again.
4319 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
4320 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
4321 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4323 o Minor features (security):
4324 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
4325 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
4326 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
4327 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
4328 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
4329 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
4330 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
4331 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
4332 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
4333 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
4336 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
4337 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
4338 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
4339 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
4340 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
4341 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
4342 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
4343 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
4344 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4346 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4347 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4348 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4349 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4350 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4352 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
4353 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
4354 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
4355 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
4356 fixes part of bug 2442.
4357 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
4358 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
4359 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
4361 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
4362 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
4363 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
4364 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
4365 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4368 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4369 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4370 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
4371 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
4372 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
4373 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
4376 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
4377 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
4378 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
4379 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
4380 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
4381 bufferevent-based networking backend.
4383 o Major features (stream isolation):
4384 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
4385 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
4386 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
4387 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
4388 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
4389 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
4390 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
4391 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
4392 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
4393 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
4394 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
4395 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
4396 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
4397 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
4399 o Major features (other):
4400 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
4401 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
4402 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
4403 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
4404 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
4405 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
4406 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
4407 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
4408 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
4409 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
4410 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
4411 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
4412 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
4414 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4415 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
4417 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
4418 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
4419 Fixes part of bug 3752.
4420 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
4421 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
4422 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
4423 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
4424 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
4425 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
4426 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4427 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
4428 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
4429 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
4430 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
4431 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
4432 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
4433 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
4434 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
4435 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
4436 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
4438 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4439 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4440 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4441 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4442 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4443 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4446 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
4447 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
4448 user. Implements ticket 1692.
4449 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
4450 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
4451 best copy data out of a buffer.
4452 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
4453 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
4454 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
4456 o Minor features (build compatibility):
4457 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
4458 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
4459 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4461 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4462 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4464 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
4465 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
4466 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4467 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
4468 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
4469 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
4470 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4472 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
4473 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
4474 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
4475 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
4476 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
4478 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
4479 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
4480 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
4483 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
4484 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4485 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4486 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4487 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4488 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4489 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4490 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4491 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4492 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4493 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4494 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4495 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4496 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4497 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4498 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4499 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4500 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4501 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4504 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4505 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
4506 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
4510 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
4511 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
4512 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
4513 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
4514 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
4515 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
4518 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
4519 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
4520 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
4521 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
4522 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
4523 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
4524 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
4525 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
4526 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
4527 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
4529 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
4530 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
4531 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
4532 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
4533 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
4534 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
4535 many many other features and bugfixes.
4538 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
4539 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
4540 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
4543 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
4544 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
4545 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
4546 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
4547 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
4548 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
4549 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
4550 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
4553 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4556 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4557 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4558 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4559 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
4560 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
4561 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
4562 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
4563 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
4564 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
4565 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
4566 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
4567 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
4568 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
4569 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4570 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
4571 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
4572 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
4573 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
4577 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
4578 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
4579 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
4580 up a variety of recently introduced features.
4583 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
4584 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
4585 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
4586 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
4587 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
4588 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
4589 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
4590 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
4591 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
4592 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
4593 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
4594 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
4595 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
4596 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
4597 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
4598 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
4600 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4601 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
4602 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
4603 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
4604 order. Fixes bug 2798.
4605 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
4606 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
4607 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
4608 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
4609 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
4610 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
4614 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
4615 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
4616 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
4617 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
4619 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
4620 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
4621 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
4622 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
4623 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
4624 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
4625 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
4626 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
4627 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
4628 Implements ticket 3264.
4629 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
4630 implements ticket 3439.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
4633 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
4634 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
4635 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
4636 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
4637 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
4638 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
4639 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
4640 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
4641 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
4642 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
4643 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
4644 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
4645 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
4646 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
4647 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
4648 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
4649 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
4650 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
4651 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
4652 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
4653 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
4654 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
4655 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
4656 fails. Spotted by coverity.
4657 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
4658 present. Found by coverity.
4659 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
4660 a directory cache that provides them.
4662 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4663 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
4664 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
4665 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
4666 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
4667 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
4669 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
4670 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
4671 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4672 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
4673 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
4674 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4675 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
4676 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
4678 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4679 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
4680 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
4681 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
4682 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
4683 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
4684 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
4686 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
4690 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
4691 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
4692 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
4695 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
4696 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
4697 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4698 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4701 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
4702 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
4703 discovered by katmagic.
4704 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
4705 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
4706 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
4707 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4708 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
4709 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
4710 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
4711 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4712 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
4713 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
4714 fixes part of bug 3465.
4715 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
4716 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
4720 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4723 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
4724 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
4725 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
4726 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
4727 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
4730 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
4731 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
4732 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
4733 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
4734 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
4737 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
4738 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
4739 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
4740 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
4741 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
4742 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
4745 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
4746 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
4747 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
4748 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4749 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4750 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
4751 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
4752 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
4753 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
4754 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
4755 fixes part of bug 3407.
4756 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
4757 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
4758 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
4759 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
4760 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
4761 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
4762 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
4763 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
4764 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
4765 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
4767 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
4768 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
4769 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
4770 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
4773 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4775 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4776 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
4777 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
4779 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
4781 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
4784 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
4785 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
4786 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
4787 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
4788 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
4789 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
4793 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
4794 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
4795 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
4796 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4797 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
4798 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
4799 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
4801 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
4802 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4803 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
4804 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
4805 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
4806 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
4807 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
4808 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
4809 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
4810 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
4811 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
4812 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
4813 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
4814 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
4815 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
4816 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
4817 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
4818 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
4819 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
4823 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
4824 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
4825 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
4826 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
4827 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
4828 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
4829 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
4830 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
4831 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
4835 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
4836 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
4837 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
4839 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
4841 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
4842 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
4843 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
4844 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
4845 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4846 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
4847 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
4848 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
4849 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
4851 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
4852 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4853 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
4854 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
4855 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
4856 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
4858 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
4859 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
4861 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
4862 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
4863 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4866 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
4867 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
4868 Resolves ticket 3252.
4869 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
4870 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
4871 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
4872 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
4873 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
4874 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
4877 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
4878 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
4881 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
4882 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
4883 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
4886 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
4887 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4888 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
4889 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
4890 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
4893 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
4894 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4895 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
4896 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
4897 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
4898 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
4899 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
4900 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
4901 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
4905 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
4906 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
4907 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
4908 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
4909 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
4911 o Security/privacy fixes:
4912 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
4913 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
4914 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
4915 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
4916 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
4917 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
4918 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
4919 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
4920 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
4921 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
4922 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
4923 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
4924 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
4925 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
4926 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4929 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
4930 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
4931 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
4932 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
4933 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
4934 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
4935 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
4936 part of ticket 3076.
4937 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
4938 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
4939 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
4943 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
4944 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
4945 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
4946 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
4947 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
4948 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
4949 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
4950 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
4952 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
4953 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
4954 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
4955 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
4956 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
4957 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
4958 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
4959 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
4960 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
4961 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
4962 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
4963 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
4964 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4967 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
4968 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
4969 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
4970 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
4971 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
4972 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
4973 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
4975 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
4976 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
4977 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
4978 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
4979 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
4980 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
4981 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
4982 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
4983 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
4984 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
4985 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
4986 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
4987 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
4988 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
4989 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
4990 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
4992 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
4993 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
4995 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
4996 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
4998 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
4999 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
5001 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
5002 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
5003 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5005 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
5006 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
5007 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
5008 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
5009 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5010 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
5011 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
5012 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
5013 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
5014 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
5015 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
5017 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
5018 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
5019 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
5020 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
5021 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
5022 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
5023 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
5024 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
5025 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
5026 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
5027 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5028 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
5029 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
5033 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
5034 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
5035 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
5039 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
5040 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
5041 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
5042 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
5043 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
5044 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
5046 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
5047 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
5048 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
5051 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
5052 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
5053 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
5054 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
5055 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
5056 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
5057 zero-copy transports where available.
5058 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
5059 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
5060 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
5061 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
5062 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
5063 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
5064 debug it as it breaks.
5065 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
5066 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
5067 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
5068 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
5069 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
5070 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
5071 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
5072 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
5073 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
5074 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
5075 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
5076 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
5077 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
5078 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
5079 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
5080 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
5081 PortForwarding option.
5082 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
5083 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
5084 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
5085 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
5086 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
5087 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
5088 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
5091 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
5092 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
5093 Implements enhancement 1668.
5094 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
5096 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
5097 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
5098 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
5099 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
5100 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
5101 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
5102 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
5104 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
5105 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
5106 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5107 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5108 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5109 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
5110 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
5112 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
5113 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
5114 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
5115 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
5116 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
5117 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
5118 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
5120 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
5121 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
5122 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
5123 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
5124 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5125 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
5126 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
5127 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
5128 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
5129 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
5130 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
5131 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
5132 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
5133 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
5134 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
5137 o Minor features (controller):
5138 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
5139 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
5140 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
5141 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
5142 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
5143 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
5144 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
5147 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
5148 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
5149 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
5150 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
5151 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
5152 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
5153 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
5154 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
5156 o Minor packaging issues:
5157 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
5158 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5160 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5161 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
5162 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
5163 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
5164 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
5165 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
5166 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
5167 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
5168 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
5169 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
5170 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
5171 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
5172 our library structure used to force them to link it.
5175 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
5176 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
5177 are no longer in use as servers.
5179 o Documentation fixes:
5180 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
5181 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
5182 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
5186 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
5187 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
5188 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
5189 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
5190 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
5191 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
5192 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
5193 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
5194 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
5195 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
5198 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
5199 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
5200 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
5201 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5202 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
5203 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
5204 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
5205 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
5206 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
5207 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5208 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
5209 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
5210 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5211 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
5212 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
5213 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
5215 o Security and stability fixes:
5216 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
5217 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
5218 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
5219 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
5220 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
5221 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
5222 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
5223 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
5224 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
5225 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
5226 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
5227 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5228 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5229 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5230 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5231 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5234 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
5235 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
5236 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
5237 contributions to the network.
5239 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
5240 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
5241 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
5242 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
5243 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
5244 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
5245 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
5246 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
5247 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
5248 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
5249 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
5250 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
5251 connections to directory servers.
5252 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
5253 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
5254 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
5255 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
5256 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
5257 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
5258 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
5259 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
5260 information, or fetch directory information.
5261 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
5262 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
5263 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
5264 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
5265 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
5266 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
5267 unless you really want your Tor to break.
5268 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
5269 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
5270 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
5271 - When StrictNodes is 1:
5272 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
5273 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
5274 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
5275 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
5276 reachability self-tests.
5277 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
5278 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
5279 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
5280 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
5281 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5282 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
5283 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
5285 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
5286 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5287 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
5288 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
5289 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
5290 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5291 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
5292 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
5293 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
5294 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
5295 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
5298 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
5299 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
5300 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
5301 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
5302 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
5303 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5304 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
5305 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5306 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
5307 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
5308 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
5309 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5310 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
5311 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
5312 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5313 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5314 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5316 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
5317 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
5318 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
5319 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
5320 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5321 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
5322 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5323 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
5324 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5325 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
5326 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
5327 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
5328 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
5329 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
5330 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
5331 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5332 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
5333 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
5334 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
5335 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
5338 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
5339 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
5340 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
5341 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
5342 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
5343 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
5344 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
5345 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
5346 Required by fix for bug 3000.
5347 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
5348 by fix for bug 3000.
5349 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
5350 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
5352 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5353 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
5354 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
5355 send a body too). Since only server versions before
5356 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
5357 keep the workaround in place.
5358 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
5359 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
5360 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
5361 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
5362 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
5363 want to do it differently.
5364 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5365 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5366 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5367 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
5368 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
5372 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
5373 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
5374 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
5375 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
5376 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
5379 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
5380 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
5381 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
5382 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
5383 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
5385 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
5386 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
5387 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
5388 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
5389 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
5390 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
5391 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
5392 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
5393 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
5394 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
5395 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
5396 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
5399 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5400 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5401 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5402 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5403 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5404 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5405 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5407 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
5408 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
5409 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
5410 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
5411 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
5412 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
5413 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
5414 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
5415 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
5416 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
5417 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
5418 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
5419 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
5420 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
5421 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
5422 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
5423 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5424 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
5425 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
5426 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
5427 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
5428 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5429 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5432 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
5434 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
5435 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
5436 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
5438 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
5439 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
5440 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
5441 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
5443 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
5444 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
5445 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
5446 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5449 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
5450 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5452 o Documentation changes:
5453 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
5454 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
5456 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
5459 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
5460 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
5461 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
5462 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
5463 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
5464 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
5467 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5468 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5469 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5470 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5471 the rest of bug 1074.
5472 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5473 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5474 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5475 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5476 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5477 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5478 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5479 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5480 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5481 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5482 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5483 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5484 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5485 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5488 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
5489 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
5490 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
5491 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
5492 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
5493 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
5494 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
5495 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
5496 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
5497 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
5498 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
5499 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
5500 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
5501 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
5503 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
5504 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5505 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5506 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5507 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
5508 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
5510 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
5511 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
5512 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
5513 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
5514 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
5515 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
5516 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
5517 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
5518 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
5520 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
5521 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
5522 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
5523 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
5524 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
5525 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
5526 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
5527 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
5528 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
5529 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
5530 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
5531 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
5532 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
5533 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5534 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
5535 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
5537 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
5538 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
5539 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
5540 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
5541 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
5542 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
5544 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
5545 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
5546 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
5548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
5549 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
5550 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
5551 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
5552 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
5553 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
5554 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
5556 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
5557 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
5558 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
5559 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
5560 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
5564 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
5565 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
5566 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
5567 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
5568 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
5569 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
5570 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
5571 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
5572 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
5573 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
5574 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
5575 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
5577 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5579 o Minor features (log subsystem):
5580 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
5581 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
5582 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
5584 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
5585 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
5587 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
5588 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
5589 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
5592 o Packaging changes:
5593 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5594 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5595 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5598 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
5599 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
5600 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
5601 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5602 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5603 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
5606 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5607 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
5608 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
5609 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
5610 the rest of bug 1074.
5611 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5612 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5614 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
5615 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
5616 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
5617 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
5618 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
5619 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
5620 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5623 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5625 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5628 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5629 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5630 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
5631 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
5632 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
5633 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
5634 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
5635 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
5636 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
5637 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
5638 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5640 o Packaging changes:
5641 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
5642 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
5643 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
5644 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
5645 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
5646 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5649 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
5650 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
5651 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
5652 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
5653 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
5654 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
5657 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
5658 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5660 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
5661 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
5662 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
5663 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
5666 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
5668 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
5669 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
5670 Implements ticket 2432.
5673 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
5674 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
5675 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
5678 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
5679 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
5680 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
5681 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
5682 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
5683 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5685 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5686 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5687 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5688 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5690 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5691 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5692 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5693 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5694 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5695 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5696 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5697 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5699 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5700 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5701 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5702 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5703 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5704 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5705 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5706 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5707 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5708 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5709 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5710 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5711 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5712 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5715 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
5716 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5717 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5718 bug reported by doorss.
5719 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5720 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5721 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5722 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5723 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5725 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5726 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5727 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5728 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
5729 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5731 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5732 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5733 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5735 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
5736 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5737 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5738 Automake 1.7 or later.
5739 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5740 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5741 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5742 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5744 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5745 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
5746 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
5749 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5750 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
5751 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
5752 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
5754 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5755 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
5756 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
5757 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
5758 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
5759 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
5760 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
5761 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
5762 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
5764 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
5765 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
5766 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
5769 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5770 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
5771 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
5772 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
5773 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
5774 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
5775 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
5776 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
5777 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
5778 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
5779 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
5780 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
5781 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
5783 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
5784 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
5788 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
5789 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
5790 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
5791 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
5792 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
5794 o Major bugfixes (security):
5795 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
5796 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
5797 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
5799 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
5800 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
5801 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
5802 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
5803 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
5804 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
5805 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
5806 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
5808 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5809 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
5810 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
5811 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
5812 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
5813 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
5814 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
5815 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
5816 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
5817 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
5818 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
5819 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
5820 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
5821 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5825 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
5826 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
5827 bug reported by doorss.
5828 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
5829 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
5830 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5831 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
5832 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
5834 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
5835 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
5836 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
5837 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
5838 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5839 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
5840 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
5841 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
5842 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
5845 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5846 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
5849 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
5850 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
5851 Automake 1.7 or later.
5854 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
5855 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5856 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
5857 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
5858 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
5861 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5862 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5863 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5864 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5865 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
5866 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
5867 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
5868 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
5869 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
5870 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
5871 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
5873 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
5874 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
5875 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
5876 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
5878 o Directory authority changes:
5879 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5882 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
5883 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
5884 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
5885 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
5886 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
5887 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5888 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
5889 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
5890 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
5893 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5894 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
5895 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
5896 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
5897 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
5898 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
5899 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
5900 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
5901 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
5902 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
5906 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
5907 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
5908 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
5909 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
5913 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
5914 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
5915 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
5916 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
5918 o Directory authority changes:
5919 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
5922 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5925 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
5926 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
5927 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
5928 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
5929 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
5932 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
5933 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
5934 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
5935 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
5936 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5937 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
5938 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
5939 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
5940 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
5941 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5942 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
5943 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5944 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
5945 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
5946 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
5947 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
5948 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
5949 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5950 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
5951 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
5952 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
5953 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
5954 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
5957 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
5958 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
5959 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
5960 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
5962 o New directory authorities:
5963 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
5967 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
5968 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
5969 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
5971 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
5972 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
5973 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
5974 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
5975 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
5976 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
5978 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
5979 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
5980 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
5983 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
5984 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
5985 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
5986 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
5987 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
5988 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
5989 Patch from mingw-san.
5992 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
5993 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
5994 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
5995 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
5996 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
5997 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
6000 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
6001 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
6002 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
6005 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
6006 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
6007 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
6008 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
6009 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6012 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
6013 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
6014 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
6015 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
6016 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
6017 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
6018 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
6019 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
6020 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
6023 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
6024 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
6025 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
6026 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
6027 to a stable release.
6030 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
6031 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
6032 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
6033 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6034 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
6035 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
6036 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
6037 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
6038 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6039 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
6040 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6041 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
6042 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
6043 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
6044 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
6045 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
6046 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
6047 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
6048 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
6049 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
6050 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
6051 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
6052 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
6053 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
6054 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6055 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
6056 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
6057 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
6058 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
6059 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
6060 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
6063 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6064 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
6065 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
6066 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
6067 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
6068 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
6069 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
6070 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
6071 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
6072 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
6073 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
6074 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
6075 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
6076 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6077 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
6078 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
6079 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
6081 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
6082 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
6083 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
6084 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
6085 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
6087 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
6088 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
6089 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
6090 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
6093 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
6094 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
6095 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
6096 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
6097 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
6098 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
6099 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
6100 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6102 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6103 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
6104 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
6105 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
6106 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
6107 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
6108 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
6109 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
6110 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
6111 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
6112 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
6113 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
6114 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
6115 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
6116 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
6119 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
6120 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
6121 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
6122 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
6123 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
6124 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
6125 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
6126 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
6127 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
6130 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
6131 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
6132 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
6133 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
6134 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
6136 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
6137 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
6138 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
6139 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
6140 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
6141 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
6142 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6143 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
6144 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
6145 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
6146 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
6147 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
6148 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
6149 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
6151 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6152 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
6154 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
6155 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6156 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
6157 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
6158 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
6159 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
6160 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
6161 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
6162 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6163 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
6164 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
6165 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
6166 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
6167 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
6168 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
6169 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
6170 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
6171 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6173 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
6174 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
6175 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
6176 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
6177 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
6178 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
6179 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
6180 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
6181 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
6182 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
6183 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
6184 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
6185 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
6187 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
6188 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
6189 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
6190 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6193 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
6194 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
6195 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
6196 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
6197 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
6198 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
6199 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
6200 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
6201 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
6202 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
6203 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
6204 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
6205 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
6206 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
6207 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
6208 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
6209 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
6210 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
6211 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
6214 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6215 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
6216 based on the time during which we were active and not in
6217 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
6218 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
6219 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
6220 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
6221 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6223 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6224 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
6225 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
6226 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
6227 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
6228 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
6229 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
6230 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
6231 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
6232 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6235 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
6236 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
6237 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
6238 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
6240 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
6241 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
6242 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
6243 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
6244 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
6245 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
6246 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
6247 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
6248 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
6249 the longest-lived bug prize.
6250 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
6251 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
6252 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
6253 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
6254 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
6255 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
6257 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
6258 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
6259 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
6260 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
6261 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
6262 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
6266 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6267 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
6268 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
6269 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
6270 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
6271 got suppressed since the last warning.
6272 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
6273 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
6274 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
6275 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
6276 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
6277 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
6278 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
6279 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
6280 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
6281 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
6282 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
6283 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
6284 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
6285 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
6286 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
6287 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
6288 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
6289 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
6290 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
6292 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
6293 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
6294 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
6296 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6297 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
6298 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
6299 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
6300 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
6301 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
6302 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
6303 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
6304 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
6305 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
6306 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
6307 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
6308 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
6309 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
6310 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
6312 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
6313 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
6314 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
6315 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
6316 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
6317 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6318 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
6320 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
6321 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
6322 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
6323 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
6324 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
6327 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6328 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
6329 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
6330 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
6331 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
6332 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
6333 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
6334 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
6335 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
6336 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
6337 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
6338 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
6339 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
6340 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
6341 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
6342 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
6343 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
6344 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
6347 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
6350 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
6351 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
6352 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
6353 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
6354 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
6358 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
6359 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
6360 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
6361 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
6362 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
6363 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
6364 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
6365 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
6366 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
6367 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
6368 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
6369 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
6370 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
6371 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
6372 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
6373 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
6374 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
6377 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
6378 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
6379 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
6380 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
6381 they first get the Guard flag.
6382 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
6386 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6387 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
6388 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
6389 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
6390 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
6391 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
6392 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
6393 Patch from mingw-san.
6394 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
6395 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
6397 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
6398 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
6399 Implements enhancement 1790.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6402 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
6403 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
6404 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
6405 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
6406 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
6407 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
6408 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
6409 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
6410 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
6411 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
6412 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
6413 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6414 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
6415 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
6416 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
6417 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
6418 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
6419 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
6420 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
6422 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
6423 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
6424 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
6425 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
6426 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
6427 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
6428 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
6429 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
6430 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
6431 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
6432 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
6433 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
6434 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
6436 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
6437 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
6438 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
6439 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
6440 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
6441 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6443 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6444 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
6445 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
6446 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
6447 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6448 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
6449 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
6450 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6451 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
6452 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
6453 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
6454 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
6456 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
6457 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
6458 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
6459 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
6460 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
6461 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
6462 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
6464 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
6466 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
6467 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6468 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
6469 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
6470 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
6471 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
6473 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6474 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
6475 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
6476 structures and defines in or.h for now.
6477 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
6478 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
6479 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
6480 statistics code to be more easily tested.
6481 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
6482 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
6483 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
6486 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
6487 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
6488 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
6489 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
6490 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
6491 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
6495 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
6496 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
6497 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
6498 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
6499 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
6500 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
6501 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
6502 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
6503 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
6504 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
6505 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
6506 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
6507 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
6509 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
6510 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
6511 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
6512 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
6513 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
6514 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
6515 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
6516 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
6517 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
6518 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
6519 can be controlled by the consensus.
6522 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
6523 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
6524 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
6525 more accurate data for many African countries.
6526 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
6527 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
6528 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6529 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
6530 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
6531 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
6532 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
6533 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
6534 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
6535 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6536 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
6537 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
6539 o New directory authorities:
6540 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
6544 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
6545 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
6546 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
6547 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
6548 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
6549 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
6550 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
6551 what should go in a patch.
6552 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
6553 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
6554 over our stored history.
6555 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
6556 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
6557 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
6558 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
6559 file. Fixes bug 1296.
6560 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
6561 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
6562 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
6566 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6568 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
6569 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
6570 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
6571 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
6572 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
6573 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
6574 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
6575 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
6576 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
6577 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
6578 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
6579 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6580 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
6581 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
6582 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
6583 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
6584 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
6585 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
6586 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
6587 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
6588 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
6589 two-hop circuits are actually created.
6590 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
6591 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6592 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
6593 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6596 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
6597 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6598 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6599 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6600 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6602 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
6603 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6606 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6607 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6608 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6609 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6610 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6611 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6612 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6613 their directory fetches over TLS).
6614 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6615 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6616 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6617 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6618 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6619 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6620 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6621 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6624 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6625 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6629 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6630 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6631 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6632 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6633 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6634 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6635 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6638 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
6639 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
6640 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
6641 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
6642 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
6645 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
6646 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
6647 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
6648 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
6649 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
6650 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
6651 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
6652 their directory fetches over TLS).
6655 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
6656 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
6658 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
6659 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
6660 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
6661 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
6662 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
6663 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
6664 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
6665 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
6666 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
6667 hour of their uptime.
6670 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
6671 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
6672 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
6676 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
6677 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
6678 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
6679 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
6680 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
6681 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
6683 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
6684 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
6685 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
6687 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
6688 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
6692 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
6693 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
6694 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
6698 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
6699 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
6700 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
6703 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
6704 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
6705 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
6706 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
6707 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
6708 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
6709 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
6710 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
6711 about the option without breaking older ones.
6712 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
6713 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
6714 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
6715 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
6718 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
6719 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
6720 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
6721 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
6723 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
6724 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
6725 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
6728 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
6729 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
6731 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
6732 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
6733 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
6734 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
6735 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
6736 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
6737 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6738 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
6739 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
6740 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
6741 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
6744 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
6745 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6746 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
6747 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
6748 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
6749 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
6750 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6753 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
6754 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
6755 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
6756 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
6757 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
6758 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
6761 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6762 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6763 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6764 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
6766 o Major features (performance):
6767 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
6768 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
6769 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
6770 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
6771 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
6772 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
6773 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
6775 o Minor features (performance):
6776 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
6777 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
6778 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
6779 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
6780 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
6784 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
6785 speeds up the build considerably.
6787 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6788 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
6789 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6790 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
6791 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6792 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
6793 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
6794 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
6797 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6798 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6800 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6801 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6802 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6803 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6805 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6806 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
6807 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
6808 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
6809 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
6810 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
6813 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
6814 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
6815 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
6817 o Directory authority changes:
6818 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6819 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6820 service directory authority) from the list.
6823 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6824 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6825 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6826 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6827 libraries in a security patch.
6828 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6829 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6830 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6831 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6833 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
6834 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
6835 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
6836 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
6837 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6838 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6839 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6842 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
6843 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
6844 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
6845 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
6846 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
6847 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
6848 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
6849 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
6850 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
6851 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
6852 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
6853 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
6854 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
6856 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
6857 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
6858 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
6859 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
6860 control-spec.txt said they were.
6861 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6862 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6863 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
6864 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
6865 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6867 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6868 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
6869 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
6871 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
6872 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
6873 iPhone SDK versions.
6874 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
6875 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
6876 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
6877 projects directory in svn.
6878 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
6879 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
6880 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
6884 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
6885 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
6886 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
6888 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
6889 to the circuit build timeout.
6890 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
6891 arguments we do not recognize.
6892 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
6893 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
6894 open() without checking it.
6897 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
6898 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
6899 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
6900 several minor potential security bugs.
6903 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
6904 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
6905 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
6906 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
6907 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
6908 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
6909 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
6912 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
6913 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
6915 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
6916 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
6917 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
6918 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
6922 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
6923 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
6927 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
6928 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
6929 customized patches to run/build.
6932 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
6933 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
6934 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
6937 o Major bugfixes (performance):
6938 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
6939 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
6940 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
6941 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
6942 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
6943 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
6944 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
6947 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
6948 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
6949 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
6950 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
6951 libraries in a security patch.
6952 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
6953 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
6954 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
6955 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
6958 o Directory authority changes:
6959 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
6960 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
6961 service directory authority) from the list.
6964 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
6965 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
6968 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
6969 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
6970 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
6971 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
6972 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
6975 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
6976 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
6977 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
6981 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
6982 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
6983 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
6984 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
6985 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6988 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
6989 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
6990 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
6994 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
6995 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
6996 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
6997 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
6998 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
7000 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
7001 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
7003 o Directory authority changes:
7004 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
7007 o Major features (performance):
7008 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
7009 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
7010 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
7011 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
7012 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
7013 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
7014 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
7015 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
7016 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
7017 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
7018 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
7019 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
7020 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
7022 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
7023 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
7024 but never per-conn write limits.
7025 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
7026 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
7027 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
7028 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
7030 o Major features (relay selection options):
7031 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
7032 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
7033 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
7034 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
7035 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
7036 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
7037 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
7039 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
7040 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
7042 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
7043 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
7044 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
7045 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
7046 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
7047 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
7048 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
7049 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
7050 the network changes.
7053 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
7054 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
7055 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7058 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
7059 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
7060 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
7061 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
7062 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
7063 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
7064 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
7065 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
7066 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
7067 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
7068 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
7069 generated while acting as a relay.
7070 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
7071 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
7072 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
7073 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
7074 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
7075 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
7078 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
7079 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7080 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
7081 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
7082 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
7085 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
7086 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
7087 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
7089 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
7090 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
7091 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
7093 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
7094 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
7096 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
7097 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
7098 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
7100 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
7101 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
7104 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7105 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
7106 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7107 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
7108 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
7109 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
7110 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
7111 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
7112 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
7114 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
7118 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
7119 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
7120 hidden service usage.
7123 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
7124 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
7125 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
7126 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
7127 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
7129 o Directory authority changes:
7130 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
7134 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
7135 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
7136 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7139 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
7140 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
7141 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
7142 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
7143 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
7146 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7147 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7148 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
7149 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
7150 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
7151 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
7152 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
7155 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7156 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7157 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7158 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7159 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
7160 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
7162 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
7163 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
7166 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
7167 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
7168 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
7169 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
7170 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
7171 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
7174 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
7175 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
7176 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
7178 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
7179 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
7180 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
7181 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
7182 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
7183 download consensus + microdescriptors".
7184 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
7185 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
7186 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
7187 hash algorithm in the future.
7188 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
7189 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
7190 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
7191 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
7192 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
7193 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
7194 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
7195 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
7196 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
7199 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
7200 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
7201 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
7202 won't work unless we say we are.
7205 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
7206 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
7207 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
7208 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
7209 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
7210 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
7211 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
7212 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
7213 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7214 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
7215 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
7216 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
7217 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
7218 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
7219 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
7220 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
7221 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
7222 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
7223 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
7224 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
7225 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
7226 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
7229 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
7230 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
7231 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
7232 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
7234 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
7235 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
7237 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
7238 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
7239 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
7240 in the Vidalia Settings window.
7243 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7244 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7245 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7246 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7247 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7249 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7250 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7252 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
7253 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
7254 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
7257 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7258 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7259 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7261 o New directory authorities:
7262 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7264 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7267 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
7268 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7270 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7271 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7272 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7273 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7274 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7275 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7276 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7277 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7278 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7279 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7280 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7281 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7282 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7283 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7284 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7285 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7286 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7288 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7289 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7290 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
7292 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7293 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7297 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7298 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7299 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7300 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7301 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7304 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
7305 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7308 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7310 o Directory authorities:
7311 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
7315 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
7316 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
7317 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
7318 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
7319 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
7322 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
7323 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
7324 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
7325 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
7327 o New directory authorities:
7328 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
7331 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
7332 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
7333 SSL handshake issues.
7334 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
7335 during the TLS handshake.
7336 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
7337 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
7338 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
7339 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
7340 none of which are very big.
7343 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
7345 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
7346 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7347 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
7348 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
7349 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7350 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
7351 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
7352 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7355 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7356 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
7357 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
7358 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
7359 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
7362 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
7363 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7366 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
7367 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
7370 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
7371 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
7372 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7375 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
7376 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
7377 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
7378 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
7379 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
7380 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
7383 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
7384 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
7385 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
7386 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
7387 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
7388 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
7389 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
7390 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
7391 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
7392 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
7393 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
7394 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
7395 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
7396 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
7397 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
7398 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
7399 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
7400 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
7403 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
7404 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
7408 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
7409 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
7410 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7411 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
7412 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
7413 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
7414 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7415 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
7416 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
7417 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
7418 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7419 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7420 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
7421 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
7422 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
7423 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
7424 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
7425 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
7426 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
7427 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
7428 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
7430 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
7431 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
7432 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
7433 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7434 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
7435 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
7437 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
7438 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
7439 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
7442 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
7443 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
7444 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
7445 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
7446 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
7447 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
7450 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
7451 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
7452 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
7453 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
7454 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
7457 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
7458 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
7459 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
7462 o New directory authorities:
7463 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
7467 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
7468 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
7469 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
7470 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
7471 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
7474 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
7475 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
7476 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
7477 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7478 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
7481 o New options for gathering stats safely:
7482 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
7483 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
7484 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
7485 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
7486 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
7487 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
7488 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
7489 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7490 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
7492 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
7493 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
7494 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7495 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
7497 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
7498 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
7499 their extra-info documents.
7502 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
7503 source files Tor was built with.
7504 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
7505 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
7506 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
7507 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
7508 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
7509 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
7511 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
7512 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
7513 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
7514 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
7515 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
7517 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
7518 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
7521 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
7522 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
7523 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
7524 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
7525 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
7527 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
7528 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
7530 o Deprecated and removed features:
7531 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
7532 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
7533 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
7534 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
7535 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
7536 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
7537 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
7538 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
7540 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
7541 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
7542 via application-level web tricks.
7544 o Packaging changes:
7545 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
7546 installer bundles. See
7547 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
7548 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
7549 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
7550 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
7551 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
7552 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
7553 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7554 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
7555 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
7556 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
7557 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
7558 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
7561 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
7562 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
7563 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
7566 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
7567 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
7568 part of patch provided by "optimist".
7571 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
7572 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
7573 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
7574 and confuse fewer users.
7577 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
7578 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
7579 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
7580 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
7581 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
7582 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
7583 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
7586 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
7587 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
7588 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
7589 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
7590 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
7591 other features and bug fixes.
7594 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
7597 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
7598 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
7599 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
7600 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
7601 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
7604 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
7605 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
7606 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
7607 failure message (oops).
7610 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
7611 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
7612 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
7613 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
7617 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
7618 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
7619 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
7620 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
7621 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
7622 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
7623 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7624 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
7625 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
7626 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
7627 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
7628 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
7629 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
7630 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
7631 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7634 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
7635 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7636 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
7637 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
7638 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
7639 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
7640 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
7641 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
7642 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
7643 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
7644 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
7645 Workaround for bug 1024.
7646 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
7650 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
7651 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
7652 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
7655 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
7657 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7658 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7659 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7660 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7661 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7664 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7665 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7666 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7667 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7668 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7669 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7670 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7671 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7672 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7673 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7676 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7677 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7678 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
7679 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7680 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7681 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7682 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7683 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7686 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
7687 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
7688 a bunch of minor bugs.
7691 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
7692 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
7693 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7695 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
7696 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
7697 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
7698 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
7700 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
7704 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7705 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
7706 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
7708 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7709 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
7711 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
7712 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
7714 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
7715 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
7716 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
7717 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
7718 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
7719 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
7720 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
7721 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
7723 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7724 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
7725 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
7727 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
7728 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
7729 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
7730 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
7731 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
7735 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
7736 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7737 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
7740 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7741 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
7742 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
7743 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
7745 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7746 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
7747 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
7748 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7749 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
7750 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
7751 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
7752 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
7753 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
7754 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
7755 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
7756 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7757 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
7758 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
7759 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
7760 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
7761 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
7763 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
7764 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
7765 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
7766 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7768 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7769 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
7770 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7773 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
7774 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
7775 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
7776 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
7777 addresses to fall out of the directory.
7780 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
7781 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
7782 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
7783 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
7785 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
7786 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
7787 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
7788 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
7789 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
7790 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
7791 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
7792 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
7793 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
7794 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
7795 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
7796 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
7797 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
7799 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
7800 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
7803 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
7804 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
7805 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
7806 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
7807 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
7808 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
7810 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
7811 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
7812 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
7813 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
7814 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
7816 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
7819 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
7820 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
7822 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
7823 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
7824 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7825 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7826 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
7827 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
7829 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
7830 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7831 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
7832 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
7833 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
7834 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7835 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
7836 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
7837 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
7838 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
7839 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
7840 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
7844 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
7845 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
7846 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
7849 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
7850 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
7851 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7853 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
7854 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
7855 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
7856 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
7857 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
7858 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
7859 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
7860 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
7861 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
7862 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
7863 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
7864 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7865 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
7866 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
7867 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
7868 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
7869 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
7870 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
7871 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
7872 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
7873 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
7874 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
7875 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
7876 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
7877 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
7878 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
7880 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
7881 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
7882 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
7883 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
7884 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
7885 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
7886 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
7887 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
7888 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
7889 of 0. Suggested by lark.
7891 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
7892 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
7893 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
7894 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
7895 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
7898 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
7900 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
7901 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
7902 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
7903 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
7906 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
7907 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
7908 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
7909 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7910 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
7912 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
7913 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
7914 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
7915 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7918 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7919 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7920 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7921 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7922 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7923 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
7924 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
7925 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
7928 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
7929 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7930 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7931 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7934 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
7935 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
7936 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
7937 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
7938 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
7939 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
7942 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
7943 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7944 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
7945 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
7946 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
7947 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7950 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
7951 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
7952 reported by Matt Edman.
7953 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
7955 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
7956 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
7957 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
7958 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
7960 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
7961 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7962 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
7963 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7964 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
7965 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
7966 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
7967 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
7968 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
7969 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
7970 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
7971 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
7972 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
7973 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
7974 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
7975 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7976 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
7977 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
7978 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7981 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
7982 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
7983 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
7984 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
7987 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
7988 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
7989 the letter of C99's alias rules.
7992 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
7993 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
7994 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
7995 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
7997 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
7998 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
7999 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
8002 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
8003 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
8006 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8007 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8008 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8009 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8010 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8012 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8013 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8014 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8015 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8016 identify a connection.
8017 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
8018 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
8019 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
8020 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
8021 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
8022 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
8023 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8024 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
8025 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
8026 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
8028 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
8029 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
8030 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
8031 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
8032 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
8033 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
8034 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
8037 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8038 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8040 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8041 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
8042 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8043 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8044 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8045 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
8046 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8047 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8049 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8050 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
8051 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8052 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8053 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8054 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8055 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8056 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8057 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8058 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8059 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8060 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8061 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8062 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8063 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8064 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8065 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8066 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8067 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
8068 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
8069 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8070 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8071 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8072 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8073 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8074 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8075 840. Patch from rovv.
8076 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8077 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8078 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8080 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8081 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8082 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8083 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8084 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8085 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8086 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8089 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
8090 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8093 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
8094 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
8096 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8097 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
8098 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8099 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8100 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8101 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8102 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8103 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8104 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8106 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
8108 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
8109 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
8113 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
8114 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
8115 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
8116 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
8117 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
8118 have had some time to upgrade.)
8121 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
8122 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
8125 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
8126 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
8127 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
8128 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
8129 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
8132 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
8133 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
8135 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
8136 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8137 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
8138 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
8139 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
8140 entirely. Patch from coderman.
8143 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
8144 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8145 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
8146 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
8147 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
8148 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8149 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
8153 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
8154 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
8155 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
8156 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
8157 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
8158 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
8159 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
8162 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
8163 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
8164 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
8165 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
8166 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
8168 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
8169 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
8170 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
8171 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
8172 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
8173 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
8174 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8175 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
8176 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
8177 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
8181 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
8182 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
8183 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
8185 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
8186 without support for deprecated functions.
8187 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8190 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
8191 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
8192 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
8193 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8194 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
8195 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
8196 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
8197 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
8198 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
8199 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
8200 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
8201 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
8202 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
8203 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
8204 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
8205 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
8206 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
8207 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
8208 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
8209 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
8210 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
8211 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
8213 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
8214 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
8215 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
8216 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
8217 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
8218 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
8220 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
8221 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
8222 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
8223 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
8224 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
8226 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
8227 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
8228 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
8230 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
8231 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
8234 o Deprecated and removed features:
8235 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
8236 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
8237 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
8240 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8241 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
8242 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
8243 with log.h on Android.
8244 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
8245 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
8248 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
8249 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
8251 o New directory authorities:
8252 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
8256 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
8257 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
8258 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
8259 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
8260 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
8261 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8264 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
8265 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
8266 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
8267 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
8268 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
8269 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
8270 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
8271 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
8273 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
8274 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
8275 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
8276 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
8279 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
8280 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
8282 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
8283 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
8284 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
8285 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
8286 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
8287 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
8288 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
8289 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
8290 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
8291 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8292 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
8293 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
8294 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
8295 Implements proposal 148.
8296 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
8297 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
8298 system to do it for us.
8299 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
8300 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
8301 this fix will be slightly helpful.
8302 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
8303 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
8304 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
8305 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
8306 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
8307 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
8308 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
8309 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
8310 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
8313 o Minor features (controller):
8314 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
8315 been fetched and validated.
8316 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
8317 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
8318 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
8319 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
8320 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
8321 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
8324 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
8325 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8326 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
8327 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
8328 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
8330 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
8331 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
8332 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8333 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
8334 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
8335 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
8336 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
8337 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
8338 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
8340 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8341 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
8342 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
8343 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
8344 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
8345 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
8346 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
8347 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
8349 o Deprecated and removed features:
8350 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
8352 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
8353 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8354 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
8356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8357 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
8358 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
8360 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
8361 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
8362 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
8363 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
8364 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
8365 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
8368 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
8369 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
8370 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
8371 fixes a variety of other issues.
8374 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
8375 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
8376 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
8377 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
8380 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
8381 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
8382 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
8383 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8386 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8387 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8388 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
8392 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
8394 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
8395 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
8396 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8397 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
8398 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
8399 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
8400 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8402 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
8403 rest, and don't automatically fail.
8404 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
8405 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8406 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
8407 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
8409 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
8410 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
8411 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
8412 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
8413 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
8414 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
8415 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
8416 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
8417 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
8418 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
8420 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
8424 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
8425 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
8426 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
8428 o Minor features (controller):
8429 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
8433 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
8434 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8435 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8436 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8437 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8438 variety of other issues.
8441 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8442 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8443 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8444 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8445 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8446 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8447 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
8448 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8449 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8450 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8451 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8452 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8455 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
8456 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8458 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8459 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8460 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8461 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8462 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8463 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8464 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8465 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8466 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8467 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
8468 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
8469 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
8470 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
8471 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
8472 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8476 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
8477 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8478 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8479 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8480 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8481 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8482 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8483 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8484 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8485 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8486 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8487 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8488 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8489 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8490 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
8491 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8492 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8493 list. It has been gone for many months.
8494 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
8495 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
8496 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
8499 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8500 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
8501 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
8504 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
8505 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
8506 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
8507 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
8508 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
8509 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
8510 variety of other issues.
8513 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
8514 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
8515 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
8516 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
8517 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
8518 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
8519 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
8520 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
8521 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
8522 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
8523 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
8524 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
8525 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
8526 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
8529 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
8530 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
8531 Suggested by Lucky Green.
8532 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
8533 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
8534 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
8535 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
8536 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
8537 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
8539 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
8540 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
8542 o Hidden service performance improvements:
8543 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
8544 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
8545 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
8546 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
8547 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
8548 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
8549 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
8550 faster after restart.
8553 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
8554 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
8555 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
8556 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
8557 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
8558 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
8559 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
8560 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
8561 840. Patch from rovv.
8562 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
8563 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
8564 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
8565 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
8566 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
8567 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
8568 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
8569 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
8570 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
8572 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
8573 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
8574 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
8575 have already been marked for close.
8576 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
8577 introduction points.
8578 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
8579 memory performance during directory parsing.
8580 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
8581 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
8582 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
8583 because of a pending download.
8586 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
8587 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
8588 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
8589 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8592 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
8593 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
8594 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
8595 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
8596 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
8597 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
8598 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
8599 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
8600 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
8601 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
8602 lookups more reliable.
8603 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
8604 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
8605 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
8606 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
8607 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
8608 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
8609 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8612 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
8613 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
8614 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8615 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
8616 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
8617 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
8618 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
8619 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
8620 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
8621 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
8622 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
8624 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
8625 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
8626 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
8627 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
8628 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
8629 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8630 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
8631 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
8632 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8635 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
8636 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
8637 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
8638 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
8639 locked down these days.
8640 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
8641 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
8642 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
8643 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
8644 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
8646 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
8647 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
8648 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
8649 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
8650 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
8651 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
8652 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
8653 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
8654 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
8655 people find host:port too confusing.
8656 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
8657 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8658 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
8661 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8663 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
8664 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
8665 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
8666 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
8667 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
8669 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
8670 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
8671 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
8672 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
8673 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
8674 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
8675 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
8676 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
8677 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
8678 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
8679 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
8680 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
8682 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
8683 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
8684 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
8685 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
8686 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
8687 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
8688 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8689 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
8690 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
8692 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
8693 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
8694 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
8695 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
8696 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
8697 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8698 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
8699 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
8700 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
8701 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
8702 bug 820, reported by seeess.
8703 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
8704 list. It has been gone for many months.
8706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8707 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
8708 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
8709 actual mistakes we're making here.
8710 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
8711 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
8712 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
8713 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
8716 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
8717 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
8718 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
8719 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8722 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8723 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8724 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8725 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8726 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8727 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8729 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8730 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8731 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8732 pointed out by rovv.
8735 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8736 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8737 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8738 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8739 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
8740 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
8741 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8742 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8743 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8744 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8745 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8746 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
8747 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
8748 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8749 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8750 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8751 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8752 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8753 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
8754 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
8755 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8758 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
8759 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
8760 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
8761 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
8762 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
8763 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
8764 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
8767 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
8769 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
8770 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
8771 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
8772 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
8773 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
8774 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
8775 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
8777 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
8778 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
8779 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
8780 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
8781 known descriptor before building circuits.
8783 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
8784 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
8785 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
8786 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
8787 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
8788 identify a connection.
8789 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
8790 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
8791 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
8793 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
8794 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
8795 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
8796 pointed out by rovv.
8799 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
8800 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8801 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
8802 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
8803 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
8804 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8805 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
8806 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8807 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
8808 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
8809 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
8810 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
8811 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
8812 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
8813 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8816 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
8817 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
8818 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
8819 answer sections match.
8820 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
8821 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
8824 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
8825 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8828 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
8829 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
8830 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
8832 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
8833 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
8834 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8837 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
8838 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
8839 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
8840 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
8844 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
8845 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
8848 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
8849 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
8850 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
8851 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
8852 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
8853 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
8855 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
8856 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
8857 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
8860 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
8861 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
8862 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
8863 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
8864 be sent using an "early" cell.
8867 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
8868 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
8869 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
8870 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
8871 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8872 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8873 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8876 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
8877 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
8878 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
8879 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
8880 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
8881 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
8882 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
8883 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
8884 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
8885 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
8886 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
8887 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
8888 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
8889 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
8890 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
8891 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
8894 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
8895 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
8896 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
8897 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8898 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8899 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8900 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
8901 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
8902 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
8904 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
8905 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
8906 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
8907 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
8908 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8912 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
8913 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
8914 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
8917 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
8918 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
8922 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
8924 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
8925 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
8926 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
8929 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
8930 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
8931 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8934 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
8935 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
8936 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8937 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8938 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8939 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
8940 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
8941 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
8942 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8943 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8944 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
8945 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
8946 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8947 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
8948 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
8949 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
8950 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
8951 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
8952 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
8953 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
8954 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
8955 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
8956 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
8959 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
8960 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
8962 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
8963 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
8964 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
8965 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
8966 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
8967 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
8968 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
8970 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
8971 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
8972 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
8973 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
8974 found by Geoff Goodell.
8977 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
8978 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
8979 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
8980 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
8981 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
8982 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
8985 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
8986 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
8987 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
8990 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8991 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
8992 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
8993 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
8994 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8995 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
8996 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
8997 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
8998 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8999 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
9000 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
9001 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
9002 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
9003 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
9006 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
9007 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
9008 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
9010 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
9011 fingerprints with or without space.
9012 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
9013 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
9014 partway through and wants to catch up.
9015 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
9016 state to start out in.
9019 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
9020 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
9021 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9022 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
9023 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
9026 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
9027 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
9028 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
9029 some of the connection attempts fail.
9030 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
9031 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
9032 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
9033 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
9034 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
9035 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
9037 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
9038 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
9039 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
9042 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
9043 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
9044 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
9045 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
9046 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
9047 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
9048 and adds a variety of smaller features.
9051 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
9052 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
9053 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
9054 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
9056 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
9057 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
9058 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
9059 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
9061 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
9062 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
9063 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
9064 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
9065 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
9066 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
9067 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
9070 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
9071 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
9072 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
9073 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
9074 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
9076 o Memory fixes and improvements:
9077 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
9078 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
9079 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
9080 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
9081 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
9082 on a typical directory cache.
9083 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
9084 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
9085 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
9086 and may reduce fragmentation.
9087 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
9088 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
9089 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
9091 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
9092 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
9093 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
9095 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9096 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
9100 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
9101 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
9102 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
9103 done that for a long time.
9104 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
9105 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
9106 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
9107 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
9110 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
9111 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
9112 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
9113 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
9114 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
9115 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
9117 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
9118 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
9119 output to messages of warning and error severity.
9120 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
9121 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
9122 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
9123 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
9124 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
9125 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
9126 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
9127 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
9128 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
9129 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
9130 directory requests we should expect to see.
9131 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
9133 - Lots of new unit tests.
9134 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
9135 two parallel lists in lockstep.
9138 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
9139 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
9140 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9143 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
9144 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
9145 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
9146 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
9147 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
9148 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
9149 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
9152 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
9153 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
9154 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
9158 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
9159 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
9160 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
9163 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
9164 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
9165 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
9167 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
9168 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
9170 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
9171 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
9172 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
9173 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
9174 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9175 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
9176 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
9178 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
9179 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
9180 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
9181 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
9182 - Fix compile on Windows.
9185 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
9186 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
9187 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
9188 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
9189 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
9190 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
9191 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
9194 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
9195 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
9198 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
9199 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
9200 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
9201 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
9203 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
9204 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
9205 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
9208 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
9209 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
9210 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
9211 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
9215 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
9216 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
9217 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
9218 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
9220 o Major security fixes:
9221 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
9222 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
9223 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
9224 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
9225 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
9228 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
9229 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9232 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
9233 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
9236 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
9237 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
9240 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
9241 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
9242 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
9245 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
9246 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9249 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
9250 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
9251 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
9252 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
9253 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
9255 o New directory authorities:
9256 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
9257 it has been down for months.
9258 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
9262 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
9263 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
9265 o Minor features (security):
9266 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
9267 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
9268 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
9271 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
9272 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
9273 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
9274 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
9275 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
9276 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
9277 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
9278 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
9279 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9281 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
9282 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
9283 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9284 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
9285 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9286 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
9287 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9288 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
9289 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
9291 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9292 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
9293 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
9294 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
9295 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
9296 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
9297 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
9298 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
9299 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
9300 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
9301 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9302 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
9303 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
9304 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
9305 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
9306 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
9307 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
9308 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
9309 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
9312 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
9313 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9314 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
9315 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
9318 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
9319 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
9320 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
9321 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
9324 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
9325 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9326 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
9327 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
9328 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
9331 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
9332 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
9333 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
9334 certain censored countries by default again.
9337 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
9338 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9339 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
9340 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
9341 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9342 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
9343 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
9344 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
9347 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
9348 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
9349 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
9350 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
9351 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
9352 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
9353 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
9354 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
9355 a directory. Fix from lodger.
9357 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9358 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
9359 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
9360 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
9361 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
9362 RelayBandwidth* values.
9363 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
9364 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
9365 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
9366 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
9367 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
9368 get_interface_address6().
9369 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
9370 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
9371 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
9373 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
9374 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
9375 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
9376 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9377 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
9378 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
9379 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9380 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
9381 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
9382 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9385 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
9386 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
9387 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
9390 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
9391 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9392 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
9393 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
9394 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
9397 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
9398 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
9399 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
9400 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
9401 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
9402 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
9403 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
9404 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
9405 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
9408 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
9409 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
9410 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
9411 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9414 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
9415 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
9416 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
9417 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
9418 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
9419 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
9420 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
9423 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
9424 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
9425 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
9426 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
9427 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
9428 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
9429 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
9431 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
9432 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
9433 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
9434 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
9435 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
9438 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
9439 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
9441 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
9442 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
9443 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
9444 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9445 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
9446 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
9447 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
9448 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
9449 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
9450 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
9451 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
9452 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
9453 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9454 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
9455 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9456 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9457 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
9458 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
9459 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
9460 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
9461 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
9462 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
9463 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
9465 o Minor features (performance):
9466 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
9468 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
9469 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
9470 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
9471 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
9472 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
9473 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
9474 non-system include paths.
9475 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
9476 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
9479 o Minor features (other):
9480 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
9482 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
9483 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
9484 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
9487 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
9488 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
9489 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
9490 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
9492 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
9493 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
9494 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
9495 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
9497 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
9498 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
9499 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9500 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
9501 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9503 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9504 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
9505 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
9506 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
9507 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
9508 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
9509 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
9510 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
9511 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
9512 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
9513 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
9514 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
9515 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
9516 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
9517 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
9518 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9519 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
9520 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
9521 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
9522 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
9523 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
9524 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
9525 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
9526 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
9527 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
9530 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9531 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
9532 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
9536 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
9537 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
9538 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
9539 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
9540 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
9543 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
9544 Tor's x509 certificates.
9547 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
9548 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
9549 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9550 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
9551 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
9552 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9554 o Minor features (security):
9555 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
9556 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
9558 o Minor features (directory authority):
9559 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
9560 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
9561 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
9562 bandwidthburst values.
9564 o Minor features (controller):
9565 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
9566 processes from running us out of memory.
9568 o Minor features (misc):
9569 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
9570 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
9571 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
9572 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
9574 o Deprecated features (controller):
9575 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
9576 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
9577 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
9580 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
9581 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
9583 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
9584 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
9585 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9586 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
9587 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
9588 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9589 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
9590 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
9592 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
9593 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9594 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
9595 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9596 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
9597 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
9598 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
9599 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
9601 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
9602 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
9603 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
9604 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
9605 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9606 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
9607 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9608 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
9609 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9610 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
9611 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
9612 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9614 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9615 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
9617 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
9618 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
9619 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
9620 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
9621 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
9622 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
9625 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
9626 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
9627 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
9628 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
9629 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
9631 o New directory authorities:
9632 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
9636 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
9637 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
9638 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
9639 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
9640 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
9641 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
9642 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
9643 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
9647 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
9648 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
9649 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
9650 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
9651 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
9652 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
9653 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
9654 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
9655 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
9656 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
9659 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
9660 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
9661 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
9662 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
9666 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
9667 the request isn't encrypted.
9668 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
9669 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
9670 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
9671 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
9672 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
9675 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
9676 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
9679 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
9682 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
9683 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
9684 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
9686 o New directory authorities:
9687 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
9690 o Major performance improvements:
9691 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
9692 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
9693 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
9694 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
9695 memory fragmentation.
9698 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
9699 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
9700 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
9701 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9702 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
9703 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
9704 bodies when they receive them.
9705 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
9706 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
9707 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
9709 o Minor performance improvements:
9710 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
9711 of them were actually distinct.
9712 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
9713 interested in a given message.
9716 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
9717 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
9718 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
9719 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
9720 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
9721 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
9722 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
9723 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
9724 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
9725 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
9726 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
9728 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
9729 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
9730 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
9731 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
9732 this country" and "1 person from this country".
9733 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9734 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
9735 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9736 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
9737 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
9739 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9740 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
9741 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
9743 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
9744 but client versions are not.
9745 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9746 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9748 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
9749 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
9750 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
9751 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
9752 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
9754 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
9755 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
9756 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
9759 o Minor features (controller):
9760 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
9761 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
9762 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
9763 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
9765 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9766 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
9767 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
9768 running a test network on a single host.
9769 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
9770 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
9772 o Minor features (bridges):
9773 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
9774 unencrypted connections.
9776 o Minor features (other):
9777 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
9778 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
9779 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
9780 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
9783 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
9784 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
9785 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
9786 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9789 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
9790 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
9791 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
9792 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
9796 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
9797 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
9798 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
9799 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
9800 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9801 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
9802 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9803 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9804 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
9805 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
9806 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
9807 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
9810 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
9811 rebuild our server descriptor.
9812 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9813 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
9814 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
9815 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
9816 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
9817 nonstandard integer types.
9818 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
9819 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
9820 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
9821 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
9822 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
9824 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
9825 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
9826 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
9827 when they receive them.
9828 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
9829 This includes some 64-bit systems.
9830 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
9831 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
9832 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
9833 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
9834 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
9835 router_get_by_hexdigest().
9836 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
9837 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
9841 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
9842 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
9843 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9846 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
9847 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
9848 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
9849 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
9850 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
9851 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
9852 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
9853 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9856 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
9857 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
9858 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
9859 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
9861 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
9862 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
9865 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
9866 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
9869 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
9871 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
9872 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
9874 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
9875 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
9876 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
9877 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9878 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
9879 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
9880 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
9881 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9882 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
9883 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
9887 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
9888 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
9889 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
9892 - Make the unit tests build again.
9893 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
9894 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
9895 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
9896 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
9897 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
9898 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9899 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
9900 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
9901 the next one as a duplicate.
9904 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
9905 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
9906 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
9907 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
9910 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
9911 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
9912 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
9915 o New directory authorities:
9916 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
9920 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
9921 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
9922 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
9923 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
9924 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
9925 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
9926 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
9928 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
9929 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
9931 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
9932 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
9933 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
9934 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
9935 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
9936 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
9938 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
9939 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
9940 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9941 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
9942 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
9943 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9946 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
9947 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
9948 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
9949 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
9950 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
9951 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
9952 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
9953 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
9954 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
9955 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
9956 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
9957 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
9958 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
9959 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
9960 where Tor is blocked.
9961 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
9962 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
9963 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
9964 to a file periodically.
9965 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
9966 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
9967 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
9971 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
9972 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
9973 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
9974 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
9975 in the relevant networkstatus document.
9976 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
9977 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
9978 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9979 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
9980 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
9981 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
9982 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
9984 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
9985 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
9986 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
9987 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
9988 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
9989 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9990 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
9991 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
9992 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
9993 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9994 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
9995 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
9996 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
9997 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9998 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
9999 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
10000 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
10001 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
10002 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
10003 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10004 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10005 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
10006 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10007 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
10008 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
10009 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10010 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
10011 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10014 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
10015 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
10016 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
10017 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
10018 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
10019 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
10020 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
10021 even if your DirPort isn't on.
10022 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
10023 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
10024 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
10026 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
10027 multiple controller passwords.
10028 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
10029 router based on the router's purpose.
10030 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
10031 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
10032 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
10033 the approved-routers file.
10036 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
10037 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
10038 well as a few minor bugs.
10041 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
10042 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
10043 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
10045 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10046 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
10047 rebuild our server descriptor.
10049 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10050 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
10051 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
10052 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
10053 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
10054 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
10055 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
10056 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
10057 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
10058 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
10060 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
10061 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
10062 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
10063 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
10064 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
10065 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
10066 then be flexible about families.
10069 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
10070 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
10071 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
10075 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
10076 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
10077 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
10078 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
10079 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
10082 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
10083 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
10084 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
10085 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
10086 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10089 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
10090 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
10092 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
10093 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
10094 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
10095 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
10096 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
10097 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
10098 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10100 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
10101 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
10102 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
10103 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
10106 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
10107 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
10110 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
10111 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
10112 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10115 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
10116 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
10117 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
10118 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
10119 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
10120 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
10121 addresses many more minor issues.
10123 o New directory authorities:
10124 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
10127 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
10128 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
10129 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
10130 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
10132 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
10133 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
10134 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
10135 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
10136 and are reaching it.
10137 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
10138 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
10139 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
10140 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
10141 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
10142 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
10145 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
10146 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
10148 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
10149 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
10150 no longer work for clients.
10151 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
10152 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
10154 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
10155 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
10156 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
10157 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
10158 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
10159 enough directory information to build a circuit.
10160 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
10161 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
10162 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
10163 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
10164 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
10165 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
10167 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
10168 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
10169 requests for all of them.
10170 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
10172 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
10173 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
10174 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
10176 o New requirements:
10177 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
10178 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
10182 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
10183 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
10184 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
10185 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
10186 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
10187 networkstatuses that we already have.
10188 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
10189 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
10190 we start knowing some directory caches.
10191 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
10192 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
10193 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
10194 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
10195 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
10196 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
10197 Good in combination with --hash-password.
10198 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
10199 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
10201 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
10202 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
10203 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
10205 o Minor features (bridges):
10206 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
10207 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
10208 back to trying the bridge directly.
10209 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
10210 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
10212 o Minor features (controller):
10213 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
10214 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
10215 report the value as a "minimum skew."
10218 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
10219 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
10223 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
10224 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
10225 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
10226 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
10227 reported by tup and ioerror.
10228 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
10229 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
10231 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10232 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10234 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
10235 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
10236 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
10238 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
10239 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10240 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
10241 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10242 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
10243 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10244 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
10246 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
10247 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
10248 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10250 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
10251 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
10252 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
10253 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
10254 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
10257 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
10258 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
10259 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
10260 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
10261 lists for a few hours each day.
10263 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10264 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10265 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10266 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
10267 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
10268 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10269 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10270 rend_process_relay_cell().
10272 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10273 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10274 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10275 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10276 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10277 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10278 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
10279 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
10281 o Major bugfixes (other):
10282 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
10283 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
10284 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
10285 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10286 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10287 circuit cannibalization).
10288 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10289 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10290 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10291 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10292 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10293 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
10296 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10297 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
10299 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10300 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
10301 absent. Resolves bug 467.
10302 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
10303 a way to trigger this remotely.)
10304 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10305 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10306 were reporting the dir port.)
10307 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10308 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
10309 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10310 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10311 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10313 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10314 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10315 the onion key from getting rotated.
10316 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10317 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10318 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10319 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
10320 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10321 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10322 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10323 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
10324 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
10327 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
10328 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
10329 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
10330 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
10331 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
10332 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
10334 o Major features (directory system):
10335 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
10336 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
10337 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
10338 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
10339 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
10340 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
10341 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
10342 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
10343 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
10344 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
10345 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
10346 Partially implements proposal 122.
10347 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
10348 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
10351 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
10352 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
10353 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
10354 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
10356 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10357 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10358 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10359 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10360 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10361 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10362 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
10363 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
10364 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10366 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
10367 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
10369 - Allow certificates to include an address.
10370 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
10371 and download operations.
10372 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
10373 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
10374 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
10375 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
10376 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
10377 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
10379 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
10380 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
10383 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
10384 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
10385 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
10386 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
10388 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
10389 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
10390 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
10392 o Minor features (performance):
10393 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
10394 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
10395 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
10396 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
10397 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
10398 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
10399 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
10402 o Minor features (compilation):
10403 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
10404 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
10406 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10407 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
10408 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
10409 stick around indefinitely.
10410 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
10412 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
10413 v3 directory authority.
10414 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
10415 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
10417 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
10418 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
10419 "moria on moria:9031."
10420 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
10421 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
10422 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
10423 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
10424 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
10425 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
10426 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
10427 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
10429 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
10430 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
10431 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
10432 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
10433 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
10434 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
10435 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
10436 downloads than for other types.
10438 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
10439 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
10441 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
10442 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
10443 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10445 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10446 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10447 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10448 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
10449 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
10450 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
10451 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
10452 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
10454 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10455 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
10456 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
10457 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
10458 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10459 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
10460 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
10461 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10462 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
10463 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
10464 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
10466 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
10467 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
10470 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10471 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
10472 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
10473 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
10474 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
10475 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
10476 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
10477 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
10478 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
10479 so that they all take the same named flags.
10482 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
10483 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
10484 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
10487 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
10488 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
10489 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
10490 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
10491 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
10492 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
10494 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
10495 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
10496 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
10497 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
10498 annotations along with descriptors.
10499 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
10500 source, and its purpose.
10501 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
10503 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
10504 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
10505 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
10506 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
10509 o Major features (directory authorities):
10510 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
10512 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
10513 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
10514 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
10515 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
10516 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
10517 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
10519 o Major features (v3 directory system):
10520 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
10521 and download the descriptors listed in them.
10522 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
10523 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
10524 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
10526 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10527 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10528 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10529 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
10532 o Major bugfixes (performance):
10533 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
10534 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
10535 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
10536 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
10538 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
10539 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
10540 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
10541 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
10542 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
10543 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10545 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
10546 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
10548 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
10549 certificate is requested.
10550 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
10551 certificate requests.
10553 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
10554 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
10555 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
10556 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
10559 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10560 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10561 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10562 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10564 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
10565 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
10567 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
10568 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
10569 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10570 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
10571 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
10572 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
10573 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
10574 downloads more sensible.
10575 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
10576 another when serving certificates.
10578 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10579 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
10580 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
10581 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
10583 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
10584 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10585 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
10587 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10588 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10590 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10591 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10592 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10593 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
10594 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
10597 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
10598 WARN-severity events.
10599 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10600 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
10601 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10603 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
10604 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
10605 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
10607 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10608 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10609 circuit cannibalization).
10611 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10612 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
10613 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
10614 new module, networkstatus.c.
10615 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
10616 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
10617 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
10618 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
10619 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
10620 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
10621 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
10622 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
10623 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
10625 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
10627 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
10628 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10631 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
10632 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
10633 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
10634 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
10636 o New directory authorities:
10637 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
10638 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
10640 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10641 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10642 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10644 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
10645 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
10646 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
10647 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
10648 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10649 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
10650 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
10651 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
10652 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
10653 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
10654 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10656 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10657 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10658 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10659 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10660 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10661 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10662 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
10663 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
10664 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
10666 o Minor features (security):
10667 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
10668 address maps to an internal address space.
10669 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
10670 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
10672 o Minor features (guard nodes):
10673 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
10674 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
10675 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
10676 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
10678 o Minor features (speed):
10679 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
10680 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
10681 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
10682 on big-endian hosts.)
10684 o Minor features (controller):
10685 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
10686 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
10687 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
10688 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
10691 o Removed features:
10692 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
10693 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
10694 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
10695 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
10696 implementation of proposal 104.
10697 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
10698 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
10699 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
10700 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
10701 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
10702 patch from Karsten Loesing.
10703 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
10704 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
10707 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10708 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
10709 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10710 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
10711 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10712 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
10713 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10714 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10715 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
10716 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10717 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
10718 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
10719 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
10720 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10721 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
10722 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
10723 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
10724 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10725 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
10726 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
10728 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10729 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
10730 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
10732 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
10733 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
10734 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
10735 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
10738 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
10739 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
10740 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
10741 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10742 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
10745 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
10746 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
10749 o Major bugfixes (security):
10750 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
10751 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10752 become more of a headache than it's worth.
10754 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10755 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10756 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10758 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10759 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10760 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10761 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10762 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10763 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10765 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10766 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10767 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10768 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10769 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
10771 o Minor features (controller):
10772 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10773 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10774 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10775 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10778 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
10779 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
10780 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10781 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
10782 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
10783 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
10784 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10786 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10787 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10788 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10789 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
10790 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10791 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10792 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10793 if we ran off the end of the list.
10794 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10795 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10796 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10797 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10798 every time we change any piece of our config.
10799 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10800 encourage people using them to stop.
10801 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
10803 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10804 servers to choose a circuit.
10805 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10806 unparseable piece of it.
10809 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
10810 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
10811 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
10812 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10815 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
10816 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
10817 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
10818 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
10819 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
10821 o New directory authorities:
10822 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
10825 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
10826 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
10827 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
10828 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
10830 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10831 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10832 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10834 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10835 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10836 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10837 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10838 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10839 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10841 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
10842 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
10843 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10846 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
10847 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
10848 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
10849 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
10853 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
10854 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
10855 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
10856 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
10858 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
10859 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
10861 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
10862 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
10863 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
10864 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
10865 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
10866 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10867 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10868 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10869 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10870 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
10873 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
10874 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
10875 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
10876 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
10877 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
10878 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
10880 o Removed features:
10881 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
10882 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
10883 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
10884 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
10887 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
10888 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
10889 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
10890 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
10891 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
10894 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10895 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10896 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10897 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10898 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
10899 reported by lodger.
10901 o Minor features (directory servers):
10902 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
10903 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
10905 o Minor features (directory voting):
10906 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
10909 o Minor features (security):
10910 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
10911 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10912 encourage people using them to stop.
10914 o Minor features (controller):
10915 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10916 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10917 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10918 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10919 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
10920 cookie authentication file, and config option
10921 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
10923 o Minor features (unit testing):
10924 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
10925 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
10926 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
10927 logging for the unit tests.
10929 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10930 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10931 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10932 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10933 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10934 every time we change any piece of our config.
10935 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10936 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10937 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10939 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10940 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10941 the onion key from getting rotated.
10942 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
10943 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
10944 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
10947 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10948 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
10949 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
10951 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
10952 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
10953 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
10954 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
10957 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
10958 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
10959 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
10960 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
10961 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
10962 TorK, etc. Or worse.
10964 o Major security fixes:
10965 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10966 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10969 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
10970 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
10971 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
10972 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
10974 o Major security fixes:
10975 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10976 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10978 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10979 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
10982 o Minor features (performance):
10983 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
10984 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
10985 performance-intensive.
10986 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10987 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
10988 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
10989 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
10990 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10991 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
10995 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
10996 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
10997 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
10998 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
11002 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
11003 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
11004 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
11005 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
11006 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
11008 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
11009 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
11010 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
11011 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
11013 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
11014 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
11015 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
11016 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
11017 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
11019 o Major features (experimental):
11020 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
11021 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
11022 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
11023 handling before it's ready for use.
11026 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
11027 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
11028 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
11029 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11030 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
11031 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
11033 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
11034 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
11035 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
11036 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
11037 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
11039 o Major bugfixes (directory):
11040 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
11041 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11043 o Minor features (controller):
11044 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
11045 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11046 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
11047 from Robert Hogan.)
11048 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
11049 from Robert Hogan.)
11050 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
11051 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
11053 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
11054 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
11055 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
11056 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
11057 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11058 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
11059 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
11062 o Minor features (misc):
11063 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
11065 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
11066 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
11067 the authority identity key.
11068 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
11070 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
11071 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
11072 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
11075 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
11076 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
11077 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
11078 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
11079 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
11080 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
11081 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
11082 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
11084 o Performance improvements:
11085 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
11087 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
11088 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
11091 o Deprecated and removed features:
11092 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
11093 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
11094 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
11095 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
11097 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11098 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
11099 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11100 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
11101 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
11102 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11103 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
11104 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
11105 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
11108 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11109 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
11110 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
11111 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
11112 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
11114 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
11115 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
11118 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11119 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
11120 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
11121 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
11122 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
11123 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
11124 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
11125 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
11126 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
11129 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
11130 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
11131 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
11132 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
11134 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11135 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
11137 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11138 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
11139 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
11140 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
11141 routerlist while inserting a new router.
11142 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
11143 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
11145 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
11146 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
11147 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
11149 o Major bugfixes (security):
11150 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
11152 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
11153 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
11154 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
11155 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
11156 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
11157 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
11158 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
11159 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
11160 guard list unless we need to.
11162 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
11163 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
11164 don't get overused as guards.
11166 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11167 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
11168 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
11169 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
11170 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
11172 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11173 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
11174 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
11177 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11178 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11179 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
11180 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
11181 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
11182 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
11183 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
11184 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
11187 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
11188 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
11189 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
11190 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
11192 o Minor features (directory):
11193 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
11194 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
11195 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
11196 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
11198 o Minor build issues:
11199 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
11200 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
11201 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
11202 in the tarball, not as "x".
11205 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
11206 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
11207 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
11208 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
11209 forward on a lot of fronts.
11211 o Major features, server usability:
11212 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
11213 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
11214 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
11215 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
11217 o Major features, client usability:
11218 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
11219 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
11220 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
11221 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
11222 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
11223 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
11224 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
11225 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
11227 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
11228 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
11229 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
11230 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
11231 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
11232 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
11234 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
11235 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
11236 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
11238 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
11239 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
11240 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
11241 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
11242 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
11244 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
11245 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
11246 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
11247 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
11249 o Major features, other:
11250 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
11251 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
11252 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
11253 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
11254 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
11257 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
11258 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
11259 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
11262 o Minor fixes (resource management):
11263 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
11264 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
11265 our allocated connection limit.
11266 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
11267 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
11268 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
11269 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
11270 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
11272 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
11273 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
11274 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
11276 o Minor features (build):
11277 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
11278 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
11279 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
11280 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
11282 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
11283 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
11284 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
11285 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
11286 Use this version consistently in log messages.
11288 o Minor features (logging):
11289 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
11290 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
11291 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
11292 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
11293 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
11296 o Minor features (directory system):
11297 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
11298 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
11299 not to serve V2 directory information.
11300 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
11301 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
11302 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
11304 o Minor features (controller):
11305 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
11306 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
11308 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
11309 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
11310 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
11311 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
11312 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
11313 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
11315 o Minor features (hidden services):
11316 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
11317 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
11318 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
11319 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
11321 o Minor features (other):
11323 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
11324 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
11325 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
11326 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
11327 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
11328 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
11329 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
11330 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
11331 longer a completely silly thing to do.
11332 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
11333 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
11334 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
11335 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
11337 o Removed features:
11338 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
11339 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
11340 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
11341 back an error and close the connection.
11342 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
11343 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
11346 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11347 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
11348 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
11349 makes the log messages nicer.
11350 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
11351 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11352 partial results on small file reads.
11354 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11355 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
11356 more often than they are allowed to appear.
11357 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
11358 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
11360 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11361 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
11362 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
11363 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
11365 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11366 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
11367 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
11368 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
11369 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
11370 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
11371 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
11372 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
11373 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
11374 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
11375 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
11377 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
11378 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
11379 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
11381 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11382 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
11383 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
11384 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
11386 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11387 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
11388 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
11390 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
11391 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
11394 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11395 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
11396 implicit in other procedure arguments.
11397 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
11398 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
11399 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
11400 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
11401 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
11402 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
11403 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
11404 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
11405 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
11408 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
11409 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
11410 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
11411 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
11413 o Directory authority changes:
11414 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
11415 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
11416 or use hidden services.
11418 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11419 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
11420 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
11421 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
11422 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
11423 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
11424 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
11425 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
11426 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
11429 o Major bugfixes (security):
11430 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
11431 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
11432 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
11434 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
11435 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
11436 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
11437 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
11438 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
11439 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
11440 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
11441 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
11442 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
11443 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
11446 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
11447 purpose=controller.
11448 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
11449 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
11451 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
11452 having a hard time downloading.
11453 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
11454 partial results on small file reads.
11455 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
11456 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
11457 the gaps in the store get very large.
11460 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
11461 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
11463 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
11464 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
11467 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
11468 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
11469 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
11470 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
11471 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
11472 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
11474 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
11475 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
11476 free speech on the Internet.
11479 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
11480 get one we don't recognize.
11481 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
11482 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
11485 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
11487 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
11488 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
11489 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
11490 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
11493 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
11494 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
11497 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
11498 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
11499 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
11500 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
11501 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
11502 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
11503 ask for GUARDS too.
11506 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
11507 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11508 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
11509 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
11510 on Win98 and friends again.
11512 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11513 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
11514 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
11517 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
11518 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
11519 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
11520 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
11521 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
11522 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
11523 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
11524 and maybe also bug 397.)
11526 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11527 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
11528 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
11530 o Minor bugfixes (server):
11531 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
11534 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
11535 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
11536 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
11537 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
11538 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11541 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
11542 load on authorities.
11544 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11545 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
11546 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
11547 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
11549 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
11551 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
11552 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
11553 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
11554 the last of bug 326.)
11555 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
11556 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
11560 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
11561 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11562 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
11563 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
11564 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
11565 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
11566 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
11568 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
11569 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
11571 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11572 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
11573 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
11575 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
11576 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
11577 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
11579 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11580 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
11581 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
11582 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
11584 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
11585 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
11587 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
11588 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
11589 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
11592 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11593 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
11594 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
11595 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
11596 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
11597 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
11598 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
11599 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
11600 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
11601 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
11602 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
11603 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
11604 other than file-not-found.
11605 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
11606 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
11607 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
11608 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
11609 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
11610 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
11611 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
11612 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
11613 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
11614 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
11615 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
11616 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
11617 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
11618 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
11619 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
11621 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
11623 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
11624 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
11626 o Minor features (controller):
11627 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
11628 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
11629 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
11631 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
11632 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
11633 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
11634 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
11635 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
11636 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
11637 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
11638 connected or resolved cell.
11640 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11641 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
11642 some profiles, but not others.)
11643 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
11644 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
11645 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
11648 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
11650 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
11651 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
11652 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
11653 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
11654 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
11655 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
11656 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
11657 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
11658 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
11659 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
11660 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
11661 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
11662 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
11663 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
11664 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
11666 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
11669 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
11670 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
11671 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
11672 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
11673 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
11674 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
11675 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
11677 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
11678 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
11679 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
11680 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
11681 buckets go absurdly negative.
11682 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
11683 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
11686 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
11687 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
11688 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
11689 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
11690 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
11691 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
11692 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
11693 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
11696 o Major bugfixes (other):
11697 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
11698 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
11699 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
11700 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
11702 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
11704 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
11705 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
11707 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
11708 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
11709 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
11710 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
11711 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
11712 to wait for 0.2.0.)
11714 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
11715 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
11716 possible memory-stomping bugs.
11717 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
11718 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
11720 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
11721 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
11722 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
11723 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
11724 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
11725 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
11727 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11728 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
11729 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
11730 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
11732 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
11733 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
11734 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
11735 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
11736 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
11737 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
11738 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
11739 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
11740 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
11741 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
11742 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
11743 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
11744 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
11746 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
11747 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
11748 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
11749 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
11750 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
11751 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
11752 to the resulting address.
11755 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
11756 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
11757 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
11758 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
11761 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
11762 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
11764 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
11765 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
11766 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
11767 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
11768 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
11769 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
11770 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
11771 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
11772 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
11773 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
11774 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
11775 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
11776 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
11777 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
11778 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
11779 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
11780 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
11783 o Minor features (controller):
11784 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
11785 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
11786 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
11787 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
11788 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
11789 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
11790 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
11794 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
11796 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
11797 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
11798 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
11799 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
11800 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
11801 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
11804 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
11805 weren't planning to resolve.
11806 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
11807 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
11808 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
11809 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
11810 the controller from learning about current events.
11812 o Minor features (more controller status events):
11813 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
11814 learn when our address changes.
11815 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
11816 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
11817 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
11818 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
11820 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
11821 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
11822 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
11823 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
11824 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
11825 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
11826 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
11827 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
11828 are accepted by a directory.
11829 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
11830 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
11831 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
11832 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
11833 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
11835 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
11836 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
11837 about changes to DNS server status.
11839 o Minor features (directory):
11840 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
11841 too much load to the exit nodes.
11844 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
11846 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
11847 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
11848 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
11849 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
11850 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
11852 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
11853 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
11854 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
11856 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
11857 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
11858 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
11859 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
11860 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
11861 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
11862 config options if you like.
11864 o Minor features (config and docs):
11865 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
11866 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
11867 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11868 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
11869 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
11871 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
11872 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
11873 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
11874 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
11875 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
11877 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
11878 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
11879 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
11880 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
11881 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
11882 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
11883 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
11884 documentation: "make check-docs".
11885 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
11886 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
11888 o Minor features (DNS):
11889 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
11890 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
11891 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
11892 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
11893 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
11894 our tests for DNS hijacking.
11896 o Minor features (directory):
11897 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
11898 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
11899 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
11900 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
11901 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
11902 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
11903 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
11904 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
11905 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
11906 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
11907 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
11908 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
11909 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
11910 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
11911 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
11912 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
11913 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
11914 for the thing we're trying to download.
11915 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
11916 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
11917 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
11919 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
11920 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
11921 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
11924 o Minor features (controller):
11925 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
11926 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
11928 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
11929 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
11930 entry guard status as it changes.
11932 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
11933 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
11934 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
11935 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
11936 to set log options.
11937 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
11938 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
11939 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
11940 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
11943 o Major bugfixes (security):
11944 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
11945 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
11946 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11947 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
11949 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
11950 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
11951 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
11952 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
11953 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
11955 o Major bugfixes (other):
11956 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
11957 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
11958 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
11959 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
11961 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
11962 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
11963 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
11964 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
11965 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
11966 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
11970 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
11971 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
11972 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
11973 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
11974 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
11976 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
11977 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
11979 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
11980 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
11981 family lists conveniently.
11982 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
11983 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
11984 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
11986 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
11987 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
11989 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
11990 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
11991 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
11992 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
11993 if their identity keys are as expected.
11994 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
11995 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
11996 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
11998 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11999 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
12000 reported by Mike Perry.
12001 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
12002 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
12003 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
12004 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
12007 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
12008 o Security bugfixes:
12009 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
12010 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
12011 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
12012 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
12016 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
12017 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
12018 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
12021 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
12023 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
12024 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
12025 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
12028 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
12029 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
12030 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
12031 watching for STREAM events.
12032 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
12033 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
12034 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
12035 operations, for profiling.
12038 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
12039 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
12040 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
12041 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
12042 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
12043 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
12045 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
12049 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
12050 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
12051 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
12052 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
12053 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
12055 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
12056 correctly in the Windows installer.
12057 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
12058 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
12059 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
12060 MIPSpro C compiler.
12061 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
12062 when we're running as a client.
12065 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
12067 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
12068 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
12069 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
12070 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
12071 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12072 its circuits on demand.
12073 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
12074 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
12075 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
12076 connections more stable on average.
12077 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12078 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12079 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12081 o Security bugfixes:
12082 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
12083 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
12086 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12088 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
12089 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
12090 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12091 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12092 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
12093 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
12094 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
12095 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
12098 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
12100 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
12101 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
12102 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
12103 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
12104 routers for even longer.
12105 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
12106 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
12107 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
12108 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
12109 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
12110 caching HTTP proxies.
12111 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
12114 o Minor features, controller:
12115 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
12116 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
12117 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
12118 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
12120 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
12121 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
12122 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
12123 working much like those for circuit events.
12124 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
12125 about the current status of a router.
12126 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
12127 a router's status has changed.
12128 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
12129 can tell which events and features are supported.
12130 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
12131 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
12133 o Security bugfixes:
12134 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
12135 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
12138 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
12139 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
12140 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
12141 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
12142 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
12143 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
12144 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
12145 long nicknames where appropriate.
12146 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
12147 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
12148 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
12149 chews through many circuits before giving up.
12150 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
12151 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
12152 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
12153 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
12154 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
12155 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
12157 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
12158 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
12159 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
12161 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
12162 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
12163 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
12164 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
12165 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
12166 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
12167 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
12168 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
12169 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
12170 (reported by fookoowa).
12171 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
12172 and reported by some Centos users.
12173 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
12174 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
12175 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
12176 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
12177 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
12178 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
12179 before we check for libevent.
12182 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
12184 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
12185 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
12186 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
12187 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
12188 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
12189 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
12190 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
12191 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
12192 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
12193 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
12194 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
12195 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
12196 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
12197 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
12198 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
12199 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
12200 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
12201 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
12202 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
12203 lets you turn it off.
12204 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
12205 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
12206 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
12207 us into the directory more quickly.
12209 o New/improved config options:
12210 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
12211 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
12212 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
12213 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
12214 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
12215 all the machines on the same subnet.
12216 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
12217 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
12218 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
12219 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
12220 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
12221 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
12222 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
12223 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
12224 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
12225 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
12227 o Minor features, controller:
12228 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
12229 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
12230 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
12231 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
12232 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
12233 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
12234 for more information.
12235 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
12236 best guess to the user.
12237 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
12238 descriptor has changed.
12239 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
12241 o Minor features, other:
12242 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
12243 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
12244 useful to the network.
12245 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
12246 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
12247 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
12248 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
12249 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
12250 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
12251 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
12252 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
12253 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
12254 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
12255 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
12256 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
12257 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
12258 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
12259 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
12261 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
12262 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
12263 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
12264 could return an unnamed server instead.
12265 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
12266 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
12267 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
12268 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
12269 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
12270 a more attractive target for compromise.)
12271 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
12272 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
12273 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
12275 o Major bugfixes, other:
12276 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
12277 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
12278 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
12279 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
12280 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12281 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12282 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
12283 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
12284 its circuits on demand.
12285 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
12286 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
12287 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
12288 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
12290 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
12291 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12292 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12293 we don't recognize.
12294 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
12296 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
12297 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
12298 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
12299 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
12300 "extendcircuit" request.
12301 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12302 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12303 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
12305 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
12306 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
12307 instead of "X resolved to X".
12308 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
12309 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
12310 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
12311 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
12312 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
12313 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
12314 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
12315 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
12316 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
12318 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
12319 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
12320 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
12321 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
12322 result more than once.
12323 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
12324 non-versioning dirservers.
12325 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
12326 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
12328 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
12329 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
12330 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
12331 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
12332 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
12333 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
12334 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
12335 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
12336 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
12338 o Packaging, features:
12339 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
12340 now universal binaries.
12341 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
12342 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
12343 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
12345 o Packaging, bugfixes:
12346 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
12347 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
12348 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
12349 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
12351 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
12352 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
12353 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
12356 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
12357 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
12358 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
12362 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
12364 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
12365 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
12366 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
12367 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
12368 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
12369 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
12370 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
12371 it can't resolve its hostname.
12374 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12375 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
12376 "extendcircuit" request.
12377 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
12378 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
12379 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12380 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12382 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
12383 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
12384 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
12386 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
12387 methods: these are known to be buggy.
12388 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
12389 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
12390 we don't recognize.
12393 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
12395 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
12396 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
12397 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
12398 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
12399 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
12400 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
12401 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
12402 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
12403 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
12404 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
12405 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
12406 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
12407 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
12408 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
12409 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
12410 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
12411 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
12412 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
12413 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
12414 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
12415 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
12416 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
12417 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
12418 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
12421 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
12422 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
12423 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
12424 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
12425 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
12426 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
12427 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
12428 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
12429 recommendation system saner.)
12430 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
12432 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
12433 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
12434 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
12435 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
12436 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
12437 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
12438 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
12439 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
12440 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
12441 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
12442 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
12443 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
12444 your ORPort is set.
12445 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
12446 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
12447 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
12448 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
12449 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
12450 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
12451 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
12452 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
12453 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
12454 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
12455 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
12456 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
12458 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
12459 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
12460 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
12461 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
12462 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
12463 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
12466 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
12467 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
12468 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
12469 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
12470 our DirPort now, etc.
12471 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
12472 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
12473 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
12474 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
12475 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
12476 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
12477 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
12479 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
12480 whether the config options are bad or good.
12481 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
12482 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
12483 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
12484 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
12485 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
12486 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
12487 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
12488 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
12491 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
12492 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
12493 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
12494 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
12495 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
12496 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
12497 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
12498 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
12499 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
12500 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
12501 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
12502 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
12503 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
12504 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
12505 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
12506 of it), is not therefore "up".
12507 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
12508 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
12509 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
12510 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
12511 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
12512 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
12515 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
12517 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
12518 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
12519 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
12520 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
12521 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
12522 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
12523 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
12524 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
12525 test reachability, so you won't publish.
12528 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
12529 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
12530 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
12531 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
12532 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
12534 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
12535 own server descriptor yet.
12538 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
12540 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
12541 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
12542 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
12543 make sure to test via one of these.
12544 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
12545 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
12546 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
12547 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
12548 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
12550 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
12551 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
12552 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
12555 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
12556 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
12557 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
12558 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
12559 directory authority.
12560 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
12561 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
12562 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
12563 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
12566 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
12567 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
12568 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
12570 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
12571 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
12572 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
12573 current guards when picking a new guard.
12574 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
12575 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
12576 when we had more than one pending.
12577 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
12578 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
12579 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
12580 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
12581 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
12582 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
12583 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
12584 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
12585 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
12586 debug the reachability problems better.
12588 o Log / documentation fixes:
12589 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
12590 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
12591 about protocol violations by others.
12592 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
12593 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
12594 about what happened to our old torrc.
12597 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
12599 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
12601 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
12602 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
12603 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
12604 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
12607 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
12609 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
12610 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
12611 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
12612 old ORPort and receive connections.
12613 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
12615 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
12616 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
12617 and network-statuses.
12618 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
12619 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
12620 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
12621 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
12623 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
12626 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
12627 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
12628 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
12631 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
12633 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
12634 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
12635 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
12636 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
12637 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
12640 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
12641 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
12643 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
12644 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
12645 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
12646 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
12647 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
12648 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
12649 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
12650 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
12651 rather than not sending anything back at all.
12652 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
12653 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
12654 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
12655 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
12656 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
12657 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
12658 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
12659 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
12660 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
12661 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
12662 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
12663 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
12664 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
12665 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
12666 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
12667 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
12668 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
12669 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
12670 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
12671 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
12672 default ulimit -n is 1024.
12675 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
12676 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
12677 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
12678 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
12681 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
12683 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
12684 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
12685 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
12686 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
12687 entry guards running these flawed versions.
12688 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
12689 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
12690 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
12691 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
12692 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
12695 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
12696 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
12698 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
12699 and it is confusing some users.
12700 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
12701 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
12702 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
12703 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
12704 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
12707 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
12709 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
12710 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
12711 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
12712 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
12713 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
12714 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
12715 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
12716 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
12717 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
12718 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
12719 dirport is set for now.
12721 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
12722 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
12723 unattached before we fail it?
12724 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
12725 at least this many seconds ago.
12726 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
12727 at least this many seconds ago.
12730 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
12731 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
12732 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
12733 or resolve-wait stream.
12734 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
12735 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
12736 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
12737 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
12738 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
12739 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
12740 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
12741 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
12743 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
12744 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
12745 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
12746 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
12747 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
12748 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
12749 given as hex digests.
12750 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
12751 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
12752 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
12753 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
12754 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
12755 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
12756 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
12757 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
12760 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12761 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
12762 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
12763 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
12764 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
12765 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
12766 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
12767 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
12768 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
12769 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
12770 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
12773 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
12774 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
12775 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
12776 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
12777 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
12778 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
12779 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
12782 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
12783 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
12784 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
12785 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
12786 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
12787 misreading their logs.
12788 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
12789 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
12790 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
12791 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
12792 valid router descriptors.
12793 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
12794 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
12795 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
12796 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
12797 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
12798 silently resetting it to its default.
12799 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
12801 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
12804 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
12805 use clean circuits.
12806 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
12807 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
12808 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
12809 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
12810 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
12812 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
12813 because older Tors do not understand it.
12814 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
12818 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
12819 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12820 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
12821 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
12822 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
12823 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
12824 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
12825 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
12826 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
12827 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
12828 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
12830 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
12831 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
12832 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
12833 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
12835 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
12836 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
12839 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
12840 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
12841 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12842 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12843 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12844 without getting overloaded.
12845 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
12847 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
12848 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
12849 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
12850 be forward-compatible.
12851 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
12852 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
12853 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
12854 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
12856 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
12857 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
12858 and OR conns to port 443.
12859 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
12860 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
12862 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
12863 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
12864 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
12865 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
12866 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
12867 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
12868 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
12871 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
12872 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12873 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
12874 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
12876 o Other important bugfixes:
12877 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12878 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12879 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12880 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12882 o Backported features:
12883 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
12884 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
12885 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
12886 without getting overloaded.
12887 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
12888 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
12889 503's whenever they feel busy.
12890 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
12891 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
12892 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
12893 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
12894 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
12897 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
12898 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12899 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
12900 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
12901 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
12902 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
12903 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
12904 know if the crashes continue.
12905 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
12906 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
12907 seg faults in at least some cases.)
12908 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
12909 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
12910 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
12913 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
12914 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
12915 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
12916 try to be a bit more fair.
12917 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
12918 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
12919 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
12920 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
12921 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
12922 bug that let it go negative.
12923 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
12924 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
12925 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
12926 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
12927 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
12928 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
12929 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
12930 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
12931 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
12932 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
12933 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
12936 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
12938 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
12939 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
12940 service descriptors.
12943 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
12944 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
12945 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
12946 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
12948 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
12949 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
12950 versions *are* still recommended.
12951 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
12952 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
12953 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
12954 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
12955 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
12956 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
12957 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
12958 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
12960 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
12961 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
12962 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
12963 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
12964 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
12965 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
12966 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
12967 on it. Not used by clients yet.
12968 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
12969 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
12970 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
12971 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
12972 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
12973 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
12974 established a circuit.
12975 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
12976 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
12977 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
12978 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
12981 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
12982 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
12983 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
12984 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
12985 quickly enough. Oops.
12986 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
12988 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
12989 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
12992 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
12993 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
12994 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
12995 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
12996 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
12997 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
12998 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
12999 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
13000 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
13001 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
13002 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
13003 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
13004 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
13005 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
13006 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
13007 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
13008 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
13011 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
13012 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
13013 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
13014 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
13015 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
13016 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
13017 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
13018 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
13019 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
13020 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
13021 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
13022 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
13023 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
13024 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
13025 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
13026 connections more reliable.
13029 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
13030 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
13031 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
13032 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
13033 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
13034 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
13035 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
13036 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
13037 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
13038 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
13039 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
13040 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
13041 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
13042 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
13046 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
13047 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
13048 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
13049 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
13050 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
13051 need to be uint64_t's.
13052 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
13053 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
13054 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
13056 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
13058 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
13059 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
13060 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
13061 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
13062 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
13063 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
13064 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
13066 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
13067 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
13068 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
13069 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
13070 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
13071 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
13072 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
13073 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
13074 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
13075 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
13076 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
13077 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
13078 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
13081 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
13082 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
13083 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
13084 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
13085 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
13086 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
13087 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
13089 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
13090 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
13091 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
13092 can answer v2 directory requests too.
13093 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
13094 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
13095 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
13096 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
13098 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
13099 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
13100 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
13101 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
13102 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
13103 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
13104 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
13105 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
13106 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
13107 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
13108 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
13109 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
13110 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
13111 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
13112 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
13114 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
13115 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
13118 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
13119 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13120 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13121 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13122 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13123 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
13124 too -- so detect and avoid this.
13125 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
13127 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
13128 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13129 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13130 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
13131 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
13132 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13133 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13134 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
13135 rendezvous circuits.
13136 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
13138 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13139 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
13140 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
13141 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
13142 advertising it because of hibernation.
13143 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
13144 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13145 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13146 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13147 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13148 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13149 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
13150 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
13151 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
13152 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
13153 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
13154 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
13155 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
13156 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
13159 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
13160 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13161 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
13162 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
13163 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
13164 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
13165 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
13166 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
13167 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
13168 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
13169 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
13170 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
13171 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
13172 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
13173 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
13174 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
13175 connections once a week.
13176 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
13177 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
13178 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
13179 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
13180 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
13181 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
13183 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
13184 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
13185 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
13187 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13188 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
13189 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
13190 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
13191 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
13192 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
13193 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
13194 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
13195 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
13196 firewall options forbid.
13197 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
13198 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
13199 can only proxy to certain destinations.
13200 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
13201 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
13202 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
13203 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
13204 aids some statistical attacks.
13205 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
13206 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
13207 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
13208 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
13210 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13211 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
13212 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
13213 server descriptor sometimes.
13214 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
13215 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
13216 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
13217 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
13218 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
13219 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
13220 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
13221 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
13223 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
13224 case the controller wants to change that too.
13225 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
13226 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
13227 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
13228 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
13230 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
13231 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
13232 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
13234 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
13235 descriptors that they know they will reject.
13237 o Features and updates:
13238 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
13239 significantly faster.
13240 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
13241 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
13242 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
13243 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
13244 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
13245 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
13246 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
13247 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
13248 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
13249 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
13250 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
13251 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
13252 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
13253 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
13254 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
13255 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
13256 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
13257 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
13258 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
13259 as authoritative dirserver.
13260 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
13261 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
13262 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
13265 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
13266 o Usability improvements:
13267 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
13268 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
13270 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
13271 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
13272 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
13274 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
13275 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
13276 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
13277 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
13278 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
13279 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
13280 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
13281 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
13282 memory leaks better.
13283 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
13284 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
13285 their operators to pay close attention.
13286 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
13287 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
13289 o Performance improvements:
13290 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
13291 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
13292 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
13293 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
13294 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
13295 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
13296 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
13297 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
13298 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
13299 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
13300 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
13301 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
13302 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
13303 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
13304 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
13305 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
13306 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
13308 o Security improvements:
13309 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
13310 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
13311 fingerprint of server.
13312 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
13313 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
13314 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
13316 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13317 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
13318 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
13319 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
13320 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
13321 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
13322 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
13323 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
13324 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
13325 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
13326 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
13327 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
13328 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
13329 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
13330 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
13331 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
13332 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
13333 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
13334 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
13335 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
13336 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
13338 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
13339 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
13340 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
13342 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
13343 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
13345 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
13346 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
13347 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
13348 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
13349 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
13350 of the controller protocol.
13351 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
13352 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
13353 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
13356 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
13357 o New features (major):
13358 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
13359 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
13360 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
13361 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
13362 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
13363 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
13364 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
13365 we're using a default DirPort.
13366 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
13368 o New features (minor):
13369 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
13370 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
13371 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
13372 mirrors still cache and serve it).
13373 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
13374 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
13375 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
13376 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
13377 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
13378 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
13379 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
13380 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
13381 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
13382 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
13383 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
13384 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
13385 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
13386 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
13387 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
13389 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
13390 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
13391 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
13392 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
13393 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
13394 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
13395 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
13396 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
13398 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
13399 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
13400 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
13401 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
13402 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
13403 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
13404 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
13405 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
13406 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
13407 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
13409 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
13410 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13411 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13412 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13413 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13415 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13416 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
13417 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
13419 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
13420 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
13422 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
13423 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
13424 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
13425 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
13426 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
13427 don't warn twice about the same name.
13428 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
13429 if we've not heard of the server.
13430 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
13431 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
13434 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
13435 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13436 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
13437 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
13438 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
13439 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13440 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13441 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
13442 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
13443 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
13444 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
13445 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
13446 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
13447 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
13448 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
13451 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
13452 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
13453 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
13454 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
13455 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
13457 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
13458 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
13459 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
13460 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
13461 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
13462 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
13466 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
13467 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
13468 nickname) is reachable by you.
13469 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
13472 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13473 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
13474 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
13475 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
13476 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
13477 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
13478 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
13479 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
13480 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
13481 we fail to connect).
13482 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
13483 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
13484 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
13485 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
13487 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
13488 it was self-testing that told us so.
13491 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
13492 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
13493 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13494 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
13495 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
13496 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
13497 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
13498 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
13499 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
13500 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
13501 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
13502 exit policy using him for any exits.
13503 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
13506 o New controller features/fixes:
13507 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
13508 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
13509 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
13510 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
13511 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
13512 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
13513 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
13514 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
13515 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
13517 o Start on the new directory design:
13518 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
13519 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
13521 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
13522 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
13523 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
13524 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
13526 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
13527 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
13528 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
13529 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
13530 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
13531 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
13532 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
13533 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
13536 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
13537 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
13538 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
13539 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
13540 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
13541 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
13542 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
13543 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
13544 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
13545 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
13547 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
13548 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
13549 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
13550 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
13551 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
13552 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
13553 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
13554 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
13555 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
13557 o Config option changes:
13558 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
13559 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
13560 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
13561 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
13562 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
13563 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
13565 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
13566 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
13567 people have started using them for spam too.
13568 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
13569 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
13570 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
13571 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
13572 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
13573 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
13574 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
13575 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
13576 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
13577 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
13578 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
13579 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
13580 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
13581 services faster on the service end.
13582 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
13583 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
13584 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
13585 it a fair shake next time we try.
13586 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
13587 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
13588 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
13589 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
13590 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
13591 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
13592 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
13593 able to discover them.
13594 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
13595 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
13596 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
13597 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
13598 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
13599 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
13600 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
13601 testing for reachability.
13602 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
13603 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
13605 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
13607 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
13608 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
13611 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
13612 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
13614 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13615 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
13616 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
13617 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
13620 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
13621 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13622 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
13624 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
13625 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
13628 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
13629 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
13632 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
13633 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
13634 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
13635 options, getinfo keys.
13638 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
13639 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13640 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
13641 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13642 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13643 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
13644 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
13646 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
13647 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
13651 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
13652 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13653 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
13655 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
13657 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
13658 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
13659 circuit events and we go offline.
13660 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
13661 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
13662 you don't have enough intro points already.
13664 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
13665 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
13666 many bytes we've used in this time period.
13667 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
13668 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
13669 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
13670 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
13671 enabled by default yet.
13673 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
13674 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
13675 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
13676 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
13677 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
13680 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
13681 o New directory servers:
13682 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13684 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13685 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13686 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13687 pthreads libraries.
13688 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
13689 claims its dirport is 0.
13690 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
13691 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
13695 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
13696 o New directory servers:
13697 - tor26 has changed IP address.
13699 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
13700 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
13702 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
13703 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
13704 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
13705 ports that have changed.
13706 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
13708 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
13709 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
13710 Windows-style errno back.
13711 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
13713 want to make it an NT service.
13714 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
13715 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
13716 name, give the full name in our response.
13717 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
13718 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
13719 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
13720 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
13721 pthreads libraries.
13723 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
13724 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
13728 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
13729 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
13730 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
13731 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
13732 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
13735 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
13736 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
13737 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
13738 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
13739 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13740 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13741 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13742 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
13745 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
13747 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
13748 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
13749 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
13750 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
13751 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
13752 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
13754 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
13755 temporarily unreachable.
13756 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
13760 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
13761 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
13762 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
13763 our protocol works.
13764 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
13768 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
13769 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
13770 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
13771 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
13772 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
13776 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
13777 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
13778 libevent before 1.1a.
13781 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
13783 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
13784 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
13785 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
13786 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
13787 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
13789 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
13790 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
13791 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
13792 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
13793 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
13794 of CPU time plus memory.
13795 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
13796 normal web requests.
13797 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
13798 tor_lookup_hostname().
13799 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
13800 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
13801 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
13802 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
13803 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
13804 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
13806 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
13807 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
13808 HttpProxyAuthenticator
13809 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
13810 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
13811 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
13813 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
13814 the user asks you to.
13815 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
13816 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
13817 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
13818 their descriptors are being rejected.
13819 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
13823 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
13825 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
13826 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
13827 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
13829 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
13831 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
13833 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
13834 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
13835 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
13836 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
13837 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
13838 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
13839 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
13840 keys) from the exit server's process.
13841 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
13842 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
13843 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
13844 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
13845 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
13846 point at your Tor server.
13847 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
13848 you're not sending a socks reply back.
13851 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
13852 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
13853 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
13854 to make it easier to write controllers.
13857 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
13859 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
13860 installing on Tiger.
13861 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
13862 complain during installation.
13863 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
13864 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
13865 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
13866 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
13867 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
13868 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
13870 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
13871 something more reasonable when first installing.
13872 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
13875 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
13877 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
13878 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
13880 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
13881 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
13882 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
13883 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
13884 when using the default exit policy.
13885 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
13886 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
13887 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
13888 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
13889 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
13890 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
13891 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
13892 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
13893 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
13894 we fetched a new directory.
13895 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
13896 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
13899 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
13900 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
13901 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
13902 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
13903 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
13904 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
13905 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
13906 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
13908 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
13909 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
13910 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
13911 save memory on systems that need to fork.
13912 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
13913 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
13914 is valid without actually launching Tor.
13915 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
13916 rather than just rejecting it.
13919 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
13921 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
13922 we didn't like its cert.
13924 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
13925 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
13926 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
13927 on patch from Adam Langley.
13928 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
13929 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
13930 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
13931 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
13933 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
13934 directory every time you regenerate it.
13935 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
13936 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
13939 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
13940 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
13941 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13942 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
13943 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
13946 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
13948 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
13949 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
13950 TLS errors better in other situations too.
13951 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
13952 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
13953 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
13954 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
13955 and don't log when you are.
13956 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
13957 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
13959 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
13960 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
13961 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
13962 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
13963 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
13966 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
13967 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
13968 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
13969 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
13970 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
13971 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
13972 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
13973 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
13974 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
13975 nickname+key are allowed.
13976 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
13977 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
13978 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
13979 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
13980 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
13981 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
13982 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
13983 have quite wrong clocks).
13984 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
13985 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
13986 - Efficiency improvements:
13987 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
13988 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
13989 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
13990 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
13991 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
13992 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
13993 lowercase and be done with it.
13994 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
13995 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
13996 to abandon partially built circuits.
13997 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
13998 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
14000 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
14002 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
14003 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
14004 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
14005 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
14007 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
14008 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
14010 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
14011 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
14012 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
14013 obeying the exit policy internally.
14014 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
14015 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
14017 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
14018 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
14019 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
14020 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
14022 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
14023 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
14024 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
14025 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
14026 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
14028 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
14029 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
14030 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
14031 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
14032 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
14033 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
14034 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
14035 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
14036 descriptors we just dropped.
14037 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
14038 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
14039 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
14040 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
14041 artificially capped at 500kB.
14044 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
14045 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14046 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
14047 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
14048 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
14049 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
14050 busy for more than 100 seconds.
14053 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
14054 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
14055 - Fixes on reachability detection:
14056 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
14057 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
14058 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
14059 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
14060 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
14061 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
14062 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
14063 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
14064 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
14065 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
14066 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
14067 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
14068 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
14069 server not already connected to them.
14070 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
14071 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
14072 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
14074 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
14076 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
14077 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
14078 are in a different state than they actually are.
14079 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
14080 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
14081 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
14083 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
14084 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
14085 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
14087 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
14088 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
14089 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
14090 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
14091 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
14092 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
14093 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
14095 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
14096 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
14097 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
14098 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
14101 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
14102 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14103 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
14104 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
14105 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
14106 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
14107 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
14108 creating actual system users.
14109 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
14110 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
14114 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
14116 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
14117 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
14118 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
14119 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
14120 hidden services better.
14121 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
14123 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
14124 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
14125 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
14126 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
14127 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
14128 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
14129 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
14130 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
14131 patch by Matt Edman).
14132 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
14133 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
14134 required exit node for certain sites.
14135 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
14136 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
14137 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
14138 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
14139 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
14140 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
14141 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
14142 rather than just "success" or "failure".
14143 - A more sane version numbering system. See
14144 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
14145 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
14146 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
14148 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
14149 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
14150 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
14151 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
14152 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
14153 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
14154 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
14156 o Robustness/stability fixes:
14157 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
14158 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
14159 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
14161 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
14162 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
14163 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
14165 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
14166 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
14167 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
14169 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
14170 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
14171 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
14172 that will want high uptime circuits.
14173 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
14174 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
14175 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
14176 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
14177 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
14178 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
14179 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
14180 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
14181 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
14182 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
14183 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
14184 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
14185 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
14186 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
14187 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
14188 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
14189 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
14190 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
14191 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
14192 when we try to launch one.
14193 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
14194 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
14195 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
14196 "ShutdownWaitLength".
14197 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
14198 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
14199 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
14200 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
14201 and to take errno into account where possible.
14204 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
14205 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
14206 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
14207 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
14208 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
14209 file more reasonable.
14210 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
14211 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
14212 addresses -- it won't.
14213 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
14214 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
14215 for google.com" problem.
14216 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
14217 so it's not just "unknown platform".
14218 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
14219 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
14220 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
14221 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
14223 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
14224 they could use instead.
14225 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
14226 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
14227 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
14228 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
14229 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
14230 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
14231 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
14232 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
14233 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
14235 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
14239 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
14240 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
14242 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
14243 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
14244 private-IP addresses.
14245 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
14246 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
14248 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
14249 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
14250 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
14251 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
14252 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
14253 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
14254 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
14256 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
14257 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
14258 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
14259 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
14260 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
14261 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
14262 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
14263 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
14265 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
14267 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
14268 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
14269 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
14270 whether the server is hibernating.
14273 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
14274 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
14275 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
14276 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
14277 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
14278 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
14279 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
14280 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
14281 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
14282 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
14283 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
14284 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
14285 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
14286 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
14287 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
14289 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
14290 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
14291 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
14292 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
14293 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
14294 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
14295 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
14296 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
14297 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
14298 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
14299 existing torrc files.
14300 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
14303 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
14304 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
14305 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
14306 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
14307 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
14308 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
14309 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
14310 the win32 SYSTEM account.
14311 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
14312 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
14313 file descriptors available.
14314 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
14315 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
14316 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
14319 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
14320 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14321 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
14322 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
14324 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
14325 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
14326 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
14327 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
14328 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
14330 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
14331 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
14332 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
14333 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
14334 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
14335 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
14336 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
14337 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
14338 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
14339 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
14340 800kB/s of capacity.
14341 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
14344 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
14345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14346 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
14347 need as much processor time.
14348 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
14349 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
14350 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
14351 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
14352 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
14353 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
14354 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
14355 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
14356 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
14357 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
14358 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
14359 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
14361 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
14362 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
14363 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
14364 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
14365 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
14366 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
14367 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
14370 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
14371 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
14372 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
14374 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
14375 style address, then we'd crash.
14376 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
14377 a dirserver is broken.
14378 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
14380 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
14381 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
14382 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
14384 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
14385 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
14386 name out of the warning/assert messages.
14387 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
14388 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
14389 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
14391 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
14392 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
14393 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
14395 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
14397 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
14398 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
14399 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
14400 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
14401 values at once couldn't work.
14402 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
14403 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
14404 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
14405 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
14406 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
14407 they can handle any number of routers.
14408 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
14409 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
14410 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
14411 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
14412 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
14413 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
14414 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
14415 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
14416 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
14419 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
14420 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
14421 - Make hibernation actually work.
14422 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
14423 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
14424 don't use the stream status code.
14427 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
14429 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
14430 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
14432 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
14435 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
14436 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
14437 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
14438 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
14439 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
14440 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
14441 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
14442 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
14443 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
14444 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
14446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14447 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
14448 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
14449 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
14450 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
14451 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
14452 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
14453 - Make unit tests work on win32.
14456 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
14457 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14458 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
14460 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
14461 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
14462 than just chopping them off.
14463 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
14465 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14466 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
14467 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
14468 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
14469 right after sending the begin cell.
14470 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
14471 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
14472 exit nodes too. Oops.
14475 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
14476 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
14477 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
14478 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
14479 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
14480 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
14481 the user knows which one it's talking about.
14482 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
14483 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
14484 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
14487 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
14488 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14489 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
14490 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
14492 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
14494 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
14495 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
14496 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
14498 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
14499 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
14500 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
14501 Clip rather than rejecting.
14502 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
14503 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
14506 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
14507 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
14508 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
14509 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
14511 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
14514 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
14515 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14516 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
14517 win32 socket errors better.
14519 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14520 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
14523 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
14524 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14525 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
14526 so we don't see those messages days later.
14528 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14529 - Make tor-resolve work again.
14530 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
14531 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
14534 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
14535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
14536 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
14537 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
14539 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
14540 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
14541 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
14544 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
14545 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14546 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
14547 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
14548 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
14549 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
14550 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
14551 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
14552 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
14554 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
14555 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
14556 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
14557 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
14559 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
14560 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
14563 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
14564 hibernation properties by
14565 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
14566 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
14567 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
14568 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
14569 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
14570 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
14571 get back to normal.)
14572 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
14574 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
14575 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
14576 to fill the last cell completely.
14577 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
14580 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
14581 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14582 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
14583 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
14584 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
14585 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
14586 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
14587 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
14588 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
14589 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
14590 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
14592 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
14593 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
14594 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
14595 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
14596 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
14597 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
14598 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
14599 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
14601 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
14602 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
14603 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
14604 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
14605 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
14606 have it on start-up.
14609 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
14610 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
14611 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
14612 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
14613 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
14614 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
14615 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
14616 configuration to torrc.
14617 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
14618 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
14619 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
14620 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
14621 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
14623 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
14624 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
14625 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
14626 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
14627 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
14628 log more informatively.
14629 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
14630 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
14631 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
14632 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
14633 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
14634 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
14635 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
14636 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
14637 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
14638 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
14639 from each other, to hinder linkability.
14642 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
14643 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
14644 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
14645 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
14646 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
14647 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
14648 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
14650 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
14651 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
14652 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
14653 they ran out of file descriptors.
14654 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
14655 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
14656 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
14657 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
14658 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
14659 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
14660 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
14662 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
14665 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
14666 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
14667 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
14668 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
14669 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
14670 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
14671 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
14672 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
14673 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
14674 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
14675 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
14676 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
14677 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
14678 with the control port.
14679 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
14680 use in authenticating to the control interface.
14681 - New log format in config:
14682 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
14683 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
14686 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
14687 from their dirserver.
14688 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
14690 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
14691 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
14692 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
14693 them act more like real nodes.
14694 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
14695 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
14697 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
14698 nickname to its identity key.
14699 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
14700 not on the command line.
14701 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
14702 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
14703 1024) file descriptors.
14705 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
14706 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
14708 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
14709 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
14710 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
14713 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
14714 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
14715 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
14716 exit policy, not reject *:*.
14717 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
14718 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
14719 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
14720 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
14721 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
14722 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
14723 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
14726 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
14727 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
14728 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
14729 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
14730 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
14731 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
14732 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
14735 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
14736 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
14737 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
14738 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
14739 the ones we find in directories.)
14740 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
14742 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
14743 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
14745 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
14746 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
14747 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
14749 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
14750 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
14751 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
14752 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
14754 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
14755 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
14756 any more exit policy lines.
14759 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
14760 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
14761 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
14762 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
14763 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
14764 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
14765 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
14766 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
14767 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
14768 will be able to get a directory.
14769 - Http proxy support
14770 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
14771 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
14772 be routed through this host.
14773 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
14774 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
14775 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
14776 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
14779 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
14781 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
14782 clients/servers with an open dirport.
14783 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14784 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14785 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14786 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14787 intermittent connections.
14788 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
14789 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
14791 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
14792 in reporting stats locally.
14793 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
14794 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
14795 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
14798 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
14800 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
14801 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
14804 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
14806 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
14807 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
14808 if you don't want it open.
14809 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
14810 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
14811 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
14812 intermittent connections.
14813 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
14815 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
14816 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
14817 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
14818 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
14819 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
14820 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
14821 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
14822 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
14823 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
14824 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
14825 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
14826 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
14827 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
14828 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
14829 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
14830 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
14833 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
14834 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
14835 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
14836 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
14837 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
14839 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
14841 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
14842 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
14843 specified in HTTP 1.0.
14844 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
14845 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
14846 than once per minute.
14847 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
14848 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
14851 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
14852 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
14855 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
14856 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
14857 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
14858 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
14861 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
14862 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
14864 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
14865 don't put it into the client dns cache.
14866 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
14867 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
14868 until we get our next directory.
14870 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
14871 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
14872 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
14873 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
14874 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
14875 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
14876 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
14877 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
14878 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
14879 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
14880 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
14882 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
14884 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
14885 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
14887 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
14888 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
14889 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
14891 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
14893 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
14894 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
14895 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
14896 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
14897 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
14898 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
14899 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
14900 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
14903 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
14904 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
14905 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
14906 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
14909 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
14910 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
14911 ask them to resolve the host "".
14914 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
14915 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14916 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
14917 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
14918 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
14919 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
14920 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
14921 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
14922 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
14923 clients don't use this yet.)
14924 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
14925 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
14926 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
14927 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
14928 for pointing out this bug.)
14929 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
14930 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
14931 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
14932 kazaa, gnutella ports.
14933 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
14935 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
14936 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
14937 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
14938 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
14939 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
14940 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
14941 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
14942 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
14943 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
14944 wolf unpredictably.
14945 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
14946 that's still handshaking.
14947 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
14948 you'll choose it for your path.
14949 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
14950 end relay cell, etc.
14951 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
14952 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
14953 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
14956 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
14957 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
14959 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
14960 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
14961 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
14962 list to decide who's running or verified.
14963 - Bugfixes and features:
14964 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
14965 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
14966 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
14967 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
14968 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
14969 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
14971 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
14972 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
14973 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
14974 know you might want to get it verified.
14975 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
14978 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
14980 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
14981 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
14982 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
14983 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
14985 o Protocol changes:
14986 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
14987 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
14988 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
14989 hadn't heard of before.
14992 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
14993 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
14994 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
14995 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
14996 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
14997 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
14998 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
14999 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
15000 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
15001 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
15002 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
15003 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
15004 - Directory caching.
15005 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
15006 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
15007 directory they've pulled down.
15008 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
15009 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
15010 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
15011 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
15012 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
15013 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
15014 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
15016 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
15017 This isn't used yet.
15018 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
15019 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
15020 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
15021 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
15022 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
15023 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
15024 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
15025 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
15026 - File and name management:
15027 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
15028 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
15030 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
15031 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
15032 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
15033 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
15034 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
15035 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
15036 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
15038 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
15039 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
15040 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
15041 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
15042 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
15044 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
15045 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
15046 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
15047 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
15048 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
15049 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
15050 - New docs in the tarball:
15052 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
15055 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
15056 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
15057 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
15060 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
15061 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
15062 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
15065 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
15066 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
15069 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
15070 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
15071 - Make it build on Win32 again.
15072 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
15073 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
15077 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
15079 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
15080 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
15081 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
15082 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
15083 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
15084 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
15085 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
15086 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
15087 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
15088 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
15091 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
15094 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
15095 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
15096 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
15097 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
15099 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
15100 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
15101 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
15103 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
15104 hidden service per 15-minute period.
15105 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
15106 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
15107 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
15108 o Fixes for security bugs:
15109 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
15110 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
15111 a trusted dirserver.
15113 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
15114 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
15115 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
15116 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
15117 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
15118 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
15119 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
15120 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
15121 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
15122 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
15124 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
15125 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
15126 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
15127 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
15129 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
15130 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
15131 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
15132 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
15133 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
15134 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
15135 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
15136 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
15137 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
15138 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
15139 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
15140 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
15141 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
15144 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
15145 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
15146 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
15147 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15150 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
15151 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
15152 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
15153 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
15154 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
15155 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
15156 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
15160 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
15161 [version bump only]
15164 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
15165 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
15166 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
15167 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
15168 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
15170 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
15173 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
15174 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
15175 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
15176 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
15177 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
15178 o Better debugging for tls errors
15179 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
15180 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
15181 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
15182 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
15183 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
15184 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
15185 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
15186 o win32's close can't close a socket.
15189 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
15190 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
15191 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
15192 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
15193 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
15194 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
15195 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
15196 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
15197 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
15198 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
15199 just close the circ.
15200 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
15201 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
15202 (this was quite rare).
15205 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
15206 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
15207 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
15208 if you decrypted them correctly.
15209 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
15210 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
15211 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
15214 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
15215 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
15216 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
15217 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
15218 a second one and it works.
15219 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
15220 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
15221 alice would just have to wait to time out.
15222 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
15223 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
15224 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
15225 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
15226 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
15227 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
15228 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
15229 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
15230 i'd still like to find the bug though.
15231 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
15233 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
15237 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
15238 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
15239 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
15240 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
15241 he retries a couple of times
15242 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
15243 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
15244 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
15245 too long (they were sticking around forever).
15246 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
15250 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
15251 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
15252 - make hup work again
15253 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
15254 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
15255 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
15256 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
15257 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
15258 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
15260 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
15261 o changes from 0.0.5:
15262 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
15263 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
15264 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
15265 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
15266 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
15268 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
15269 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
15270 in-memory directories too
15273 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
15274 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
15277 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
15279 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
15280 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
15281 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
15282 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
15285 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
15286 [version bump only]
15289 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
15290 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
15292 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
15293 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
15294 but that aren't warnings
15297 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
15298 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
15299 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
15300 the dns farm to do it.
15301 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
15302 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
15304 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
15305 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
15306 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
15309 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
15310 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
15311 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
15312 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
15313 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
15314 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
15315 expect it to have a nickname.
15316 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
15317 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
15320 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
15321 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
15325 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
15326 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
15327 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
15328 - include missing header fcntl.h
15329 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
15330 - deal with hardware word alignment
15331 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
15332 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
15333 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
15334 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
15335 by kill -USR1 currently.
15336 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
15337 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
15338 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
15341 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
15342 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
15343 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
15346 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
15348 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
15349 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
15350 - And fix a few endian issues.
15353 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
15355 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
15356 try that circuit again: try a new one.
15357 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
15358 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
15359 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
15360 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
15361 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
15362 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
15364 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
15365 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
15366 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
15368 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
15370 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
15371 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
15372 side isn't reading right then.
15373 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
15374 RecommendedVersions
15375 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
15376 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
15377 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
15380 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
15382 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
15383 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
15386 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
15390 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
15392 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
15393 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
15394 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
15395 connection is finished.
15396 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
15397 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
15398 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
15399 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
15400 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
15401 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
15402 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
15403 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
15404 rather than warn and continue.
15405 - Make --version work
15406 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
15409 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
15411 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
15412 knows it's working.
15413 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
15414 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
15416 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
15417 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
15418 so you can collect coredumps there.
15420 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
15421 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
15422 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
15423 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
15424 dns cache actually gets populated.
15425 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
15426 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
15427 end cell down it first.
15428 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
15429 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
15432 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
15434 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
15435 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
15437 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
15438 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
15439 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
15440 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
15441 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
15442 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
15444 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
15446 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
15447 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
15448 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
15449 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
15450 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
15451 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
15453 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
15454 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
15457 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
15459 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
15460 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
15461 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
15462 tor. It even has a man page.
15463 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
15464 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
15465 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
15466 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
15468 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
15470 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
15473 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
15475 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
15476 it, apt-getters. :)
15477 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
15478 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
15479 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
15480 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
15481 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
15482 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
15483 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
15484 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
15485 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
15486 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
15487 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
15489 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
15490 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
15493 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
15495 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
15496 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
15499 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
15501 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
15502 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
15503 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
15504 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
15505 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
15506 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
15507 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
15508 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
15509 logfile so you know it's working.
15510 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
15511 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
15514 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
15516 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
15517 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
15518 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
15521 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
15523 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
15524 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
15525 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
15528 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
15529 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
15530 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
15532 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
15533 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
15535 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
15536 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
15537 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
15539 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
15540 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
15544 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
15546 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
15547 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
15548 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
15551 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
15552 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
15553 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
15554 - Add port ranges to exit policies
15555 - Add a conservative default exit policy
15556 - Warn if you're running tor as root
15557 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
15558 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
15559 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
15560 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
15562 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
15565 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
15566 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15567 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
15568 really screw things up.
15569 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
15571 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
15572 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
15574 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
15575 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
15576 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
15577 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
15578 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
15579 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
15582 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
15585 - Change default loglevel to warn.
15586 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
15587 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
15589 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
15592 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
15593 o Robustness and bugfixes:
15594 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
15595 - to get ownership/permissions right
15596 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
15597 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
15598 pull down a directory again
15599 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
15600 causing server crashes
15601 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
15602 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
15603 - exit if bind() fails
15604 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
15605 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
15606 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
15607 - fix minor bias in PRNG
15608 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
15611 - Wrote the design document (woo)
15613 o Circuit building and exit policies:
15614 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
15616 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
15617 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
15618 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
15619 exists, rather than failing
15620 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
15621 which AP connections are standing by
15622 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
15623 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
15624 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
15626 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
15627 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
15630 - APPort is now called SocksPort
15631 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
15633 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
15634 hardcoded (for dirservers)
15635 - Reloads config on HUP
15636 - Usage info on -h or --help
15637 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
15640 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
15641 o General stability:
15642 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
15643 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
15644 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
15645 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
15646 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
15647 to take down the network when I approve a new router
15648 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
15651 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
15652 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
15654 o Autoconf improvements:
15655 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
15656 - Make install now works
15657 - create var/lib/tor on make install
15658 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
15659 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
15661 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
15662 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
15663 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
15664 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup