1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
7 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
8 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
9 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
10 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
11 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
12 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
13 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
15 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
16 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
17 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
19 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
20 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
22 o Minor features (geoip data):
23 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
24 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
26 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
27 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
28 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
29 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
31 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
32 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
33 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
34 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
35 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
37 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
38 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
39 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
40 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
43 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
44 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
45 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
46 failures and PoW unit test.
48 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
49 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
51 o Minor features (geoip data):
52 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
53 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
55 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
56 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
57 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
58 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
60 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
61 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
62 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
63 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
65 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
66 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
67 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
68 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
69 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
70 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
71 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
75 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
76 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
77 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
78 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
81 o Major feature (denial of service):
82 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
83 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
84 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
86 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
87 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
88 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
89 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
90 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
91 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
93 o Major features (conflux):
94 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
95 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
96 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
97 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
98 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
99 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
100 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
101 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
102 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
103 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
104 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
105 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
107 o Major features (dirauth):
108 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
109 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
110 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
111 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
112 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
113 address. Implements ticket 40705.
115 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
116 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
117 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
118 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
121 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
122 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
123 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
124 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
125 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
126 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
128 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
129 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
130 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
132 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
133 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
134 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
135 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
136 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
137 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
139 o Minor features (geoip data):
140 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
141 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
143 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
144 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
146 o Minor features (testing):
147 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
148 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
149 run as part of GitLab CI.
151 o Minor feature (CI):
152 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
154 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
155 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
156 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
158 o Minor feature (compilation):
159 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
160 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
163 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
164 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
165 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
166 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
168 o Minor feature (lzma):
169 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
171 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
172 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
175 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
176 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
177 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
179 o Minor features (directory authorities):
180 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
181 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
182 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
183 Implements ticket 40753.
185 o Minor features (directory authority):
186 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
187 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
188 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
189 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
190 40130; implements proposal 275.
192 o Minor features (network documents):
193 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
194 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
195 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
196 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
198 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
199 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
201 o Minor features (geoip data):
202 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
203 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
205 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
206 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
207 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
208 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
210 o Minor features (metrics):
211 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
212 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
213 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
214 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
216 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
217 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
218 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
220 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
221 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
222 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
224 o Minor features (relay):
225 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
226 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
228 o Minor features (relays):
229 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
230 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
231 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
232 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
234 o Minor features (tests):
235 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
236 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
239 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
242 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
243 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
244 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
247 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
248 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
249 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
250 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
253 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
254 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
255 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
257 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
258 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
259 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
262 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
263 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
264 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
265 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
266 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
267 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
268 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
269 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
271 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
272 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
273 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
274 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
276 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
277 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
278 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
279 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
280 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
281 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
282 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
283 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
285 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
286 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
287 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
288 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
289 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
290 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
292 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
293 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
296 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
297 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
298 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
299 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
300 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
301 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
303 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
304 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
305 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
307 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
308 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
309 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
310 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
311 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
313 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
314 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
315 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
317 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
318 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
319 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
320 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
322 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
323 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
324 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
326 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
327 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
328 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
330 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
331 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
332 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
333 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
334 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
335 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
336 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
337 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
339 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
340 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
341 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
342 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
345 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
346 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
347 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
350 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
351 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
352 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
353 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
354 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
355 congestion control fix detailed below.
357 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
358 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
359 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
360 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
361 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
362 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
363 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
365 o Major bugfixes (relay):
366 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
367 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
368 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
369 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
370 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
371 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
374 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
375 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
376 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
377 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
378 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
380 o Minor feature (authority):
381 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
383 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
384 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
386 o Minor features (geoip data):
387 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
388 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
390 o Minor features (relays):
391 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
392 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
393 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
394 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
397 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
398 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
399 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
401 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
402 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
403 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
404 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
406 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
407 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
408 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
409 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
412 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
413 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
414 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
415 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
418 o Major bugfixes (relay):
419 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
420 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
421 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
422 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
423 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
424 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
427 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
428 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
429 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
430 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
431 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
433 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
434 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
436 o Minor features (geoip data):
437 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
438 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
441 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
442 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
443 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
446 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
447 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
448 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
449 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
450 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
452 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
453 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
456 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
457 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
459 o Minor features (geoip data):
460 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
461 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
463 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
464 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
465 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
468 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
469 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
470 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
471 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
473 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
474 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
476 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
477 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
478 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
480 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
481 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
482 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
483 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
484 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
486 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
487 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
488 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
489 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
490 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
493 o Major bugfixes (relay):
494 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
495 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
497 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
498 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
500 o Minor features (geoip data):
501 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
502 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
505 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
506 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
507 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
508 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
511 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
512 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
514 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
515 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
516 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
517 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
519 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
520 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
521 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
522 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
523 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
525 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
526 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
527 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
528 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
529 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
531 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
532 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
533 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
534 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
535 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
538 o Major bugfixes (relay):
539 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
540 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
542 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
543 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
544 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
545 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
546 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
547 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
549 o Minor feature (metrics):
550 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
553 o Minor feature (performance):
554 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
555 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
556 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
558 o Minor feature (relay):
559 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
561 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
562 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
563 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
564 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
566 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
567 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
568 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
569 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
570 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
572 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
573 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
574 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
575 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
576 are currently opened and how many were created.
577 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
578 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
579 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
580 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
581 - Related to ticket 40194.
583 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
584 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
586 o Minor features (geoip data):
587 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
588 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
590 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
591 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
592 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
594 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
595 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
596 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
597 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
598 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
599 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
600 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
601 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
602 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
603 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
604 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
606 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
607 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
608 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
612 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
613 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
616 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
617 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
618 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
619 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
620 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
621 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
622 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
624 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
625 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
626 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
629 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
630 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
631 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
632 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
635 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
636 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
637 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
638 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
639 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
642 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
643 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
644 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
645 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
648 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
649 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
650 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
651 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
652 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
655 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
656 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
657 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
658 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
661 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
662 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
663 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
664 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
665 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
668 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
669 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
670 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
671 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
672 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
675 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
676 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
678 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
679 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
680 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
681 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
682 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
683 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
684 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
685 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
686 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
689 o Major bugfixes (relay):
690 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
691 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
692 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
693 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
694 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
695 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
696 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
698 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
699 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
700 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
701 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
702 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
705 o Minor features (dirauth):
706 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
707 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
708 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
709 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
710 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
711 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
712 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
713 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
716 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
717 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
719 o Minor features (geoip data):
720 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
721 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
723 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
724 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
725 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
726 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
727 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
728 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
729 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
731 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
732 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
733 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
734 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
735 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
737 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
738 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
739 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
740 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
743 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
744 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
745 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
746 stability or safety purposes.
748 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
749 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
750 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
752 o Major bugfixes (relay):
753 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
754 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
755 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
756 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
757 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
758 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
759 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
761 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
762 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
764 o Minor features (geoip data):
765 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
766 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
768 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
769 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
770 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
772 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
773 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
774 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
775 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
776 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
777 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
779 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
780 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
781 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
782 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
783 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
785 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
786 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
787 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
788 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
790 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
791 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
792 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
793 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
794 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
796 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
797 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
798 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
800 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
801 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
802 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
803 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
804 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
805 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
807 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
808 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
809 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
810 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
813 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
814 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
815 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
816 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
817 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
819 o Major bugfixes (relay):
820 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
821 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
822 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
823 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
824 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
825 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
826 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
828 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
829 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
831 o Minor features (geoip data):
832 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
833 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
835 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
836 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
837 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
839 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
840 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
841 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
842 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
843 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
844 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
846 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
847 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
848 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
849 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
850 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
852 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
853 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
854 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
855 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
857 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
858 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
859 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
860 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
861 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
863 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
864 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
865 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
868 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
869 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
870 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
871 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
872 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
874 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
875 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
876 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
877 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
880 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
881 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
882 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
883 should upgrade to this version.
885 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
886 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
887 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
888 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
889 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
890 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
892 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
893 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
895 o Minor features (geoip data):
896 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
897 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
899 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
900 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
901 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
902 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
904 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
905 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
906 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
907 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
908 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
909 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
910 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
911 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
912 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
914 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
915 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
916 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
919 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
920 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
921 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
922 including one massive new one: congestion control.
924 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
925 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
926 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
928 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
930 o Major features (congestion control):
931 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
932 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
934 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
935 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
936 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
937 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
939 o Major features (directory authority):
940 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
941 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
942 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
943 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
944 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
945 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
946 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
947 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
948 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
950 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
951 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
952 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
953 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
954 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
955 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
956 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
957 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
958 40363; implements proposal 333.
960 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
961 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
962 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
963 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
964 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
966 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
967 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
968 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
969 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
970 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
971 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
972 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
973 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
976 o Major bugfixes (client):
977 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
978 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
979 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
980 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
981 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
982 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
984 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
985 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
986 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
987 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
989 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
990 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
991 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
992 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
993 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
994 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
996 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
997 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
998 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
999 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1000 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1001 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1002 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1004 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1005 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1006 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1007 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1008 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1009 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1010 and not the DNS server itself.
1011 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1012 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1013 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1014 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1015 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1016 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1017 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1019 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1020 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1021 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1022 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1025 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1026 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1027 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1028 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1029 Closes ticket 40476.
1030 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1031 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1033 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1034 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1035 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1038 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1039 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1040 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1041 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1043 o Minor features (compilation):
1044 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1045 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1046 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1047 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1050 o Minor features (control port):
1051 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1052 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1054 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1055 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1057 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1058 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1059 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1060 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1062 o Minor features (geoip data):
1063 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1064 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1066 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1067 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1068 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1069 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1070 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1071 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1072 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1074 o Minor features (portability):
1075 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1076 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1077 Closes ticket 40355.
1079 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1080 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1081 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1082 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1083 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1084 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1085 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1086 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1087 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1088 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1089 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1090 fix for ticket 40337.
1091 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1092 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1093 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1095 o Minor features (testing):
1096 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1097 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1100 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1101 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1102 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1104 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1105 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1106 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1108 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1109 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1110 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1111 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1113 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1114 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1115 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1118 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1119 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1120 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1121 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1122 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1123 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1124 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1125 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1127 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1128 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1129 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1130 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1133 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1134 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1135 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1136 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1139 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1140 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1141 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1142 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1145 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1146 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1147 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1148 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1149 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1150 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1151 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1152 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1153 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1155 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1156 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1157 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1159 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1160 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1161 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1164 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1165 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1166 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1167 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1168 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1170 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1171 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1172 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1173 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1174 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1175 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1177 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1178 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1179 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1180 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1183 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1184 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1185 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1187 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1188 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1189 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1190 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1191 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1192 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1193 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1194 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1196 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1197 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1198 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1199 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1201 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1202 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1203 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1204 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1205 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1206 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1207 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1208 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1209 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1212 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1213 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1214 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1216 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1217 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1218 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1219 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1222 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1223 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1224 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1225 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1226 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1228 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1229 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1230 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1231 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1232 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1233 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1234 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1235 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1236 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1239 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1240 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1241 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1243 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1244 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1245 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1246 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1248 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1249 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1250 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1251 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1252 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1253 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1254 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1255 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1256 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1259 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1260 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1261 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1262 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1263 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1265 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1266 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1267 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1268 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1269 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1272 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1273 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1274 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1275 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1277 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1278 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1279 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1280 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1281 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1283 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1284 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1285 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1286 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1288 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1289 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1290 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1292 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1293 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1294 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1295 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1296 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1298 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1299 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1300 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1301 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1302 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1304 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1305 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1306 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1307 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1308 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1311 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1312 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1314 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1315 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1316 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1317 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1318 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1319 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1322 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1325 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1326 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1327 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1329 o Documentation (man, relay):
1330 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1331 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1333 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1334 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1335 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1339 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1340 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1341 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1343 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1344 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1346 o Minor features (geoip data):
1347 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1348 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1350 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1351 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1352 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1354 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1355 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1356 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1359 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1360 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1361 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1364 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1365 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1366 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1367 See below for more details.
1369 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1370 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1371 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1372 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1373 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1375 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1376 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1377 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1380 o Minor features (compilation):
1381 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1382 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1383 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1384 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1387 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1388 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1390 o Minor features (geoip data):
1391 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1392 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1395 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1396 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1397 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1398 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1400 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1401 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1402 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1403 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1404 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1406 o Documentation (man, relay):
1407 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1408 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1411 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1412 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1413 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1416 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1417 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1418 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1419 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1420 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1421 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1422 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1424 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1425 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1428 o Minor features (testing):
1429 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1430 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1431 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1432 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1433 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1434 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1435 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1436 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1437 fix for ticket 40337.
1438 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1439 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1440 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1442 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1443 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1444 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1445 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1446 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1447 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1448 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1449 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1451 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1452 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1453 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1455 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1456 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1457 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1458 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1459 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1462 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1463 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1464 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1465 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1466 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1467 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1470 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1471 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1472 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1473 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1474 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1475 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1476 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1479 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1480 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1481 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1482 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1483 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1485 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1486 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1487 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1488 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1490 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1491 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1492 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1493 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1495 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1496 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1499 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1500 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1501 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1502 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1503 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1505 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1506 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1507 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1508 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1509 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1510 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1511 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1512 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1513 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1514 fix for ticket 40337.
1515 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1516 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1517 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1519 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1520 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1521 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1523 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1524 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1525 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1526 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1527 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1528 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1530 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1531 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1532 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1533 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1534 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1537 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1538 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1539 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1540 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1541 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1543 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1544 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1545 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1546 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1547 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1548 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1551 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1552 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1553 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1554 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1555 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1556 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1557 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1560 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1561 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1562 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1563 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1564 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1566 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1567 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1568 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1569 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1571 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1572 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1573 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1574 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1576 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1577 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1580 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1581 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1582 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1583 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1584 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1588 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1589 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1590 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1591 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1592 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1594 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1595 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1596 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1597 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1598 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1599 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1600 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1603 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1604 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1606 o Minor features (geoip data):
1607 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1608 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1610 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1611 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1612 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1614 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1615 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1616 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1618 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1619 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1620 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1622 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1623 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1624 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1625 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1627 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1628 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1629 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1630 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1631 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1632 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1633 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1636 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1637 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1638 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1639 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1640 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1642 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1643 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1644 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1645 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1646 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1647 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1648 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1651 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1652 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1654 o Minor features (geoip data):
1655 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1656 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1658 o Minor features (testing):
1659 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1660 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1662 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1663 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1664 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1666 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1667 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1668 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1670 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1671 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1672 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1673 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1674 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1675 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1676 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1678 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1679 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1680 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1683 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1684 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1685 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1686 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1687 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1689 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1690 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1691 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1692 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1693 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1694 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1695 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1698 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1699 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1701 o Minor features (geoip data):
1702 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1703 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1705 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1706 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1707 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1709 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1710 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1711 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1714 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1715 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1716 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1717 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1718 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1721 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1722 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1723 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1724 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1725 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1727 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1728 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1729 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1733 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1734 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1735 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1736 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1737 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1740 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1741 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1742 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1743 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1745 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1746 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1748 o Major bugfixes (security):
1749 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1750 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1751 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1752 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1753 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1754 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1756 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1757 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1758 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1759 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1760 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1761 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1762 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1763 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1765 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1766 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1767 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1768 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1769 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1770 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1771 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1772 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1773 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1774 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1775 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1776 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1777 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1778 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1779 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1781 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1782 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1783 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1784 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1787 o Major features (directory authority):
1788 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1789 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1790 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1791 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1793 o Major features (metrics):
1794 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1795 documents. This information is controlled with the
1796 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1797 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1798 328; closes ticket 40222.
1800 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1801 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1802 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1804 o Major features (statistics):
1805 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1806 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1807 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1809 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1810 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1811 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1812 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1813 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1814 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1815 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1816 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1817 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1818 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1819 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1820 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1821 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1822 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1823 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1824 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1825 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1826 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1827 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1828 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1831 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1832 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1833 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1834 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1836 o Minor features (bridge):
1837 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1838 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1839 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1841 o Minor features (build system):
1842 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1843 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1844 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1846 o Minor features (client):
1847 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1848 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1849 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1850 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1852 o Minor features (command line):
1853 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1854 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1857 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1858 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1859 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1860 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1861 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1862 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1863 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1864 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1865 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1866 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1867 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1869 o Minor features (compatibility):
1870 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1871 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1872 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1875 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1876 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1877 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1879 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1880 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1881 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1882 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1883 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1884 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1885 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1887 o Minor features (geoip data):
1888 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1889 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1891 o Minor features (logging):
1892 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1893 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1895 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1896 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1897 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1898 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1899 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1900 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1902 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1903 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1904 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1905 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1906 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1908 o Minor features (onion services):
1909 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1910 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1912 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1913 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1914 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1915 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1916 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1918 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1919 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1920 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1922 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1923 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1924 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1927 o Minor features (vote document):
1928 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1929 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1930 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1932 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1933 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1934 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1935 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1937 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1938 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1939 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1940 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1943 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1944 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1945 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1946 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1948 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1949 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1950 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1951 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1952 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1954 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1955 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1956 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1957 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1958 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1959 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1962 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1963 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1964 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1965 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1966 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1967 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1969 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1970 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1971 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1972 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1973 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1975 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1976 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1977 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1978 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1979 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1981 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1982 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1983 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1985 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1986 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1987 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1990 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1991 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1992 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1993 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1995 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1996 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1997 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1998 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2000 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2001 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2002 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2005 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2006 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2007 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2008 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2011 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2012 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2013 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2014 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2015 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2016 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2017 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2018 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2019 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2020 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2023 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2024 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2025 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2027 o Documentation (manual):
2028 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2030 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2031 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2032 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2033 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2035 o Removed features (relay):
2036 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2037 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2038 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2039 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2040 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2043 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2044 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2045 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2046 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2047 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2049 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2050 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2051 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2052 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2053 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2054 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2055 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2057 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2058 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2059 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2060 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2061 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2062 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2063 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2064 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2066 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2067 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2068 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2069 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2070 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2071 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2072 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2073 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2074 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2075 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2076 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2077 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2078 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2079 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2080 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2082 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2083 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2084 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2085 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2088 o Minor features (geoip data):
2089 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2090 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2092 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2093 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2094 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2095 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2096 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2097 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2100 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2101 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2102 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2106 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2107 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2108 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2109 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2110 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2112 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2113 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2114 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2116 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2117 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2118 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2119 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2120 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2121 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2122 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2124 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2125 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2126 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2127 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2128 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2129 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2130 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2131 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2133 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2134 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2135 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2136 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2137 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2138 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2139 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2140 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2141 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2142 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2143 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2144 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2145 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2146 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2147 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2149 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2150 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2151 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2152 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2155 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2156 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2157 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2159 o Minor features (geoip data):
2160 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2161 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2163 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2164 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2165 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2166 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2168 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2169 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2170 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2173 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2174 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2175 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2176 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2177 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2179 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2180 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2181 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2182 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2183 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2184 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2185 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2187 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2188 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2189 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2190 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2191 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2192 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2193 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2194 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2196 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2197 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2198 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2199 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2200 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2201 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2202 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2203 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2204 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2205 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2206 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2207 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2208 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2209 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2210 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2212 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2213 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2214 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2216 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2217 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2218 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2219 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2222 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2223 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2224 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2226 o Minor features (geoip data):
2227 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2228 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2231 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2232 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2233 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2235 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2236 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2237 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2238 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2239 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2241 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2242 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2243 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2245 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2246 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2247 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2249 o Minor features (geoip data):
2250 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2251 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2253 o Minor features (onion services):
2254 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2255 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2256 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2258 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2259 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2260 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2261 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2263 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2264 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2265 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2266 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2268 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2269 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2270 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2271 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2273 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2274 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2275 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2277 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2278 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2279 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2280 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2282 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2283 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2284 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2285 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2287 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2288 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2289 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2293 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2294 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2295 in earlier versions of Tor.
2297 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2298 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2299 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2300 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2301 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2302 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2303 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2304 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2305 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2308 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2309 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2312 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2313 compatibility issue.
2315 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2316 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2317 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2318 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2319 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2320 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2321 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2322 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2323 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2326 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2327 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2328 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2329 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2330 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2331 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2332 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2333 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2336 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2337 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2338 Closes ticket 40309.
2341 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2342 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2343 in earlier versions of Tor.
2345 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2346 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2347 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2348 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2349 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2350 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2351 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2352 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2353 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2356 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2357 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2360 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2361 compatibility issue.
2363 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2364 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2365 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2366 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2367 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2368 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2369 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2370 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2371 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2374 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2375 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2376 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2377 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2378 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2379 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2380 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2381 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2384 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2385 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2386 Closes ticket 40309.
2389 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2390 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2393 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2394 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2395 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2396 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2397 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2398 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2399 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2400 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2401 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2404 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2405 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2408 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2409 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2411 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2412 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2413 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2414 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2415 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2416 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2417 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2418 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2419 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2422 o Minor features (geoip data):
2423 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2424 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2425 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2426 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2427 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2428 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2429 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2432 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2433 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2434 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2435 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2436 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2438 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2439 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2440 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2442 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2443 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2444 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2445 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2446 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2448 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2449 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2450 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2452 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2453 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2454 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2456 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2457 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2458 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2460 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2461 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2462 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2463 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2464 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2465 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2466 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2467 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2469 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2470 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2471 Closes ticket 40309.
2474 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2475 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2476 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2477 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2478 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2479 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2480 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2481 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2482 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2483 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2485 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2486 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2487 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2488 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2489 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2490 smaller features and bugfixes.
2492 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2493 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2495 o Major features (build):
2496 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2497 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2498 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2499 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2500 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2502 o Major features (metrics):
2503 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2504 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2505 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2506 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2507 information and security considerations.
2509 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2510 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2511 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2512 Closes ticket 33233.
2513 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2514 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2515 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2516 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2517 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2518 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2519 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2520 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2521 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2522 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2523 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2524 Closes ticket 34067.
2526 o Major features (tracing):
2527 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2528 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2529 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2530 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2531 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2533 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2534 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2535 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2536 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2537 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2539 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2540 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2541 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2542 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2543 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2544 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2545 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2547 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2548 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2549 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2550 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2551 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2552 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2554 o Minor features (address discovery):
2555 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2556 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2557 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2558 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2560 o Minor features (admin tools):
2561 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2562 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2563 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2566 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2567 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2568 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2569 Closes ticket 40245.
2571 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2572 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2573 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2574 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2575 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2576 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2578 o Minor features (build):
2579 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2580 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2581 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2582 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2583 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2585 o Minor features (configuration):
2586 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2587 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2588 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2589 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2590 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2591 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2593 o Minor features (control port):
2594 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2595 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2596 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2597 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2599 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2600 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2601 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2604 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2605 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2606 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2607 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2608 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2609 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2610 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2612 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2613 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2614 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2616 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2617 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2618 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2619 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2620 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2621 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2622 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2623 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2624 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2625 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2626 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2628 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2629 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2630 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2631 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2633 o Minor features (documentation):
2634 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2635 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2636 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2638 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2639 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2640 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2641 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2643 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2644 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2645 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2647 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2648 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2649 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2651 o Minor features (logging):
2652 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2653 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2654 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2655 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2656 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2657 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2659 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2660 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2661 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2662 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2664 o Minor features (onion services):
2665 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2666 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2667 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2669 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2670 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2671 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2672 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2673 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2674 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2676 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2677 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2678 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2679 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2680 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2682 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2683 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2684 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2685 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2686 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2687 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2688 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2690 o Minor features (relay):
2691 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2692 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2693 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2694 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2695 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2696 Closes ticket 34137.
2698 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2699 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2700 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2703 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2704 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2705 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2706 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2707 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2708 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2709 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2710 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2711 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2713 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2714 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2716 o Minor features (safety):
2717 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2718 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2721 o Minor features (specification update):
2722 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2723 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2724 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2726 o Minor features (state management):
2727 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2728 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2729 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2730 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2731 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2733 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2734 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2735 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2736 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2737 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2739 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2740 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2741 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2743 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2744 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2745 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2746 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2747 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2749 o Minor features (testing):
2750 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2751 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2753 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2754 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2755 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2756 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2758 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2759 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2760 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2761 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2762 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2763 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2764 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2765 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2766 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2769 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2770 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2771 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2772 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2773 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2776 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2777 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2778 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2779 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2780 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2783 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2784 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2785 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2786 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2787 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2788 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2791 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2792 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2793 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2794 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2795 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2797 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2798 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2799 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2800 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2802 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2803 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2804 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2805 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2806 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2807 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2808 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2809 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2811 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2812 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2813 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2814 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2815 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2816 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2817 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2818 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2821 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2822 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2823 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2824 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2826 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2827 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2828 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2829 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2830 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2831 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2832 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2834 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2835 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2836 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2837 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2838 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2839 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2841 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2842 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2843 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2845 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2846 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2847 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2848 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2849 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2850 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2851 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2852 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2855 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2856 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2857 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2858 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2859 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2860 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2861 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2862 Closes ticket 34200.
2863 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2864 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2865 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2866 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2867 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2868 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2869 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2871 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2872 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2873 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2874 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2875 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2876 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2879 o Deprecated features:
2880 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2881 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2882 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2885 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2886 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2889 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2890 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2891 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2892 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2894 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2895 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2897 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2898 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2899 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2900 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2901 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2905 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2906 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2908 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2909 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2910 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2912 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2913 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2914 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2915 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2916 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2918 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2919 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2920 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2921 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2922 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2924 o Documentation (manual page):
2925 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2926 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2927 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2928 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2930 o Documentation (tracing):
2931 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2932 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2934 o Removed features (controller):
2935 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2936 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2939 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2940 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2941 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2942 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2943 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2945 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2946 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2947 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2948 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2949 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2952 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2953 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2954 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2955 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2958 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2959 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2960 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2961 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2963 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2964 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2965 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2966 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2967 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2969 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2970 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2971 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2972 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2973 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2974 weasel for diagnosing this.
2976 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2977 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2978 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2979 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2980 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2981 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2982 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2985 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2986 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2987 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2989 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2990 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2991 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2992 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2995 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2996 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2997 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2998 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2999 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3000 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3002 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3003 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3006 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
3007 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3008 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3009 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3010 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3012 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
3013 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
3015 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3016 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3017 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3018 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3019 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3022 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3023 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3024 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3025 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3026 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3028 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3029 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3030 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3031 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3034 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3035 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3036 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3037 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3039 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3040 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3041 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3042 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3043 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3045 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3046 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3047 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3048 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3049 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3050 weasel for diagnosing this.
3052 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3053 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3054 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3055 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3056 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3057 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3058 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3060 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3061 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3062 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3064 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3065 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3066 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3067 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3069 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3070 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3071 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3072 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3074 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3075 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3076 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3077 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3078 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3079 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3080 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3082 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3083 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3086 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3087 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3088 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3089 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3090 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3092 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3093 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3094 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3095 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3096 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3099 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3100 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3101 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3102 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3103 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3105 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3106 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3107 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3108 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3111 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3112 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3113 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3114 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3116 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3117 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3118 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3119 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3120 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3122 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3123 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3124 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3125 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3126 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3127 weasel for diagnosing this.
3129 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3130 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3131 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3132 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3133 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3134 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3135 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3137 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3138 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3139 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3141 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3142 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3143 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3144 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3147 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3148 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3149 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3152 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3153 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3154 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3156 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3157 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3160 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3161 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3162 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3163 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3164 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3165 intended for a different relay.
3167 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3168 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3169 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3170 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3171 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3172 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3173 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3175 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3176 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3177 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3178 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3179 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3180 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3181 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3182 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3183 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3184 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3185 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3187 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3188 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3189 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3190 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3191 closes ticket 40133.
3193 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3194 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3195 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3197 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3198 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3199 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3202 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3203 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3204 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3205 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3206 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3208 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3209 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3210 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3212 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3213 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3214 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3217 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3218 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3219 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3220 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3223 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3224 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3225 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3226 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3227 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3229 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3230 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3231 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3234 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3235 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3236 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3237 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3239 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3240 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3241 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3242 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3243 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3244 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3245 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3247 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3248 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3249 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3250 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3251 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3254 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3255 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3256 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3257 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3258 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3259 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3261 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3262 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3263 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3264 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3265 closes ticket 40133.
3267 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3268 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3269 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3270 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3272 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3273 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3274 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3276 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3277 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3278 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3281 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3282 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3283 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3284 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3286 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3287 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3288 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3290 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3291 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3292 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3293 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3294 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3295 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3296 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3298 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3299 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3300 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3303 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3304 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3305 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3306 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3307 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3308 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3311 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3312 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3313 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3314 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3316 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3317 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3318 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3319 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3321 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3322 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3323 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3325 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3326 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3329 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3330 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3331 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3332 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3333 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3334 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3335 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3338 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3339 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3340 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3341 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3342 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3344 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3345 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3346 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3347 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3349 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3350 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3351 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3352 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3353 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3354 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3355 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3357 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3358 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3359 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3360 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3361 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3364 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3365 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3366 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3367 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3368 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3369 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3371 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3372 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3373 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3374 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3376 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3377 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3378 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3379 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3380 closes ticket 40133.
3382 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3383 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3384 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3385 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3387 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3388 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3389 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3391 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3392 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3393 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3396 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3397 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3398 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3399 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3401 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3402 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3403 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3405 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3406 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3407 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3408 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3409 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3410 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3411 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3413 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3414 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3415 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3418 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3419 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3420 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3421 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3422 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3423 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3426 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3427 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3428 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3429 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3431 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3432 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3433 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3434 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3436 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3437 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3438 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3440 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3441 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3444 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3445 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3446 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3447 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3448 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3449 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3450 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3452 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3453 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3454 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3455 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3456 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3458 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3459 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3460 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3462 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3463 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3465 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3466 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3467 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3468 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3469 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3470 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3471 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3472 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3473 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3474 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3476 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3477 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3478 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3479 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3481 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3482 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3483 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3484 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3485 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3486 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3487 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3489 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3491 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3492 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3493 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3494 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3496 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3497 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3498 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3499 Closes ticket 32709.
3501 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3502 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3503 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3504 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3505 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3508 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3509 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3510 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3511 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3512 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3513 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3515 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3516 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3517 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3518 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3519 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3521 o Minor features (security):
3522 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3523 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3524 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3525 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3526 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3528 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3529 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3530 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3531 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3532 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3535 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3536 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3537 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3538 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3539 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3540 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3541 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3543 o Minor features (code safety):
3544 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3545 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3546 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3547 Resolves issue 33788.
3549 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3550 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3551 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3552 Resolves ticket 32143.
3554 o Minor features (control port):
3555 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3556 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3557 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3558 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3559 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3560 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3561 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3563 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3564 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3565 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3567 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3568 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3569 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3570 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3571 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3572 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3574 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3575 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3576 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3577 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3578 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3579 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3580 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3581 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3583 o Minor features (directory authority):
3584 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3585 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3586 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3587 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3588 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3590 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3591 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3592 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3593 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3595 o Minor features (directory):
3596 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3597 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3598 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3601 o Minor features (entry guards):
3602 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3603 Closes ticket 40001.
3605 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3606 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3607 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3609 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3610 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3611 Closes ticket 33901.
3613 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3614 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3615 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3616 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3617 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3618 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3619 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3621 o Minor features (logging):
3622 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3623 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3625 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3626 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3627 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3628 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3631 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3632 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3633 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3635 o Minor features (python scripts):
3636 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3637 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3638 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3639 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3641 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3642 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3643 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3644 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3645 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3646 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3647 up from ticket 33316.
3648 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3649 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3650 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3652 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3653 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3654 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3655 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3657 o Minor features (windows):
3658 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3659 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3661 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3662 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3663 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3664 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3666 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3667 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3668 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3669 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3670 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3672 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3673 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3674 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3675 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3676 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3677 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3679 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3680 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3681 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3682 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3684 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3685 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3686 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3687 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3688 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3691 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3692 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3695 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3696 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3697 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3698 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3699 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3700 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3701 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3702 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3703 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3705 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3706 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3707 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3708 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3709 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3711 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3712 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3713 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3714 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3717 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3718 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3719 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3720 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3721 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3722 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3723 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3725 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3726 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3727 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3729 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3730 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3731 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3733 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3734 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3735 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3737 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3738 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3739 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3742 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3743 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3744 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3747 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3748 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3749 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3750 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3751 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3752 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3753 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3755 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3756 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3757 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3758 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3760 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3761 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3762 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3763 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3764 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3767 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3768 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3769 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3770 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3771 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3772 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3775 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3776 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3777 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3780 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3781 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3782 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3783 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3785 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3786 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3787 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3788 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3789 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3792 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3793 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3794 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3796 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3797 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3798 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3799 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3800 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3801 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3802 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3803 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3804 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3805 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3806 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3807 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3809 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3810 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3811 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3812 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3814 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3815 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3816 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3817 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3820 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3821 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3822 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3823 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3824 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3825 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3828 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3829 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3830 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3831 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3832 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3833 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3834 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3835 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3836 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3837 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3838 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3839 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3840 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3843 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3844 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3845 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3846 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3847 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3848 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3849 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3850 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3852 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3853 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3855 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3856 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3857 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3858 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3859 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3860 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3861 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3862 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3863 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3864 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3865 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3866 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3868 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3869 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3872 o Documentation (manual page):
3873 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3874 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3875 Google Season of Docs.
3876 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3877 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3878 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3879 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3880 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3881 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3882 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3883 Closes ticket 33778.
3886 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3887 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3888 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3890 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3891 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3892 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3893 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3894 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3895 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3896 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3899 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3900 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3901 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3902 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3905 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3906 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3907 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3908 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3909 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3910 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3912 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3913 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3914 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3915 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3916 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3917 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3919 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3920 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3921 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3923 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3924 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3925 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3926 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3929 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3930 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3931 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3932 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3935 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3936 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3937 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3938 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3939 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3941 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3942 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3943 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3945 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3946 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3947 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3948 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3949 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3952 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3953 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3954 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3955 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3956 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3957 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3960 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3961 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3962 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3964 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3965 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3966 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3967 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3970 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3971 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3972 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3973 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3974 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3975 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3976 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3977 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3981 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3982 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3983 several that affect usability and portability.
3985 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3986 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3987 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3988 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3989 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3990 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3991 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3994 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3995 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3996 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3997 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4000 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4001 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4002 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4003 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4004 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4005 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4007 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4008 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4009 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4010 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4011 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4013 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4014 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4015 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4016 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4018 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4019 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4020 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4021 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4022 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4023 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4025 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4026 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4027 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4029 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4030 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4031 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4032 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4035 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4036 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4037 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4038 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4041 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4042 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4043 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4044 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4045 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4046 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4049 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4050 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4051 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4053 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4054 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4055 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4056 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4058 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4059 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4060 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4061 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4062 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4065 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4066 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4067 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4068 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4069 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4070 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4072 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4073 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4074 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4075 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4076 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4078 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4079 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4080 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4081 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4083 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4084 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4085 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4086 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4088 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4089 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4090 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4091 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4094 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4095 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4096 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4097 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4098 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4099 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4100 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4101 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4105 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4106 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4107 some affecting usability.
4109 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4110 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4111 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4112 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4113 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4114 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4115 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4118 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4119 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4120 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4121 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4124 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4125 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4126 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4128 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4129 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4130 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4131 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4134 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4135 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4136 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4138 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4139 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4140 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4141 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4143 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4144 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4145 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4146 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4148 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4149 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4150 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4152 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4153 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4154 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4155 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4156 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4158 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4159 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4160 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4162 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4163 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4164 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4165 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4167 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4168 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4172 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4173 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4174 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4175 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4176 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4177 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4180 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4181 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4182 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4183 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4184 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4186 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4187 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4188 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4191 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4192 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4194 o New system requirements:
4195 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4196 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4197 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4199 o Major features (build system):
4200 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4201 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4202 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4203 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4204 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4206 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4207 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4208 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4209 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4210 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4212 o Major features (onion services):
4213 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4214 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4215 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4216 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4217 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4218 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4219 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4221 o Major features (proxy):
4222 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4223 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4224 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4225 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4226 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4227 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4229 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4230 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4231 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4232 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4233 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4234 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4235 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4236 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4237 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4239 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4240 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4241 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4242 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4243 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4245 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4246 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4247 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4248 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4249 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4251 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4252 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4253 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4254 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4255 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4256 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4258 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4259 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4260 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4261 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4263 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4264 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4265 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4266 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4267 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4268 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4270 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4271 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4272 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4274 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4275 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4276 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4277 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4278 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4280 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4281 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4282 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4283 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4285 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4286 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4287 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4288 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4289 Closes ticket 31241.
4291 o Minor features (configuration):
4292 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4293 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4295 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4296 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4297 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4298 Implements ticket 32404.
4300 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4301 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4302 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4304 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4305 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4306 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4307 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4308 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4309 Closes ticket 33075.
4311 o Minor features (controller):
4312 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4313 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4314 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4316 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4317 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4318 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4319 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4321 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4322 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4323 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4326 o Minor features (developer tools):
4327 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4328 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4329 Closes ticket 32772.
4330 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4331 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4332 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4333 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4334 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4335 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4336 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4337 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4339 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4340 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4341 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4342 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4344 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4345 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4346 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4347 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4349 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4350 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4351 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4352 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4354 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4355 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4356 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4357 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4359 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4360 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4361 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4362 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4363 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4364 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4365 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4366 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4368 o Minor features (git scripts):
4369 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4370 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4371 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4372 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4373 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4374 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4375 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4376 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4377 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4378 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4379 Closes ticket 32216.
4380 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4381 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4382 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4383 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4385 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4386 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4387 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4388 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4389 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4390 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4392 o Minor features (portability, android):
4393 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4394 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4395 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4397 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4398 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4399 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4400 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4401 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4402 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4403 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4404 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4405 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4406 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4408 o Minor features (release tools):
4409 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4410 Closes ticket 32704.
4412 o Minor features (testing):
4413 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4414 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4415 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4416 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4417 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4418 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4419 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4420 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4421 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4422 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4423 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4425 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4426 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4427 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4429 o Minor features (usability):
4430 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4431 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4432 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4434 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4435 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4436 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4437 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4440 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4441 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4442 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4444 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4445 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4446 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4448 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4449 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4450 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4451 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4452 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4453 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4456 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4457 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4458 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4459 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4460 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4461 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4462 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4463 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4464 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4465 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4466 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4467 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4468 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4469 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4470 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4471 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4472 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4473 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4475 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4476 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4479 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4480 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4481 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4482 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4484 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4485 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4486 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4489 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4490 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4491 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4493 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4494 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4495 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4496 Closes ticket 32213.
4497 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4498 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4499 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4501 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4502 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4503 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4504 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4505 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4508 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4509 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4511 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4512 Closes ticket 32216.
4514 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4515 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4516 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4517 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4518 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4519 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4522 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4523 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4524 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4525 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4526 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4527 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4528 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4530 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4531 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4532 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4533 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4535 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4536 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4537 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4538 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4541 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4542 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4543 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4544 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4545 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4546 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4547 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4550 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4551 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4552 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4553 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4555 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4556 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4557 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4558 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4559 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4560 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4561 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4563 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4564 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4565 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4566 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4567 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4569 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4570 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4571 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4572 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4575 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4576 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4577 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4578 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4579 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4581 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4582 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4583 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4584 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4586 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4587 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4588 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4589 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4591 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4592 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4593 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4595 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4596 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4597 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4598 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4600 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4601 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4602 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4603 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4604 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4605 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4606 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4608 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4609 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4610 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4611 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4612 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4614 o Deprecated features:
4615 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4616 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4617 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4621 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4622 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4623 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4624 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4625 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4626 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4627 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4628 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4630 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4631 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4634 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4635 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4636 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4637 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4638 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4639 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4641 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4642 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4643 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4644 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4645 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4648 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4649 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4650 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4651 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4652 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4654 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4655 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4657 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4658 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4659 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4660 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4661 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4664 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4665 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4666 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4668 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4669 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4670 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4671 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4672 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4673 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4674 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4675 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4676 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4677 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4678 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4679 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4680 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4681 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4682 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4683 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4684 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4686 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4687 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4689 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4690 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4691 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4693 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4694 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4695 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4696 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4697 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4698 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4700 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4701 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4702 Closes ticket 32163.
4703 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4705 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4707 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4708 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4709 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4711 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4712 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4713 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4714 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4715 Closes ticket 32304.
4716 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4717 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4718 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4719 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4720 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4723 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4724 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4726 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4729 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4730 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4731 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4732 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4733 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4734 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4735 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4736 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4738 o Documentation (manpage):
4739 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4740 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4741 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4742 Google Season of Docs.
4743 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4744 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4745 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4746 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4747 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4748 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4750 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4752 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4753 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4754 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4756 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4757 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4758 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4760 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4761 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4762 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4763 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4764 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4765 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4766 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4767 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4770 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4771 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4774 o Testing (Travis CI):
4775 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4776 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4777 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4779 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4780 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4781 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4782 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4783 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4786 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4787 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4788 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4789 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4790 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4791 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4792 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4793 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4794 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4795 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4796 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4797 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4799 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4800 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4801 as soon as packages are available.
4803 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4804 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4805 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4806 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4807 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4808 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4809 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4810 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4811 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4813 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4814 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4815 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4816 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4817 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4819 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4820 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4821 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4822 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4823 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4825 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4826 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4827 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4828 Closes ticket 33075.
4830 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4831 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4832 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4834 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4835 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4836 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4837 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4838 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4841 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4842 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4843 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4844 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4847 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4848 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4849 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4850 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4852 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4853 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4854 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4855 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4857 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4858 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4859 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4860 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4861 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4864 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4865 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4866 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4867 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4868 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4869 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4870 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4871 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4872 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4873 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4874 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4875 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4877 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4878 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4879 as soon as packages are available.
4881 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4882 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4883 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4884 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4885 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4886 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4887 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4888 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4889 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4891 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4892 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4893 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4894 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4895 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4897 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4898 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4899 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4901 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4902 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4903 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4904 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4905 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4908 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4909 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4910 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4911 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4914 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4915 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4916 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4917 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4919 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4920 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4921 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4922 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4924 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4925 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4926 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4927 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4928 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4931 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4932 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4933 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4934 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4935 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4936 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4937 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4938 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4939 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4940 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4941 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4944 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4945 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4946 as soon as packages are available.
4948 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4949 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4950 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4951 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4952 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4953 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4954 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4955 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4956 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4958 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4959 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4960 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4961 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4962 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4963 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4964 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4965 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4968 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4969 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4970 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4971 Closes ticket 33075.
4973 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4974 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4975 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4977 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4978 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4979 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4980 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4981 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4984 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4985 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4986 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4987 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4990 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4991 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4992 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4993 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4996 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4997 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4998 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4999 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5001 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5002 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5003 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5004 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5005 Closes ticket 32629.
5006 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5007 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5008 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5010 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5011 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5013 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5014 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5015 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5016 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5018 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5019 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5020 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5021 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5024 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5025 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5026 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5027 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5028 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5029 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5031 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5032 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5033 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5034 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5035 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5036 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5037 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5038 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5040 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5041 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5042 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5044 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5045 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5046 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5047 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5049 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5050 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5051 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5052 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5054 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5055 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5056 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5057 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5058 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5059 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5062 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5063 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5064 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5066 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5067 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5068 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5069 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5070 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5071 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5072 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5073 Closes ticket 32629.
5075 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5076 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5079 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5080 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5081 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5082 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5083 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5084 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5086 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5087 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5088 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5089 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5090 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5091 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5092 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5093 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5095 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5096 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5097 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5099 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5100 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5101 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5102 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5103 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5105 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5106 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5107 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5109 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5110 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5111 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5112 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5113 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5114 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5115 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5116 Closes ticket 32629.
5118 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5119 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5122 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5123 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5124 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5125 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5126 bugs present in previous series.
5128 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5129 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5130 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5131 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5133 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5134 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5136 o Major features (directory authorities):
5137 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5138 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5139 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5141 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5142 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5143 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5144 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5145 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5146 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5149 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5150 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5151 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5152 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5153 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5154 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5157 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5158 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5159 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5160 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5161 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5162 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5163 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5164 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5165 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5167 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5168 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5169 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5170 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5172 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5173 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5174 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5175 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5176 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5177 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5178 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5179 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5181 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5182 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5183 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5184 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5185 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5187 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5188 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5189 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5190 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5191 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5194 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5195 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5196 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5197 Closes ticket 29669.
5199 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5200 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5201 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5202 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5203 Closes ticket 31779.
5205 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5206 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5207 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5208 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5209 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5210 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5211 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5212 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5213 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5214 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5215 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5216 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5217 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5218 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5219 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5221 o Minor features (build system):
5222 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5223 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5224 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5225 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5226 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5228 o Minor features (compilation):
5229 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5230 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5231 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5233 o Minor features (configuration):
5234 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5235 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5236 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5237 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5239 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5240 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5241 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5242 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5243 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5244 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5245 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5247 o Minor features (debugging):
5248 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5249 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5250 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5251 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5253 o Minor features (geoip):
5254 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5255 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5257 o Minor features (git hooks):
5258 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5259 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5260 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5261 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5262 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5264 o Minor features (git scripts):
5265 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5266 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5267 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5268 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5269 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5270 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5271 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5272 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5273 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5274 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5275 Closes ticket 31314.
5276 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5277 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5278 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5279 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5280 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5281 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5282 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5283 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5284 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5286 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5287 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5288 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5291 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5292 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5293 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5295 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5296 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5297 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5298 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5299 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5300 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5301 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5303 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5304 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5305 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5307 o Minor features (onion service):
5308 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5309 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5310 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5311 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5313 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5314 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5315 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5318 o Minor features (stem tests):
5319 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5320 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5323 o Minor features (testing):
5324 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5325 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5326 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5327 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5328 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5329 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5330 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5331 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5332 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5333 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5334 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5335 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5336 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5337 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5338 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5340 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5341 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5342 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5343 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5345 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5346 Closes ticket 31859.
5347 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5348 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5350 o Minor features (token bucket):
5351 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5352 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5355 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5356 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5358 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5359 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5360 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5361 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5362 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5363 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5364 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5365 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5368 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5369 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5370 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5371 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5373 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5374 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5375 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5376 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5377 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5378 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5379 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5381 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5382 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5383 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5384 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5385 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5386 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5388 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5389 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5390 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5391 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5392 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5393 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5395 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5396 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5397 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5399 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5400 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5401 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5402 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5403 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5405 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5406 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5407 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5409 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5410 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5411 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5412 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5414 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5415 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5416 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5417 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5419 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5420 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5421 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5422 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5424 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5425 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5426 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5427 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5428 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5429 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5430 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5431 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5432 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5433 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5435 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5436 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5437 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5438 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5439 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5441 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5442 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5443 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5446 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5447 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5448 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5450 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5451 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5452 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5453 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5454 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5455 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5456 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5457 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5458 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5459 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5460 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5461 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5464 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5465 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5466 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5467 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5470 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5471 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5472 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5473 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5475 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5476 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5477 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5478 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5479 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5480 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5481 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5482 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5483 Closes ticket 31678.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5486 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5487 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5488 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5489 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5492 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5493 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5494 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5495 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5496 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5497 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5498 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5499 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5502 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5503 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5504 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5505 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5506 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5507 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5508 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5509 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5510 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5511 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5512 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5513 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5514 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5516 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5517 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5518 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5520 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5521 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5522 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5523 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5525 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5526 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5527 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5528 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5529 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5532 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5533 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5534 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5537 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5538 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5539 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5542 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5543 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5544 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5546 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5547 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5548 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5549 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5550 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5551 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5553 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5554 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5555 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5556 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5559 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5560 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5561 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5562 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5563 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5565 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5566 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5567 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5568 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5569 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5570 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5572 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5573 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5574 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5575 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5577 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5578 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5579 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5581 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5582 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5583 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5585 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5586 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5587 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5588 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5590 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5591 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5592 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5593 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5594 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5596 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5597 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5598 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5599 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5601 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5602 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5603 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5604 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5605 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5608 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5609 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5610 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5611 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5614 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5615 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5616 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5618 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5619 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5620 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5621 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5622 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5623 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5626 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5627 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5628 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5630 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5631 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5632 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5635 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5636 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5637 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5638 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5639 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5640 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5642 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5643 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5644 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5645 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5646 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5648 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5649 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5650 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5651 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5652 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5653 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5654 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5655 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5656 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5657 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5660 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5661 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5662 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5663 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5664 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5665 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5667 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5671 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5672 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5673 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5674 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5675 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5676 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5677 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5678 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5680 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5681 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5682 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5683 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5684 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5685 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5686 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5687 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5688 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5689 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5690 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5691 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5692 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5695 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5696 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5697 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5698 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5699 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5700 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5702 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5706 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5707 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5708 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5709 Closes ticket 32500.
5710 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5711 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5712 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5713 Closes ticket 30967.
5715 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5716 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5717 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5718 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5719 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5720 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5721 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5722 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5723 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5724 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5725 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5726 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5727 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5728 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5729 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5730 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5732 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5733 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5734 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5735 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5736 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5737 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5738 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5739 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5740 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5741 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5743 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5744 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5745 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5747 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5748 Closes ticket 30806.
5749 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5750 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5753 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5754 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5755 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5757 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5758 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5759 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5761 o Testing (continuous integration):
5762 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5763 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5764 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5765 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5766 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5767 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5768 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5769 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5770 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5773 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5774 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5775 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5776 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5778 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5779 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5780 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5781 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5783 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5784 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5785 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5786 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5788 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5789 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5790 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5791 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5792 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5793 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5794 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5795 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5797 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5798 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5799 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5800 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5801 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5803 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5804 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5805 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5806 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5807 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5810 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5811 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5812 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5813 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5815 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5817 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5819 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5820 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5821 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5823 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5824 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5825 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5826 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5827 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5828 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5830 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5831 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5832 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5833 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5835 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5836 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5837 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5838 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5839 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5840 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5841 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5842 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5843 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5844 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5847 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5848 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5849 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5850 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5851 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5852 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5853 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5854 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5855 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5857 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5858 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5859 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5860 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5862 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5863 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5864 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5865 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5866 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5869 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5870 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5871 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5873 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5874 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5875 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5877 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5878 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5879 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5881 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5882 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5883 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5884 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5886 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5887 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5888 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5889 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5890 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5893 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5894 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5896 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5897 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5898 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5901 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5902 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5903 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5905 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5906 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5907 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5908 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5910 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5911 Closes ticket 31859.
5912 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5913 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5915 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5916 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5917 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5918 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5919 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5920 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5921 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5922 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5923 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5924 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5926 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5927 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5928 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5929 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5930 Closes ticket 32500.
5933 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5934 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5935 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5936 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5937 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5939 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5940 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5941 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5942 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5944 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5945 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5948 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5949 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5950 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5951 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5952 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5953 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5954 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5955 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5956 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5957 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5958 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5960 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5961 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5962 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5963 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5964 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5965 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5967 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5968 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5969 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5970 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5971 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5974 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5975 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5976 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5977 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5978 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5980 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5981 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5982 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5983 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5986 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5987 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5988 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5989 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5990 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5991 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5992 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5993 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5995 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5996 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5997 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5998 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5999 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6001 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6002 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6003 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6004 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6005 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6008 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6009 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6010 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6012 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6013 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6014 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6017 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6018 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6019 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6021 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6022 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6023 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6024 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6026 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6027 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6028 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6029 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6030 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6032 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6033 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6034 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6036 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6037 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6038 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6041 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6042 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6043 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6045 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6046 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6047 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6049 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6050 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6051 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6053 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6054 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6055 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6058 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6059 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6060 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6061 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6062 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6063 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6065 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6066 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6067 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6068 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6069 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6072 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6073 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6076 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6077 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6078 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6081 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6082 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6083 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6085 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6086 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6087 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6088 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6090 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6091 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6092 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6093 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6095 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6096 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6097 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6098 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6100 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6101 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6102 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6103 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6104 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6105 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6106 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6108 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6109 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6110 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6111 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6114 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6115 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6116 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6118 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6119 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6120 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6123 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6124 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6125 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6126 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6127 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6128 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6129 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6131 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6132 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6133 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6134 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6137 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6138 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6139 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6140 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6141 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6143 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6144 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6145 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6146 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6147 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6150 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6151 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6154 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6155 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6156 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6157 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6158 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6160 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6161 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6162 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6163 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6165 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6166 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6167 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6168 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6169 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6172 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6173 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6174 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6177 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6178 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6179 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6180 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6182 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6183 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6184 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6185 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6187 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6188 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6189 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6190 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6192 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6193 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6194 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6195 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6198 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6199 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6200 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6201 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6202 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6203 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6206 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6207 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6208 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6210 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6211 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6212 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6214 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6215 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6216 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6217 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6219 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6220 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6221 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6223 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6224 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6225 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6226 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6227 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6229 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6230 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6231 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6234 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6235 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6236 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6237 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6238 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6239 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6240 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6241 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6242 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6243 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6245 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6246 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6247 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6248 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6250 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6251 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6252 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6253 Resolves issue 29702.
6255 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6256 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6258 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6259 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6260 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6261 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6264 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6265 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6266 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6267 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6269 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6270 Closes ticket 31859.
6271 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6272 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6274 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6275 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6276 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6277 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6278 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6279 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6280 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6281 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6282 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6283 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6285 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6286 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6287 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6288 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6289 Closes ticket 32500.
6292 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6293 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6294 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6297 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6298 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6301 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6302 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6303 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6304 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6305 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6306 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6307 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6308 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6309 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6310 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6311 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6313 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6314 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6315 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6316 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6317 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6318 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6320 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6321 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6322 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6323 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6324 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6325 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6327 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6328 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6329 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6330 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6331 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6334 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6335 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6336 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6337 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6338 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6340 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6341 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6342 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6343 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6346 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6347 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6348 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6349 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6350 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6352 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6353 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6354 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6355 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6356 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6359 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6360 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6361 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6362 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6363 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6364 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6365 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6366 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6368 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6369 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6370 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6371 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6372 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6375 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6376 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6377 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6379 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6380 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6381 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6384 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6385 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6386 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6387 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6389 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6390 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6391 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6394 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6395 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6396 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6398 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6399 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6400 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6401 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6403 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6404 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6405 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6406 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6407 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6409 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6410 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6411 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6413 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6414 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6415 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6416 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6418 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6419 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6420 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6423 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6424 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6425 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6426 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6427 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6428 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6429 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6430 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6431 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6432 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6433 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6434 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6435 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6438 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6439 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6440 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6441 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6442 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6444 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6445 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6446 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6448 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6449 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6450 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6452 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6453 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6454 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6456 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6457 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6458 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6461 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6462 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6463 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6465 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6466 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6467 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6468 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6469 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6470 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6472 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6473 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6474 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6475 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6476 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6479 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6480 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6484 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6485 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6488 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6489 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6492 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6493 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6494 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6497 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6498 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6499 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6501 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6502 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6503 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6504 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6506 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6507 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6508 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6509 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6511 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6512 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6513 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6514 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6515 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6516 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6517 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6519 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6520 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6521 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6522 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6524 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6525 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6526 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6527 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6529 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6530 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6531 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6534 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6535 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6536 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6537 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6538 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6539 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6540 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6542 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6543 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6544 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6545 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6548 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6549 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6550 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6551 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6552 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6555 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6556 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6558 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6559 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6560 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6561 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6562 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6563 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6564 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6565 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6566 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6567 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6568 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6570 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6571 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6572 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6573 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6574 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6577 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6578 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6581 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6582 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6583 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6584 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6585 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6587 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6588 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6589 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6590 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6592 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6593 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6594 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6595 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6596 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6599 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6600 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6601 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6604 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6605 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6606 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6607 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6609 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6610 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6611 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6612 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6614 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6615 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6616 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6619 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6620 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6621 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6623 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6624 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6625 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6626 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6629 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6630 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6631 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6632 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6633 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6634 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6637 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6638 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6639 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6640 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6642 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6643 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6644 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6646 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6647 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6648 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6651 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6652 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6653 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6654 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6655 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6656 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6659 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6660 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6663 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6664 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6665 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6666 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6667 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6668 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6669 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6670 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6672 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6673 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6674 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6675 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6676 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6677 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6680 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6681 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6682 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6683 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6684 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6686 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6687 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6688 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6689 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6690 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6691 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6692 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6693 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6695 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6696 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6697 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6700 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6701 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6702 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6703 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6704 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6705 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6706 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6707 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6708 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6709 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6711 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6712 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6713 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6714 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6715 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6716 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6718 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6719 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6720 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6721 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6723 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6724 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6725 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6726 Resolves issue 29702.
6728 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6729 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6731 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6732 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6733 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6734 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6737 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6738 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6739 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6740 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6742 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6743 Closes ticket 31859.
6744 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6745 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6747 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6748 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6749 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6750 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6751 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6752 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6753 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6754 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6755 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6756 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6758 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6759 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6760 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6761 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6762 Closes ticket 32500.
6765 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6766 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6767 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6768 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6771 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6772 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6773 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6774 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6775 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6776 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6777 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6778 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6779 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6781 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6782 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6783 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6786 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6787 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6788 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6791 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6792 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6793 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6794 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6796 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6797 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6798 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6800 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6801 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6802 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6803 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6805 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6806 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6807 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6808 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6811 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6812 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6813 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6814 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6815 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6817 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6818 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6819 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6822 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6823 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6824 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6826 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6827 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6828 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6829 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6830 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6831 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6833 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6834 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6835 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6836 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6837 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6838 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6839 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6840 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6841 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6842 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6844 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6845 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6846 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6847 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6850 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6851 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6852 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6853 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6854 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6855 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6856 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6858 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6859 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6860 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6861 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6863 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6864 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6866 o Directory authority changes:
6867 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6870 o Major features (circuit padding):
6871 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6872 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6873 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6874 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6875 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6876 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6877 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6878 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6879 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6881 o Major features (code organization):
6882 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6883 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6884 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6885 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6888 o Major features (controller protocol):
6889 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6890 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6891 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6892 Closes ticket 30091.
6894 o Major features (flow control):
6895 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6896 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6897 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6898 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6899 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6900 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6901 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6903 o Major features (performance):
6904 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6905 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6906 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6908 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6909 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6910 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6911 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6912 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6913 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6914 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6915 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6916 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6918 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6919 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6920 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6921 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6922 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6923 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6924 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6925 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6926 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6927 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6928 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6930 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6931 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6932 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6934 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6935 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6936 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6937 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6938 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6940 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6941 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6942 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6943 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6944 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6947 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6948 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6949 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6950 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6951 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6953 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6954 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6955 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6956 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6959 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6960 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6961 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6962 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6963 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6964 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6967 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6968 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6969 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6970 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6972 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6973 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6975 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6976 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6977 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6978 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6979 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6980 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6981 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6983 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6984 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6985 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6987 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6988 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6989 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6990 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6991 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6993 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6994 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6996 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6998 o Minor features (controller):
6999 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7000 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7001 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7003 o Minor features (debugging):
7004 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7005 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7006 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7007 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7009 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7010 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7011 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7012 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7013 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7014 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7015 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7016 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7017 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7018 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7020 o Minor features (developer tools):
7021 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7022 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7023 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7024 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7025 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7027 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7028 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7030 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7031 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7033 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7034 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7035 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7036 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7037 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7039 o Minor features (geoip):
7040 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7041 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7042 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7043 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7045 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7046 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7047 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7049 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7050 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7051 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7052 addresses. Implements 26992.
7054 o Minor features (logging):
7055 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7056 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7057 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7058 Closes ticket 30686.
7060 o Minor features (maintenance):
7061 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7062 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7063 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7065 o Minor features (modularity):
7066 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7067 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7069 o Minor features (performance):
7070 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7071 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7072 Closes ticket 28837.
7074 o Minor features (testing):
7075 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7076 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7077 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7078 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7080 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7081 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7082 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7083 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7084 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7085 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7086 Implements ticket 29732.
7087 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7088 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7090 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7091 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7093 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7094 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7095 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7096 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7097 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7098 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7100 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7101 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7102 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7103 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7105 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7106 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7107 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7109 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7110 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7111 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7112 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7113 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7114 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7115 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7116 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7117 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7118 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7119 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7120 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7121 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7122 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7123 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7124 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7125 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7126 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7128 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7129 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7130 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7131 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7132 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7134 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7135 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7136 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7137 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7138 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7139 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7142 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7143 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7147 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7148 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7151 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7152 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7153 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7155 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7156 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7157 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7158 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7161 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7162 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7163 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7164 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7165 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7166 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7168 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7169 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7170 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7171 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7172 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7174 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7175 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7176 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7177 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7179 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7180 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7181 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7184 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7185 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7186 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7187 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7188 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7189 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7191 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7192 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7193 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7195 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7196 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7197 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7198 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7199 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7200 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7202 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7203 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7205 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7206 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7207 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7208 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7209 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7210 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7211 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7214 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7215 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7216 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7218 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7219 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7222 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7223 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7224 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7225 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7227 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7228 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7229 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7230 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7231 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7232 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7233 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7234 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7236 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7237 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7238 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7239 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7240 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7241 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7242 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7244 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7245 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7246 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7247 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7248 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7249 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7252 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7253 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7254 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7257 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7258 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7259 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7260 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7261 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7263 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7264 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7265 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7267 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7268 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7269 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7270 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7271 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7272 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7275 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7276 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7277 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7280 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7281 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7282 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7283 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7285 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7286 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7287 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7288 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7289 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7291 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7292 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7293 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7294 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7296 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7297 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7298 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7299 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7300 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7302 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7303 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7304 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7305 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7306 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7307 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7308 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7309 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7310 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7311 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7312 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7313 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7314 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7316 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7317 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7318 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7319 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7320 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7322 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7323 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7324 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7325 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7326 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7327 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7328 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7329 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7330 Resolves issue 28816.
7331 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7332 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7333 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7334 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7335 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7336 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7337 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7338 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7339 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7340 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7341 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7342 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7343 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7344 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7345 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7346 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7347 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7348 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7349 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7350 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7351 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7352 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7353 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7354 Closes ticket 29894.
7355 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7356 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7357 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7358 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7361 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7362 Closes ticket 30630.
7363 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7364 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7368 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7369 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7370 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7371 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7375 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7376 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7377 Resolves issue 29702.
7379 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7380 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7381 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7382 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7383 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7384 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7385 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7386 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7387 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7388 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7389 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7392 o Testing (chutney):
7393 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7394 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7395 Closes ticket 27251.
7397 o Testing (continuous integration):
7398 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7399 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7400 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7401 Closes ticket 30694.
7404 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7405 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7406 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7407 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7408 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7409 long-term maintainability.
7411 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7412 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7413 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7414 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7416 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7417 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7419 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7420 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7421 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7422 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7423 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7424 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7426 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7427 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7429 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7430 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7433 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7434 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7435 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7436 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7437 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7438 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7439 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7440 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7441 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7444 o Major features (circuit padding):
7445 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7446 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7447 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7448 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7449 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7450 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7451 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7452 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7455 o Major features (refactoring):
7456 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7457 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7458 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7459 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7462 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7463 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7464 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7465 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7466 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7467 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7468 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7469 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7471 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7472 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7473 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7474 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7475 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7477 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7478 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7479 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7480 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7481 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7482 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7484 o Minor features (address selection):
7485 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7486 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7487 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7488 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7489 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7490 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7491 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7493 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7494 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7495 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7496 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7497 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7499 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7500 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7501 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7504 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7505 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7506 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7507 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7508 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7511 o Minor features (compilation):
7512 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7513 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7514 Patches from "Mangix".
7516 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7517 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7518 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7520 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7522 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7523 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7524 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7526 o Minor features (controller):
7527 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7528 Implements ticket 28843.
7530 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7531 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7532 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7533 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7534 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7535 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7536 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7538 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7539 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7540 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7542 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7543 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7544 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7547 o Minor features (directory authority):
7548 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7549 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7550 Closes ticket 26698.
7551 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7552 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7553 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7554 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7557 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7558 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7559 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7560 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7561 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7562 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7563 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7565 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7566 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7567 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7568 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7569 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7570 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7571 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7573 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7574 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7575 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7577 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7578 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7579 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7580 Closes ticket 28518.
7582 o Minor features (geoip):
7583 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7584 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7586 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7587 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7588 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7589 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7591 o Minor features (IPv6):
7592 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7593 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7594 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7595 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7596 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7597 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7598 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7599 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7600 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7601 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7603 o Minor features (log messages):
7604 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7605 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7608 o Minor features (memory usage):
7609 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7610 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7611 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7612 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7613 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7615 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7616 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7617 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7618 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7620 o Minor features (parsing):
7621 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7622 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7623 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7625 o Minor features (performance):
7626 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7627 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7628 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7629 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7631 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7632 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7633 Closes ticket 28852.
7634 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7635 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7636 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7637 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7638 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7639 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7641 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7642 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7643 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7644 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7645 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7647 o Minor features (process management):
7648 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7649 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7650 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7651 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7652 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7654 o Minor features (relay):
7655 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7656 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7657 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7659 o Minor features (required protocols):
7660 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7661 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7662 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7663 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7664 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7665 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7666 297; closes ticket 27735.
7668 o Minor features (testing):
7669 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7671 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7672 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7673 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7674 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7677 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7678 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7679 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7680 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7681 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7682 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7683 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7684 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7685 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7687 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7688 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7689 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7690 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7692 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7693 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7694 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7695 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7696 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7698 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7699 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7700 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7702 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7703 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7704 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7705 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7707 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7708 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7709 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7712 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7713 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7714 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7715 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7716 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7719 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7720 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7721 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7722 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7723 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7724 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7726 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7727 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7728 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7730 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7731 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7732 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7733 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7735 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7736 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7737 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7738 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7739 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7741 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7742 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7743 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7744 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7746 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7747 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7748 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7749 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7750 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7751 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7752 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7754 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7755 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7756 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7757 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7760 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7761 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7762 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7763 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7764 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7765 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7766 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7767 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7768 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7769 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7770 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7771 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7772 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7773 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7774 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7775 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7776 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7777 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7778 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7779 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7780 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7781 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7783 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7784 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7785 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7786 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7787 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7788 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7790 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7791 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7792 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7793 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7794 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7796 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7797 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7798 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7799 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7801 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7802 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7803 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7804 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7805 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7806 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7808 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7809 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7810 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7812 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7813 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7814 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7816 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7817 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7818 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7819 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7821 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7822 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7823 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7824 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7826 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7827 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7828 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7829 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7830 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7832 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7833 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7834 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7836 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7837 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7838 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7839 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7840 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7843 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7844 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7845 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7846 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7847 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7848 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7849 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7851 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7852 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7853 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7856 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7857 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7858 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7859 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7860 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7861 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7863 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7864 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7865 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7866 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7867 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7868 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7869 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7870 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7871 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7872 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7873 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7875 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7876 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7877 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7878 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7880 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7881 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7882 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7883 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7884 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7885 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7886 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7887 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7889 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7890 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7891 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7892 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7893 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7895 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7896 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7897 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7898 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7899 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7900 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7902 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7903 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7904 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7905 Resolves issue 28816.
7906 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7907 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7908 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7909 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7910 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7912 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7913 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7914 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7915 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7916 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7917 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7918 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7919 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7923 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7924 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7925 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7926 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7927 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7928 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7929 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7930 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7931 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7933 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7936 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7937 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7938 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7939 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7940 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7941 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7942 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7943 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7946 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7948 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7949 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7951 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7952 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7953 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7956 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7957 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7959 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7960 Resolves ticket 28006.
7961 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7962 Resolves ticket 28012.
7963 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7964 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7965 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7966 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7970 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7971 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7972 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7975 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7976 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7977 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7979 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7980 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7981 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7982 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7983 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7984 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7985 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7986 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7988 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7989 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7990 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7991 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7992 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7994 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7995 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7996 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7997 Patches from "Mangix".
7999 o Minor features (geoip):
8000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8001 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8003 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8004 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8007 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8008 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8009 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8010 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8011 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8012 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8015 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8016 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8017 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8020 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8021 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8022 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8023 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8025 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8026 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8027 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8030 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8031 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8032 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8033 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8035 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8036 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8037 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8038 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8040 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8041 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8042 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8043 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8044 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8045 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8047 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8048 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8049 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8050 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8051 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8053 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8054 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8055 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8056 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8057 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8059 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8060 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8061 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8063 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8064 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8065 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8067 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8068 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8069 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8070 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8072 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8073 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8074 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8076 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8077 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8078 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8079 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8080 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8083 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8084 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8085 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8086 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8087 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8090 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8091 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8092 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8093 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8094 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8096 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8097 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8098 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8099 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8100 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8101 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8102 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8103 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8105 o Minor features (geoip):
8106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8107 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8109 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8110 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8111 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8112 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8114 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8115 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8116 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8117 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8118 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8121 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8122 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8123 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8124 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8126 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8127 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8128 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8129 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8131 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8132 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8133 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8134 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8135 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8136 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8137 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8138 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8140 o Minor features (geoip):
8141 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8142 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8144 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8145 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8146 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8147 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8149 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8150 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8151 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8152 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8153 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8156 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8157 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8158 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8159 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8160 to this version, or to a later series.
8162 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8163 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8164 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8165 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8166 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8167 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8169 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8170 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8171 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8172 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8173 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8176 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8177 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8178 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8179 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8181 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8182 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8183 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8184 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8185 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8186 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8187 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8188 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8190 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8191 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8192 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8193 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8195 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8196 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8197 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8198 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8199 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8201 o Minor features (geoip):
8202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8203 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8205 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8206 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8207 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8208 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8209 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8210 Closes ticket 28973.
8212 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8213 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8214 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8215 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8217 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8218 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8219 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8222 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8223 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8224 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8226 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8227 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8228 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8229 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8232 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8233 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8234 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8236 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8237 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8238 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8239 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8240 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8241 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8244 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8245 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8246 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8249 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8250 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8251 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8252 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8253 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8256 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8257 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8258 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8259 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8261 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8262 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8263 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8264 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8265 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8266 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8268 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8269 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8270 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8273 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8274 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8275 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8277 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8278 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8279 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8281 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8282 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8283 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8286 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8287 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8288 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8289 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8290 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8291 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8292 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8293 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8296 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8297 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8298 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8300 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8301 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8302 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8303 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8304 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8305 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8306 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8307 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8308 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8309 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8311 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8312 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8313 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8314 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8315 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8316 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8319 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8320 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8321 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8322 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8324 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8325 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8326 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8329 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8330 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8331 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8332 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8335 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8336 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8337 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8340 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8341 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8342 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8343 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8344 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8347 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8348 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8349 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8350 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8351 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8352 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8353 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8355 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8356 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8357 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8360 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8361 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8362 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8363 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8364 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8367 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8368 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8369 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8370 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8371 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8373 o Minor features (geoip):
8374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8375 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8377 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8378 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8379 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8380 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8381 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8382 Closes ticket 28973.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8385 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8386 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8387 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8389 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8390 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8391 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8392 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8393 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8396 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8397 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8398 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8399 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8401 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8402 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8403 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8406 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8407 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8408 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8410 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8411 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8412 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8413 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8414 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8415 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8418 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8419 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8420 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8422 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8423 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8424 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8425 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8426 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8428 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8429 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8430 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8431 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8432 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8433 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8435 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8436 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8437 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8438 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8440 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8441 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8442 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8445 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8446 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8447 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8448 affecting directory caches.
8450 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8451 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8452 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8453 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8454 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8455 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8456 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8457 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8459 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8460 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8461 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8462 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8463 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8464 so it will recognize them.
8466 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8467 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8468 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8469 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8470 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8471 with the latest stable release.)
8473 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8474 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8476 o Major features (bootstrap):
8477 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8478 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8479 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8480 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8482 o Major features (new code layout):
8483 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8484 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8485 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8486 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8487 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8488 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8489 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8491 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8492 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8493 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8495 o Major features (onion services v3):
8496 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8497 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8498 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8499 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8500 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8501 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8502 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8503 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8504 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8505 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8506 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8507 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8508 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8509 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8510 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8511 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8512 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8513 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8515 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8516 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8517 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8518 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8519 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8520 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8522 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8523 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8524 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8525 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8526 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8527 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8528 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8530 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8531 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8532 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8533 (if present), and restart Tor.
8535 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8536 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8537 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8538 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8539 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8540 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8541 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8542 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8544 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8545 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8546 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8548 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8549 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8550 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8551 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8552 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8553 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8555 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8556 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8557 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8558 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8561 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8562 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8563 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8564 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8565 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8567 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8568 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8569 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8570 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8571 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8573 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8574 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8575 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8576 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8577 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8578 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8580 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8581 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8582 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8583 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8584 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8587 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8588 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8589 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8590 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8591 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8592 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8594 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8595 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8596 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8597 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8598 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8600 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8601 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8602 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8603 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8604 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8605 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8607 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8608 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8609 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8610 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8612 o Minor features (admin tools):
8613 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8614 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8617 o Minor features (build):
8618 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8619 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8620 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8621 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8623 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8624 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8625 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8626 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8627 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8629 o Minor features (code layout):
8630 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8631 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8632 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8633 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8636 o Minor features (compilation):
8637 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8638 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8639 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8640 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8641 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8642 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8645 o Minor features (config):
8646 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8649 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8650 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8652 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8653 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8654 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8655 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8656 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8657 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8658 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8660 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8661 Implements ticket 27252.
8662 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8663 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8664 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8665 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8666 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8667 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8668 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8669 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8670 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8672 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8673 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8674 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8676 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8677 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8679 o Minor features (controller):
8680 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8681 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8682 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8683 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8684 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8685 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8686 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8687 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8689 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8690 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8691 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8692 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8694 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8695 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8696 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8697 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8699 o Minor features (development):
8700 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8701 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8703 o Minor features (directory authority):
8704 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8705 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8706 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8707 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8709 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8710 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8713 o Minor features (embedding API):
8714 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8715 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8716 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8717 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8718 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8719 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8722 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8723 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8724 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8725 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8726 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8728 o Minor features (geoip):
8729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8730 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8732 o Minor features (memory management):
8733 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8734 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8737 o Minor features (memory usage):
8738 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8739 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8740 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8742 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8743 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8744 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8745 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8746 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8747 Closes ticket 28973.
8749 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8750 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8751 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8753 o Minor features (performance):
8754 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8755 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8756 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8757 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8758 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8759 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8760 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8761 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8762 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8763 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8765 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8766 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8767 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8768 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8770 o Minor features (testing):
8771 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8772 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8774 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8775 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8776 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8778 o Minor features (UI):
8779 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8780 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8781 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8782 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8783 Closes ticket 26703.
8785 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8786 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8787 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8788 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8789 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8791 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8792 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8793 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8794 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8795 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8798 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8799 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8800 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8801 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8803 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8804 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8805 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8806 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8807 - Use time_t for all values in
8808 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8809 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8810 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8812 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8813 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8814 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8815 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8816 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8819 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8820 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8821 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8822 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8823 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8824 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8826 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8827 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8828 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8829 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8831 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8832 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8833 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8837 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8838 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8839 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8841 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8842 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8843 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8846 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8847 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8848 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8849 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8850 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8852 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8853 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8854 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8855 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8856 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8859 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8860 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8861 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8862 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8863 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8864 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8865 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8866 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8867 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8868 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8869 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8870 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8871 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8873 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8874 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8875 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8877 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8878 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8879 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8880 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8881 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8884 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8885 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8886 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8887 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8888 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8890 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8891 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8892 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8894 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8895 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8896 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8897 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8898 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8899 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8902 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8903 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8904 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8907 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8908 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8909 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8910 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8911 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8914 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8915 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8918 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8919 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8920 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8922 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8923 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8924 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8925 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8926 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8927 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8929 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8930 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8931 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8932 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8933 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8935 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8936 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8937 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8938 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8939 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8941 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8942 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8943 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8945 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8946 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8947 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8948 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8951 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8952 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8953 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8954 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8955 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8956 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8957 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8958 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8959 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8961 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8962 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8964 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8965 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8966 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8967 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8968 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8969 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8970 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8971 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8972 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8973 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8974 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8976 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8977 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8978 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8979 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8981 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8982 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8983 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8984 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8985 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8987 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8988 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8989 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8990 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8992 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8993 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8994 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8997 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8998 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9000 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9001 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9002 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9003 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9004 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9005 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9006 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9007 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9008 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9009 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9011 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9012 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9013 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9014 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9015 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9017 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9018 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9019 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9020 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9022 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9023 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9024 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9025 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9026 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9027 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9028 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9029 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9030 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9031 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9033 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9034 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9035 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9036 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9037 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9038 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9039 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9040 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9041 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9043 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9044 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9045 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9046 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9047 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9048 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9049 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9050 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9051 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9052 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9053 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9054 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9055 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9056 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9057 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9059 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9060 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9061 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9062 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9063 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9064 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9065 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9066 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9068 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9069 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9070 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9071 reported by Keifer Bly.
9073 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9074 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9075 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9077 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9078 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9079 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9080 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9081 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9082 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9083 Closes ticket 27814.
9084 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9085 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9086 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9087 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9088 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9089 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9090 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9091 Closes ticket 27799.
9092 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9093 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9094 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9095 directory within the top-level src directory.
9096 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9097 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9098 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9099 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9100 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9101 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9102 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9103 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9104 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9105 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9106 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9107 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9108 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9109 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9110 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9111 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9112 Closes ticket 21349.
9113 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9114 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9115 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9116 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9117 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9118 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9119 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9121 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9122 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9123 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9126 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9127 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9128 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9129 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9130 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9131 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9132 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9133 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9134 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9137 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9138 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9139 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9140 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9141 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9142 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9143 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9144 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9145 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9146 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9147 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9148 Closes ticket 26367.
9151 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9152 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9154 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9155 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9156 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9157 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9158 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9159 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9160 Closes ticket 19566.
9162 o Documentation (onion services):
9163 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9164 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9165 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9166 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9167 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9168 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9169 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9170 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9173 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9174 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9175 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9176 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9177 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9179 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9180 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9181 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9183 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9184 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9185 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9186 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9187 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9189 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9190 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9191 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9192 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9193 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9196 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9197 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9198 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9199 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9201 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9202 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9203 Implements ticket 27252.
9204 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9205 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9206 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9207 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9208 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9209 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9210 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9212 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9213 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9214 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9215 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9217 o Minor features (geoip):
9218 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9219 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9221 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9222 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9223 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9224 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9225 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9227 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9228 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9229 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9230 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9231 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9234 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9235 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9236 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9239 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9240 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9241 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9242 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9243 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9245 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9246 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9247 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9249 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9250 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9251 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9253 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9254 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9255 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9256 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9258 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9259 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9260 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9262 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9263 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9264 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9267 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9268 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9269 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9272 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9273 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9276 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9277 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9278 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9279 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9280 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9282 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9283 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9284 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9285 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9286 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9287 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9289 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9290 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9291 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9294 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9295 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9296 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9297 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9298 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9299 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9300 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9301 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9303 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9304 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9305 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9306 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9308 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9309 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9310 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9311 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9312 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9314 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9315 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9316 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9317 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9318 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9319 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9322 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9323 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9324 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9325 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9326 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9328 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9329 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9330 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9331 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9334 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9335 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9336 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9337 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9338 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9341 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9342 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9344 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9345 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9346 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9347 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9349 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9350 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9352 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9353 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9354 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9355 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9357 o Minor features (geoip):
9358 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9359 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9361 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9362 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9363 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9364 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9366 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9367 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9368 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9369 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9370 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9371 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9372 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9373 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9377 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9378 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9379 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9381 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9382 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9383 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9384 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9386 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9387 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9388 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9389 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9391 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9392 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9393 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9394 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9395 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9397 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9398 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9399 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9402 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9403 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9404 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9405 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9406 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9408 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9409 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9410 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9413 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9414 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9415 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9416 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9418 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9419 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9420 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9422 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9423 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9424 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9427 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9428 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9429 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9430 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9431 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9433 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9434 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9435 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9438 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9439 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9441 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9442 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9443 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9444 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9446 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9447 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9449 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9450 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9451 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9452 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9454 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9455 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9458 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9459 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9460 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9461 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9463 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9464 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9465 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9466 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9468 o Minor features (geoip):
9469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9470 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9473 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9474 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9475 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9476 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9477 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9478 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9480 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9481 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9482 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9483 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9484 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9485 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9486 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9487 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9491 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9492 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9493 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9495 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9496 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9497 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9498 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9500 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9501 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9502 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9503 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9504 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9506 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9507 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9508 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9509 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9510 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9512 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9513 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9514 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9517 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9518 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9519 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9520 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9521 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9523 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9524 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9525 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9528 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9529 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9530 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9533 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9534 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9535 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9538 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9539 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9541 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9542 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9543 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9544 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9546 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9547 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9548 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9549 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9552 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9553 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9555 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9556 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9557 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9558 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9559 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9560 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9561 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9564 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9565 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9566 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9567 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9568 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9570 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9571 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9572 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9573 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9574 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9576 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9577 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9578 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9581 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9582 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9584 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9585 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9586 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9587 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9589 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9590 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9591 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9592 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9594 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9595 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9596 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9598 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9599 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9600 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9601 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9603 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9604 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9607 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9608 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9609 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9610 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9612 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9613 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9614 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9615 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9617 o Minor features (geoip):
9618 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9619 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9622 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9623 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9624 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9625 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9626 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9627 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9630 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9631 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9632 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9633 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9634 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9635 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9636 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9640 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9641 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9642 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9644 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9645 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9646 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9647 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9649 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9650 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9651 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9652 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9653 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9655 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9656 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9657 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9658 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9659 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9661 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9662 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9663 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9666 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9667 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9668 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9669 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9671 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9672 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9673 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9674 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9675 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9677 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9678 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9679 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9682 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9683 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9684 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9687 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9688 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9689 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9692 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9693 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9694 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9695 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9697 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9698 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9699 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9702 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9703 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9705 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9706 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9707 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9708 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9709 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9710 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9711 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9713 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9714 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9715 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9716 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9717 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9719 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9720 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9721 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9722 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9724 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9725 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9726 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9728 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9729 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9730 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9731 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9732 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9733 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9734 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9737 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9738 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9739 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9740 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9741 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9744 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9745 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9746 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9747 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9749 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9750 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9751 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9754 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9755 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9756 compilation and portability fixes.
9758 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9759 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9760 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9761 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9762 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9763 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9764 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9765 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9767 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9768 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9770 o New system requirements:
9771 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9772 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9773 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9774 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9776 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9777 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9778 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9779 To disable the module, the configure option
9780 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9781 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9783 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9784 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9785 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9786 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9787 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9788 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9789 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9790 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9791 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9792 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9793 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9795 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9796 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9797 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9798 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9799 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9800 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9801 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9802 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9803 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9804 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9805 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9806 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9807 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9808 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9809 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9810 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9811 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9812 Tor's uptime (26009).
9814 o Minor features (accounting):
9815 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9816 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9817 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9818 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9820 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9821 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9822 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9823 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9825 o Minor features (code quality):
9826 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9827 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9828 Closes ticket 25024.
9830 o Minor features (compatibility):
9831 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9832 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9833 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9834 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9835 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9836 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9838 o Minor features (compilation):
9839 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9840 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9841 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9842 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9843 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9844 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9845 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9846 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9849 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9850 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9851 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9852 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9853 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9854 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9856 o Minor features (configuration):
9857 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9858 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9859 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9860 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9861 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9863 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9864 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9865 Implements ticket 27449.
9866 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9867 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9869 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9870 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9872 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9873 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9874 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9875 Implements ticket 27275.
9876 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9877 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9878 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9879 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9880 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9882 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9883 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9886 o Minor features (control port):
9887 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9888 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9889 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9890 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9891 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9892 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9893 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9894 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9895 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9896 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9898 o Minor features (controller):
9899 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9900 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9901 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9903 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9904 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9905 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9906 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9907 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9908 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9909 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9911 o Minor features (directory authority):
9912 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9913 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9914 Closes ticket 23909.
9916 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9917 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9918 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9919 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9921 o Minor features (entry guards):
9922 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9923 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9925 o Minor features (geoip):
9926 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9927 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9929 o Minor features (performance):
9930 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9931 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9932 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9933 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9935 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9936 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9938 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9939 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9941 o Minor features (testing):
9942 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9943 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9945 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9946 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9947 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9948 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9949 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9950 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9952 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9953 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9954 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9955 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9956 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9958 o Minor features (unit tests):
9959 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9960 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9961 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9964 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9965 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9966 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9967 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9968 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9969 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9971 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9972 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9973 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9974 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9976 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9977 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9978 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9979 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9980 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9982 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9983 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9984 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9985 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9986 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9987 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9988 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9989 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9991 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9992 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9993 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9994 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9995 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9996 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9997 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9998 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9999 Closes ticket 26245.
10000 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10001 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10002 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10004 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10005 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10006 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10007 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10009 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10010 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10011 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10012 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10013 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10015 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10016 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10017 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10018 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10019 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10020 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10021 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10022 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10023 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10024 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10025 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10026 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10028 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10029 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10030 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10033 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10034 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10035 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10038 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10039 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10040 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10041 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10042 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10043 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10046 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10047 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10048 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10049 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10050 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10051 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10052 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10054 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10055 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10056 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10057 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10059 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10060 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10061 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10062 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10063 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10065 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10066 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10067 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10070 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10071 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10072 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10074 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10075 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10077 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10078 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10079 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10080 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10081 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10083 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10084 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10085 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10087 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10088 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10089 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10090 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10091 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10094 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10095 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10096 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10097 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10099 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10100 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10101 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10102 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10103 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10104 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10105 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10107 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10108 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10110 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10111 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10112 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10113 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10114 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10116 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10117 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10118 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10119 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10120 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10122 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10123 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10124 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10125 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10128 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10129 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10130 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10133 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10134 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10135 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10136 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10137 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10138 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10139 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10140 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10141 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10142 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10144 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10145 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10146 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10147 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10148 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10149 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10150 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10152 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10153 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10154 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10155 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10156 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10158 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10159 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10160 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10163 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10164 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10165 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10166 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10167 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10169 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10170 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10171 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10172 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10173 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10174 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10175 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10178 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10179 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10180 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10181 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10182 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10184 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10185 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10186 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10187 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10188 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10191 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10192 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10193 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10194 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10195 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10197 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10198 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10199 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10201 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10202 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10203 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10204 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10205 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10206 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10207 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10208 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10210 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10211 confusing we renamed some functions and
10212 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10213 router_should_check_reachability() and
10214 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10215 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10216 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10217 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10218 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10220 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10221 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10223 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10224 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10225 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10226 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10227 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10228 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10229 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10230 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10231 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10232 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10233 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10234 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10235 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10236 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10237 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10238 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10239 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10240 Closes ticket 25766.
10241 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10242 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10243 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10244 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10245 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10246 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10247 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10248 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10249 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10250 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10251 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10252 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10253 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10254 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10256 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10257 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10258 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10259 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10260 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10261 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10262 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10263 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10264 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10266 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10267 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10268 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10269 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10271 o Deprecated features:
10272 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10273 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10274 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10275 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10276 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10277 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10279 o Removed features:
10280 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10281 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10282 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10283 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10284 24378 and proposal 290.
10285 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10286 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10287 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10288 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10289 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10290 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10291 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10292 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10293 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10294 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10295 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10296 their local router. Closes 25409.
10297 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10298 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10299 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10300 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10301 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10302 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10303 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10304 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10305 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10306 Closes ticket 25268.
10309 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10310 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10311 bridge relays should upgrade.
10313 o Directory authority changes:
10314 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10315 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10316 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10319 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10320 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10321 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10324 o Directory authority changes:
10325 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10326 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10327 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10329 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10330 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10331 Closes ticket 26343.
10333 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10334 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10335 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10336 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10337 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10339 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10340 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10341 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10343 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10344 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10345 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10346 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10348 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10349 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10350 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10352 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10353 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10354 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10355 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10356 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10357 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10359 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10360 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10361 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10362 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10364 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10365 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10366 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10369 o Minor features (geoip):
10370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10371 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10373 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10374 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10375 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10376 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10377 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10379 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10380 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10381 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10384 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10385 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10386 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10387 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10388 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10389 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10390 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10393 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10394 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10395 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10396 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10397 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10398 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10400 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10401 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10402 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10403 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10404 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10407 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10408 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10409 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10410 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10412 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10413 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10414 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10417 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10418 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10419 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10421 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10422 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10423 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10424 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10426 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10427 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10428 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10429 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10430 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10431 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10432 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10434 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10435 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10436 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10437 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10440 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10441 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10442 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10444 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10445 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10446 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10448 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10449 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10450 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10451 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10455 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10456 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10457 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10459 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10460 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10461 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10463 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10464 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10465 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10468 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10469 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10470 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10473 o Directory authority changes:
10474 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10475 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10476 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10478 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10479 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10480 Closes ticket 26343.
10482 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10483 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10484 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10485 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10486 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10488 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10489 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10490 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10491 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10493 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10494 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10495 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10496 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10497 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10498 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10500 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10501 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10502 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10505 o Minor features (geoip):
10506 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10507 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10509 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10510 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10511 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10512 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10513 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10515 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10516 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10517 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10519 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10520 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10521 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10522 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10525 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10526 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10527 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10528 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10529 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10530 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10532 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10533 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10534 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10535 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10536 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10538 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10539 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10540 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10543 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10544 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10545 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10547 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10548 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10549 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10550 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10552 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10553 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10554 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10556 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10557 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10558 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10561 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10562 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10563 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10565 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10566 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10567 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10568 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10570 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10571 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10572 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10575 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10576 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10577 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10580 o Minor features (geoip):
10581 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10582 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10584 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10585 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10586 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10587 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10589 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10590 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10591 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10592 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10593 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10596 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10597 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10598 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10599 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10600 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10603 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10604 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10605 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10607 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10608 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10609 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10611 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10612 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10613 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10614 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10617 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10618 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10619 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10620 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10622 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10623 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10624 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10625 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10626 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10627 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10628 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10629 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10633 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10634 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10635 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10637 o Directory authority changes:
10638 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10639 Closes ticket 26343.
10641 o Minor features (geoip):
10642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10643 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10645 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10646 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10647 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10648 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10649 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10650 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10652 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10653 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10654 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10656 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10657 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10658 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10659 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10660 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10662 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10663 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10664 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10666 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10667 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10668 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10669 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10670 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10671 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10674 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10675 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10676 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10678 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10679 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10680 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10681 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10682 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10683 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10685 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10686 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10688 o New system requirements:
10689 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10690 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10692 o Major features (embedding):
10693 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10694 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10695 Closes ticket 23684.
10696 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10697 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10698 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10699 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10700 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10701 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10703 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10704 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10705 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10706 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10708 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10709 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10710 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10711 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10712 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10714 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10715 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10718 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10719 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10720 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10721 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10722 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10723 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10724 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10726 o Major features (onion services):
10727 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10728 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10729 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10730 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10731 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10733 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10734 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10735 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10736 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10737 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10738 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10740 o Major features (relay):
10741 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10742 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10743 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10744 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10745 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10747 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10748 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10749 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10750 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10751 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10752 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10753 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10754 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10756 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10757 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10758 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10759 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10760 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10762 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10763 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10764 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10765 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10766 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10768 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10769 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10770 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10771 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10773 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10774 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10775 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10776 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10777 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10778 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10779 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10780 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10782 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10783 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10784 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10785 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10787 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10788 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10789 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10791 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10792 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10793 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10794 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10795 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10796 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10797 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10799 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10800 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10801 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10802 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10803 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10805 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10806 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10807 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10810 o Minor features (cleanup):
10811 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10812 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10814 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10815 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10816 Closes ticket 26006.
10818 o Minor features (config options):
10819 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10820 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10821 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10824 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10825 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10826 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10828 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10829 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10830 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10831 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10832 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10833 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10835 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10836 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10837 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10838 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10839 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10840 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10841 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10842 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10843 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10844 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10846 o Minor features (directory authority):
10847 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10848 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10850 o Minor features (embedding):
10851 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10852 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10853 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10854 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10855 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10856 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10857 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10858 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10859 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10860 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10861 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10862 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10863 Closes ticket 23848.
10864 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10865 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10866 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10868 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10869 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10870 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10871 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10872 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10873 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10874 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10875 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10878 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10879 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10880 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10881 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10882 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10883 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10884 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10886 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10887 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10888 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10889 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10890 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10891 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10892 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10893 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10894 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10895 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10896 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10897 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10899 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10900 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10901 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10903 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10904 Implements ticket 24791.
10906 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10907 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10908 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10909 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10910 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10911 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10913 o Minor features (geoip):
10914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10915 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10917 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10918 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10919 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10922 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10923 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10924 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10925 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10926 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10928 o Minor features (IPv6):
10929 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10930 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10931 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10932 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10933 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10936 o Minor features (log messages):
10937 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10938 information about memory usage from the different compression
10939 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10940 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10941 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10942 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10943 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10945 o Minor features (logging):
10946 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10947 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10948 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10951 o Minor features (performance):
10952 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10953 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10954 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10955 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10957 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10958 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10959 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10960 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10961 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10962 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10963 Implements ticket 24374.
10965 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10966 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10967 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10968 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10969 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10971 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10972 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10973 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10974 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10977 o Minor features (sandbox):
10978 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10979 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10980 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10982 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10983 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10984 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10985 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10986 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10988 o Minor features (testing):
10989 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10992 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10993 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10994 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10995 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10996 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10997 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10998 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10999 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11000 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11002 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11003 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11004 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11005 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11006 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11007 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11008 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11009 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11010 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11013 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11014 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11015 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11016 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11018 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11019 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11020 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11022 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11023 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11024 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11025 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11026 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11028 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11029 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11030 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11033 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11034 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11035 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11036 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11038 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11039 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11040 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11041 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11042 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11043 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11044 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11046 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11047 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11048 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11049 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11051 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11052 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11053 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11054 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11055 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11058 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11059 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11060 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11063 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11064 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11065 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11066 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11067 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11069 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11070 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11071 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11072 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11073 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11076 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11077 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11078 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11079 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11080 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11083 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11084 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11087 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11088 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11089 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11091 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11092 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11093 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11094 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11095 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11097 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11098 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11099 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11100 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11102 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11103 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11104 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11105 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11106 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11107 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11109 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11110 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11111 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11112 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11114 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11115 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11116 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11118 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11119 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11120 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11121 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11123 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11124 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11125 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11126 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11129 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11130 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11131 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11132 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11133 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11134 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11137 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11138 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11139 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11140 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11142 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11143 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11144 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11146 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11147 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11148 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11149 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11150 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11151 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11153 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11154 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11155 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11156 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11157 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11158 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11159 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11162 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11163 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11164 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11166 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11167 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11168 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11169 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11170 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11172 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11173 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11174 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11175 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11176 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11177 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11179 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11180 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11181 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11182 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11183 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11184 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11185 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11186 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11187 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11188 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11189 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11190 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11192 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11193 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11194 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11196 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11197 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11198 would call the Rust implementation of
11199 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11200 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11201 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11202 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11203 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11205 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11206 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11207 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11208 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11210 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11211 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11212 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11213 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11215 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11216 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11218 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11219 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11220 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11221 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11222 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11223 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11225 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11226 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11227 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11228 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11229 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11231 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11233 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11234 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11235 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11237 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11239 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11240 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11241 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11242 "aruna1234" and teor.
11243 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11244 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11245 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11246 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11248 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11249 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11250 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11251 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11252 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11253 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11254 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11255 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11256 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11257 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11259 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11260 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11263 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11265 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11266 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11267 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11268 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11270 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11271 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11272 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11273 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11275 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11276 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11277 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11278 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11279 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11281 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11282 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11283 adding very little except for unit test.
11285 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11286 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11287 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11288 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11290 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11291 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11292 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11294 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11295 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11296 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11298 o Documentation (man page):
11299 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11300 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11303 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11304 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11305 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11309 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11310 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11313 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11314 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11316 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11317 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11319 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11322 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11323 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11324 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11326 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11327 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11328 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11329 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11332 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11333 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11334 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11335 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11338 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11339 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11340 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11341 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11342 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11343 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11344 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11345 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11346 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11347 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11348 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11349 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11350 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11352 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11353 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11354 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11356 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11357 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11358 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11359 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11360 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11361 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11362 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11364 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11365 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11366 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11368 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11369 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11370 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11371 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11372 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11373 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11374 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11376 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11377 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11378 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11379 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11381 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11382 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11383 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11384 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11386 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11387 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11388 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11389 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11390 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11391 Closes ticket 24978.
11393 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11394 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11395 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11396 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11397 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11398 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11399 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11400 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11401 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11403 o Minor features (geoip):
11404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11407 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11408 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11409 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11410 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11411 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11413 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11414 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11415 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11416 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11417 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11419 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11420 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11421 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11422 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11423 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11426 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11427 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11428 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11429 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11430 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11431 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11432 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11433 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11434 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11435 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11436 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11439 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11440 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11441 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11443 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11444 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11445 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11448 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11449 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11450 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11451 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11452 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11453 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11454 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11456 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11457 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11458 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11459 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11460 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11461 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11462 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11463 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11464 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11467 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11468 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11469 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11470 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11471 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11472 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11474 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11475 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11476 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11477 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11479 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11480 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11481 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11482 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11483 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11486 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11487 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11488 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11489 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11490 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11491 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11493 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11494 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11495 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11496 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11497 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11498 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11499 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11500 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11501 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11502 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11503 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11504 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11506 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11507 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11508 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11509 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11511 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11512 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11513 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11514 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11516 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11517 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11518 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11519 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11522 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11523 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11524 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11525 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11526 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11528 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11529 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11531 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11532 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11534 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11535 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11536 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11539 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11540 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11541 later Tor releases.
11543 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11544 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11546 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11547 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11549 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11552 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11553 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11554 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11556 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11557 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11558 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11559 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11562 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11563 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11564 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11565 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11566 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11567 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11568 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11569 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11570 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11571 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11572 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11573 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11574 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11576 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11577 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11578 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11579 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11580 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11581 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11582 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11583 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11584 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11586 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11587 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11588 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11589 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11590 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11591 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11592 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11594 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11595 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11596 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11597 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11599 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11600 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11601 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11602 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11603 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11604 Closes ticket 24978.
11606 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11607 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11608 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11609 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11611 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11612 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11613 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11614 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11615 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11616 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11617 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11618 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11619 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11621 o Minor features (geoip):
11622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11625 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11626 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11627 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11629 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11630 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11631 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11632 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11633 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11635 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11636 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11637 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11638 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11639 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11641 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11642 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11643 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11644 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11645 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11648 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11649 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11650 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11652 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11653 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11654 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11657 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11658 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11659 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11660 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11661 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11662 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11663 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11665 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11666 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11667 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11668 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11669 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11672 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11673 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11674 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11675 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11676 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11677 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11679 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11680 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11681 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11682 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11684 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11685 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11686 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11687 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11688 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11689 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11690 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11691 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11692 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11693 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11694 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11695 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11697 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11698 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11699 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11700 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11703 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11704 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11705 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11706 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11707 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11709 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11710 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11712 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11713 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11716 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11717 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11718 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11721 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11722 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11724 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11725 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11726 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11727 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11728 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11729 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11732 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11733 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11735 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11738 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11739 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11740 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11741 the DoS mitigations.)
11743 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11744 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11745 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11746 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11749 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11750 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11751 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11752 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11754 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11755 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11756 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11757 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11758 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11759 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11760 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11761 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11762 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11763 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11764 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11765 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11766 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11768 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11769 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11770 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11771 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11772 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11773 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11774 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11775 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11776 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11777 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11778 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11780 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11781 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11782 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11784 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11785 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11786 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11787 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11788 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11789 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11790 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11792 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11793 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11794 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11795 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11797 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11798 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11799 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11800 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11802 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11803 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11804 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11805 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11806 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11807 Closes ticket 24978.
11809 o Minor features (geoip):
11810 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11813 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11814 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11815 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11818 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11819 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11820 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11821 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11822 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11824 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11825 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11826 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11827 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11828 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11829 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11830 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11832 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11833 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11834 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11835 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11836 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11838 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11839 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11840 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11841 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11843 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11844 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11845 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11846 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11847 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11849 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11850 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11851 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11852 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11854 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11855 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11856 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11857 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11859 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11860 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11861 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11862 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11864 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11865 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11867 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11868 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11870 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11871 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11872 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11874 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11875 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11876 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11877 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11878 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11880 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11881 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11882 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11884 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11885 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11886 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11890 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11891 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11893 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11894 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11895 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11896 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11897 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11898 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11900 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11901 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11902 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11903 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11904 with the 0.2.9 series.
11906 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11907 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11909 o Directory authority changes:
11910 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11911 Closes ticket 23910.
11912 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11913 Closes ticket 23592.
11914 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11915 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11916 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11917 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11918 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11921 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11922 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11923 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11924 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11925 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11926 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11929 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11930 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11932 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11935 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11938 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11940 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11942 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11944 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11945 they are 56 characters long, as in
11946 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11948 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11949 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11950 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11951 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11952 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11955 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11956 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11957 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11958 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11959 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11960 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11961 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11963 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11964 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11965 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11966 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11967 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11968 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11969 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11970 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11971 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11972 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11973 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11974 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11976 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11977 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11978 more information, see the design paper at
11979 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11980 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11981 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11982 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11984 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11985 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11986 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11987 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11988 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11989 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11990 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11991 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11993 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11994 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11995 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11996 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11999 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12000 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12001 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12002 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12003 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12004 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12005 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12006 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12007 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12008 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12009 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12010 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12013 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12014 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12015 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12016 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12017 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12018 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12019 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12020 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12021 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12023 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12024 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12025 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12026 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12027 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12028 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12029 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12030 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12031 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12032 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12033 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12036 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12037 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12038 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12039 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12040 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12041 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12042 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12044 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12045 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12046 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12047 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12048 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12049 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12052 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12053 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12054 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12055 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12057 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12058 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12059 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12060 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12062 o Minor features (bridge):
12063 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12064 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12065 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12066 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12067 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12068 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12069 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12070 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12071 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12072 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12073 related to ticket 23080.
12075 o Minor features (bug detection):
12076 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12077 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12078 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12080 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12081 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12082 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12083 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12084 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12085 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12086 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12087 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12088 Closes ticket 23643.
12090 o Minor features (client):
12091 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12092 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12093 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12094 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12095 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12096 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12097 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12098 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12099 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12100 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12101 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12102 Resolves ticket 23670.
12104 o Minor features (command line):
12105 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12106 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12107 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12109 o Minor features (control port):
12110 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12111 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12112 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12114 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12115 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12117 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12118 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12119 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12120 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12121 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12122 Closes ticket 23237.
12123 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12124 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12126 o Minor features (development support):
12127 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12128 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12129 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12130 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12131 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12132 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12134 o Minor features (directory authority):
12135 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12136 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12137 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12138 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12140 o Minor features (ed25519):
12141 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12142 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12143 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12145 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12146 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12147 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12149 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12150 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12151 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12152 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12153 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12154 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12155 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12156 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12157 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12159 o Minor features (geoip):
12160 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12163 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12164 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12165 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12166 another program, regardless of the settings of
12167 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12168 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12169 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12171 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12172 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12173 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12175 o Minor features (logging):
12176 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12178 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12179 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12181 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12182 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12183 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12184 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12185 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12186 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12187 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12188 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12189 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12190 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12192 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12193 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12195 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12196 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12197 the circuit identifier(s).
12198 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12199 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12201 o Minor features (portability):
12202 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12203 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12205 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12206 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12207 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12208 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12210 o Minor features (relay):
12211 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12212 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12213 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12214 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12215 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12216 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12217 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12218 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12220 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12221 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12222 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12223 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12225 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12226 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12227 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12228 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12229 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12231 o Minor features (robustness):
12232 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12233 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12235 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12236 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12237 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12240 o Minor features (static analysis):
12241 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12242 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12245 o Minor features (testing):
12246 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12247 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12248 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12249 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12251 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12252 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12253 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12254 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12255 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12257 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12258 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12259 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12260 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12261 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12264 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12265 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12266 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12269 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12270 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12271 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12272 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12273 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12274 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12275 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12276 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12277 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12278 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12279 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12280 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12281 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12283 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12284 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12285 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12286 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12288 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12289 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12290 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12291 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12292 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12293 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12294 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12295 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12296 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12297 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12298 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12299 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12300 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12301 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12302 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12303 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12304 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12306 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12307 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12308 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12309 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12311 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12312 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12313 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12314 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12316 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12317 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12318 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12319 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12320 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12321 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12322 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12323 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12325 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12326 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12327 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12328 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12329 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12330 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12331 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12332 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12333 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12334 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12335 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12336 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12337 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12338 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12341 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12342 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12343 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12346 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12347 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12348 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12349 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12351 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12352 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12353 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12356 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12357 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12358 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12359 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12361 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12362 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12363 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12364 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12365 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12366 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12367 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12368 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12369 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12372 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12373 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12374 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12375 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12376 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12378 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12379 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12380 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12381 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12382 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12383 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12385 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12386 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12389 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12390 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12391 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12392 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12393 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12394 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12396 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12397 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12398 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12399 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12401 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12402 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12403 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12404 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12405 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12406 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12408 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12409 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12410 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12411 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12412 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12413 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12414 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12417 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12418 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12419 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12420 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12422 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12423 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12424 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12425 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12426 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12427 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12428 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12429 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12430 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12431 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12433 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12434 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12435 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12437 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12438 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12439 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12441 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12442 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12443 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12444 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12445 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12446 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12448 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12449 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12450 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12451 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12452 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12453 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12455 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12456 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12457 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12459 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12460 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12461 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12462 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12463 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12466 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12467 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12468 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12469 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12470 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12471 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12473 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12474 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12475 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12476 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12477 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12478 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12479 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12481 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12482 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12483 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12484 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12485 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12486 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12487 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12488 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12489 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12491 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12492 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12493 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12494 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12495 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12496 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12497 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12498 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12499 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12500 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12501 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12502 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12504 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12505 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12506 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12507 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12508 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12509 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12512 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12513 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12514 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12515 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12516 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12517 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12518 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12519 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12520 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12521 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12522 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12523 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12525 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12526 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12527 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12528 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12529 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12530 Closes ticket 24109.
12531 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12532 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12533 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12534 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12536 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12537 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12539 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12540 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12541 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12542 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12543 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12544 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12545 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12546 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12547 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12548 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12549 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12551 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12552 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12553 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12554 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12556 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12557 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12558 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12560 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12561 function from the general code to handle channel state
12562 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12563 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12564 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12565 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12566 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12567 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12568 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12569 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12571 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12572 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12574 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12575 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12576 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12577 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12578 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12579 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12580 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12581 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12582 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12583 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12584 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12585 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12587 o Deprecated features:
12588 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12589 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12590 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12591 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12592 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12593 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12597 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12598 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12599 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12600 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12601 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12602 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12603 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12604 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12605 Closes ticket 18736.
12606 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12607 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12608 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12609 Closes ticket 15645.
12610 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12611 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12612 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12613 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12615 o Removed features:
12616 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12617 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12618 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12619 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12620 Closes ticket 21031.
12621 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12622 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12625 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12626 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12627 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12628 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12630 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12631 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12632 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12633 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12634 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12635 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12636 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12637 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12638 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12639 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12640 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12642 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12643 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12644 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12645 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12646 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12647 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12648 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12651 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12652 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12653 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12654 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12655 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12657 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12658 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12659 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12660 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12661 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12662 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12663 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12664 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12665 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12667 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12668 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12669 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12670 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12671 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12672 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12675 o Minor features (bridge):
12676 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12677 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12678 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12679 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12682 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12683 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12686 o Minor features (geoip):
12687 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12690 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12691 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12692 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12693 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12694 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12696 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12697 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12698 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12700 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12701 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12702 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12703 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12704 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12705 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12708 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12709 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12712 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12713 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12714 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12715 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12716 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12719 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12720 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12721 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12722 to another of the releases coming out today.
12724 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12725 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12726 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12728 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12729 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12730 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12731 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12732 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12733 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12734 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12735 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12736 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12737 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12738 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12740 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12741 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12742 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12743 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12744 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12745 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12746 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12749 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12750 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12751 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12752 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12753 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12755 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12756 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12757 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12758 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12759 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12760 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12761 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12762 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12763 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12765 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12766 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12767 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12768 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12769 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12770 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12773 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12774 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12775 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12776 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12777 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12778 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12780 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12781 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12782 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12783 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12784 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12787 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12788 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12791 o Minor features (geoip):
12792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12795 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12796 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12797 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12798 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12799 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12801 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12802 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12803 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12805 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12806 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12807 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12808 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12809 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12810 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12812 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12813 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12814 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12815 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12816 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12818 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12819 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12820 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12823 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12824 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12825 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12826 to another of the releases coming out today.
12828 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12829 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12830 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12831 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12832 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12833 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12836 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12837 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12838 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12839 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12840 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12841 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12842 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12843 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12844 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12845 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12846 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12848 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12849 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12850 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12851 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12852 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12853 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12854 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12857 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12858 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12859 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12860 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12861 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12863 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12864 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12865 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12866 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12867 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12868 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12870 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12871 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12872 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12873 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12874 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12877 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12878 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12881 o Minor features (geoip):
12882 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12885 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12886 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12887 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12888 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12889 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12890 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12892 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12893 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12894 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12895 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12896 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12898 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12899 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12900 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12902 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12903 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12904 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12905 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12906 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12907 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12909 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12910 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12911 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12912 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12913 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12915 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12916 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12917 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12920 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12921 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12922 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12923 to another of the releases coming out today.
12925 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12926 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12927 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12929 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12930 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12931 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12932 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12933 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12934 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12935 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12936 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12937 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12938 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12939 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12940 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12941 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12942 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12943 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12946 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12947 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12948 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12949 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12950 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12952 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12953 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12954 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12955 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12956 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12959 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12960 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12961 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12962 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12963 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12966 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12967 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12970 o Minor features (geoip):
12971 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12974 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12975 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12976 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12979 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12980 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12981 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12982 to another of the releases coming out today.
12984 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12985 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12986 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12988 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12989 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12990 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12991 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12992 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12993 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12994 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12995 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12996 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12997 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12998 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12999 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13000 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13001 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13002 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13005 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13006 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13007 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13008 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13009 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13010 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13012 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13013 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13014 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13015 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13016 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13019 o Minor features (geoip):
13020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13024 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13025 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13026 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13028 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13029 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13030 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13032 o Directory authority changes:
13033 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13034 Closes ticket 23910.
13035 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13036 Closes ticket 23592.
13038 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13039 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13040 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13041 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13042 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13044 o Minor features (geoip):
13045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13048 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13049 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13050 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13051 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13052 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13053 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13054 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13055 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13056 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13058 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13059 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13060 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13061 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13062 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13063 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13064 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13065 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13066 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13069 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13070 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13071 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13072 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13074 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13075 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13076 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13078 o Directory authority changes:
13079 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13080 Closes ticket 23910.
13081 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13082 Closes ticket 23592.
13084 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13085 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13086 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13087 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13089 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13090 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13091 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13092 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13093 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13095 o Minor features (geoip):
13096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13100 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13101 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13102 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13103 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13105 o Directory authority changes:
13106 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13107 Closes ticket 23910.
13108 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13109 Closes ticket 23592.
13111 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13112 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13113 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13114 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13116 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13117 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13118 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13119 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13120 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13122 o Minor features (geoip):
13123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13126 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13127 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13128 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13129 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13130 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13131 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13132 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13133 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13136 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13137 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13138 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13140 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13141 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13142 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13143 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13144 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13145 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13146 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13149 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13150 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13151 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13152 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13154 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13155 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13156 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13158 o Directory authority changes:
13159 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13160 Closes ticket 23910.
13161 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13162 Closes ticket 23592.
13164 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13165 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13166 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13167 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13169 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13170 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13171 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13172 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13173 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13175 o Minor features (geoip):
13176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13179 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13180 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13181 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13182 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13183 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13184 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13185 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13186 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13189 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13190 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13191 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13192 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13194 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13195 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13196 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13198 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13199 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13200 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13201 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13202 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13203 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13204 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13207 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13208 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13209 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13210 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13211 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13213 o Directory authority changes:
13214 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13215 Closes ticket 23910.
13216 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13217 Closes ticket 23592.
13219 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13220 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13221 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13222 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13224 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13225 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13226 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13227 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13228 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13230 o Minor features (geoip):
13231 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13234 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13235 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13236 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13237 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13239 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13240 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13241 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13244 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13245 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13246 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13248 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13249 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13250 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13251 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13253 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13254 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13255 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13257 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13258 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13259 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13263 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13264 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13267 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13268 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13269 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13270 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13272 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13273 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13274 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13275 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13277 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13278 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13279 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13280 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13281 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13284 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13287 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13288 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13289 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13292 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13293 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13294 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13295 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13296 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13297 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13298 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13299 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13300 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13302 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13303 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13304 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13305 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13306 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13307 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13308 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13309 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13310 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13313 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13314 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13317 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13318 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13319 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13320 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13322 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13323 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13324 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13325 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13326 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13327 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13328 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13330 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13331 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13332 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13333 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13335 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13336 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13337 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13339 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13340 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13341 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13342 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13344 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13345 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13346 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13347 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13348 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13350 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13351 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13352 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13353 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13355 o Minor features (geoip):
13356 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13359 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13360 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13361 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13362 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13364 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13365 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13366 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13367 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13368 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13369 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13370 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13371 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13374 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13375 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13377 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13378 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13379 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13382 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13383 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13384 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13385 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13386 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13388 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13389 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13390 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13391 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13392 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13393 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13395 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13396 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13397 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13398 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13399 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13400 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13401 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13402 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13403 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13405 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13406 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13407 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13408 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13410 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13411 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13412 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13414 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13415 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13416 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13417 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13418 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13420 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13421 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13422 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13425 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13426 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13427 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13428 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13429 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13431 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13432 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13433 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13434 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13435 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13436 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13437 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13438 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13439 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13442 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13443 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13446 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13447 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13448 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13449 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13451 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13452 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13453 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13454 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13461 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13462 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13464 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13465 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13466 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13467 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13468 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13470 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13471 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13472 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13473 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13475 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13476 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13477 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13479 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13480 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13481 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13482 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13485 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13486 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13488 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13489 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13490 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13491 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13492 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13493 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13494 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13496 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13497 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13498 disabled. For more information, see
13499 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13501 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13502 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13503 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13504 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13505 with the 0.2.9 series.
13507 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13508 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13510 o New dependencies:
13511 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13512 pkg-config tool at build time.
13514 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13515 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13516 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13517 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13518 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13520 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13521 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13522 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13523 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13524 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13525 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13526 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13527 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13528 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13530 o Major features (directory protocol):
13531 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13532 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13533 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13534 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13535 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13536 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13537 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13538 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13539 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13540 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13541 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13542 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13543 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13544 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13545 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13546 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13547 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13549 o Major features (experimental):
13550 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13551 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13552 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13553 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13554 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13555 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13556 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13558 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13559 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13560 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13561 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13562 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13563 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13566 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13567 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13568 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13569 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13570 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13571 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13572 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13573 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13574 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13575 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13576 multiples of 10000.
13578 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13579 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13580 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13581 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13582 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13583 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13584 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13587 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13588 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13589 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13590 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13591 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13592 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13594 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13595 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13596 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13597 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13598 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13599 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13600 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13601 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13602 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13603 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13604 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13605 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13606 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13607 Otherwise it is at info.
13609 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13610 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13611 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13612 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13613 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13614 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13615 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13617 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13618 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13619 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13620 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13622 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13623 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13624 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13625 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13626 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13628 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13629 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13630 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13631 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13632 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13633 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13634 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13637 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13638 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13639 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13640 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13641 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13642 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13643 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13644 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13645 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13646 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13647 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13648 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13649 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13652 o Minor features (security, windows):
13653 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13654 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13655 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13656 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13657 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13659 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13660 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13661 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13663 o Minor features (code style):
13664 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13665 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13666 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13668 o Minor features (config options):
13669 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13670 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13671 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13672 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13673 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13674 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13675 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13676 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13678 o Minor features (controller):
13679 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13680 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13682 o Minor features (defaults):
13683 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13684 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13685 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13686 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13687 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13688 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13689 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13690 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13691 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13692 Closes ticket 21641.
13694 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13695 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13696 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13697 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13700 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13701 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13702 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13703 attempt for bug 23105.
13704 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13705 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13706 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13707 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13708 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13709 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13710 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13712 o Minor features (directory authority):
13713 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13714 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13715 Closes ticket 22348.
13717 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13718 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13719 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13720 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13721 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13724 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13725 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13726 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13727 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13728 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13729 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13730 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13732 o Minor features (geoip):
13733 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13736 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13737 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13738 introduction points than specified in
13739 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13740 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13741 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13742 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13743 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13744 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13745 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13746 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13748 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13749 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13750 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13751 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13752 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13753 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13754 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13755 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13756 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13757 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13759 o Minor features (logging):
13760 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13761 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13762 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13763 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13766 o Minor features (performance):
13767 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13768 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13770 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13771 speed some controller functions.
13773 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13774 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13775 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13776 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13778 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13779 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13780 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13781 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13782 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13783 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13786 o Minor features (safety):
13787 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13788 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13789 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13792 o Minor features (testing):
13793 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13795 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13796 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13797 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13798 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13799 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13800 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13801 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13802 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13803 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13804 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13805 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13806 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13807 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13808 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13809 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13810 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13812 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13813 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13814 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13815 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13817 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13818 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13819 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13820 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13824 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13825 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13826 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13827 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13828 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13829 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13830 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13834 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13835 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13837 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13838 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13839 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13840 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13841 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13842 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13844 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13845 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13846 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13848 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13849 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13850 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13851 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13852 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13853 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13854 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13855 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13856 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13857 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13858 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13859 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13860 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13861 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13863 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13864 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13865 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13866 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13867 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13868 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13869 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13870 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13871 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13872 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13873 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13874 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13876 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13877 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13878 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13880 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13881 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13882 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13883 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13884 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13885 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13887 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13888 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13889 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13890 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13891 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13892 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13893 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13894 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13895 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13896 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13897 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13898 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13900 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13901 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13902 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13903 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13904 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13905 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13906 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13907 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13909 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13910 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13911 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13912 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13913 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13914 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13916 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13917 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13918 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13921 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13922 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13923 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13924 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13925 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13927 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13928 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13929 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13930 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13931 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13932 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13933 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13934 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13935 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13936 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13937 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13939 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13940 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13941 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13942 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13944 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13945 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13946 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13947 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13948 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13949 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13950 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13951 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13952 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13953 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13954 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13955 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13956 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13957 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13959 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13960 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13961 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13962 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13963 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13964 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13965 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13967 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13968 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13969 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13970 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13971 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13972 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13973 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13975 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13976 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13977 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13978 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13979 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13980 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13981 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13982 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13983 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13984 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13985 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13986 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13987 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13989 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13990 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13991 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13992 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13994 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13995 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13996 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13998 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13999 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14000 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14001 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14003 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14004 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14005 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14006 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14008 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14009 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14010 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14011 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14012 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14013 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14014 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
14015 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
14016 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
14018 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14019 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14020 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14021 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14022 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14023 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14024 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14027 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14028 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14029 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14030 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14031 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14032 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14034 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14035 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14036 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14037 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14038 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14039 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14040 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14041 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14042 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14043 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14044 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14045 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14046 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14047 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14048 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14049 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14052 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14053 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14054 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14055 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14056 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14058 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14059 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14060 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14061 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14062 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14063 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14064 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14066 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14067 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14068 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14070 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14071 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14072 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14073 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14074 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14075 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14076 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14077 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14078 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14079 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14080 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14081 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14083 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14084 Resolves ticket 22213.
14085 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14086 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14087 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14088 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14089 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14090 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14091 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14092 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14095 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14097 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14098 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14100 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14101 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14102 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14104 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14106 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14107 Closes ticket 21873.
14108 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14109 Closes ticket 21151.
14110 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14111 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14113 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14114 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14115 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14116 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14118 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14119 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14120 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14121 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14122 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14123 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14124 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14125 default behavior is now unavailable.
14126 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14127 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14128 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14129 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14130 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14131 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14132 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14134 o Removed features (tools):
14135 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14136 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14137 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14138 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14139 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14142 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14143 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14144 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14145 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14147 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14148 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14149 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14150 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14151 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14152 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14153 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14154 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14155 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14157 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14158 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14159 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14160 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14162 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14163 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14164 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14165 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14166 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14168 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14169 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14172 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14173 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14174 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14175 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14177 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14178 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14179 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14180 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14181 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14182 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14183 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14184 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14188 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14189 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14192 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14193 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14194 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14195 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14196 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14197 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14199 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14200 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14201 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14202 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14204 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14205 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14206 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14208 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14209 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14210 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14213 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14214 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14215 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14216 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14217 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14220 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14223 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14224 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14225 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14226 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14227 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14228 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14230 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14231 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14232 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14233 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14235 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14236 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14237 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14238 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14240 o Minor features (geoip):
14241 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14244 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14245 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14246 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14247 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14248 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14250 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14251 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14252 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14253 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14254 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14256 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14257 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14258 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14259 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14260 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14261 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14262 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14263 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14264 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14267 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14268 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14269 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14270 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14271 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14273 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14274 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14275 bugfixes described below.
14277 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14278 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14279 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14280 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14281 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14282 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14283 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14284 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14287 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14288 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14289 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14290 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14291 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14292 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14293 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14296 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14297 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14298 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14299 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14300 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14301 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14302 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14303 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14304 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14305 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14306 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14307 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14308 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14311 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14312 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14313 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14316 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14317 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14318 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14319 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14320 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14322 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14323 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14324 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14326 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14327 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14328 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14330 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14331 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14332 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14333 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14334 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14335 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14336 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14338 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14340 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14341 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14342 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14345 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14346 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14347 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14348 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14349 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14350 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14352 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14353 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14354 bugfixes described below.
14356 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14357 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14358 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14359 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14360 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14363 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14364 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14365 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14366 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14367 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14368 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14369 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14372 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14373 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14374 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14375 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14376 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14378 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14379 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14380 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14381 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14382 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14383 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14384 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14386 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14387 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14388 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14389 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14390 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14392 o Minor features (geoip):
14393 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14396 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14397 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14398 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14399 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14401 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14402 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14403 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14405 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14406 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14407 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14408 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14409 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14412 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14413 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14414 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14415 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14416 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14418 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14419 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14420 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14421 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14422 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14423 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14425 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14426 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14427 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14428 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14431 o Minor features (geoip):
14432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14435 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14436 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14437 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14438 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14439 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14441 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14442 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14443 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14445 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14446 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14447 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14448 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14449 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14450 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14452 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14453 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14454 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14455 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14458 o Minor features (geoip):
14459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14462 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14463 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14464 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14467 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14468 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14469 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14470 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14471 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14472 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14474 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14475 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14476 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14477 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14480 o Minor features (geoip):
14481 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14484 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14485 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14486 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14488 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14489 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14490 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14491 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14492 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14493 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14495 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14496 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14497 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14498 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14501 o Minor features (geoip):
14502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14505 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14506 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14507 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14509 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14510 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14511 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14512 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14513 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14514 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14516 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14517 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14518 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14519 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14522 o Minor features (geoip):
14523 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14526 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14527 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14528 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14531 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14532 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14533 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14534 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14535 clients are not affected.
14537 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14538 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14539 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14540 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14541 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14542 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14545 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14548 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14549 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14550 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14551 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14552 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14553 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14554 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14556 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14557 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14558 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14559 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14560 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14564 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14565 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14567 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14568 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14569 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14570 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14571 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14572 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14575 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14576 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14578 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14579 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14580 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14581 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14582 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14584 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14585 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14587 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14588 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14589 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14590 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14592 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14593 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14594 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14595 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14596 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14599 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14600 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14601 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14602 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14603 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14604 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14605 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14606 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14609 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14610 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14611 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14612 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14613 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14614 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14615 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14616 15056; part of proposal 220.
14617 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14618 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14619 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14620 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14621 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14622 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14623 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14624 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14625 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14628 o Major features (security):
14629 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14630 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14631 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14632 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14633 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14634 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14636 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14637 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14638 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14639 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14640 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14641 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14642 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14643 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14644 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14645 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14646 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14648 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14649 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14650 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14651 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14653 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14654 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14655 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14656 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14659 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14660 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14661 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14663 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14664 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14665 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14666 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14667 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14668 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14669 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14671 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14672 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14673 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14674 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14675 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14676 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14677 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14678 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14679 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14680 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14681 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14682 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14683 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14684 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14685 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14687 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14688 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14689 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14690 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14691 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14693 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14694 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14695 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14696 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14697 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14698 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14699 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14701 o Minor feature (client):
14702 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14703 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14705 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14706 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14707 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14708 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14710 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14711 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14712 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14714 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14715 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14716 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14717 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14718 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14720 o Minor features (controller):
14721 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14722 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14723 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14724 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14727 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14728 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14729 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14730 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14731 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14732 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14733 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14734 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14735 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14736 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14738 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14739 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14740 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14743 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14744 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14745 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14747 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14748 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14749 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14751 o Minor features (directory authority):
14752 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14753 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14754 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14755 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14756 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14758 o Minor features (directory cache):
14759 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14760 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14763 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14764 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14765 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14766 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14768 o Minor features (entry guards):
14769 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14770 break regression tests.
14771 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14772 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14774 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14775 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14776 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14777 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14778 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14779 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14780 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14781 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14782 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14783 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14784 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14785 Closes ticket 20539.
14786 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14787 Closes ticket 20822.
14788 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14790 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14791 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14792 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14793 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14794 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14796 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14797 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14798 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14799 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14800 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14803 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14804 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14805 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14806 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14808 o Minor features (geoip):
14809 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14812 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14816 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14817 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14818 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14820 o Minor features (linting):
14821 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14822 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14824 o Minor features (logging):
14825 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14826 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14828 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14829 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14830 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14832 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14833 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14835 o Minor features (relay):
14836 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14837 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14838 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14839 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14841 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14842 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14843 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14846 o Minor features (testing):
14847 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14848 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14849 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14851 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14852 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14853 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14854 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14855 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14856 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14857 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14858 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14859 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14861 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14862 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14863 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14864 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14865 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14868 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14869 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14870 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14871 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14873 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14874 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14875 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14878 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14879 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14880 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14882 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14883 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14884 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14885 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14886 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14887 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14888 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14890 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14891 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14892 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14894 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14895 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14896 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14897 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14898 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14900 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14901 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14902 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14903 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14904 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14905 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14907 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14908 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14909 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14910 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14911 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14912 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14913 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14916 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14917 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14918 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14919 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14920 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14922 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14923 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14924 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14925 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14927 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14928 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14929 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14930 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14931 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14933 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14934 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14935 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14936 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14937 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14939 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14940 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14941 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14942 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14943 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14944 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14945 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14948 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14949 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14950 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14951 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14952 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14953 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14954 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14955 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14956 on all recent tor versions.
14958 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14959 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14960 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14962 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14963 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14964 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14966 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14967 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14968 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14969 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14970 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14971 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14972 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14973 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14974 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14976 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14977 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14978 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14979 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14980 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14981 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14982 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14983 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14984 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14985 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14986 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14989 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14990 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14991 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14992 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14993 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14994 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14995 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14996 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14997 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14998 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14999 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15002 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15003 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15004 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15005 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15006 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15007 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15008 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15009 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15011 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15012 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15013 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15016 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15017 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15018 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15020 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15021 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15022 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15023 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15026 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15027 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15028 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15029 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15031 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15032 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15034 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15035 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15036 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15038 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15039 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15040 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15041 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15043 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15044 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15045 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
15046 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15047 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15048 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15049 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15050 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15052 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15053 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15054 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15055 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15056 Patch by "junglefowl".
15058 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15059 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15060 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15061 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15062 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15064 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15065 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15066 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15067 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15068 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15070 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15071 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15072 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15075 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15076 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15077 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15078 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15080 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15081 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15082 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15083 Closes ticket 19858.
15084 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15085 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15086 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15087 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15088 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15089 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15090 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15091 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15092 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15093 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15094 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15095 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15096 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15097 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15098 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15099 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15100 channel abstraction.
15101 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15102 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15103 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15104 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15105 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15106 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15109 o Documentation (formatting):
15110 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15111 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15113 o Documentation (man page):
15114 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15115 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15118 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15119 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15121 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15122 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15123 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15125 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15126 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15127 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15128 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15129 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15130 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15131 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15132 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15133 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15134 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15136 o Removed features:
15137 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15138 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15139 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15141 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15142 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15143 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15146 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15147 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15148 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15150 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15151 from "overcaffeinated".
15152 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15153 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15156 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15157 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15158 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15159 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15160 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15163 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15164 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15165 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15167 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15168 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15169 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15170 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15171 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15172 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15173 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15175 o Minor features (geoip):
15176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15180 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15181 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15182 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15183 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15186 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15187 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15188 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15190 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15191 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15193 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15194 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15195 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15197 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15198 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15199 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15202 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15203 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15204 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15205 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15206 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15207 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15208 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15209 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15210 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15212 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15213 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15214 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15215 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15216 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15217 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15218 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15219 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15220 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15221 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15222 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15223 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15224 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15226 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15227 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15228 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15229 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15230 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15232 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15233 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15234 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15236 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15237 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15238 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15239 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15240 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15241 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15242 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15245 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15246 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15247 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15248 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15249 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15250 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15251 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15253 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15254 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15255 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15256 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15259 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15260 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15261 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15262 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15264 o Minor features (geoip):
15265 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15269 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15270 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15271 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15272 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15275 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15276 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15277 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15279 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15280 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15282 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15283 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15284 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15286 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15287 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15288 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15291 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15292 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15293 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15294 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15295 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15296 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15297 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15298 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15299 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15301 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15302 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15303 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15304 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15305 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15306 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15307 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15308 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15309 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15311 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15312 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15313 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15314 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15315 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15317 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15318 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15319 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15320 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15321 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15324 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15325 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15326 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15327 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15328 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15330 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15331 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15332 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15334 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15335 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15336 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15337 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15338 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15339 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15342 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15343 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15344 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15345 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15346 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15347 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15348 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15351 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15352 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15353 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15354 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15355 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15356 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15357 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15359 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15360 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15361 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15362 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15365 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15366 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15367 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15368 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15370 o Minor features (geoip):
15371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15375 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15376 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15379 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15380 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15381 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15382 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15385 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15386 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15387 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15389 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15390 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15392 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15393 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15394 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15396 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15397 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15398 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15401 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15402 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15403 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15404 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15405 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15406 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15407 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15408 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15409 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15411 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15412 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15413 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15414 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15415 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15416 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15417 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15418 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15419 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15421 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15422 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15423 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15424 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15425 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15427 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15428 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15429 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15430 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15431 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15434 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15435 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15436 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15437 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15438 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15440 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15441 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15442 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15444 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15445 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15446 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15447 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15448 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15449 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15452 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15453 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15454 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15455 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15456 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15457 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15458 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15461 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15462 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15463 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15464 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15465 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15466 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15467 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15469 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15470 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15471 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15472 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15475 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15476 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15477 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15478 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15480 o Minor features (geoip):
15481 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15484 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15485 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15486 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15488 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15489 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15490 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15491 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15492 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15493 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15495 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15496 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15497 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15501 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15502 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15503 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15504 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15507 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15508 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15509 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15511 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15512 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15514 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15515 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15516 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15518 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15519 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15520 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15523 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15524 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15525 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15526 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15527 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15528 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15529 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15530 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15531 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15533 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15534 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15535 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15536 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15537 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15538 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15539 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15540 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15541 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15543 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15544 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15545 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15546 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15547 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15550 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15551 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15552 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15553 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15554 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15556 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15557 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15558 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15560 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15561 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15562 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15563 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15564 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15565 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15568 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15569 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15570 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15571 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15572 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15573 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15574 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15577 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15578 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15579 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15580 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15581 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15582 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15583 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15585 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15586 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15587 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15588 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15591 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15592 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15593 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15594 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15596 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15597 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15598 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15599 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15601 o Minor features (geoip):
15602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15605 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15606 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15607 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15609 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15610 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15611 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15615 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15616 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15617 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15618 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15620 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15621 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15622 least January of 2020.
15624 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15625 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15626 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15627 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15630 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15631 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15632 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15633 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15634 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15635 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15636 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15638 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15639 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15640 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15641 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15642 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15643 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15644 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15646 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15647 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15648 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15650 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15651 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15652 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15654 o Minor features (geoip):
15655 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15658 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15659 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15660 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15662 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15663 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15665 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15666 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15667 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15669 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15670 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15671 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15672 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15673 Patch by "junglefowl".
15676 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15677 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15678 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15679 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15680 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15681 version should upgrade.
15683 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15684 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15686 o Major bugfixes (security):
15687 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15688 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15689 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15690 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15691 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15692 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15694 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15695 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15696 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15697 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15698 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15699 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15700 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15701 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15702 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15703 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15704 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15706 o Minor features (geoip):
15707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15710 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15711 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15712 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15713 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15715 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15716 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15719 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15720 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15721 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15722 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15723 become available for their systems.
15725 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15728 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15729 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15731 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15732 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15733 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15734 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15735 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15736 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15737 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15738 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15739 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15741 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15742 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15743 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15744 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15745 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15747 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15748 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15752 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15753 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15755 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15756 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15757 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15758 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15759 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15760 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15761 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15762 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15764 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15766 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15767 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15768 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15769 become available for their systems.
15771 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15772 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15774 o New system requirements:
15775 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15776 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15777 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15778 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15779 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15780 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15781 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15782 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15783 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15784 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15785 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15787 o Deprecated features:
15788 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15789 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15790 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15791 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15792 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15793 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15794 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15795 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15796 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15797 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15798 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15799 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15800 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15801 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15802 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15803 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15804 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15805 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15806 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15807 and TransListenAddress.
15809 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15810 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15811 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15812 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15813 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15814 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15815 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15816 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15817 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15819 o Major features (build, hardening):
15820 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15821 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15822 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15823 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15824 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15825 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15826 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15827 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15828 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15830 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15831 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15832 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15833 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15835 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15836 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15838 o Major features (compilation):
15839 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15840 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15841 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15842 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15844 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15845 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15846 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15848 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15849 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15850 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15851 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15852 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15853 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15854 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15855 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15857 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15858 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15859 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15860 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15861 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15862 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15863 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15865 o Major features (resource management):
15866 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15867 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15868 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15869 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15870 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15871 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15873 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15874 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15875 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15876 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15877 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15878 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15879 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15880 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15881 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15882 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15883 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15885 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15886 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15887 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15888 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15889 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15890 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15891 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15892 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15893 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15894 part of proposal 264.
15896 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15897 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15898 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15899 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15901 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15902 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15903 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15904 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15905 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15906 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15907 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15908 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15909 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15911 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15912 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15913 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15915 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15916 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15917 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15918 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15919 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15920 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15921 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15923 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15924 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15925 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15926 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15927 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15928 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15929 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15930 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15931 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15932 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15934 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15935 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15936 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15937 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15938 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15939 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15941 o Minor features (port flags):
15942 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15943 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15944 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15945 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15946 18693; patch by "teor".
15948 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15949 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15950 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15951 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15952 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15953 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15954 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15955 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15956 Closes ticket 18895.
15958 o Minor features (client, directory):
15959 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15960 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15961 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15964 o Minor features (code safety):
15965 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15966 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15967 patch from "U+039b".
15969 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15970 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15973 o Minor features (config):
15974 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15975 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15977 o Minor features (controller):
15978 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15979 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15980 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15981 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15982 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15983 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15984 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15985 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15987 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15988 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15989 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15992 o Minor features (directory authority):
15993 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15994 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15995 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15996 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15997 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15998 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15999 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16000 Implements ticket 18624.
16001 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16002 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16003 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16006 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
16007 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16008 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16009 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16010 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16012 o Minor features (hidden service):
16013 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16014 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16015 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16018 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16019 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16020 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16021 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16022 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16023 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16024 Closes ticket 18365.
16025 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16026 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16027 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16028 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16030 o Minor features (logging):
16031 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16032 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16033 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16034 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16035 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16036 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16037 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16038 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16039 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16040 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16042 o Minor features (performance):
16043 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16044 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16045 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16046 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16047 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16048 Closes ticket 18815.
16050 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16051 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16052 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16053 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16054 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16057 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16058 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
16059 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16060 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16061 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16063 o Minor features (testing):
16064 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16065 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16066 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16067 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16068 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16069 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16070 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16071 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16072 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16073 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16075 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16076 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16077 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16078 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16079 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16080 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16081 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16083 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16084 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16085 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16086 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16087 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16088 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16089 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16090 assertion as a test failure.
16091 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16093 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16094 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16095 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16096 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16097 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16098 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16099 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16100 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16101 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16103 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16104 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16105 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16106 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16108 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16109 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16110 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16111 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16112 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16114 o Minor features (user interface):
16115 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16116 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16117 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16118 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16121 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16122 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16123 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16124 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16127 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16128 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16129 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16130 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16131 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16132 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16134 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16135 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16136 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16137 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16139 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16140 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16141 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16142 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16143 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16145 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16146 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16147 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16148 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16149 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16151 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16152 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16153 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16154 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16155 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16157 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16158 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16159 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16161 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16162 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16163 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16165 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16166 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16167 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16170 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16171 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16172 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16174 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16175 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16176 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16178 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16179 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16180 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16181 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16182 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16183 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16184 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16185 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16187 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16188 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16189 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16190 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16192 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16193 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16194 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16195 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16196 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16197 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16198 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16199 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16200 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16201 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16203 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16204 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16205 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16206 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16208 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16209 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16210 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16211 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16214 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16215 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16216 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16217 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16219 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16220 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16223 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16224 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16225 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16226 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16228 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16229 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16231 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16232 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16233 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16234 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16235 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16237 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16238 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16239 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16241 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16242 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16243 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16245 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16246 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16247 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16248 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16249 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16250 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16252 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16253 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16254 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16256 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16257 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16258 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16259 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16260 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16261 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16262 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16264 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16265 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16266 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16267 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16268 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16269 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16270 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16271 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16272 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16273 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16274 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16275 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16276 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16277 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16278 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16281 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16282 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16283 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16284 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16285 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16286 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16288 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16289 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16290 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16292 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16293 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16294 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16297 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16298 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16299 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16300 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16301 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16302 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16304 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16305 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16306 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16307 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16308 patch from "cypherpunks".
16309 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16310 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16311 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16312 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16313 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16314 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16315 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16316 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16317 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16318 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16319 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16321 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16322 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16324 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16325 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16326 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16327 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16328 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16331 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16332 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16333 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16334 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16335 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16336 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16337 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16339 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16340 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16341 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16342 19678. Patch by teor.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16345 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16346 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16347 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16348 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16350 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16351 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16353 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16354 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16356 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16357 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16358 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16359 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16362 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16363 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16364 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16365 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16366 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16367 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16368 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16369 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16370 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16371 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16372 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16373 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16374 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16375 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16376 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16377 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16378 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16379 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16381 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16382 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16383 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16384 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16387 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16388 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16390 o Removed features:
16391 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16392 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16393 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16394 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16395 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16396 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16397 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16400 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16401 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16402 command-line options to enable them.
16403 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16404 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16407 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16408 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16409 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16410 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16413 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16414 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16415 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16416 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16417 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16418 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16421 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16422 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16423 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16426 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16427 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16428 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16429 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16431 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16432 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16433 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16434 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16437 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16438 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16439 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16440 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16443 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16444 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16445 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16448 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16449 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16450 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16452 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16453 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16454 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16456 o Minor features (geoip):
16457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16461 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16462 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16463 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16464 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16465 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16468 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16469 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16470 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16471 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16472 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16473 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16474 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16475 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16476 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16478 o Minor features (geoip):
16479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16483 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16484 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16485 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16486 who select public relays as their bridges.
16488 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16489 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16490 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16491 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16492 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16493 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16495 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16496 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16497 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16498 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16499 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16502 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16503 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16504 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16506 o Minor features (geoip):
16507 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16511 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16512 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16513 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16514 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16515 encouraged to upgrade.
16517 o Directory authority changes:
16518 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16519 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16521 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16522 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16523 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16524 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16525 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16526 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16528 o Minor features (geoip):
16529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16532 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16533 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16534 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16537 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16538 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16539 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16540 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16543 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16545 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16547 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16548 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16549 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16550 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16551 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16552 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16554 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16556 o New system requirements:
16557 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16558 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16559 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16561 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16562 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16563 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16564 longer runs with, these versions.
16565 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16566 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16567 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16568 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16569 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16571 o Directory authority changes:
16572 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16573 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16575 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16577 o Major features (directory system):
16578 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16579 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16580 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16581 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16582 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16583 gsathya, and karsten.
16584 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16585 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16586 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16587 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16588 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16590 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16591 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16592 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16593 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16594 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16595 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16596 mikeperry and teor.
16598 o Major features (security, Linux):
16599 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16600 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16601 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16602 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16603 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16605 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16606 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16607 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16608 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16609 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16610 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16611 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16613 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16614 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16617 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16618 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16619 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16621 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16622 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16623 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16624 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16625 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16627 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16628 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16629 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16630 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16631 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16632 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16633 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16634 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16635 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16636 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16638 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16639 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16640 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16641 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16642 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16643 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16644 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16647 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16648 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16649 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16650 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16651 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16653 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16654 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16655 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16656 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16657 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16658 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16659 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16660 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16661 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16663 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16664 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16665 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16666 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16667 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16669 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16670 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16671 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16673 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16674 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16675 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16676 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16678 o Minor features (accounting):
16679 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16680 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16681 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16682 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16684 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16685 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16686 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16687 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16688 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16689 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16690 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16693 o Minor features (build):
16694 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16695 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16696 Steven Chamberlain.
16697 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16698 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16699 patch from "cypherpunks".
16700 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16701 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16702 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16703 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16704 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16705 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16706 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16707 Patch from intrigeri.
16709 o Minor features (clients):
16710 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16711 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16712 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16714 o Minor features (controller):
16715 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16716 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16717 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16719 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16720 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16721 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16722 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16723 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16725 o Minor features (crypto):
16726 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16727 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16729 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16730 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16731 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16732 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16733 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16735 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16736 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16737 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16738 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16740 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16741 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16742 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16743 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16744 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16745 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16746 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16747 17864; patch by teor.
16749 o Minor features (geoip):
16750 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16753 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16754 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16755 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16756 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16757 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16759 o Minor features (IPv6):
16760 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16761 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16762 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16763 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16764 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16765 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16766 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16767 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16768 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16769 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16770 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16771 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16773 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16774 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16775 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16776 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16777 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16778 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16779 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16780 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16781 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16782 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16784 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16785 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16786 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16787 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16788 while fixing 18548.
16790 o Minor features (logging):
16791 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16792 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16793 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16794 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16797 o Minor features (portability):
16798 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16799 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16801 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16802 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16803 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16804 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16805 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16807 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16808 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16809 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16810 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16811 Resolves ticket 17951.
16813 o Minor features (replay cache):
16814 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16815 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16817 o Minor features (robustness):
16818 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16819 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16820 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16822 o Minor features (security, clock):
16823 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16824 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16825 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16826 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16828 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16829 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16830 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16831 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16832 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16833 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16835 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16836 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16837 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16838 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16840 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16841 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16842 Implements ticket 17026.
16843 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16844 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16845 Implements feature 17986.
16846 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16847 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16848 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16850 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16851 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16852 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16853 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16854 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16855 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16856 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16857 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16858 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16859 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16860 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16863 o Minor features (security, win32):
16864 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16865 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16868 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16869 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16870 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16871 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16872 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16873 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16874 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16877 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16878 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16879 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16880 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16881 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16882 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16883 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16884 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16885 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16886 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16887 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16888 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16889 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16890 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16892 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16893 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16894 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16895 from "unixninja92".
16897 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16898 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16899 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16902 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16903 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16904 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16906 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16907 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16908 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16909 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16910 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16911 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16913 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16914 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16916 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16917 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16918 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16919 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16920 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16922 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16923 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16924 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16925 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16926 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16927 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16929 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16930 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16931 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16932 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16933 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16934 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16935 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16936 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16937 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16938 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16939 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16941 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16942 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16945 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16946 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16947 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16948 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16949 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16951 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16952 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16953 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16954 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16955 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16956 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16957 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16958 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16960 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16962 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16963 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16964 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16966 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16967 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16968 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16970 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16971 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16972 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16974 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16975 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16976 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16977 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16979 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16980 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16981 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16982 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16983 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16985 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16986 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16987 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16989 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16990 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16991 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16992 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16993 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16994 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16995 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16996 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16997 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16999 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17000 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17001 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17002 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17005 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17006 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17007 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17008 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17009 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17011 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17012 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17013 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17014 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
17015 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17016 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17017 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17018 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17020 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17021 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17022 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17023 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17024 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17025 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17026 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17027 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17028 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17031 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17032 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17033 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17034 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17036 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17037 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17038 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17040 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17041 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17042 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17044 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17045 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17046 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17047 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17048 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17049 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17050 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17051 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17052 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17053 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17054 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17055 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17056 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17057 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17058 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17059 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17060 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17061 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17062 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17064 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17065 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17066 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17067 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17068 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17070 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17071 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17072 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17073 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17074 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17075 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17076 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17077 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17078 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17079 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17080 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17081 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17084 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17085 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17086 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17087 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17089 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17090 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17091 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17094 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17095 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17096 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17097 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17099 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17100 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17101 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17102 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17103 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17104 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17107 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17108 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17109 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17110 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17112 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17113 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17114 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17115 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17116 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17117 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17118 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17119 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17120 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17122 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17123 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17124 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17125 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17126 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17128 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17129 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17130 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17131 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17133 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17134 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17135 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17136 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17137 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17138 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17139 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17140 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17142 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17143 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17145 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17146 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17147 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17150 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17151 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17152 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17153 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17155 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17156 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17157 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17158 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17159 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17160 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17161 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17162 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17163 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17164 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17165 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17166 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17167 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17168 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17169 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17170 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17172 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17173 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17174 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17175 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17176 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17177 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17178 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17180 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17181 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17182 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17183 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17185 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17186 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17187 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17189 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17190 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17191 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17192 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17194 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17195 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17196 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17197 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17198 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17199 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17200 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17201 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17202 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17203 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17204 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17205 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17206 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17207 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17208 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17209 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17210 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17211 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17212 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17213 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17214 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17215 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17219 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17220 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17221 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17222 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17223 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17224 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17225 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17226 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17227 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17228 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17229 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17230 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17232 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17233 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17235 o Removed features:
17236 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17237 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17238 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17239 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17240 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17241 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17242 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17243 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17246 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17247 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17248 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17249 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17250 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17251 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17252 portion of ticket 16831.
17253 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17255 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17256 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17257 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17258 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17259 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17261 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17262 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17263 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17264 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17267 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17268 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17269 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17271 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17272 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17273 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17274 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17275 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17276 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17279 o Minor features (geoip):
17280 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17283 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17284 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17285 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17286 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17287 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17288 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17290 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17291 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17292 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17293 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17294 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17295 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17296 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17297 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17298 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17299 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17302 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17303 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17304 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17305 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17306 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17307 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17308 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17309 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17310 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17311 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17312 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17313 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17314 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17315 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17316 that would make him proud.
17318 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17320 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17321 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17322 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17323 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17324 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17325 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17326 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17328 o New system requirements:
17329 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17330 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17332 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17333 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17334 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17335 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17336 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17337 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17338 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17339 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17340 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17341 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17342 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17343 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17344 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17346 o Major features (controller):
17347 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17348 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17350 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17351 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17352 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17353 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17354 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17355 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17356 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17358 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17359 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17360 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17361 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17362 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17363 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17364 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17365 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17366 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17367 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17368 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17369 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17370 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17371 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17372 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17373 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17374 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17375 part of ticket 12498.
17376 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17377 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17379 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17380 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17381 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17382 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17383 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17384 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17385 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17386 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17387 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17390 o Major features (ECC performance):
17391 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17392 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17394 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17395 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17396 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17397 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17398 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17399 Implements ticket 16467.
17400 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17401 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17402 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17403 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17405 o Major features (Hidden services):
17406 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17407 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17408 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17409 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17410 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17411 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17412 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17413 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17414 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17415 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17416 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17417 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17419 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17420 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17421 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17422 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17424 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17425 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17426 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17427 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17428 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17429 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17431 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17432 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17433 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17434 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17435 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17436 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17438 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17439 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17440 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17441 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17442 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17443 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17444 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17445 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17448 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17449 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17450 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17451 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17453 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17454 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17455 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17456 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17457 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17458 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17461 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17462 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17463 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17465 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17466 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17467 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17468 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17469 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17470 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17472 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17473 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17474 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17475 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17476 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17479 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17480 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17481 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17482 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17483 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17484 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17485 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17486 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17489 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17490 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17491 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17492 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17494 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17495 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17496 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17497 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17498 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17499 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17500 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17503 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17504 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17505 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17506 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17507 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17508 own. Implements feature 15482.
17509 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17510 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17512 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17513 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17514 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17515 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17516 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17518 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17519 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17520 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17521 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17522 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17524 o Minor features (compilation):
17525 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17526 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17527 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17528 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17529 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17531 o Minor features (control protocol):
17532 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17533 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17535 o Minor features (controller):
17536 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17537 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17538 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17539 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17540 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17541 Closes ticket 14845.
17542 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17543 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17544 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17546 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17547 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17548 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17549 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17550 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17551 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17553 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17554 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17555 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17556 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17557 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17558 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17559 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17561 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17562 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17563 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17564 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17566 o Minor features (geoip):
17567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17570 o Minor features (hidden services):
17571 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17572 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17573 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17574 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17576 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17577 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17578 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17580 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17581 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17582 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17583 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17584 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17585 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17586 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17587 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17589 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17590 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17591 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17592 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17593 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17594 Closes ticket 15745.
17596 o Minor features (logging):
17597 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17598 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17601 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17602 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17603 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17604 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17606 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17607 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17608 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17609 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17610 Resolves ticket 15435.
17612 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17613 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17614 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17615 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17616 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17617 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17618 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17619 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17620 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17621 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17622 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17623 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17624 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17625 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17626 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17627 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17628 Related to ticket 16069.
17630 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17631 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17632 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17634 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17635 stderr, not stdout.
17636 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17637 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17638 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17641 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17642 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17643 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17644 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17645 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17647 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17648 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17649 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17650 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17652 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17653 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17654 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17655 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17656 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17657 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17658 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17659 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17661 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17662 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17663 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17664 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17666 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17667 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17668 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17670 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17671 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17672 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17674 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17675 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17676 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17677 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17679 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17680 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17681 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17682 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17683 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17684 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17686 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17687 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17688 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17690 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17691 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17693 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17694 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17695 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17696 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17697 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17698 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17699 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17700 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17702 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17703 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17704 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17705 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17707 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17708 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17709 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17711 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17712 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17713 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17716 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17717 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17718 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17719 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17720 recent enough Clang.
17722 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17723 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17724 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17725 unsuitable for public communications.
17727 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17728 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17729 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17730 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17732 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17733 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17734 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17735 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17736 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17738 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17739 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17741 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17742 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17743 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17744 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17745 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17747 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17748 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17749 from "cypherpunks".
17750 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17751 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17754 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17755 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17756 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17757 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17758 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17760 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17761 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17762 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17763 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17764 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17765 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17767 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17768 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17769 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17770 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17772 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17773 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17774 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17775 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17776 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17777 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17778 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17779 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17781 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17782 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17783 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17785 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17786 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17787 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17788 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17789 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17790 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17791 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17792 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17793 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17794 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17795 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17796 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17797 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17799 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17800 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17801 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17802 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17803 haven't supported that in ages.
17804 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17805 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17806 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17807 suite of other microdesc functions.
17808 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17809 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17810 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17811 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17812 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17813 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17814 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17815 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17816 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17817 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17818 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17819 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17820 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17821 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17822 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17823 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17825 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17826 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17830 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17831 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17832 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17834 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17835 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17836 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17837 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17838 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17839 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17840 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17841 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17842 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17843 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17845 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17847 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17848 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17849 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17850 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17851 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17852 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17853 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17854 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17855 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17856 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17857 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17858 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17859 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17861 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17862 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17865 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17866 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17867 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17868 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17869 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17870 Closes ticket 14922.
17871 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17872 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17873 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17874 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17875 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17876 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17877 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17878 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17879 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17880 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17881 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17882 Closes ticket 13338.
17884 o Removed features:
17885 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17886 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17887 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17888 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17889 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17890 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17891 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17892 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17893 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17894 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17895 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17896 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17897 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17898 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17899 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17902 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17903 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17904 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17905 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17906 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17907 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17908 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17909 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17910 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17911 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17912 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17914 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17915 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17916 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17917 Closes ticket 15817.
17918 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17919 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17920 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17921 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17922 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17923 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17924 network before we begin.
17925 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17926 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17927 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17928 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17929 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17930 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17932 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17933 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17935 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17936 default as a part of "make check".
17937 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17938 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17939 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17940 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17941 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17942 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17943 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17944 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17945 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17946 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17947 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17948 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17949 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17950 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17951 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17952 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17953 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17954 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17955 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17956 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17957 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17958 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17959 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17960 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17961 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17962 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17963 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17964 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17965 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17966 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17967 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17969 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17970 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17971 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17972 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17973 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17975 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17976 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17977 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17978 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17979 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17980 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17982 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17983 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17984 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17985 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17986 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17987 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17988 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17989 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17992 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17993 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17994 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17995 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17996 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17997 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17998 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17999 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18002 o Minor features (geoip):
18003 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18004 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18006 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18007 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18008 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18009 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18010 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18011 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18013 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18014 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18015 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18016 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18019 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18020 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18021 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18022 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18023 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18025 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18026 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18027 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18028 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18029 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18032 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18033 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18034 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18035 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18036 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18037 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18038 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18040 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18041 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18042 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18043 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18045 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18046 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18047 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18048 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18049 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18050 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18053 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18054 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18055 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18058 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18059 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18060 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18061 authorities should upgrade.
18063 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18064 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18065 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18066 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18069 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18070 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18071 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18074 o Minor features (geoip):
18075 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18076 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18080 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18081 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18082 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18083 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18084 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18086 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18087 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18089 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18090 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18091 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18092 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18093 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18094 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18095 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18097 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18098 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18099 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18100 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18101 Resolves ticket 15515.
18102 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18103 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18104 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18108 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18109 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18110 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18111 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18112 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18114 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18115 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18117 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18118 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18119 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18120 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18121 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18122 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18123 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18125 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18126 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18127 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18128 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18129 Resolves ticket 15515.
18132 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18133 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18134 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18135 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18136 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18138 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18139 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18141 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18142 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18143 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18144 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18145 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18146 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18147 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18149 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18150 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18151 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18152 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18153 Resolves ticket 15515.
18156 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18157 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18159 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18160 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18161 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18162 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18163 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18164 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18165 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18166 bugs should be addressed.
18168 o New compiler and system requirements:
18169 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18170 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18171 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18172 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18174 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18175 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18176 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18177 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18178 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18179 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18180 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18181 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18182 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18184 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18185 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18186 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18187 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18188 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18189 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18190 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18192 o Directory authority changes:
18193 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18194 closes ticket 14487.
18195 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18196 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18197 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18199 o Major features (bridges):
18200 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18201 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18202 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18205 o Major features (changed defaults):
18206 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18207 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18208 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18209 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18210 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18211 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18213 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18214 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18215 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18216 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18219 o Major features (directory system):
18220 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18221 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18222 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18223 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18224 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18225 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18226 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18227 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18228 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18229 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18230 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18231 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18232 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18233 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18234 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18235 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18237 o Major features (guards):
18238 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18239 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18240 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18241 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18242 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18244 o Major features (hidden services):
18245 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18246 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18247 Closes ticket 13667.
18248 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18249 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18250 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18251 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18252 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18253 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18254 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18255 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18256 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18257 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18258 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18260 o Major features (performance):
18261 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18262 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18263 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18264 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18265 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18266 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18267 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18268 Implements ticket 9682.
18270 o Major features (relay):
18271 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18272 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18273 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18274 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18275 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18276 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18277 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18278 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18280 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18281 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18282 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18283 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18284 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18285 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18286 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18289 o Major features (sample torrc):
18290 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18291 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18292 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18293 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18294 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18295 generally useful "sample torrc".
18297 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18298 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18299 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18300 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18301 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18302 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18304 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18305 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18306 Implements ticket 11485.
18308 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18309 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18310 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18311 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18312 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18313 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18316 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18317 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18318 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18321 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18322 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18323 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18325 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18326 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18327 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18328 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18329 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18331 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18332 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18333 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18334 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18336 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18337 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18338 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18341 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18342 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18343 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18344 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18345 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18346 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18348 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18349 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18350 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18351 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18353 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18354 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18355 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18356 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18357 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18358 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18359 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18361 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18362 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18363 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18364 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18365 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18366 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18368 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18369 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18370 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18371 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18372 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18373 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18374 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18375 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18377 o Minor features (build):
18378 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18379 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18380 Resolves ticket 13037.
18382 o Minor features (client):
18383 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18384 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18385 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18386 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18388 o Minor features (client):
18389 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18390 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18391 Resolves ticket 13315.
18393 o Minor features (controller):
18394 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18395 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18397 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18398 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18400 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18401 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18402 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18403 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18404 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18405 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18406 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18407 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18408 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18410 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18411 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18412 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18413 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18414 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18415 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18416 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18417 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18418 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18419 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18421 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18422 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18423 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18424 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18425 argument more than once.
18426 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18427 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18428 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18429 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18430 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18431 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18433 o Minor features (geoip):
18434 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18435 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18438 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18439 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18440 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18441 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18443 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18444 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18445 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18446 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18447 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18449 o Minor features (hidden service):
18450 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18451 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18452 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18453 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18454 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18455 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18456 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18457 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18458 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18459 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18460 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18461 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18462 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18463 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18465 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18466 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18467 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18469 o Minor features (interface):
18470 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18471 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18472 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18474 o Minor features (logging):
18475 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18476 Resolves ticket 6852.
18477 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18478 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18479 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18481 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18482 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18483 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18484 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18485 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18486 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18487 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18488 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18489 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18490 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18491 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18492 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18495 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18496 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18497 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18498 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18500 o Minor features (relay):
18501 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18502 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18503 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18505 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18506 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18507 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18508 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18509 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18510 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18511 document. Implements feature 10427.
18513 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18514 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18515 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18516 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18518 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18519 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18520 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18521 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18522 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18523 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18525 o Minor features (stability):
18526 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18527 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18530 o Minor features (systemd):
18531 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18532 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18533 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18534 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18535 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18536 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18538 o Minor features (testing networks):
18539 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18540 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18541 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18542 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18543 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18545 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18546 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18547 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18548 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18549 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18550 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18552 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18553 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18554 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18555 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18556 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18558 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18559 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18560 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18561 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18562 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18564 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18565 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18566 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18567 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18568 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18571 o Minor features (validation):
18572 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18573 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18574 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18575 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18576 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18577 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18578 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18579 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18580 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18581 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18582 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18585 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18586 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18587 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18588 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18590 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18591 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18592 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18593 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18595 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18596 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18597 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18599 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18600 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18601 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18603 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18604 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18605 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18606 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18607 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18608 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18609 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18611 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18612 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18613 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18614 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18615 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18616 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18617 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18618 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18619 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18621 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18622 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18623 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18624 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18625 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18626 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18627 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18628 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18629 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18631 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18632 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18633 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18634 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18635 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18636 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18637 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18638 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18640 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18641 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18642 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18645 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18646 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18647 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18648 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18649 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18651 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18652 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18653 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18654 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18655 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18656 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18657 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18658 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18660 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18661 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18662 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18663 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18664 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18666 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18667 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18668 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18669 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18670 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18672 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18673 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18674 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18676 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18677 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18678 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18679 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18680 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18682 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18683 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18684 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18686 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18687 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18689 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18690 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18691 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18692 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18694 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18695 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18697 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18698 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18699 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18700 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18701 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18702 Addresses ticket 14188.
18703 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18704 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18705 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18706 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18707 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18708 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18709 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18710 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18711 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18712 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18713 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18716 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18717 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18718 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18719 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18720 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18721 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18723 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18724 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18725 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18726 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18727 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18729 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18730 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18731 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18732 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18733 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18734 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18735 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18736 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18737 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18738 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18739 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18740 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18741 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18742 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18743 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18744 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18746 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18747 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18748 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18749 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18750 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18751 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18752 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18753 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18756 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18757 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18758 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18759 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18760 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18761 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18762 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18763 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18764 state, and key files.
18765 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18766 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18769 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18770 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18771 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18772 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18773 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18774 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18775 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18776 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18777 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18778 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18779 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18780 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18781 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18782 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18783 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18784 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18785 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18786 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18789 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18790 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18791 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18792 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18793 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18794 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18795 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18796 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18797 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18798 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18800 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18801 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18802 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18803 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18804 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18805 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18807 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18808 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18810 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18811 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18812 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18813 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18814 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18816 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18817 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18818 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18819 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18820 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18821 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18823 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18824 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18825 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18827 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18828 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18829 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18831 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18832 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18833 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18834 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18835 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18837 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18838 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18839 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18842 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18843 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18844 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18845 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18846 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18849 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18850 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18851 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18852 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18855 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18856 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18857 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18860 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18861 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18862 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18864 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18865 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18866 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18867 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18868 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18871 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18872 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18873 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18874 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18875 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18876 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18878 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18879 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18880 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18881 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18882 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18883 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18885 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18886 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18887 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18888 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18889 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18890 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18891 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18892 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18893 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18894 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18895 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18896 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18897 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18898 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18899 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18900 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18901 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18902 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18903 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18904 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18905 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18906 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18907 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18908 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18909 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18910 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18911 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18912 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18913 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18914 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18915 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18916 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18918 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18919 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18920 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18921 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18922 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18924 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18925 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18926 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18927 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18928 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18929 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18930 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18931 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18932 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18934 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18935 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18936 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18938 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18939 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18940 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18943 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18944 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18945 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18946 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18949 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18950 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18951 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18953 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18954 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18955 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18957 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18958 Resolves ticket 12205.
18959 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18960 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18961 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18962 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18964 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18965 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18966 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18968 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18969 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18971 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18972 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18973 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18974 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18975 or_options_t structure.
18976 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18977 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18978 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18979 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18980 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18981 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18982 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18983 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18985 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18986 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18988 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18990 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18991 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18992 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18993 with a function instead.
18994 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18995 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18996 Closes ticket 13172.
18997 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18998 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18999 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19000 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19001 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19002 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19003 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19004 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19005 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19006 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19007 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19008 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19012 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
19013 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
19014 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
19015 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
19017 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19018 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19019 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19020 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19021 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19022 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19023 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19024 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19025 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19026 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19027 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19028 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19029 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19030 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19031 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19032 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19033 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19034 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19036 o Distribution (systemd):
19037 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19038 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19039 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19040 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19041 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19043 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19044 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19046 o Downgraded warnings:
19047 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19048 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19051 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19052 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19053 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19056 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19057 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19058 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19059 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19060 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19061 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19062 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19063 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19064 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19065 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19067 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19068 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19069 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19070 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19073 o Removed features:
19074 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19075 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19076 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19077 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19078 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19080 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19081 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19082 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19083 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19084 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19085 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19086 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19087 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19088 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19090 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19091 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19093 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19094 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19095 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19096 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19097 anymore, and ignore it.
19099 o Removed platform support:
19100 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19101 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19102 Closes ticket 11446.
19104 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19105 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19106 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19108 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19110 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19111 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19112 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19115 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19116 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19117 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19118 (existing behavior).
19119 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19120 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19121 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19122 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19123 Closes ticket 14107.
19124 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19125 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19126 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19127 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19129 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19130 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19131 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19132 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19133 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19134 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19136 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19138 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19139 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19140 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19141 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19142 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19143 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19144 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19145 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19146 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19147 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19148 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19149 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19151 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19152 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19153 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19155 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19156 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19158 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19159 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19160 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19162 o Directory authority changes:
19163 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19164 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19165 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19166 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19167 closes ticket 14487.
19169 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19170 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19171 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19174 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19175 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19176 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19177 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19178 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19179 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19180 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19181 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19183 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19184 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19185 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19186 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19188 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19189 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19190 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19191 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19193 o Minor features (controller):
19194 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19195 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19196 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19198 o Minor features (geoip):
19199 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19200 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19203 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19204 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19205 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19206 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19207 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19208 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19211 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19212 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19213 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19215 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19216 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19217 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19218 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19219 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19220 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19221 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19222 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19224 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19225 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19226 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19228 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19229 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19230 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19231 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19232 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19236 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19237 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19238 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19241 o Directory authority changes:
19242 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19243 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19244 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19245 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19246 closes ticket 14487.
19248 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19249 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19250 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19251 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19253 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19254 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19255 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19256 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19257 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19258 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19259 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19260 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19262 o Minor features (geoip):
19263 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19264 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19267 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19268 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19270 It adds several new security features, including improved
19271 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19272 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19273 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19274 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19275 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19276 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19277 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19278 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19279 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19280 and features mentioned below.
19282 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19283 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19285 o Major features (security):
19286 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19287 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19288 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19289 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19290 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19291 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19292 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19293 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19294 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19295 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19297 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19298 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19299 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19300 streams attached to each circuit.
19302 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19303 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19304 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19305 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19306 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19307 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19308 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19309 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19310 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19311 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19312 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19313 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19314 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19316 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19317 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19318 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19319 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19321 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19322 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19323 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19324 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19325 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19326 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19328 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19329 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19330 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19331 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19332 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19333 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19334 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19335 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19338 o Major features (controller):
19339 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19340 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19341 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19342 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19343 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19344 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19346 o Major features (relay performance):
19347 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19348 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19349 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19350 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19351 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19352 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19353 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19354 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19355 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19356 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19358 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19359 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19360 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19361 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19362 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19363 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19364 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19365 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19366 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19367 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19369 o Major features (testing networks):
19370 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19371 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19372 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19373 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19374 Implements ticket 8530.
19376 o Major features (other):
19377 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19378 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19379 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19380 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19381 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19382 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19384 o Deprecated versions:
19385 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19386 attention for some while.
19388 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19389 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19390 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19392 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19393 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19394 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19395 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19396 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19397 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19398 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19399 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19400 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19401 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19402 router's identity is not forgeable.
19404 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19405 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19406 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19407 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19409 o Major bugfixes (client):
19410 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19411 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19412 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19413 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19414 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19415 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19416 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19417 to build circuits".
19419 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19420 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19421 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19422 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19425 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19426 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19427 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19428 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19429 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19430 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19431 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19433 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19434 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19435 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19436 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19437 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19438 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19439 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19440 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19441 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19442 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19443 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19444 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19445 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19446 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19447 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19448 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19449 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19451 o Minor features (security):
19452 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19453 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19454 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19455 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19457 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19458 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19459 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19460 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19461 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19462 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19463 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19465 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19466 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19467 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19468 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19469 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19470 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19471 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19473 o Minor features (bridge client):
19474 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19475 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19476 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19478 o Minor features (bridge):
19479 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19480 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19482 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19483 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19484 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19485 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19486 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19487 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19488 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19489 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19490 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19491 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19492 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19493 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19494 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19495 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19496 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19498 o Minor features (build):
19499 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19500 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19501 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19502 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19503 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19504 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19505 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19506 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19507 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19508 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19509 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19510 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19511 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19512 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19513 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19516 o Minor features (client):
19517 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19518 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19519 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19520 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19522 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19523 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19524 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19525 Implements ticket 10060.
19526 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19527 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19528 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19530 o Minor features (config options):
19531 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19532 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19533 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19534 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19535 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19536 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19537 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19538 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19539 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19540 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19541 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19542 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19543 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19544 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19545 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19546 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19547 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19550 o Minor features (controller):
19551 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19552 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19554 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19555 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19556 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19557 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19558 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19559 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19560 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19561 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19563 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19564 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19565 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19567 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19568 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19569 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19570 help diagnose bug 7164.
19571 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19572 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19573 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19574 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19575 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19577 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19578 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19579 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19580 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19581 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19582 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19583 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19584 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19585 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19586 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19587 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19588 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19589 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19590 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19591 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19593 o Minor features (geoip):
19594 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19597 o Minor features (interface):
19598 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19599 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19600 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19601 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19603 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19604 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19605 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19607 o Minor features (log messages):
19608 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19609 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19610 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19611 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19612 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19613 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19614 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19615 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19617 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19618 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19619 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19620 Resolves ticket 5286.
19621 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19622 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19623 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19624 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19625 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19626 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19628 o Minor features (performance):
19629 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19630 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19631 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19632 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19633 Closes ticket 8109.
19635 o Minor features (relay):
19636 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19637 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19638 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19640 o Minor features (testing):
19641 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19642 the unit test scripts.
19643 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19644 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19645 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19646 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19648 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19649 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19650 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19651 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19652 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19653 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19654 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19655 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19656 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19657 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19659 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19660 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19661 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19662 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19664 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19665 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19666 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19667 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19668 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19669 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19670 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19671 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19672 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19673 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19675 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19676 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19677 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19679 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19680 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19681 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19682 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19683 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19685 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19686 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19687 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19688 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19689 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19690 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19691 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19692 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19693 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19694 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19695 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19696 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19698 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19699 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19700 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19701 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19702 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19703 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19704 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19705 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19706 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19707 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19708 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19709 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19711 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19712 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19713 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19714 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19716 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19717 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19718 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19719 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19722 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19723 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19724 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19725 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19726 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19727 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19730 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19731 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19732 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19733 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19734 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19736 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19737 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19738 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19741 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19742 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19743 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19744 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19745 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19746 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19747 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19748 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19749 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19750 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19752 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19753 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19754 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19755 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19756 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19758 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19759 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19761 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19762 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19763 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19764 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19765 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19766 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19767 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19768 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19769 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19770 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19771 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19772 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19773 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19775 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19776 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19777 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19778 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19779 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19780 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19781 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19782 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19783 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19784 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19785 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19786 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19787 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19789 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19790 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19791 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19793 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19794 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19795 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19796 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19797 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19798 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19800 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19801 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19802 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19803 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19804 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19805 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19806 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19807 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19808 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19809 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19811 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19812 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19813 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19815 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19816 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19817 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19818 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19819 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19821 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19822 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19823 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19824 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19825 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19826 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19827 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19828 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19829 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19830 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19831 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19832 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19833 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19834 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19836 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19837 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19838 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19839 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19840 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19841 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19842 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19843 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19844 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19846 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19847 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19848 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19849 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19850 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19851 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19852 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19854 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19855 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19857 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19858 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19859 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19860 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19862 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19863 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19864 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19865 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19866 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19867 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19868 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19869 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19870 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19871 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19872 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19873 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19874 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19875 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19876 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19877 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19878 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19880 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19881 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19882 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19883 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19884 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19885 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19886 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19887 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19890 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19891 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19892 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19893 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19894 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19895 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19896 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19897 Reported by "mr-4".
19898 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19899 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19900 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19901 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19903 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19904 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19905 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19906 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19907 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19908 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19909 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19910 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19911 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19912 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19913 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19914 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19916 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19917 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19918 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19920 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19921 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19922 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19924 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19925 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19926 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19927 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19930 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19931 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19932 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19933 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19936 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19937 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19938 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19939 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19941 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19942 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19943 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19945 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19946 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19947 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19948 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19949 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19950 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19951 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19952 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19955 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19956 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19957 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19958 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19959 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19960 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19961 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19962 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19963 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19964 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19965 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19967 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19968 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19969 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19970 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19971 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19973 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19974 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19975 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19976 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19979 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19980 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19981 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19982 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19983 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19984 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19985 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19987 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19988 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19989 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19990 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19991 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19992 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19993 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19994 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19995 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19996 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19997 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19998 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19999 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20000 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20001 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20002 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20003 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20004 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20005 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20006 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20007 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20008 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20009 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20010 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20012 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20013 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20014 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20015 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20016 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20017 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
20018 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
20019 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
20020 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
20022 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
20023 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
20026 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20027 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20029 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20031 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
20032 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
20033 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20034 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20035 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20036 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20038 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20039 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20041 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20042 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20043 caches don't get confused.
20044 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20045 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20046 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20047 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20048 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20049 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20050 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20051 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20052 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20053 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20054 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20055 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20056 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20057 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20058 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20059 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20060 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20061 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20064 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20065 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20066 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20067 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20068 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20070 o Removed code and features:
20071 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20072 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20073 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20074 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20075 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20076 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20078 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20079 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20080 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20081 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20082 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20083 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20084 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20085 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20086 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20087 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20088 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20089 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20091 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20092 Resolves ticket 11070.
20093 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20094 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20095 the rest of bug 10841.
20096 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20097 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20098 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20099 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20101 o Test infrastructure:
20102 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20103 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20104 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20105 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20106 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20107 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20108 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20109 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20110 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20111 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20113 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20114 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20115 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20116 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20117 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20118 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20119 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20120 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20121 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20122 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20123 invoking the other functions it calls.
20126 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20127 Patch from Dana Koch.
20128 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20129 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20130 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20131 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20133 o Distribution (systemd):
20134 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20135 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20136 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20137 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20138 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20139 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20140 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20141 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20142 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20143 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20144 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20145 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20146 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20150 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20151 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20152 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20153 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20154 (which does affect Tor).
20156 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20157 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20158 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20159 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20161 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20162 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20163 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20164 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20167 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20168 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20169 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20170 the directory authorities.
20173 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20174 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20175 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20176 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20177 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20178 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20179 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20180 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20181 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20182 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20183 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20184 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20186 o Directory authority changes:
20187 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20189 o Minor features (geoip):
20190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20194 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20195 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20196 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20197 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20200 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20201 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20202 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20203 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20204 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20205 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20206 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20207 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20208 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20209 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20212 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20213 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20214 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20215 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20216 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20217 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20218 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20219 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20223 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20224 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20225 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20226 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20227 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20228 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20229 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20230 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20231 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20232 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20233 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20234 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20235 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20242 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20243 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20244 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20245 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20246 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20247 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20248 of RAM, and several others.
20250 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20251 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20252 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20253 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20254 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20256 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20257 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20258 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20259 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20262 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20263 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20264 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20265 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20266 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20267 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20268 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20269 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20270 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20271 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20272 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20273 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20274 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20275 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20276 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20277 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20278 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20279 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20280 Resolves ticket 11438.
20282 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20283 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20284 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20285 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20286 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20287 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20289 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20290 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20291 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20293 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20294 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20295 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20297 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20298 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20299 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20300 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20302 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20303 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20304 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20306 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20307 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20308 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20311 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20312 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20313 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20314 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20317 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20318 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20319 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20320 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20322 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20323 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20324 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20325 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20327 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20328 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20329 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20333 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20334 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20335 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20336 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20338 o Major features (client security):
20339 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20340 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20341 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20342 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20343 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20344 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20347 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20348 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20349 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20350 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20352 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20353 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20354 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20355 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20356 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20359 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20360 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20362 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20363 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20364 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20365 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20366 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20367 GeoLite2 Country database.
20370 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20371 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20372 bugfix on every released Tor.
20373 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20374 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20375 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20376 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20377 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20378 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20379 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20380 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20381 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20382 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20383 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20384 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20385 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20386 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20387 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20389 o Documentation fixes:
20390 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20391 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20394 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20395 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20396 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20397 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20398 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20399 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20400 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20402 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20403 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20406 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20407 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20408 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20409 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20410 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20411 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20412 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20413 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20415 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20416 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20417 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20418 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20419 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20420 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20423 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20424 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20425 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20426 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20427 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20430 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20431 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20432 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20433 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20434 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20435 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20436 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20437 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20439 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20440 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20441 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20442 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20443 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20444 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20445 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20446 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20447 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20448 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20449 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20450 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20451 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20452 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20453 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20454 security, and privacy fixes.
20456 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20457 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20458 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20459 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20460 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20461 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20462 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20463 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20464 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20465 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20466 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20468 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20469 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20470 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20472 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20474 o Major features (better link encryption):
20475 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20476 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20477 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20478 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20479 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20480 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20483 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20484 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20485 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20486 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20488 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20490 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20491 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20492 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20493 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20494 them to solve bug 6033.)
20496 o Major features (relay performance):
20497 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20498 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20499 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20500 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20501 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20502 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20503 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20504 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20505 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20506 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20507 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20508 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20509 Implements ticket 9574.
20511 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20512 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20513 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20514 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20515 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20516 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20517 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20518 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20519 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20520 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20521 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20522 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20523 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20524 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20525 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20526 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20528 o Major features (use of guards):
20529 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20530 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20531 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20532 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20533 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20534 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20535 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20536 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20537 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20538 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20539 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20540 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20541 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20542 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20544 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20545 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20546 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20547 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20549 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20550 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20553 o Major features (geoip database):
20554 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20555 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20556 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20557 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20558 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20559 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20561 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20563 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20565 o Major features (IPv6):
20566 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20567 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20568 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20569 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20570 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20571 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20572 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20573 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20574 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20575 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20576 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20577 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20578 revised in proposal 208.
20579 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20580 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20581 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20583 o Major features (directory authorities):
20584 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20585 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20587 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20588 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20589 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20590 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20591 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20592 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20593 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20594 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20595 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20596 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20597 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20599 o Major features (build and portability):
20600 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20601 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20602 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20603 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20604 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20605 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20606 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20607 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20608 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20609 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20610 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20611 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20613 o Security features:
20614 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20615 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20616 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20617 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20618 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20619 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20620 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20621 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20622 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20625 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20626 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20627 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20628 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20629 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20630 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20631 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20632 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20633 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20634 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20635 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20636 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20637 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20638 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20639 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20640 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20641 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20642 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20644 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20645 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20646 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20647 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20649 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20650 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20651 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20653 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20654 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20655 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20656 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20657 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20658 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20659 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20660 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20661 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20663 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20664 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20666 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20667 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20668 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20669 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20670 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20671 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20672 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20673 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20674 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20675 last time we raised it).
20676 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20677 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20678 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20680 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20681 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20682 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20683 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20684 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20685 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20686 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20687 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20688 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20689 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20690 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20691 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20692 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20694 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20695 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20696 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20697 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20698 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20699 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20700 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20701 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20702 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20703 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20704 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20705 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20706 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20708 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20709 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20710 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20711 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20712 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20713 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20714 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20715 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20716 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20718 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20719 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20720 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20721 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20722 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20723 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20724 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20725 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20726 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20727 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20728 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20729 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20730 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20731 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20732 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20733 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20734 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20737 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20738 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20739 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20740 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20742 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20743 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20744 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20745 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20747 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20748 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20749 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20750 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20751 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20752 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20755 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20756 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20757 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20758 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20759 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20760 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20761 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20763 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20764 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20765 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20766 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20768 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20769 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20770 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20771 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20772 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20773 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20774 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20775 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20777 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20778 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20779 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20781 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20782 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20783 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20785 o Internal abstraction features:
20786 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20787 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20788 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20789 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20790 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20791 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20792 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20793 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20794 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20795 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20796 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20797 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20798 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20799 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20800 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20801 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20802 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20804 o New build requirements:
20805 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20806 strongly recommended.
20807 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20808 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20809 from a source distribution.)
20811 o Minor features (protocol):
20812 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20813 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20815 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20816 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20817 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20818 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20819 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20820 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20821 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20822 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20823 closes ticket 7199.
20824 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20825 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20827 o Minor features (security):
20828 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20829 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20830 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20831 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20832 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20833 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20834 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20835 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20836 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20838 o Minor features (control protocol):
20839 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20841 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20842 Implements ticket 4971.
20843 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20844 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20845 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20846 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20847 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20849 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20850 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20852 o Minor features (path selection):
20853 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20854 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20855 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20856 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20857 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20858 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20859 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20860 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20861 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20862 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20863 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20864 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20865 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20866 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20868 o Minor features (hidden services):
20869 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20870 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20871 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20872 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20873 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20874 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20875 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20876 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20877 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20878 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20879 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20880 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20881 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20883 o Minor features (clients):
20884 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20885 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20886 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20887 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20888 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20889 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20890 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20891 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20892 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20894 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20895 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20896 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20897 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20898 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20899 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20900 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20901 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20902 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20903 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20904 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20905 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20906 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20907 Implements part of proposal 222.
20909 o Minor features (bridges):
20910 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20911 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20912 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20913 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20914 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20915 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20916 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20917 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20918 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20919 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20920 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20921 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20922 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20923 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20925 o Minor features (relays):
20926 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20927 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20929 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20930 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20931 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20932 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20933 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20934 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20935 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20936 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20937 connect to the wrong addresses.
20938 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20939 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20940 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20941 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20944 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20945 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20946 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20947 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20948 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20949 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20951 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20952 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20953 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20954 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20956 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20957 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20958 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20959 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20960 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20961 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20963 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20964 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20965 Implements ticket 8151.
20966 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20967 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20968 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20969 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20971 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20972 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20973 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20974 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20975 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20976 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20977 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20978 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20979 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20980 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20981 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20982 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20983 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20984 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20985 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20986 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20987 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20988 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20989 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20990 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20991 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20992 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20993 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20994 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20995 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20996 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20997 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20998 detection capability loss.
21000 o Minor features (build):
21001 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21002 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21003 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21005 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21006 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21007 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21009 o Build improvements (autotools):
21010 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
21011 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
21012 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
21014 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
21015 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
21016 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
21017 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
21019 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
21020 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
21021 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
21022 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
21023 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
21024 than to perform erroneously.
21025 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21027 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
21028 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
21029 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
21031 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
21032 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21033 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
21034 hard-to-track-down errors.
21035 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21036 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21037 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21038 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21039 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21040 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21041 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21042 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21043 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21044 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21045 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21047 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
21048 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21049 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21050 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21051 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21052 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21053 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21054 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21055 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21056 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21058 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
21059 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21060 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21061 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21062 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21063 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21064 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21065 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21066 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21067 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21068 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21069 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21070 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21072 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21073 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21074 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21075 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21076 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21077 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21078 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21079 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21080 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21082 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21083 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21084 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21085 part of ticket 6736.
21086 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21087 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21088 Resolves ticket 6758.
21089 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21090 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21091 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21092 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21093 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21094 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21095 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21097 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21098 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21099 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21100 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21102 o Minor features (testing):
21103 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21104 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21106 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21107 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21108 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21111 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21112 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21114 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21115 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21116 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21117 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21118 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21119 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21120 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21121 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21122 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21123 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21124 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21125 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21126 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21127 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21128 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21129 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21130 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21132 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21133 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21134 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21135 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21136 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21137 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21138 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21139 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21140 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21141 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21142 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21143 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21144 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21145 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21146 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21147 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21148 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21149 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21150 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21151 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21154 o Minor fixes (config options):
21155 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21156 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21157 or we just won't work.)
21158 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21159 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21160 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21161 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21162 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21163 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21164 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21165 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21166 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21167 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21168 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21169 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21170 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21171 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21172 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21173 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21174 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21175 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21176 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21178 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21179 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21180 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21182 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21183 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21184 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21185 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21187 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21188 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21189 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21190 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21191 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21192 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21193 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21194 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21195 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21196 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21197 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21198 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21199 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21200 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21201 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21202 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21205 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21206 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21207 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21208 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21209 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21210 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21211 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21212 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21213 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21214 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21215 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21216 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21217 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21218 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21219 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21220 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21221 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21223 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21224 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21225 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21226 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21227 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21228 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21229 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21230 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21232 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21233 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21234 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21235 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21237 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21238 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21239 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21240 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21241 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21243 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21244 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21245 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21246 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21247 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21248 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21250 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21251 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21252 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21253 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21254 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21255 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21256 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21257 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21258 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21260 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21261 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21262 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21263 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21264 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21265 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21266 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21267 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21268 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21269 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21270 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21271 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21273 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21274 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21275 this is CID 718634.
21276 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21277 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21278 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21279 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21281 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21282 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21284 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21285 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21286 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21287 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21288 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21289 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21290 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21291 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21292 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21293 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21294 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21295 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21296 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21297 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21298 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21299 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21300 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21301 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21303 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21304 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21305 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21306 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21307 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21308 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21309 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21310 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21311 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21312 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21313 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21314 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21315 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21318 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21319 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21320 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21321 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21322 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21324 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21325 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21326 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21327 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21328 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21329 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21330 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21331 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21332 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21335 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21336 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21337 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21338 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21340 o Documentation fixes:
21341 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21342 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21343 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21344 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21345 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21346 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21347 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21349 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21350 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21351 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21352 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21353 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21354 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21355 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21356 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21357 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21358 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21359 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21360 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21361 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21363 o Removed features:
21364 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21365 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21366 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21368 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21369 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21370 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21371 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21372 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21373 compatibility code.
21376 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21377 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21379 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21380 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21382 o Code simplification:
21383 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21384 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21385 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21386 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21388 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21389 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21391 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21392 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21393 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21394 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21395 present the same extensions.)
21396 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21398 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21399 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21400 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21401 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21403 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21404 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21405 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21406 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21409 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21411 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21412 and the different handshakes it supports.
21413 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21414 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21415 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21416 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21418 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21419 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21420 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21421 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21422 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21423 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21424 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21425 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21426 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21427 Implements ticket 5529.
21428 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21429 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21430 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21433 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21434 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21435 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21436 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21437 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21438 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21439 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21440 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21441 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21442 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21443 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21444 any encoding is overkill.
21445 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21446 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21447 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21448 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21449 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21450 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21451 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21452 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21453 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21456 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21457 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21458 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21459 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21460 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21461 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21462 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21463 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21465 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21466 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21467 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21468 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21469 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21470 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21471 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21472 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21473 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21474 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21475 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21477 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21478 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21479 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21480 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21481 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21482 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21483 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21484 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21485 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21486 describes microdescriptors.
21488 o Major features (build hardening):
21489 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21491 o Major features (relay scaling):
21492 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21493 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21494 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21495 much faster than other AES implementations.
21496 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21497 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21498 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21499 Resolves ticket 4526.
21500 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21501 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21503 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21504 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21505 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21506 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21508 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21509 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21511 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21512 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21513 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21514 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21515 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21516 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21517 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21518 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21519 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21520 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21521 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21522 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21523 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21524 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21525 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21526 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21527 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21528 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21529 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21531 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21532 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21533 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21534 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21535 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21537 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21538 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21539 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21540 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21541 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21542 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21543 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21544 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21545 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21546 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21547 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21548 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21550 o Major features (hidden services):
21551 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21552 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21553 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21555 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21556 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21557 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21558 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21559 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21560 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21562 o Major features (IPv6):
21563 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21564 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21565 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21566 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21567 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21569 o Major features (directory authorities):
21570 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21571 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21572 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21573 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21574 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21575 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21576 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21577 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21578 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21579 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21581 o Major features (performance):
21582 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21583 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21584 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21585 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21586 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21587 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21588 side of Proposal 174.
21589 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21590 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21591 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21592 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21593 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21594 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21595 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21596 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21597 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21598 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21599 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21600 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21602 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21603 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21604 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21605 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21606 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21609 o Major features (relays):
21610 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21611 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21612 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21613 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21614 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21615 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21616 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21618 o Major features (stream isolation):
21619 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21620 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21621 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21622 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21623 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21624 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21625 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21626 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21627 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21628 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21629 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21630 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21631 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21632 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21634 o Major features (bufferevents):
21635 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21636 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21637 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21638 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21639 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21640 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21641 zero-copy transports where available.
21642 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21643 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21644 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21645 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21646 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21647 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21649 o Major features (path selection):
21650 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21651 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21652 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21653 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21656 o Major features (port forwarding):
21657 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21658 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21659 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21660 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21661 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21662 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21664 o Major features (logging):
21665 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21666 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21667 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21668 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21669 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21670 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21671 Implements enhancement 1668.
21673 o Major features (other):
21674 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21675 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21676 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21677 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21678 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21679 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21680 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21681 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21682 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21683 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21684 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21685 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21686 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21687 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21688 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21689 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21690 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21691 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21692 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21693 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21695 o New directory authorities:
21696 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21697 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21699 o Security/privacy fixes:
21700 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21701 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21702 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21703 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21704 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21705 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21706 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21707 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21708 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21709 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21710 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21711 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21712 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21713 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21714 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21715 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21716 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21717 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21718 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21719 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21720 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21721 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21722 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21723 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21724 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21725 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21726 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21727 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21728 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21729 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21730 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21732 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21733 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21734 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21735 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21736 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21737 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21738 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21739 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21740 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21741 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21742 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21743 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21744 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21745 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21748 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21749 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21750 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21751 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21752 which introduced predicted ports.
21753 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21754 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21755 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21756 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21757 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21758 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21759 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21760 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21761 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21763 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21764 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21765 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21766 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21767 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21768 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21770 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21771 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21772 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21773 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21774 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21775 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21776 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21777 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21778 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21779 documents entirely.
21781 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21782 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21783 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21784 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21785 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21786 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21787 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21788 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21789 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21790 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21791 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21792 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21793 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21794 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21795 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21796 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21797 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21798 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21800 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21801 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21802 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21803 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21804 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21805 cells were introduced.
21806 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21807 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21808 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21809 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21811 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21812 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21813 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21814 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21815 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21816 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21817 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21818 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21819 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21820 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21821 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21822 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21823 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21824 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21825 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21826 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21827 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21828 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21829 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21830 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21832 o Changes to default torrc file:
21833 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21834 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21836 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21837 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21838 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21840 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21841 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21842 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21844 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21845 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21846 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21847 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21848 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21849 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21850 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21851 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21852 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21853 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21854 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21855 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21856 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21857 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21858 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21859 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21862 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21863 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21864 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21865 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21866 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21867 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21868 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21869 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21870 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21871 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21872 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21873 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21874 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21875 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21877 o Minor features (IPv6):
21878 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21879 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21880 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21881 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21882 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21883 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21885 o Minor features (hidden services):
21886 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21887 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21888 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21889 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21890 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21891 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21892 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21893 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21894 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21895 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21896 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21898 o Minor features (relays):
21899 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21900 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21901 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21902 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21903 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21904 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21905 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21906 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21907 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21908 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21909 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21912 o Minor features (new config options):
21913 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21914 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21915 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21916 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21917 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21918 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21919 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21920 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21921 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21922 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21923 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21924 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21926 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21927 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21928 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21929 Implements issue 933.
21930 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21931 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21932 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21933 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21934 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21935 implements ticket 3439.
21936 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21937 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21938 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21939 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21940 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21941 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21942 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21943 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21945 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21946 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21947 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21948 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21949 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21950 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21951 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21952 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21953 appending to the list.
21954 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21955 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21956 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21957 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21960 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21961 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21962 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21963 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21964 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21965 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21966 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21968 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21969 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21970 circuit-status' control-port command.
21971 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21972 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21973 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21974 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21975 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21976 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21978 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21979 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21980 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21981 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21982 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21983 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21984 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21985 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21986 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21988 o Minor features (controller, other):
21989 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21990 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21991 part of ticket 3457.
21992 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21993 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21994 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21995 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21996 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21998 o Minor features (log messages):
21999 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22000 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22001 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22002 please let us know about it.
22003 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22004 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22005 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
22006 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
22007 Resolves ticket 2474.
22008 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
22009 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
22011 o Minor features (other):
22012 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
22013 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
22014 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
22015 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
22017 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
22018 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
22019 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
22020 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
22021 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
22022 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
22023 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
22025 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
22026 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
22027 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
22028 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
22029 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22031 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
22032 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22033 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22034 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22035 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22036 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22037 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22038 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22039 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22040 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22041 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22042 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22043 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22044 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22045 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22046 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22049 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
22050 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
22051 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
22052 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
22053 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
22054 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
22055 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22056 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
22057 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
22059 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
22060 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
22061 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22062 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22063 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22064 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22065 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22066 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22067 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22068 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22070 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22071 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22072 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22073 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22074 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22075 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22076 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22077 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22078 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22080 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22081 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22082 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22083 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22084 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22085 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22086 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22087 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22088 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22090 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22091 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22092 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22093 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22094 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22095 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22096 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22098 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22099 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22100 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22101 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22103 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22104 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22105 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22106 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22107 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22108 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22109 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22110 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22111 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22112 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22113 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22114 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22117 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22118 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22119 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22120 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22121 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22122 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22124 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22125 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22126 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22127 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22128 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22129 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22130 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22131 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22132 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22133 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22134 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22135 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22136 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22137 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22138 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22140 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22141 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22142 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22143 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22144 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22145 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22147 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22148 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22149 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22150 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22151 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22152 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22153 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22154 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22155 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22156 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22157 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22158 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22159 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22160 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22161 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22163 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22164 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22165 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22166 be disabled using the new
22167 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22168 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22169 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22170 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22171 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22172 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22173 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22175 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22176 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22177 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22178 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22179 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22180 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22181 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22183 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22184 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22185 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22186 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22187 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22188 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22189 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22190 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22192 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22193 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22194 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22195 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22196 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22197 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22198 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22199 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22201 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22202 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22203 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22204 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22205 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22206 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22207 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22208 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22210 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22211 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22212 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22213 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22215 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22216 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22217 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22219 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22220 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22222 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22223 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22224 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22225 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22226 case for flushing marked connections.
22227 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22228 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22229 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22230 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22231 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22232 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22233 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22234 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22235 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22236 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22238 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22239 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22240 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22241 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22242 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22243 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22244 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22245 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22246 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22247 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22248 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22250 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22251 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22252 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22253 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22254 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22256 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22257 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22258 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22259 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22260 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22261 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22262 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22263 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22264 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22265 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22266 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22267 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22268 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22269 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22270 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22271 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22273 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22274 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22275 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22276 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22277 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22278 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22279 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22280 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22281 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22282 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22283 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22284 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22285 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22286 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22287 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22288 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22289 Implements ticket 3264.
22290 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22292 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22293 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22294 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22295 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22296 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22297 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22299 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22300 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22301 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22302 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22303 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22304 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22305 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22306 them from the other auths.
22307 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22308 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22309 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22310 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22311 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22312 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22313 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22314 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22318 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22319 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22320 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22322 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22323 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22324 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22325 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22326 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22327 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22328 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22329 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22331 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22332 ./src/test/bench binary.
22333 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22334 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22335 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22336 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22339 o Build improvements:
22340 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22341 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22342 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22343 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22344 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22345 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22346 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22347 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22348 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22349 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22350 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22351 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22352 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22353 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22354 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22355 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22356 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22357 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22358 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22359 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22360 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22362 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22364 o Build requirements:
22365 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22366 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22367 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22368 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22369 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22370 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22371 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22372 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22373 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22374 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22375 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22376 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22377 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22379 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22380 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22381 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22383 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22384 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22385 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22386 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22387 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22388 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22389 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22390 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22391 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22393 o Build fixes (other):
22394 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22395 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22397 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22398 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22399 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22400 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22401 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22402 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22403 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22404 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22406 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22407 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22410 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22411 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22412 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22413 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22414 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22415 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22416 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22417 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22419 o Code refactoring (safety):
22420 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22421 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22422 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22423 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22424 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22425 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22426 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22427 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22428 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22429 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22430 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22431 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22433 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22434 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22435 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22436 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22437 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22438 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22439 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22440 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22441 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22442 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22443 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22444 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22445 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22446 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22447 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22448 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22449 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22450 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22452 o Code refactoring (separate):
22453 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22454 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22455 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22457 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22458 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22461 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22462 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22463 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22464 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22465 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22466 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22467 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22468 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22470 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22471 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22472 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22473 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22474 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22475 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22476 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22477 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22478 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22479 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22480 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22482 o Code refactoring (other):
22483 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22484 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22486 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22487 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22488 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22489 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22490 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22491 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22492 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22493 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22494 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22495 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22496 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22497 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22499 o Removed features and files:
22500 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22501 it would be a bad idea to start.
22502 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22504 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22505 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22506 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22507 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22508 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22509 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22510 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22511 are no longer in use as relays.
22512 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22513 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22514 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22515 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22516 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22517 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22521 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22522 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22523 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22525 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22526 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22528 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22529 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22530 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22532 o Documentation fixes:
22533 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22534 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22535 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22536 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22537 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22538 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22539 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22540 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22543 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22544 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22548 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22549 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22550 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22551 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22552 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22553 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22554 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22558 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22559 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22560 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22563 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22564 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22565 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22566 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22567 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22568 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22569 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22570 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22571 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22572 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22573 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22574 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22575 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22576 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22579 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22580 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22581 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22585 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22586 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22587 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22588 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22589 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22590 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22591 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22592 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22593 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22594 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22595 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22598 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22599 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22602 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22603 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22606 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22607 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22608 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22609 and fixes several crash bugs.
22611 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22612 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22613 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22614 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22616 o Directory authority changes:
22617 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22618 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22622 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22623 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22624 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22625 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22626 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22627 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22628 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22629 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22630 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22631 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22632 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22633 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22634 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22635 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22636 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22637 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22638 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22639 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22640 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22641 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22642 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22643 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22644 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22645 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22646 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22647 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22648 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22651 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22652 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22653 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22654 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22656 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22657 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22659 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22660 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22661 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22662 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22663 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22664 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22665 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22666 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22669 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22670 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22671 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22672 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22673 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22674 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22675 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22676 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22677 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22678 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22679 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22680 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22681 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22682 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22683 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22684 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22685 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22686 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22687 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22688 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22689 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22690 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22691 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22692 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22693 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22694 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22695 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22696 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22697 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22698 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22699 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22700 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22701 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22702 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22703 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22704 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22705 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22706 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22707 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22708 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22709 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22710 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22711 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22712 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22713 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22714 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22716 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22717 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22718 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22719 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22720 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22721 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22722 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22723 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22724 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22725 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22726 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22727 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22728 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22729 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22730 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22733 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22734 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22735 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22736 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22738 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22741 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22742 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22743 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22744 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22745 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22746 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22747 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22750 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22751 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22752 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22754 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22755 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22756 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22757 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22758 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22759 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22760 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22761 (which Tor does not do by default).
22763 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22764 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22765 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22766 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22767 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22769 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22770 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22771 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22774 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22775 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22776 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22777 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22778 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22780 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22781 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22784 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22785 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22786 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22787 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22788 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22789 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22790 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22791 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22793 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22794 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22795 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22796 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22797 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22798 close based on processing a cell on it.
22799 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22800 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22801 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22802 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22803 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22804 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22805 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22806 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22807 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22808 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22809 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22810 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22811 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22812 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22813 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22816 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22817 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22818 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22819 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22820 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22821 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22822 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22824 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22825 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22826 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22827 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22828 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22829 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22830 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22831 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22832 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22833 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22834 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22835 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22836 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22837 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22838 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22839 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22840 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22841 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22842 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22843 Reported by "troll_un".
22844 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22845 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22846 Reported by "troll_un".
22847 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22848 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22849 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22850 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22853 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22854 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22855 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22856 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22857 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22858 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22859 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22860 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22861 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22862 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22863 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22865 o Packaging changes:
22866 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22867 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22870 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22871 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22872 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22873 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22874 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22876 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22877 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22879 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22880 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22881 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22882 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22883 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22884 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22885 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22886 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22887 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22890 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22893 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22894 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22895 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22897 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22898 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22899 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22900 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22901 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22902 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22903 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22904 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22905 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22906 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22907 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22908 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22909 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22911 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22912 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22913 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22914 currently connected to them.
22916 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22917 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22918 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22920 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22921 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22922 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22923 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22924 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22925 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22926 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22927 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22928 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22929 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22930 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22931 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22932 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22933 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22934 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22935 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22936 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22937 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22940 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22941 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22942 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22943 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22944 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22945 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22946 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22947 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22948 when bridges were introduced.
22949 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22950 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22951 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22952 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22953 Found by "frosty_un".
22956 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22957 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22959 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22960 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22961 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22962 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22963 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22964 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22965 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22968 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22969 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22970 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22971 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22972 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22973 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22974 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22975 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22976 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22977 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22978 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22979 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22980 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22981 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22982 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22983 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22984 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22985 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22987 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22988 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22989 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22990 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22991 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22992 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22993 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22994 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22995 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22996 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22997 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22998 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23001 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23002 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23003 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23004 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23007 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23008 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23009 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23010 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23011 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23013 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23014 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23015 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23016 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23017 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23018 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23019 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23020 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23021 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23022 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23024 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23025 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23026 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23027 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23028 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23029 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23030 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23031 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23032 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23033 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23034 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23035 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23036 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23037 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23038 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23039 Found by "frosty_un".
23040 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23041 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23042 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23043 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23044 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23045 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23046 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23047 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23048 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23049 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23050 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23051 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23052 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23053 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23054 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23055 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23056 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23057 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23058 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23060 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23061 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23062 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23063 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23064 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23065 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23066 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23067 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23069 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23070 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23071 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23072 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23073 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23074 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23075 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23076 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23077 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23078 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23079 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23080 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23082 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23083 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23084 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23085 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23086 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23087 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23088 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23089 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23090 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23092 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23094 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23095 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23096 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23097 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23098 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23099 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23100 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23101 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23103 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23104 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23105 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23106 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23107 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23109 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23110 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23111 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23112 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23113 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23116 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23117 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23118 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23119 reachable from Iran again.
23122 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23123 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23124 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23126 o Minor features (security):
23127 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23128 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23129 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23130 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23131 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23132 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23133 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23134 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23135 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23136 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23139 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23140 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23141 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23142 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23143 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23144 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23145 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23146 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23147 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23149 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23150 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23151 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23152 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23153 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23154 raised by bug 3898.
23155 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23156 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23157 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23158 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23159 fixes part of bug 2442.
23160 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23161 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23162 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23164 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23165 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23166 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23167 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23168 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23171 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23172 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23173 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23174 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23175 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23176 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23179 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23180 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23181 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23182 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23183 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23184 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23185 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23186 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23187 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23188 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23190 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23191 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23192 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23193 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23194 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23195 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23196 many many other features and bugfixes.
23198 o Major features (client performance):
23199 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23200 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23201 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23202 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23203 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23204 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23206 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23207 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23208 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23209 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23210 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23211 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23212 the first implementation of this feature.
23214 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23215 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23216 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23217 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23218 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23219 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23220 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23221 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23222 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23223 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23224 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23225 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23226 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23227 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23228 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23229 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23231 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23232 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23233 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23234 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23235 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23236 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23237 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23238 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23239 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23240 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23241 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23242 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23243 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23244 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23245 they first get the Guard flag.
23246 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23247 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23248 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23249 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23250 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23251 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23252 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23253 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23255 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23256 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23257 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23258 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23259 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23260 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23261 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23262 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23263 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23264 but never per-conn write limits.
23265 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23266 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23267 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23268 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23270 o Major features (controllers):
23271 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23272 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23273 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23274 contributions to the network.
23275 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23276 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23277 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23279 o Major features (directory authorities):
23280 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23281 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23282 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23284 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23285 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23286 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23287 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23288 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23289 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23290 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23291 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23292 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23293 hash algorithm in the future.
23294 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23295 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23296 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23298 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23299 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23300 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23301 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23302 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23303 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23304 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23305 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23306 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23307 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23308 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23309 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23310 connections to directory servers.
23311 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23312 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23313 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23314 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23315 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23316 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23317 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23318 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23319 information, or fetch directory information.
23320 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23321 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23322 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23323 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23324 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23326 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23327 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23328 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23329 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23330 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23331 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23332 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23333 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23334 the network changes.
23335 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23336 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23338 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23339 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23340 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23341 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23342 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23343 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23344 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23345 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23346 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23347 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23348 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23349 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23350 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23351 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23352 reachability self-tests.
23353 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23354 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23355 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23356 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23357 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23359 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23360 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23361 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23363 o Major features (misc):
23364 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23365 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23366 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23367 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23368 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23369 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23370 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23371 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23372 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23373 part of ticket 3076.
23374 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23375 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23376 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23378 o Code security improvements:
23379 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23380 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23381 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23382 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23383 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23384 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23385 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23386 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23387 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23388 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23389 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23390 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23391 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23392 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23393 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23394 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23395 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23396 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23397 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23398 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23399 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23400 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23401 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23402 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23403 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23404 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23405 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23406 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23408 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23409 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23410 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23411 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23412 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23413 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23414 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23415 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23416 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23417 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23418 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23419 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23420 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23422 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23423 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23424 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23426 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23427 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23429 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23430 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23431 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23432 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23433 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23434 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23435 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23436 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23437 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23438 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23439 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23440 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23441 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23442 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23443 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23444 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23445 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23447 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23448 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23449 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23451 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23452 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23453 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23454 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23455 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23456 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23457 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23458 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23459 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23460 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23461 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23462 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23463 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23464 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23465 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23466 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23467 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23468 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23469 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23471 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23472 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23473 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23474 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23475 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23476 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23477 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23478 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23479 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23480 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23482 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23483 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23484 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23485 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23486 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23487 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23488 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23489 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23490 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23491 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23493 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23494 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23495 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23496 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23497 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23498 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23499 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23500 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23501 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23502 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23503 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23504 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23505 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23507 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23508 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23509 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23510 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23511 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23512 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23513 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23514 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23515 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23516 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23518 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23519 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23520 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23521 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23522 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23523 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23524 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23526 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23527 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23528 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23529 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23530 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23531 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23532 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23533 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23534 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23535 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23536 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23537 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23538 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23539 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23540 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23542 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23543 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23544 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23545 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23546 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23547 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23548 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23550 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23551 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23552 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23553 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23554 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23555 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23556 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23557 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23559 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23560 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23561 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23562 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23563 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23564 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23565 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23566 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23567 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23568 the longest-lived bug prize.
23569 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23570 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23571 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23572 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23573 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23574 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23575 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23576 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23577 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23578 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23580 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23581 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23582 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23583 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23584 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23585 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23588 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23589 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23590 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23591 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23592 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23593 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23594 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23595 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23596 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23597 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23598 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23599 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23600 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23601 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23602 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23603 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23604 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23605 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23606 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23607 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23608 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23609 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23610 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23611 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23612 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23613 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23615 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23616 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23617 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23618 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23619 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23620 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23621 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23622 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23623 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23625 o Minor features (relays):
23626 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23627 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23628 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23629 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23630 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23631 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23632 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23633 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23635 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23636 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23637 Resolves ticket 3252.
23638 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23639 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23641 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23642 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23643 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23644 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23645 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23647 o Minor features (network statistics):
23648 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23649 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23650 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23651 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23652 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23653 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23654 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23655 measure download times.
23656 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23657 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23659 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23660 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23661 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23662 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23664 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23665 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23666 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23668 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23669 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23670 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23671 Implements ticket 2432.
23672 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23673 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23674 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23675 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23676 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23677 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23678 Implements enhancement 1790.
23679 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23680 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23682 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23683 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23684 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23685 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23686 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23687 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23688 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23690 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23692 o Minor features (clients):
23693 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23694 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23695 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23696 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23698 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23699 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23700 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23701 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23702 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23703 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23704 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23705 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23707 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23708 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23709 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23710 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23711 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23712 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23713 SSL handshake issues.
23715 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23716 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23717 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23718 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23719 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23720 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23721 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23722 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23723 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23724 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23725 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23726 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23727 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23728 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23729 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23730 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23731 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23732 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23733 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23734 hour of their uptime.
23735 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23736 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23737 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23738 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23740 o Minor features (hidden services):
23741 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23742 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23743 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23744 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23745 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23746 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23747 by fix for bug 3000.
23748 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23749 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23750 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23751 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23752 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23754 o Minor features (controller interface):
23755 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23756 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23757 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23758 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23759 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23760 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23761 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23762 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23763 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23764 over our stored history.
23765 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23766 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23767 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23769 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23770 to the circuit build timeout.
23771 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23772 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23773 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23775 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23776 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23777 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23778 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23780 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23781 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23782 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23783 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23784 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23785 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23786 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23787 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23788 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23789 arguments we do not recognize.
23791 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23792 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23793 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23794 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23795 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23796 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23797 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23798 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23799 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23800 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23801 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23802 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23803 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23804 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23805 got suppressed since the last warning.
23806 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23807 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23808 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23809 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23810 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23811 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23812 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23814 o Minor features (log domains):
23815 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23816 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23817 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23819 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23820 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23822 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23823 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23824 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23826 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23827 during the TLS handshake.
23829 o Minor features (build process):
23830 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23831 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23832 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23834 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23835 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23836 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23838 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23839 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23840 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23841 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23842 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23843 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23845 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23846 source files Tor was built with.
23847 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23848 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23849 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23850 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23851 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23852 speeds up the build considerably.
23854 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23855 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23856 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23857 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23858 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23859 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23860 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23861 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23862 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23863 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23864 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23865 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23866 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23867 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23868 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23869 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23870 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23871 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23872 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23873 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23874 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23875 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23876 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23877 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23878 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23879 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23880 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23881 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23883 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23884 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23885 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23888 o Minor features (unit tests):
23889 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23890 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23891 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23892 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23893 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23894 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23896 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23897 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23900 o Minor features (misc):
23901 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23902 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23903 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23904 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23906 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23907 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23908 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23909 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23910 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23912 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23913 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23914 open() without checking it.
23915 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23916 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23917 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23918 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23920 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23921 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23922 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23923 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23924 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23925 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23926 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23927 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23928 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23929 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23930 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23931 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23932 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23933 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23934 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23935 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23936 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23937 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23938 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23939 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23940 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23941 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23942 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23943 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23944 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23945 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23946 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23947 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23949 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23950 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23951 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23952 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23954 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23955 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23956 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23957 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23958 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23960 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23961 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23962 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23963 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23964 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23965 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23966 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23967 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23968 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23969 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23970 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23971 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23972 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23974 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23975 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23976 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23977 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23978 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23979 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23980 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23981 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23982 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23983 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23984 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23985 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23986 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23987 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23988 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23989 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23990 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23991 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23992 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23993 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23994 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23996 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23997 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23998 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23999 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
24000 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
24001 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
24002 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
24003 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
24004 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
24006 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
24007 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
24008 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
24009 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
24010 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
24011 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
24012 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
24013 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
24014 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
24015 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
24016 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24017 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24018 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24021 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24022 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24023 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24024 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24025 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24026 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24027 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24028 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24029 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24030 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24031 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24033 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24034 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24036 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
24037 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24038 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24039 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24040 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24041 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24042 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24043 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24045 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24046 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24047 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24048 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24049 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24050 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24051 discovered by katmagic.
24052 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24053 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24055 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24056 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24057 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24058 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24059 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24060 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24061 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24062 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24063 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24065 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24066 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24068 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24069 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24071 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24072 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24074 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24075 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24076 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24077 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24078 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24079 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24080 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24081 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24082 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24083 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24084 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24085 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24086 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24087 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24088 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24090 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24091 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24092 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24093 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24094 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24095 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24096 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24097 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24098 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24100 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24101 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24102 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24104 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24105 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24106 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24107 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24109 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24110 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24111 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24112 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24113 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24114 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24115 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24117 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24118 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24119 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24120 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24121 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24122 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24124 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24125 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24126 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24127 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24128 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24129 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24130 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24131 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24132 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24134 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24135 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24136 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24137 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24138 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24139 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24140 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24141 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24142 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24143 control-spec.txt said they were.
24145 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24146 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24147 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24149 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24150 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24151 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24152 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24153 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24155 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24156 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24158 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24159 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24160 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24161 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24162 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24163 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24164 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24166 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24167 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24168 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24169 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24170 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24171 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24172 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24173 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24176 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24177 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24178 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24179 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24180 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24181 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24182 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24183 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24184 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24185 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24186 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24187 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24188 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24189 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24190 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24192 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24193 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24194 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24195 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24196 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24197 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24198 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24200 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24201 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24204 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24205 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24206 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24207 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24208 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24209 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24210 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24211 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24212 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24213 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24214 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24215 fixes part of bug 3407.
24216 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24217 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24218 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24219 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24220 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24221 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24222 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24223 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24224 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24225 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24227 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24228 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24229 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24230 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24231 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24232 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24233 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24234 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24235 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24236 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24237 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24238 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24239 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24240 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24241 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24242 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24243 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24245 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24246 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24247 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24248 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24249 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24250 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24251 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24252 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24253 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24254 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24255 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24256 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24258 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24259 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24260 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24261 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24262 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24264 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24265 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24266 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24267 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24269 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24270 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24271 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24272 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24273 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24274 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24275 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24276 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24277 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24278 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24280 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24281 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24282 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24283 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24284 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24285 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24286 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24287 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24289 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24290 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24291 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24293 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24294 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24295 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24296 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24297 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24298 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24299 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24300 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24301 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24302 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24304 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24306 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24307 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24308 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24309 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24310 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24311 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24312 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24313 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24314 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24315 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24317 o Documentation changes:
24318 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24319 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24321 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24322 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24323 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24324 what should go in a patch.
24325 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24327 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24328 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24329 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24330 projects directory in svn.
24332 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24333 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24334 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24335 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24336 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24337 hidden service usage.
24338 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24339 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24340 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24341 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24342 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24345 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24346 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24347 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24348 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24349 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24352 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24353 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24354 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24355 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24356 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24357 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24358 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24359 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24360 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24361 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24362 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24363 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24364 via application-level web tricks.
24365 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24366 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24367 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24368 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24369 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24370 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24371 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24372 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24373 keep the workaround in place.
24374 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24375 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24376 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24377 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24378 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24379 want to do it differently.
24380 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24381 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24382 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24385 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24386 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24387 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24388 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24389 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24390 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24393 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24394 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24395 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24396 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24397 the rest of bug 1074.
24398 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24399 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24400 Found by "piebeer".
24401 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24402 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24403 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24404 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24405 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24406 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24407 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24410 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24412 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24415 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24416 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24417 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24418 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24419 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24420 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24421 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24422 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24423 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24424 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24425 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24427 o Packaging changes:
24428 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24429 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24430 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24431 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24432 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24433 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24436 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24437 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24438 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24439 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24440 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24442 o Major bugfixes (security):
24443 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24444 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24445 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24447 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24448 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24449 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24450 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24451 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24452 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24453 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24454 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24456 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24457 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24458 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24459 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24460 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24461 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24462 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24463 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24464 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24465 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24466 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24467 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24468 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24469 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24472 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24473 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24474 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24475 bug reported by doorss.
24476 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24477 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24478 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24479 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24480 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24482 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24483 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24484 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24485 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24486 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24489 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24490 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24493 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24494 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24495 Automake 1.7 or later.
24496 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24497 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24498 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24499 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24502 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24503 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24504 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24505 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24509 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24510 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24511 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24512 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24514 o Directory authority changes:
24515 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24518 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24521 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24522 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24523 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24524 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24525 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24528 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24529 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24530 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24531 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24532 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24533 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24534 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24535 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24536 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24537 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24538 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24539 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24540 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24541 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24542 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24543 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24544 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24545 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24546 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24547 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24548 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24549 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24550 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24553 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24554 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24555 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24556 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24558 o New directory authorities:
24559 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24563 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24564 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24565 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24567 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24568 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24569 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24570 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24571 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24572 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24574 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24575 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24576 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24579 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24580 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24581 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24582 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24583 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24584 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24585 Patch from mingw-san.
24588 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24589 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24590 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24591 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24592 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24593 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24596 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24597 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24598 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24599 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24600 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24602 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24603 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24606 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24607 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24608 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24609 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24610 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24611 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24612 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24613 their directory fetches over TLS).
24614 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24615 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24616 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24617 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24618 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24619 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24620 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24621 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24624 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24625 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24629 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24630 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24631 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24632 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24633 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24634 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24635 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24638 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24639 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24640 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24641 several minor potential security bugs.
24644 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24645 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24646 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24647 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24648 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24649 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24650 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24653 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24654 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24656 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24657 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24658 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24659 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24662 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24663 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24667 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24668 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24669 customized patches to run/build.
24672 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24673 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24674 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24677 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24678 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24679 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24680 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24681 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24682 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24683 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24684 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24687 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24688 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24689 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24690 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24691 libraries in a security patch.
24692 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24693 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24694 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24695 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24699 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24700 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24703 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24704 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24705 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24706 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24707 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24710 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24711 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24712 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24713 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24714 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24716 o Directory authority changes:
24717 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24721 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24722 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24723 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24726 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24727 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24728 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24729 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24730 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24733 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24734 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24735 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24736 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24737 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24738 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24739 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24742 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24743 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24744 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24745 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24746 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24747 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24749 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24750 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24753 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24754 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24755 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24756 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24758 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24759 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24761 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24762 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24763 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24764 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24767 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24768 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24769 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24770 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24771 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24773 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24774 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24776 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24777 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24778 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24781 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24782 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24783 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24785 o New directory authorities:
24786 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24788 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24791 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24792 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24794 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24795 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24796 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24797 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24798 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24799 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24800 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24801 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24802 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24803 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24804 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24805 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24806 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24807 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24808 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24809 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24810 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24812 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24813 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24814 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24816 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24817 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24821 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24822 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24823 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24824 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24825 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24828 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24829 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24833 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24834 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24835 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24838 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24839 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24840 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24841 and confuse fewer users.
24844 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24845 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24846 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24847 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24848 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24849 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24850 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24853 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24854 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24855 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24856 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24857 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24858 other features and bug fixes.
24860 o Major features (clients):
24861 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24862 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24863 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24864 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24866 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24867 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24868 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24869 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24870 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24871 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24872 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24873 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24874 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24875 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24877 o Major features (relays):
24878 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24879 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24880 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24881 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24882 data. Found by Jacob.
24883 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24884 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24885 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24886 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24888 o Major features (hidden services):
24889 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24890 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24891 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24892 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24893 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24894 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24895 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24896 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24897 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24898 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24899 lookups more reliable.
24901 o Major features (path selection):
24902 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24903 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24904 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24905 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24906 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24908 o Major features (misc):
24909 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24910 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24912 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24913 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24914 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24915 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24916 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24917 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24919 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24920 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24921 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24922 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24924 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24927 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24928 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24929 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24930 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24931 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24932 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24933 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24934 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24935 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24936 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24937 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24938 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24939 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24940 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24941 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24942 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24943 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24944 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24945 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24946 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24947 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24948 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24949 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24950 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24951 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24952 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24953 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24954 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24955 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24956 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24957 Implements proposal 148.
24959 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24960 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24961 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24962 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24963 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24964 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24966 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24967 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24968 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24969 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24970 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24971 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24972 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24973 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24974 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24976 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24977 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24978 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24979 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24981 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24982 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24983 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24984 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24985 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24986 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24987 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24988 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24989 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24991 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24992 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24993 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24994 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24995 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24996 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24997 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24998 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24999 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25000 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25001 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
25002 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
25003 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
25004 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
25005 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
25006 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
25009 o Major bugfixes (relays):
25010 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
25011 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
25012 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
25013 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
25014 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
25015 patch by Sebastian.
25016 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25017 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25018 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25019 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
25020 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
25021 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
25022 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
25023 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
25024 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
25025 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
25028 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25029 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25030 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
25031 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
25032 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
25033 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25035 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25036 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25037 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25038 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25039 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25040 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25041 on a typical directory cache.
25042 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25043 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25044 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25045 and may reduce fragmentation.
25047 o New/changed config options:
25048 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25049 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25050 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25051 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25052 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25053 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25054 locked down these days.
25055 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25056 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25057 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25058 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25059 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25060 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25061 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25062 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25063 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25064 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25065 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25066 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25067 directory requests we should expect to see.
25068 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25069 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25070 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25071 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25072 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25073 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25074 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25076 o Minor features (relays):
25077 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25078 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25079 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25080 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25081 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25083 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25084 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25085 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25086 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25087 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25088 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25089 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25090 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25091 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25092 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25093 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25094 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25095 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25097 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25098 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25099 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25100 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25101 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25102 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25103 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25104 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25105 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25106 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25107 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25109 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25110 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25111 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25112 fingerprints with or without space.
25114 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25115 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25116 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25117 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25118 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25119 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25120 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25121 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25122 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25124 o Minor features (bridges):
25125 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25126 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25128 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25129 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25132 o Minor features (hidden services):
25133 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25134 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25135 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25136 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25137 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25138 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25139 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25140 faster after restart.
25141 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25142 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25144 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25145 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25147 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25148 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25150 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25151 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25152 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25153 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25154 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25155 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25156 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25157 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25158 system to do it for us.
25159 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25160 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25161 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25162 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25163 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25164 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25165 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25166 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25167 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25168 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25169 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25170 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25171 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25172 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25173 with log.h on Android.
25174 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25175 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25177 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25178 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25179 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25180 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25182 o Minor features (controllers):
25183 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25184 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25185 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25186 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25187 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25188 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25189 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25190 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25191 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25192 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25194 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25195 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25196 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25197 been fetched and validated.
25198 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25199 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25201 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25203 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25204 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25205 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25206 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25207 partway through and wants to catch up.
25208 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25210 o Minor features (tools):
25211 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25212 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25213 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25214 people find host:port too confusing.
25215 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25216 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25218 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25219 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25220 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25221 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25222 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25223 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25224 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25225 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25226 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25228 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25229 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25230 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25231 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25232 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25234 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25235 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25236 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25238 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25239 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25240 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25241 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25242 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25243 have already been marked for close.
25244 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25245 memory performance during directory parsing.
25247 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25248 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25249 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25250 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25251 done that for a long time.
25252 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25253 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25254 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25255 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25256 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25257 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25258 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25259 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25260 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25261 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25262 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25263 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25264 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25265 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25266 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25267 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25268 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25269 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25270 because of a pending download.
25271 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25272 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25273 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25274 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25275 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25277 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25278 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25279 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25280 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25281 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25282 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25283 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25284 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25285 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25287 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25288 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25290 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25291 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25292 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25293 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25294 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25295 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25296 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25297 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25298 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25299 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25300 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25301 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25302 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25304 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25305 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25306 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25308 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25309 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25311 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25312 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25313 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25314 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25315 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25316 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25317 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25318 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25319 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25320 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25321 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25322 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25323 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25325 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25326 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25327 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25328 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25329 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25330 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25331 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25333 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25334 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25336 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25337 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25338 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25339 Workaround for bug 1024.
25340 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25341 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25342 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25343 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25344 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25345 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25346 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25347 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25350 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25351 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25354 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25355 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25356 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25357 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25358 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25359 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25360 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25362 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25363 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25364 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25365 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25366 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25367 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25368 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25369 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25372 o Deprecated and removed features:
25373 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25374 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25375 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25377 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25379 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25380 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25381 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25382 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25383 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25384 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25385 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25386 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25387 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25388 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25389 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25390 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25391 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25392 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25395 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25396 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25397 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25398 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25399 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25401 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25402 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25403 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25404 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25405 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25406 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25407 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25408 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25409 actual mistakes we're making here.
25410 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25411 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25412 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25413 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25414 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25415 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25416 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25417 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25418 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25419 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25420 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25421 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25422 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25423 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25424 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25427 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25429 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25430 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25431 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25432 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25433 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25436 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25437 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25438 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25439 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25440 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25441 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25442 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25443 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25444 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25445 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25448 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25449 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25450 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25451 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25452 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25453 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25454 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25455 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25458 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25459 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25460 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25461 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25462 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25464 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25465 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25466 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25467 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25470 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25471 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25472 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25473 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25474 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25475 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25476 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25477 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25480 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25481 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25482 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25483 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25486 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25487 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25488 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25489 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25491 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25492 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25493 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25496 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25497 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25500 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25501 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25502 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25503 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25504 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25505 reported by "wood".
25506 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25507 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25508 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25509 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25510 identify a connection.
25511 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25512 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25513 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25514 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25515 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25516 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25517 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25518 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25519 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25520 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25522 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25523 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25524 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25525 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25526 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25527 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25528 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25531 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25532 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25534 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25535 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25536 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25537 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25538 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25539 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25540 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25541 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25543 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25544 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25545 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25546 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25547 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25548 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25549 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25550 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25551 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25552 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25553 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25554 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25555 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25556 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25557 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25558 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25559 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25560 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25561 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25562 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25563 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25564 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25565 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25566 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25567 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25568 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25569 840. Patch from rovv.
25570 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25571 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25572 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25574 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25575 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25576 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25577 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25578 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25579 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25580 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25582 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25583 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25584 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25587 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25588 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25590 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25591 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25592 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25593 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25594 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25595 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25596 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25597 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25598 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25600 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25602 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25603 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25607 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25608 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25609 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25610 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25611 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25612 variety of other issues.
25615 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25616 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25617 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25618 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25619 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25620 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25621 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25622 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25623 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25624 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25625 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25626 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25629 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25630 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25632 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25633 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25634 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25635 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25636 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25637 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25638 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25639 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25640 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25641 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25642 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25643 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25644 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25645 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25646 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25650 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25651 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25652 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25653 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25654 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25655 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25656 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25657 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25658 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25659 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25660 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25661 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25662 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25663 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25664 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25665 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25666 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25667 list. It has been gone for many months.
25668 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25669 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25670 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25673 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25674 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25675 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25678 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25679 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25680 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25681 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25684 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25685 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25686 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25687 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25688 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25689 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25691 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25692 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25693 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25694 pointed out by rovv.
25697 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25698 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25699 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25700 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25701 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25702 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25703 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25704 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25705 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25706 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25707 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25708 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25709 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25710 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25711 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25712 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25713 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25714 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25715 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25716 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25717 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25720 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25721 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25722 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25723 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25724 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25725 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25726 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25728 o New v3 directory design:
25729 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25730 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25731 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25732 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25733 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25734 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25735 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25737 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25738 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25739 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25740 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25741 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25742 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25743 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25744 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25745 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25746 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25747 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25748 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25749 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25750 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25752 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25753 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25754 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25755 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25756 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25757 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25758 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25759 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25760 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25761 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25762 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25763 certain censored countries by default again.
25764 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25765 Tor's x509 certificates.
25767 o Implement bridge relays:
25768 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25769 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25770 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25771 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25772 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25773 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25774 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25775 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25776 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25777 rather than "v2,v3".
25778 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25779 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25780 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25781 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25782 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25783 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25784 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25785 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25786 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25787 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25788 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25790 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25791 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25792 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25793 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25794 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25795 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25796 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25797 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25798 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25799 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25800 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25801 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25802 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25803 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25804 bridges are functioning.
25805 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25806 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25807 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25808 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25809 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25810 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25811 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25812 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25813 knows that password. Unset by default.
25814 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25815 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25816 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25817 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25818 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25819 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25820 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25821 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25822 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25823 and bridges@torproject.org.
25825 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25826 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25827 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25828 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25829 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25830 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25831 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25832 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25833 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25834 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25835 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25836 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25837 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25838 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25839 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25841 o Major features (relay usability):
25842 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25843 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25844 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25845 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25846 proposal 111 for details.
25847 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25848 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25849 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25850 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25852 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25853 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25854 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25856 o Major features (directory authorities):
25857 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25858 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25859 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25860 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25861 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25862 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25863 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25864 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25865 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25866 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25867 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25868 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25869 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25871 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25872 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25873 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25874 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25875 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25876 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25877 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25878 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25879 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25880 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25881 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25882 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25883 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25884 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25885 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25886 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25887 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25888 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25889 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25890 general, controller, or bridge.
25892 o Major features (other):
25893 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25894 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25895 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25896 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25897 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25898 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25899 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25900 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25901 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25902 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25903 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25904 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25905 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25906 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25909 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25910 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25911 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25913 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25914 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25915 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25916 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25917 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25918 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25919 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25920 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25921 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25922 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25923 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25925 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25926 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25928 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25929 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25930 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25931 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25933 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25934 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25935 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25936 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25937 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25939 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25940 address maps to an internal address space.
25941 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25942 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25943 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25944 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25945 complements proposal 107.
25946 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25947 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25948 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25949 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25950 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25951 reported by taranis and lodger.
25952 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25953 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25954 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25955 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25956 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25957 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25958 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25959 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25960 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25961 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25962 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25963 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25964 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25966 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25967 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25969 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25970 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25971 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25972 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25973 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25974 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25975 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25977 o Major bugfixes (other):
25978 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25979 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25980 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25982 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25983 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25984 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25985 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25986 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25987 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25988 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25989 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25990 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25991 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25992 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25993 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25994 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25995 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25996 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25997 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25998 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25999 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
26000 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
26002 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
26003 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26004 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26005 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26006 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26007 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26008 eat all of our bandwidth.
26009 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26010 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26011 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26012 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26013 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26014 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
26015 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
26016 bug 688, reported by mfr.
26017 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
26018 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26019 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26020 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26022 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
26023 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26024 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26025 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
26026 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
26027 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
26028 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26029 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26030 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26031 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26032 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26033 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26035 o Performance improvements (memory):
26036 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
26037 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
26038 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
26039 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
26040 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26041 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26042 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26043 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26044 memory fragmentation.
26045 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26046 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26047 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26048 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26049 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26051 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26052 of them were actually distinct.
26053 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26055 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26056 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26057 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26058 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26059 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26060 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26061 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26062 performance-intensive.
26063 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
26064 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26065 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26066 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26067 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26070 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26071 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26072 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26073 our allocated connection limit.
26074 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26075 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26076 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26077 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26078 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26080 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26081 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26083 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26084 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26085 is interested in a given message.
26086 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26087 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26088 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26089 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26090 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26092 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26093 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26094 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26096 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26097 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26098 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26099 they are the same).
26100 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26101 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26102 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26103 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26106 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26107 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26108 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26109 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26110 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26111 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26112 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26114 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26115 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26116 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26117 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26118 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26119 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26120 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26121 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26122 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26123 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26124 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26125 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26126 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26129 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26130 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26131 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26132 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26133 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26134 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26135 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26136 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26137 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26138 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26139 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26140 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26141 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26142 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26143 and are reaching it.
26144 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26145 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26146 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26147 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26149 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26150 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26151 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26152 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26153 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26154 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26155 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26156 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26157 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26159 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26160 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26161 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26162 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26163 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26164 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26165 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26166 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26168 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26169 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26171 o New config options:
26172 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26173 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26174 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26175 running a test network on a single host.
26176 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26177 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26178 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26179 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26180 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26181 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26182 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26183 the approved-routers file.
26184 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26185 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26186 v2 directory information.
26188 o Minor features (other):
26189 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26190 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26191 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26192 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26193 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26194 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26196 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26197 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26198 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26199 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26200 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26201 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26202 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26204 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26205 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26206 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26208 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26209 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26210 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26211 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26212 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26214 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26215 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26216 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26217 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26218 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26219 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26220 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26222 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26223 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26224 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26225 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26226 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26227 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26228 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26229 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26230 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26233 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26234 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26235 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26237 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26238 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26239 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26240 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26241 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26242 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26244 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26245 bandwidthburst values.
26246 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26247 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26248 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26249 to mark all our entry points down.
26250 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26251 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26252 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26253 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26254 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26256 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26257 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26258 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26259 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26260 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26261 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26262 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26263 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26264 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26266 o Controller features:
26267 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26268 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26269 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26270 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26271 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26272 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26274 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26275 multiple controller passwords.
26276 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26277 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26278 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26279 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26281 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26282 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26283 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26284 cookie authentication file, and config option
26285 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26286 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26287 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26288 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26290 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26291 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26292 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26293 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26294 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26295 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26296 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26298 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26299 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26301 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26302 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26303 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26304 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26305 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26306 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26307 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26308 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26309 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26310 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26311 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26312 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26313 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26315 o Controller bugfixes:
26316 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26317 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26318 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26319 processes can't run us out of memory.
26320 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26321 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26322 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26324 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26325 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26326 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26327 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26328 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26329 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26330 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26331 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26332 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26333 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26334 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26335 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26336 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26337 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26338 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26340 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26341 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26343 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26344 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26345 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26346 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26347 WARN-severity events.
26349 o Portability / building / compiling:
26350 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26351 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26352 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26353 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26354 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26355 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26356 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26357 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26358 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26359 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26360 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26361 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26362 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26364 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26365 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26366 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26367 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26368 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26369 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26370 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26371 partial results on small file reads.
26372 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26373 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26374 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26375 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26376 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26377 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26379 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26380 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26381 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26382 logging for the unit tests.
26383 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26384 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26386 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26387 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26389 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26390 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26391 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26392 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26395 o Logging improvements:
26396 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26397 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26398 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26399 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26400 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26401 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26402 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26404 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26405 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26406 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26407 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26408 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26409 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26410 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26411 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26412 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26413 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26414 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26415 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26416 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26417 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26418 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26419 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26420 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26421 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26422 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26424 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26425 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26426 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26427 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26429 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26430 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26431 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26432 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26433 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26435 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26436 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26437 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26438 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26439 makes the log messages nicer.
26440 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26441 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26443 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26444 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26445 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26447 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26448 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26449 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26450 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26451 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26452 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26453 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26454 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26455 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26456 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26458 o Newly deprecated features:
26459 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26460 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26461 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26462 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26464 o Removed features:
26465 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26466 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26467 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26468 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26469 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26471 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26472 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26473 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26474 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26475 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26476 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26477 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26478 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26480 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26481 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26482 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26483 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26484 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26485 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26487 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26488 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26489 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26490 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26491 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26492 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26493 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26494 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26495 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26496 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26497 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26498 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26499 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26500 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26504 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26505 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26506 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26507 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26510 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26511 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26512 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26513 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26514 on network address.
26517 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26518 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26519 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26520 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26521 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26522 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26523 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26524 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26525 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26526 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26527 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26528 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26531 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26532 rebuild our server descriptor.
26533 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26534 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26535 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26536 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26537 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26538 nonstandard integer types.
26539 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26540 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26541 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26542 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26543 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26545 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26546 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26547 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26548 when they receive them.
26549 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26550 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26551 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26552 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26553 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26554 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26555 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26556 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26557 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26558 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26562 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26563 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26564 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26565 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26566 lists for a few hours each day.
26568 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26569 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26570 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26571 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26572 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26573 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26574 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26575 rend_process_relay_cell().
26577 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26578 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26579 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26580 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26581 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26582 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26583 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26584 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26586 o Major bugfixes (other):
26587 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26588 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26589 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26590 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26591 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26592 circuit cannibalization).
26593 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26594 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26595 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26596 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26597 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26598 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26601 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26602 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26604 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26605 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26606 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26607 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26608 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26609 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26610 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26611 were reporting the dir port.)
26612 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26613 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26614 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26615 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26616 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26618 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26619 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26620 the onion key from getting rotated.
26621 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26622 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26623 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26624 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26625 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26626 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26627 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26630 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26631 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26632 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26633 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26634 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26637 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26638 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26641 o Major bugfixes (security):
26642 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26643 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26644 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26646 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26647 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26648 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26650 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26651 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26652 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26653 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26654 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26655 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26657 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26658 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26659 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26660 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26661 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26663 o Minor features (controller):
26664 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26665 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26666 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26667 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26669 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26670 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26671 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26672 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26673 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26674 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26675 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26676 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26678 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26679 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26680 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26681 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26682 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26683 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26684 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26685 if we ran off the end of the list.
26686 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26687 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26688 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26689 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26690 every time we change any piece of our config.
26691 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26692 encourage people using them to stop.
26693 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26695 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26696 servers to choose a circuit.
26697 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26698 unparseable piece of it.
26701 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26702 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26703 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26704 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26705 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26706 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26708 o Major security fixes:
26709 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26710 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26713 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26714 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26715 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26716 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26718 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26719 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26721 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26722 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26723 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26724 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26725 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26726 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26727 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26729 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26730 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26731 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26733 o Major bugfixes (security):
26734 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26736 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26737 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26738 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26739 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26740 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26741 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26742 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26743 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26744 guard list unless we need to.
26746 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26747 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26748 don't get overused as guards.
26750 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26751 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26752 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26753 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26754 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26756 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26757 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26758 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26761 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26762 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26763 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26764 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26765 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26766 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26767 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26768 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26771 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26772 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26773 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26774 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26776 o Directory authority changes:
26777 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26778 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26779 or use hidden services.
26781 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26782 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26783 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26784 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26785 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26786 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26787 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26788 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26789 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26792 o Major bugfixes (security):
26793 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26794 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26795 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26797 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26798 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26799 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26800 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26801 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26802 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26803 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26804 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26805 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26806 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26809 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26810 purpose=controller.
26811 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26812 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26814 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26815 having a hard time downloading.
26816 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26817 partial results on small file reads.
26818 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26819 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26820 the gaps in the store get very large.
26823 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26824 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26826 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26827 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26830 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26831 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26832 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26833 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26834 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26835 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26837 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26838 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26839 free speech on the Internet.
26841 o Major features, client performance:
26842 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26843 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26844 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26845 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26846 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26847 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26848 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26849 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26850 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26851 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26852 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26853 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26854 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26855 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26856 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26858 o Major features, client functionality:
26859 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26860 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26861 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26862 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26863 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26864 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26865 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26866 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26867 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26868 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26869 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26870 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26871 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26873 o Major features, servers:
26874 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26875 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26876 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26877 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26878 authenticated, so use with care.
26879 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26880 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26881 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26883 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26884 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26885 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26886 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26887 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26888 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26890 o Improvements on DNS support:
26891 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26892 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26893 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26894 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26895 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26896 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26897 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26898 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26899 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26900 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26901 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26902 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26903 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26904 lets you turn it off.
26905 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26906 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26907 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26908 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26909 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26910 useful to the network.
26911 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26912 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26913 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26914 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26915 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26916 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26918 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26919 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26920 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26921 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26922 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26923 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26924 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26925 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26926 if their identity keys are as expected.
26927 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26928 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26929 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26930 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26931 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26932 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26933 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26934 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26935 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26936 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26937 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26938 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26939 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26940 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26942 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26943 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26944 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26945 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26946 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26947 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26949 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26950 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26951 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26952 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26953 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26954 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26955 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26956 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26958 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26959 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26961 o Major features, NT services:
26962 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26963 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26964 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26965 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26966 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26967 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26968 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26970 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26971 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26972 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26974 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26975 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26976 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26978 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26979 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26981 o Directory authority improvements:
26982 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26984 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26985 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26986 too much load to the exit nodes.
26987 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26988 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26989 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26990 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26991 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26992 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26993 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26994 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26995 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26996 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26997 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26998 broken. Not used yet.
26999 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
27000 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
27001 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
27002 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
27003 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
27004 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
27005 non-versioning dirservers.
27006 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
27007 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
27008 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
27010 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27011 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27012 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27013 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27015 o Directory mirrors and clients:
27016 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27017 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27018 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27019 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27020 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27021 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
27022 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
27023 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
27024 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
27025 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
27026 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
27027 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
27028 routers for even longer.
27029 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
27030 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
27031 caching HTTP proxies.
27032 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
27033 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
27034 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
27035 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
27037 o Major fixes, crashes:
27038 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27039 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27040 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
27041 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
27043 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27044 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
27045 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
27046 stream is detached.
27047 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27048 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27049 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27050 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27051 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27052 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27053 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27054 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27055 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27056 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27058 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
27059 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27060 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
27061 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
27062 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
27063 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27064 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27065 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27066 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27067 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27068 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27069 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27070 could return an unnamed server instead.
27071 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27072 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27073 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27074 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27075 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27076 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27077 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27079 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27080 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27082 o Major fixes, other:
27083 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27084 uptime in the descriptor.
27085 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27086 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27087 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27088 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27089 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27090 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27091 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27092 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27093 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27094 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27095 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27096 our DirPort now, etc.
27097 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27098 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27099 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27101 o New config options or behaviors:
27102 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27103 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27104 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27105 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27106 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27107 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27108 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27109 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27110 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27111 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27112 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27113 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27115 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27116 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27117 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27118 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27119 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27121 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27122 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27123 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27124 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27125 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27126 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27127 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27128 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27129 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27130 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27131 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27132 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27133 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27134 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27135 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27136 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27137 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27138 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27139 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27140 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27141 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27142 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27143 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27144 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27145 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27146 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27147 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27148 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27149 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27150 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27152 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27153 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27154 your ORPort is set.
27157 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27158 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27160 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27161 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27162 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27163 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27165 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27166 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27167 whether the config options are bad or good.
27168 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27169 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27170 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27171 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27172 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27173 result more than once.
27174 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27175 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27176 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27177 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27178 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27179 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27180 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27181 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27182 before we check for libevent.
27183 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27184 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27185 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27186 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27187 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27188 recommendation system saner.)
27189 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27190 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27191 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27192 now universal binaries.
27193 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27194 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27196 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27198 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27199 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27200 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27201 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27202 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27203 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27205 o Minor features, controller:
27206 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27207 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27208 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27210 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27211 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27212 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27213 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27214 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27215 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27216 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27218 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27219 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27220 connected or resolved cell.
27221 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27222 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27223 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27224 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27225 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27226 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27227 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27229 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27230 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27231 entry guard status as it changes.
27232 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27233 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27234 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27235 watching for STREAM events.
27236 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27237 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27238 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27239 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27241 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27242 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27243 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27244 working much like those for circuit events.
27245 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27246 about the current status of a router.
27247 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27248 a router's status has changed.
27249 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27250 can tell which events and features are supported.
27251 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27252 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27253 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27254 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27255 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27256 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27257 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27258 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27259 for more information.
27260 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27261 best guess to the user.
27262 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27263 descriptor has changed.
27264 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27265 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27266 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27268 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27269 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27270 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27271 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27272 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27273 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27274 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27275 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27276 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27277 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27278 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27280 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27281 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27283 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27284 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27285 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27287 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27288 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27289 the controller from learning about current events.
27290 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27291 reported by Mike Perry.
27292 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27293 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27294 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27295 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27296 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27297 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27298 long nicknames where appropriate.
27299 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27300 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27302 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27303 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27304 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27305 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27306 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27308 o Minor features, code performance:
27309 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27310 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27311 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27313 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27314 some profiles, but not others.)
27315 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27316 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27317 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27318 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27319 operations, for profiling.
27320 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27321 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27322 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27323 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27324 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27325 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27326 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27327 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27329 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27330 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27331 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27332 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27333 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27334 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27335 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27336 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27337 family lists conveniently.
27339 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27340 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27341 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27342 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27343 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27344 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27345 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27346 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27347 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27348 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27349 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27350 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27351 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27352 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27353 of it), is not therefore "up".
27355 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27356 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27357 what version a router is running.
27358 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27359 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27360 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27361 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27363 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27364 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27365 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27366 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27367 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27370 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27371 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27372 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27374 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27375 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27377 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27378 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27379 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27380 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27381 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27382 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27383 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27384 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27385 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27386 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27388 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27389 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27390 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27391 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27392 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27393 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27394 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27395 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27396 get one we don't recognize.
27399 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27400 o Security bugfixes:
27401 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27402 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27403 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27404 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27408 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27409 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27410 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27413 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27415 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27416 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27417 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27418 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27419 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27420 its circuits on demand.
27421 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27422 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27423 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27424 connections more stable on average.
27425 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27426 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27427 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27429 o Security bugfixes:
27430 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27431 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27434 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27436 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27437 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27438 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27439 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27440 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27441 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27442 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27443 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27446 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27448 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27449 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27450 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27451 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27452 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27453 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27454 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27455 it can't resolve its hostname.
27456 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27457 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27458 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27461 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27462 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27463 "extendcircuit" request.
27464 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27465 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27466 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27467 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27469 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27470 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27471 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27473 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27474 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27475 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27476 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27477 we don't recognize.
27480 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27482 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27483 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27484 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27485 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27486 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27487 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27488 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27489 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27490 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27493 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27494 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27495 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27496 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27497 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27499 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27500 own server descriptor yet.
27503 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27505 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27506 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27507 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27508 make sure to test via one of these.
27509 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27510 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27511 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27512 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27513 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27515 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27516 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27517 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27520 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27521 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27522 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27523 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27524 directory authority.
27525 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27526 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27527 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27528 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27531 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27532 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27533 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27535 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27536 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27537 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27538 current guards when picking a new guard.
27539 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27540 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27541 when we had more than one pending.
27542 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27543 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27544 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27545 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27546 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27547 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27548 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27549 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27550 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27551 debug the reachability problems better.
27553 o Log / documentation fixes:
27554 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27555 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27556 about protocol violations by others.
27557 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27558 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27559 about what happened to our old torrc.
27562 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27563 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27564 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27565 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27566 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27567 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27569 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27570 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27571 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27572 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27573 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27574 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27575 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27576 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27577 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27578 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27579 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27580 on malicious huge inputs.
27582 o Security fixes, major:
27583 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27584 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27585 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27586 misreading their logs.
27587 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27588 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27589 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27590 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27591 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27592 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27593 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27594 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27595 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27596 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27597 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27598 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27599 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27600 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27602 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27603 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27604 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27605 firewall options forbid.
27606 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27607 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27608 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27609 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27610 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27611 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27613 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27614 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27615 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27616 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27617 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27618 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27619 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27620 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27621 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27622 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27623 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27624 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27625 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27627 o Security fixes, minor:
27628 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27629 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27631 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27632 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27633 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27634 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27635 if we've not heard of a server.
27636 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27637 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27638 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27639 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27640 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27641 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27642 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27643 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27644 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27645 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27646 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27647 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27648 aids some statistical attacks.
27649 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27650 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27651 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27652 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27653 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27654 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27655 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27656 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27659 o Packaging improvements:
27660 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27661 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27662 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27663 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27664 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27665 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27667 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27668 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27669 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27670 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27671 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27672 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27674 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27675 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27676 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27678 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27679 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27680 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27681 They are useless now.
27682 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27683 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27684 is reachable by you.
27685 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27688 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27689 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27690 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27691 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27692 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27693 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27694 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27695 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27696 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27697 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27698 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27699 and isolating attacks better.
27700 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27701 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27702 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27703 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27704 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27705 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27706 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27707 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27708 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27709 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27710 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27712 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27713 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27714 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27715 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27716 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27717 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27718 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27719 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27720 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27721 for clients and for servers.
27722 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27723 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27724 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27725 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27726 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27727 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27728 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27729 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27730 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27731 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27732 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27734 o Other directory improvements:
27735 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27736 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27737 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27738 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27739 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27740 to hang up on them.
27741 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27742 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27743 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27744 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27745 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27746 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27748 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27749 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27750 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27751 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27752 connections more reliable.
27753 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27754 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27755 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27756 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27757 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27758 we fail to connect).
27759 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27761 o Controller protocol improvements:
27762 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27763 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27764 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27765 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27766 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27767 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27768 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27769 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27770 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27771 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27772 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27773 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27774 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27775 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27776 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27777 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27778 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27779 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27780 or "signal reload".
27781 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27782 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27783 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27784 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27785 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27786 a router in its role as directory authority.
27787 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27788 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27789 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27790 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27791 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27792 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27793 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27794 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27795 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27796 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27797 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27798 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27799 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27800 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27801 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27802 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27803 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27804 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27806 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27807 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27808 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27809 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27810 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27811 just tell them to go read their logs.
27813 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27814 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27815 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27816 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27817 try to be a bit more fair.
27818 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27819 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27820 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27821 and we're using a default DirPort.
27822 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27823 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27824 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27825 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27826 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27827 services faster on the service end.
27828 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27830 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27831 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27832 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27833 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27834 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27835 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27836 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27837 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27838 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27839 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27840 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27841 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27842 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27843 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27844 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27845 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27846 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27847 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27848 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27849 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27850 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27851 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27852 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27853 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27854 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27856 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27857 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27858 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27859 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27860 so we can be backward-compatible.
27861 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27862 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27863 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27864 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27865 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27866 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27867 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27868 initial descriptor forever.
27869 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27870 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27871 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27872 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27873 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27874 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27875 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27876 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27877 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27878 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27879 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27880 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27881 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27882 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27883 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27884 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27885 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27886 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27887 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27888 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27889 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27890 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27891 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27892 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27893 ports that have changed.
27894 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27895 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27896 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27897 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27898 connections once a week.
27899 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27900 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27901 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27902 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27903 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27904 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27905 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27906 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27907 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27908 able to discover them.
27909 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27910 want to make it an NT service.
27911 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27912 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27913 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27914 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27915 memory leaks better.
27916 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27917 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27918 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27919 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27920 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27921 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27922 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27923 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27924 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27925 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27926 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27927 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27928 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27929 and its existence is confusing some users.
27931 o Config option fixes:
27932 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27933 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27934 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27935 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27936 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27937 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27938 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27939 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27940 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27942 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27943 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27944 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27945 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27946 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27947 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27948 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27949 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27950 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27951 silently resetting it to its default.
27952 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27953 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27954 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27955 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27956 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27957 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27958 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27959 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27960 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27961 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27962 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27963 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27964 Address config option.
27965 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27966 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27968 o Config option features:
27969 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27970 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27971 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27972 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27973 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27975 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27976 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27977 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27978 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27979 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27980 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27981 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27982 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27983 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27984 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27985 in at least some cases.)
27986 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27987 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27988 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27989 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27990 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27991 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27992 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27993 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27994 even if we know they're jerks.
27995 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27996 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27997 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27998 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27999 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28000 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28001 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28002 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28003 because older Tors do not understand it.
28004 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
28005 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
28006 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28007 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28008 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28009 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28010 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28011 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28012 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28013 unattached before we fail it?
28014 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28015 at least this many seconds ago.
28016 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28017 at least this many seconds ago.
28018 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28019 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28021 o Improved and clearer log messages:
28022 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28023 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28024 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28026 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28027 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28028 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28029 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28030 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28031 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
28032 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
28033 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28034 temporarily unreachable.
28035 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28036 Windows-style errno back.
28037 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28038 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28040 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28041 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28042 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
28043 exactly for this case.
28044 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28045 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
28046 don't warn twice about the same name.
28047 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28049 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28050 it was self-testing that told us so.
28051 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28052 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28053 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28054 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28055 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28056 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28057 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28058 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28059 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28060 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
28061 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28062 established a circuit.
28063 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28064 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
28065 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28066 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28067 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28068 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28069 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28070 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28071 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28072 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28073 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28074 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28075 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28076 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28077 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28078 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28079 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28080 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28081 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28082 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28083 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28084 testing for reachability.
28085 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28086 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28088 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28091 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28092 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28093 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28094 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28096 o Other important bugfixes:
28097 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28098 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28099 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28100 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28102 o Backported features:
28103 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28104 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28105 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28106 without getting overloaded.
28107 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28108 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28109 503's whenever they feel busy.
28110 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28111 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28112 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28113 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28114 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28117 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28118 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28119 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28120 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28121 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28122 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28123 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28124 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28126 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28127 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28128 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28129 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28130 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28131 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28132 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28133 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28134 rendezvous circuits.
28135 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28137 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28138 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28139 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28140 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28141 advertising it because of hibernation.
28142 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28143 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28144 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28145 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28146 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28147 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28148 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28149 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28150 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28151 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28152 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28153 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28154 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28155 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28156 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28159 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28160 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28161 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28162 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28163 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28164 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28165 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28166 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28167 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28168 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28169 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28170 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28171 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28172 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28173 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28176 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28177 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28178 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28180 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28181 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28184 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28185 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28186 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28187 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28188 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28189 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28190 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28192 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28193 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28197 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28198 o New directory servers:
28199 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28201 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28202 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28203 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28204 pthreads libraries.
28205 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28206 claims its dirport is 0.
28207 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28208 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28212 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28213 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28214 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28215 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28216 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28217 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28218 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28219 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28222 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28224 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28225 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28226 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28227 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28228 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28229 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28230 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28231 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28232 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28234 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28235 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28237 o Assert / crash bugs:
28238 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28239 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28240 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28242 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28243 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28244 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28245 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28246 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28249 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28250 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28251 duplicate ram over time.
28252 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28253 reentry and threadsafeness.
28254 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28255 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28256 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28258 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28259 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28260 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28261 point at your Tor server.
28262 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28264 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28265 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28268 o Protocol correctness:
28269 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28270 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28271 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28272 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28273 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28274 to abandon partially built circuits.
28275 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28276 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28277 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28278 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28279 descriptors we just dropped.
28280 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28281 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28282 and to take errno into account where possible.
28283 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28284 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28285 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28286 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28288 o Robustness improvements:
28289 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28290 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28291 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28293 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28294 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28295 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28296 that will want high uptime circuits.
28297 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28298 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28299 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28300 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28301 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28302 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28303 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28304 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28305 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28306 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28307 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28308 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28309 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28310 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28311 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28312 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28313 for google.com" problem.
28314 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28315 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28316 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28317 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28318 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28321 o Reachability testing.
28322 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28323 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28324 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28325 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28326 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28327 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28328 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28329 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28330 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28331 already connected to them.
28332 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28336 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28337 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28338 nickname+key are allowed.
28339 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28340 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28341 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28342 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28343 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28344 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28345 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28346 have quite wrong clocks).
28347 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28348 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28349 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28350 their descriptors are being rejected.
28352 o Efficiency improvements:
28353 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28354 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28355 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28356 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28357 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28358 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28359 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28360 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28361 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28362 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28364 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28365 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28366 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28367 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28368 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28369 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28370 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28371 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28372 of CPU time plus memory.
28373 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28374 directory every time you regenerate it.
28375 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28376 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28377 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28378 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28379 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28380 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28381 lowercase when you first see them.
28384 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28385 hidden services better.
28386 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28387 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28388 when we try to launch one.
28389 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28390 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28391 attempts to build a circuit.
28392 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28393 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28394 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28395 normal web requests.
28398 - More Tor controller support. See
28399 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28400 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28401 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28402 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28403 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28404 to make it easier to write controllers.
28405 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28406 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28407 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28408 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28409 new log event types.
28411 o New config options/defaults:
28412 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28413 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28414 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28415 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28416 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28418 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28420 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28421 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28422 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28423 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28424 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28426 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28427 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28428 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28429 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28430 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28431 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28432 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28433 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28434 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28435 required exit node for certain sites.
28436 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28437 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28438 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28439 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28440 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28441 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28442 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28443 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28444 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28446 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28447 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28448 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28449 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28450 private-IP addresses.
28451 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28452 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28453 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28454 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28455 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28456 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28457 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28458 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28460 o Logging improvements:
28461 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28462 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28463 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28464 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28466 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28467 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28468 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28469 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28470 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28471 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28472 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28473 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28474 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28476 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28478 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28479 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28480 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28481 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28482 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28483 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28485 o New contrib scripts:
28486 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28487 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28489 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28490 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28491 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28492 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28493 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28494 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28496 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28497 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28498 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28499 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28503 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28504 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28505 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28506 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28507 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28508 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28509 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28511 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28512 something more reasonable when first installing.
28513 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28514 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28515 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28516 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28518 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28519 artificially capped at 500kB.
28520 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28522 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28523 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28524 they could use instead.
28525 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28526 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28527 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28528 the user asks you to.
28531 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28532 rather than just rejecting it.
28533 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28534 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28535 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28536 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28537 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28538 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28539 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28540 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28541 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28542 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28543 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28544 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28546 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28547 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28548 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28549 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28551 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28552 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28554 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28555 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28556 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28557 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28559 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28560 whether the server is hibernating.
28563 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28564 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28565 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28566 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28567 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28571 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28572 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28573 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28574 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28575 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28578 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28579 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28580 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28581 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28582 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28583 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28584 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28587 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28588 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28589 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28590 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28591 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28592 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28593 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28594 creating actual system users.
28595 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28596 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28600 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28601 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28602 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28603 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28604 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28605 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28606 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28607 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28608 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28609 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28610 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28611 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28612 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28613 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28614 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28616 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28617 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28618 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28619 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28620 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28621 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28622 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28623 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28624 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28625 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28626 existing torrc files.
28627 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28630 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28631 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28632 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28633 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28634 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28635 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28636 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28637 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28638 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28639 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28640 file descriptors available.
28641 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28642 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28643 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28646 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28647 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28648 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28649 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28651 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28652 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28653 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28654 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28655 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28657 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28658 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28659 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28660 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28661 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28662 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28663 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28664 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28665 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28666 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28667 800kB/s of capacity.
28668 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28671 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28672 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28673 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28674 need as much processor time.
28675 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28676 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28677 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28678 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28679 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28680 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28681 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28682 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28683 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28684 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28685 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28686 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28688 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28689 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28690 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28691 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28692 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28693 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28694 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28697 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28699 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28701 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28702 style address, then we'd crash.
28703 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28704 a dirserver is broken.
28705 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28707 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28708 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28709 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28711 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28712 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28713 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28714 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28715 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28716 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28718 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28719 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28720 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28722 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28724 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28725 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28726 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28727 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28728 values at once couldn't work.
28729 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28730 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28731 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28732 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28733 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28734 they can handle any number of routers.
28735 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28736 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28737 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28738 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28739 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28740 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28741 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28742 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28743 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28746 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28747 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28748 - Make hibernation actually work.
28749 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28750 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28751 don't use the stream status code.
28754 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28755 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28756 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28757 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28758 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28759 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28760 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28761 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28762 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28763 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28764 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28765 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28768 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28769 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28770 win32 socket errors better.
28771 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28772 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28773 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28774 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28776 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28778 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28779 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28780 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28781 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28782 right after sending the begin cell.
28783 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28784 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28785 exit nodes too. Oops.
28786 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28787 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28788 the user would get no response.
28789 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28790 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28791 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28793 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28794 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28795 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28796 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28797 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28799 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28800 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28801 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28802 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28803 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28804 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28805 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28806 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28807 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28808 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28809 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28811 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28812 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28813 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28814 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28815 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28816 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28817 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28818 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28819 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28820 so we don't see those messages days later.
28821 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28822 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28824 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28825 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28826 they ran out of file descriptors.
28827 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28828 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28829 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28830 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28832 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28833 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28834 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28835 the ones we find in directories.)
28836 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28837 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28838 if you don't want it open.
28839 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28840 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28841 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28842 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28843 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28844 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28846 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28847 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28849 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28851 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28852 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28854 o Features (circuits and streams):
28855 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28856 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28857 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28858 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28859 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28860 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28861 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28862 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28863 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28864 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28865 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28866 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28867 from Geoff Goodell.
28868 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28870 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28871 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28872 to fill the last cell completely.
28873 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28874 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28876 o Features (bandwidth):
28877 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28878 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28879 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28880 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28881 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28882 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28883 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28884 your billing cycle starts on.
28885 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28886 hibernation properties by
28887 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28888 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28889 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28890 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28891 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28893 o Features (directories):
28894 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28895 nickname to its identity key.
28896 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28897 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28898 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28899 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28900 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28902 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28903 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28905 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28906 will be able to get a directory.
28907 - Http proxy support
28908 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28909 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28910 be routed through this host.
28911 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28912 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28913 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28914 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28915 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28916 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28918 o Features (packages and install):
28919 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28920 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28921 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28922 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28923 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28924 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28925 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28926 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28927 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28928 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28931 o Features (ui controller):
28932 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28933 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28934 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28935 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28936 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28937 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28938 with the control port.
28939 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28940 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28941 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28942 configuration to torrc.
28943 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28944 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28945 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28947 o Features (config and command-line):
28948 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28949 not on the command line.
28950 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28952 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28953 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28954 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28955 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28956 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28957 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28958 - New log format in config:
28959 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28960 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28961 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28962 from their dirserver.
28963 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28965 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28966 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28967 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28968 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28969 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28970 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28971 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28972 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28973 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28974 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28975 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28976 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28977 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28978 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28979 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28980 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28981 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28982 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28983 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28984 than once per minute.
28986 o Features (other):
28987 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28988 get back to normal.)
28989 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28990 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28991 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28992 log more informatively.
28993 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28994 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28995 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28996 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28997 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28998 them act more like real nodes.
28999 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29000 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29001 1024) file descriptors.
29002 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29005 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29007 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29008 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29009 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29010 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29011 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29012 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29013 intermittent connections.
29014 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29015 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29017 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29018 in reporting stats locally.
29019 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29020 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29021 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29024 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29026 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29027 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29028 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29029 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29030 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29031 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29032 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29033 list to decide who's running.
29034 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29035 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29036 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29037 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29038 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29039 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29040 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29041 for pointing out this bug.)
29042 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29044 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29045 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29046 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
29047 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
29048 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
29050 o Protocol changes:
29051 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29052 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29053 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29054 hadn't heard of before.
29057 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29058 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29059 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29060 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29061 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29062 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29063 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29064 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29065 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29066 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29067 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29068 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29069 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29070 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29071 - Directory caching.
29072 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29073 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29074 directory they've pulled down.
29075 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29076 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29077 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29078 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29079 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29080 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29081 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29083 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29084 This isn't used yet.
29085 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29086 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29087 clients don't use this yet.)
29088 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29089 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29090 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29091 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29092 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29093 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29094 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29095 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29096 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29097 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29098 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29099 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29100 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29101 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29102 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29103 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29104 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29105 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29106 - File and name management:
29107 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29108 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29110 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29111 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29112 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29113 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29114 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29115 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29116 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29118 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29119 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29120 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29122 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29123 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29124 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29125 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29126 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29127 - New docs in the tarball:
29129 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29130 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29131 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29132 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29133 know you might want to get it verified.
29134 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29135 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29136 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29137 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29138 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29139 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29140 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29141 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29142 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29144 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29146 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29147 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29149 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29150 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29151 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29154 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29155 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29156 ask them to resolve the host "".
29159 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29160 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29161 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29164 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29165 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29166 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29169 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29170 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29171 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29172 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29174 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29175 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29176 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29178 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29179 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29180 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29181 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29182 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29183 o Fixes for security bugs:
29184 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29185 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29186 a trusted dirserver.
29188 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29189 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29190 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29191 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29192 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29193 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29194 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29195 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29196 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29197 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29199 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29200 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29201 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29202 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29203 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29204 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29206 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29209 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29210 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29211 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29212 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29213 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29214 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29215 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29216 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29217 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29218 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29219 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29220 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29221 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29222 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29225 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29226 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29227 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29228 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29231 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29232 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29233 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29234 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29235 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29236 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29237 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29241 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29243 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29244 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29245 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29246 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29247 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29248 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29249 if you decrypted them correctly.
29250 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29251 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29252 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29253 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29254 in-memory directories too.
29255 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29256 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29257 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29258 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29259 just close the circ.
29260 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29261 - Better debugging for tls errors
29262 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29263 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29265 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29266 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29267 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29268 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29269 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29270 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29271 it tells you about the first error.
29272 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29273 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29274 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29275 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29276 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29277 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29278 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29279 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29280 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29281 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29283 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29284 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29287 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29288 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29290 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29291 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29292 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29293 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29294 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29295 expect it to have a nickname.
29296 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29297 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29298 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29299 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29300 the dns farm to do it.
29301 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29302 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29304 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29305 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29306 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29307 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29308 but that aren't warnings
29311 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29312 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29316 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29317 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29318 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29319 - include missing header fcntl.h
29320 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29321 - deal with hardware word alignment
29322 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29323 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29324 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29325 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29326 by kill -USR1 currently.
29327 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29328 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29329 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29332 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29333 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29334 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29337 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29339 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29340 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29341 - And fix a few endian issues.
29344 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29346 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29347 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29348 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29349 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29350 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29351 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29352 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29353 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29355 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29356 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29357 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29359 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29361 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29362 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29363 side isn't reading right then.
29364 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29365 RecommendedVersions
29366 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29367 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29368 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29371 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29373 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29374 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29377 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29381 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29383 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29384 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29385 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29386 connection is finished.
29387 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29388 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29389 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29390 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29391 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29392 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29393 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29394 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29395 rather than warn and continue.
29396 - Make --version work
29397 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29402 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29403 knows it's working.
29404 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29405 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29407 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29408 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29409 so you can collect coredumps there.
29411 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29412 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29413 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29414 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29415 dns cache actually gets populated.
29416 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29417 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29418 end cell down it first.
29419 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29420 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29423 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29425 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29426 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29428 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29429 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29430 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29431 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29432 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29433 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29435 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29437 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29438 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29439 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29440 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29441 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29442 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29444 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29445 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29450 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29451 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29452 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29453 tor. It even has a man page.
29454 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29455 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29456 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29457 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29459 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29461 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29464 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29466 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29467 it, apt-getters. :)
29468 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29469 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29470 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29471 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29472 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29473 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29474 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29475 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29476 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29477 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29478 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29480 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29481 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29484 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29486 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29487 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29490 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29492 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29493 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29494 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29495 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29496 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29497 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29498 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29499 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29500 logfile so you know it's working.
29501 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29502 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29505 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29507 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29508 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29509 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29512 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29514 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29515 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29516 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29519 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29520 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29521 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29523 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29524 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29526 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29527 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29528 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29530 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29531 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29535 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29537 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29538 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29539 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29542 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29543 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29544 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29545 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29546 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29547 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29548 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29549 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29550 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29551 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29553 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29556 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29557 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29558 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29559 really screw things up.
29560 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29562 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29563 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29565 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29566 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29567 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29568 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29569 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29570 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29573 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29576 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29577 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29578 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29580 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29583 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29584 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29585 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29586 - to get ownership/permissions right
29587 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29588 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29589 pull down a directory again
29590 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29591 causing server crashes
29592 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29593 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29594 - exit if bind() fails
29595 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29596 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29597 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29598 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29599 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29602 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29604 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29605 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29607 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29608 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29609 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29610 exists, rather than failing
29611 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29612 which AP connections are standing by
29613 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29614 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29615 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29617 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29618 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29621 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29622 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29624 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29625 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29626 - Reloads config on HUP
29627 - Usage info on -h or --help
29628 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29630 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29631 o General stability:
29632 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29633 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29634 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29635 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29636 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29637 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29638 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29641 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29642 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29644 o Autoconf improvements:
29645 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29646 - Make install now works
29647 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29648 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29649 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29651 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29652 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29653 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29654 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup