2 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
3 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
4 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
7 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
8 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
9 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
10 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
12 o Directory authority changes:
13 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
17 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
18 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
19 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
25 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
26 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
29 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
32 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
33 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
34 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
35 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
38 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
39 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
40 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
41 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
42 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
43 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
45 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
46 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
49 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
50 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
51 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
52 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
54 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
55 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
57 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
58 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
59 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
60 in the Vidalia Settings window.
63 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
64 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
65 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
66 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
67 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
69 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
70 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
72 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
73 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
74 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
77 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
78 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
79 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
81 o New directory authorities:
82 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
84 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
87 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
88 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
90 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
91 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
92 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
93 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
94 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
95 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
96 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
97 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
98 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
99 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
100 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
101 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
102 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
103 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
104 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
105 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
106 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
108 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
109 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
110 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
112 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
113 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
117 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
118 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
119 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
120 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
121 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
124 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
125 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
129 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
130 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
131 part of patch provided by "optimist".
134 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
135 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
136 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
137 and confuse fewer users.
140 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
141 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
142 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
143 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
144 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
145 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
146 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
149 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
150 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
151 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
152 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
153 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
154 other features and bug fixes.
156 o Major features (clients):
157 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
158 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
159 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
160 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
162 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
163 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
164 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
165 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
166 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
167 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
168 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
169 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
170 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
171 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
173 o Major features (relays):
174 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
175 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
176 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
177 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
178 data. Found by Jacob.
179 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
180 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
181 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
182 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
184 o Major features (hidden services):
185 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
186 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
187 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
188 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
189 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
190 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
191 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
192 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
193 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
194 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
195 lookups more reliable.
197 o Major features (path selection):
198 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
199 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
200 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
201 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
202 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
204 o Major features (misc):
205 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
206 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
208 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
209 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
210 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
211 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
212 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
213 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
215 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
216 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
217 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
218 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
220 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
223 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
224 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
225 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
226 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
227 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
228 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
229 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
230 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
231 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
232 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
233 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
234 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
235 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
236 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
237 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
238 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
239 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
240 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
241 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
242 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
243 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
244 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
245 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
246 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
247 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
248 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
249 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
250 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
251 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
252 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
253 Implements proposal 148.
255 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
256 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
257 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
258 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
259 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
260 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
262 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
263 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
264 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
265 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
266 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
267 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
268 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
269 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
270 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
272 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
273 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
274 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
275 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
277 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
278 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
279 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
280 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
281 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
282 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
283 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
284 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
285 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
287 o Major bugfixes (clients):
288 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
289 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
290 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
291 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
292 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
293 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
294 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
295 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
296 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
297 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
298 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
299 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
300 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
301 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
302 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
305 o Major bugfixes (relays):
306 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
307 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
308 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
309 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
310 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
312 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
313 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
314 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
315 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
316 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
317 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
318 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
319 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
320 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
321 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
324 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
325 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
326 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
327 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
328 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
329 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
331 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
332 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
333 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
334 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
335 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
336 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
337 on a typical directory cache.
338 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
339 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
340 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
341 and may reduce fragmentation.
343 o New/changed config options:
344 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
345 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
346 Suggested by Lucky Green.
347 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
348 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
349 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
350 locked down these days.
351 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
352 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
353 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
354 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
355 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
356 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
357 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
358 output to messages of warning and error severity.
359 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
360 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
361 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
362 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
363 directory requests we should expect to see.
364 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
365 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
366 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
367 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
368 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
369 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
370 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
372 o Minor features (relays):
373 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
374 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
375 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
376 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
377 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
379 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
380 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
381 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
382 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
383 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
384 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
385 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
386 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
387 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
388 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
389 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
390 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
391 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
393 o Minor features (directory authorities):
394 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
395 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
396 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
397 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
398 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
399 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
400 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
401 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
402 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
403 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
405 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
406 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
407 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
408 fingerprints with or without space.
410 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
411 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
412 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
413 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
414 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
415 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
416 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
417 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
418 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
420 o Minor features (bridges):
421 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
422 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
424 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
425 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
428 o Minor features (hidden services):
429 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
430 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
431 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
432 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
433 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
434 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
435 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
436 faster after restart.
437 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
438 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
440 o Minor features (build and packaging):
441 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
443 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
444 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
446 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
447 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
448 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
449 entirely. Patch from coderman.
450 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
451 are built without support for deprecated functions.
452 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
453 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
454 system to do it for us.
455 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
456 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
457 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
458 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
459 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
460 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
461 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
462 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
463 the letter of C99's alias rules.
464 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
465 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
466 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
467 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
468 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
469 with log.h on Android.
470 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
471 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
473 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
474 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
475 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
476 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
478 o Minor features (controllers):
479 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
480 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
481 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
482 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
483 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
484 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
485 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
486 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
487 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
488 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
490 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
491 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
492 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
493 been fetched and validated.
494 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
495 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
497 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
499 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
500 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
501 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
502 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
503 partway through and wants to catch up.
504 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
506 o Minor features (tools):
507 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
508 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
509 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
510 people find host:port too confusing.
511 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
512 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
514 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
515 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
516 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
517 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
518 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
519 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
520 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
521 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
522 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
524 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
525 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
526 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
527 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
528 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
530 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
531 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
532 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
534 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
535 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
536 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
537 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
538 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
539 have already been marked for close.
540 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
541 memory performance during directory parsing.
543 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
544 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
545 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
546 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
547 done that for a long time.
548 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
549 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
550 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
551 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
552 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
553 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
554 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
555 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
556 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
557 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
558 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
559 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
560 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
561 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
562 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
563 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
564 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
565 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
566 because of a pending download.
567 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
568 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
569 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
570 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
571 bug 820, reported by seeess.
573 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
574 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
575 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
576 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
577 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
578 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
579 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
580 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
581 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
583 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
584 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
586 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
587 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
588 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
589 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
590 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
591 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
592 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
593 of 0. Suggested by lark.
594 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
595 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
596 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
597 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
598 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
600 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
601 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
602 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
604 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
605 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
607 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
608 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
609 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
610 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
611 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
612 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
613 rest, and don't automatically fail.
614 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
615 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
616 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
617 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
618 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
619 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
621 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
622 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
623 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
624 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
625 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
626 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
627 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
629 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
630 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
632 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
633 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
634 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
635 Workaround for bug 1024.
636 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
637 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
638 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
639 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
640 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
641 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
642 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
643 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
646 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
647 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
650 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
651 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
652 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
653 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
654 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
655 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
656 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
658 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
659 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
660 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
661 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
662 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
663 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
664 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
665 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
668 o Deprecated and removed features:
669 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
670 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
671 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
673 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
675 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
676 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
677 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
678 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
679 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
680 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
681 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
682 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
683 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
684 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
685 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
686 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
687 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
688 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
691 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
692 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
693 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
694 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
695 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
697 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
698 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
699 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
700 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
701 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
702 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
703 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
704 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
705 actual mistakes we're making here.
706 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
707 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
708 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
709 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
710 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
711 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
712 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
713 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
714 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
715 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
716 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
717 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
718 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
719 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
720 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
723 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
725 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
726 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
727 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
728 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
729 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
732 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
733 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
734 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
735 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
736 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
737 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
738 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
739 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
740 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
741 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
744 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
745 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
746 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
747 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
748 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
749 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
750 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
751 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
754 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
755 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
756 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
757 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
758 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
760 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
761 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
762 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
763 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
766 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
767 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
768 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
769 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
770 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
771 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
772 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
773 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
776 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
777 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
778 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
779 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
782 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
783 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
784 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
785 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
787 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
788 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
789 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
792 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
793 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
796 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
797 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
798 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
799 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
800 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
802 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
803 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
804 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
805 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
806 identify a connection.
807 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
808 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
809 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
810 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
811 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
812 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
813 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
814 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
815 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
816 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
818 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
819 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
820 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
821 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
822 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
823 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
824 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
827 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
828 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
830 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
831 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
832 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
833 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
834 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
835 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
836 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
837 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
839 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
840 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
841 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
842 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
843 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
844 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
845 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
846 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
847 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
848 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
849 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
850 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
851 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
852 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
853 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
854 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
855 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
856 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
857 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
858 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
859 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
860 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
861 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
862 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
863 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
864 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
865 840. Patch from rovv.
866 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
867 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
868 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
870 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
871 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
872 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
873 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
874 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
875 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
876 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
878 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
879 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
880 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
883 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
884 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
886 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
887 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
888 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
889 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
890 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
891 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
892 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
893 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
894 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
896 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
898 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
899 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
903 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
904 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
905 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
906 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
907 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
908 variety of other issues.
911 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
912 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
913 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
914 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
915 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
916 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
917 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
918 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
919 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
920 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
921 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
922 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
925 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
926 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
928 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
929 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
930 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
931 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
932 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
933 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
934 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
935 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
936 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
937 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
938 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
939 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
940 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
941 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
942 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
946 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
947 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
948 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
949 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
950 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
951 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
952 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
953 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
954 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
955 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
956 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
957 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
958 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
959 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
960 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
961 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
962 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
963 list. It has been gone for many months.
964 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
965 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
966 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
969 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
970 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
971 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
974 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
975 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
976 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
977 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
980 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
981 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
982 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
983 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
984 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
985 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
987 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
988 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
989 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
993 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
994 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
995 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
996 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
997 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
998 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
999 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
1000 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
1001 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
1002 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1003 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
1004 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
1005 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
1006 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1007 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
1008 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
1009 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
1010 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
1011 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
1012 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
1013 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
1016 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
1017 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
1018 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
1019 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
1020 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
1021 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
1022 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
1024 o New v3 directory design:
1025 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
1026 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
1027 network status document rather than each publishing their own
1028 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
1029 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
1030 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
1031 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
1033 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
1034 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
1035 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
1036 dannenberg (run by CCC).
1037 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
1038 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
1039 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
1040 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
1041 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
1042 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
1043 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
1044 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
1045 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
1046 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
1048 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
1049 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
1050 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
1051 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
1052 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
1053 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
1054 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
1055 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
1056 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
1057 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
1058 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
1059 certain censored countries by default again.
1060 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
1061 Tor's x509 certificates.
1063 o Implement bridge relays:
1064 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
1065 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
1066 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
1067 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
1068 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
1069 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
1070 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
1071 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
1072 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
1073 rather than "v2,v3".
1074 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
1075 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
1076 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
1077 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
1078 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
1079 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
1080 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
1081 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
1082 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
1083 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
1084 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
1086 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
1087 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
1088 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
1089 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
1090 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
1091 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
1092 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
1093 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
1094 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
1095 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
1096 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
1097 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
1098 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
1099 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
1100 bridges are functioning.
1101 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
1102 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
1103 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
1104 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
1105 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
1106 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
1107 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
1108 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
1109 knows that password. Unset by default.
1110 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
1111 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
1112 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
1113 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
1114 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
1115 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
1116 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
1117 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
1118 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
1119 and bridges@torproject.org.
1121 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
1122 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
1123 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
1124 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
1125 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
1126 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
1127 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
1128 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
1129 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
1130 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
1131 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
1132 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
1133 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
1134 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
1135 longer a completely silly thing to do.
1137 o Major features (relay usability):
1138 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
1139 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
1140 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
1141 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
1142 proposal 111 for details.
1143 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
1144 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
1145 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
1146 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
1148 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
1149 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
1150 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
1152 o Major features (directory authorities):
1153 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
1154 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
1155 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
1156 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
1157 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
1158 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
1159 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
1160 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
1161 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
1162 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
1163 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
1164 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
1165 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
1167 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
1168 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
1169 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
1170 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
1171 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
1172 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
1173 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
1174 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
1175 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
1176 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
1177 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
1178 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
1179 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
1180 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
1181 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
1182 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
1183 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
1184 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
1185 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
1186 general, controller, or bridge.
1188 o Major features (other):
1189 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
1190 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
1191 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
1192 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
1193 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
1194 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
1195 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
1196 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
1197 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
1198 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
1199 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
1200 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
1201 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
1202 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
1205 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
1206 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
1207 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
1209 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
1210 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
1211 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
1212 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
1213 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
1214 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
1215 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
1216 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
1217 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
1218 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
1219 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
1221 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
1222 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
1224 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
1225 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
1226 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
1227 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
1229 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
1230 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
1231 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
1232 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
1233 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
1235 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
1236 address maps to an internal address space.
1237 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
1238 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
1239 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
1240 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
1241 complements proposal 107.
1242 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
1243 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
1244 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
1245 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
1246 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
1247 reported by taranis and lodger.
1248 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
1249 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
1250 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
1251 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
1252 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
1253 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
1254 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
1255 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
1256 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
1257 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
1258 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
1259 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
1260 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
1262 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
1263 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
1265 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
1266 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
1267 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
1268 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
1269 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
1270 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
1271 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
1273 o Major bugfixes (other):
1274 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
1275 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
1276 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
1278 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
1279 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
1280 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
1281 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
1282 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
1283 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
1284 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
1285 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
1286 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
1287 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
1288 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
1289 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
1290 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
1291 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
1292 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
1293 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
1294 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
1295 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
1296 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
1298 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
1299 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
1300 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
1301 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
1302 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
1303 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
1304 eat all of our bandwidth.
1305 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
1306 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
1307 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
1308 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
1309 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
1310 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
1311 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
1312 bug 688, reported by mfr.
1313 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
1314 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
1315 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
1316 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
1318 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
1319 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
1320 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
1321 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
1322 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
1323 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
1324 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
1325 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
1326 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
1327 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
1328 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
1329 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
1331 o Performance improvements (memory):
1332 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
1333 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
1334 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
1335 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
1336 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
1337 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
1338 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
1339 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
1340 memory fragmentation.
1341 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
1342 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
1343 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
1344 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
1345 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
1347 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
1348 of them were actually distinct.
1349 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
1351 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
1352 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
1353 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
1354 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
1355 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
1356 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
1357 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
1358 performance-intensive.
1359 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
1360 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
1361 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
1362 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
1363 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
1366 o Performance improvements (socket management):
1367 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
1368 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
1369 our allocated connection limit.
1370 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
1371 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
1372 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
1373 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
1374 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
1376 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
1377 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
1379 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
1380 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
1381 is interested in a given message.
1382 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
1383 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
1384 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
1385 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
1386 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
1388 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
1389 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
1390 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
1392 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
1393 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
1394 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
1396 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
1397 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
1398 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
1399 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
1402 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
1403 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
1404 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
1405 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
1406 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
1407 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
1408 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
1410 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
1411 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
1412 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
1413 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
1414 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
1415 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
1416 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
1417 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
1418 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
1419 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
1420 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
1421 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
1422 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
1425 o Changed config option behavior (features):
1426 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
1427 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
1428 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
1429 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
1430 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
1431 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
1432 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
1433 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
1434 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
1435 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
1436 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
1437 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
1438 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
1439 and are reaching it.
1440 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
1441 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
1442 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
1443 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
1445 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
1446 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
1447 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
1448 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
1449 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
1450 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
1451 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
1452 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
1453 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
1455 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
1456 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
1457 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
1458 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
1459 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
1460 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
1461 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
1462 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
1464 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
1465 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
1467 o New config options:
1468 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
1469 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
1470 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
1471 running a test network on a single host.
1472 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
1473 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
1474 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
1475 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
1476 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
1477 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
1478 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
1479 the approved-routers file.
1480 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
1481 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
1482 v2 directory information.
1484 o Minor features (other):
1485 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
1486 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
1487 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
1488 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
1489 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
1490 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
1492 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
1493 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
1494 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
1495 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
1496 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
1497 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
1498 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
1500 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
1501 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
1502 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
1504 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
1505 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
1506 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
1507 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
1508 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
1510 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
1511 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
1512 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
1513 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
1514 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
1515 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
1516 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
1518 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
1519 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
1520 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
1521 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
1522 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
1523 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
1524 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
1525 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
1526 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
1529 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1530 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
1531 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
1533 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
1534 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
1535 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
1536 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
1537 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
1538 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
1540 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
1541 bandwidthburst values.
1542 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
1543 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
1544 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
1545 to mark all our entry points down.
1546 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
1547 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
1548 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
1549 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
1550 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
1552 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
1553 more often than they are allowed to appear.
1554 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
1555 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
1556 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
1557 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
1558 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
1559 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
1560 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
1562 o Controller features:
1563 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
1564 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
1565 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
1566 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
1567 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
1568 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
1570 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
1571 multiple controller passwords.
1572 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
1573 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
1574 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
1575 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
1577 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
1578 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
1579 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
1580 cookie authentication file, and config option
1581 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
1582 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
1583 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1584 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
1586 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
1587 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
1588 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
1589 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
1590 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
1591 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
1592 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
1594 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
1595 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
1597 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
1598 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
1599 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
1600 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
1601 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
1602 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
1603 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
1604 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
1605 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
1606 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
1607 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
1608 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
1609 report the value as a "minimum skew."
1611 o Controller bugfixes:
1612 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
1613 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
1614 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
1615 processes can't run us out of memory.
1616 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
1617 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
1618 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
1620 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
1621 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
1622 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
1623 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
1624 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
1625 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
1626 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
1627 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
1628 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
1629 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
1630 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
1631 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
1632 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
1633 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
1634 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
1636 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
1637 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
1639 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
1640 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
1641 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
1642 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
1643 WARN-severity events.
1645 o Portability / building / compiling:
1646 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
1647 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
1648 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
1649 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
1650 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
1651 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
1652 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
1653 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
1654 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
1655 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
1656 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
1658 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
1659 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
1660 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
1661 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
1662 Use this version consistently in log messages.
1663 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
1664 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
1665 partial results on small file reads.
1666 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
1667 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
1668 a directory. Fix from lodger.
1669 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
1670 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
1671 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
1673 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
1674 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
1675 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
1676 logging for the unit tests.
1677 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
1678 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
1680 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
1681 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
1683 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
1684 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
1685 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
1686 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
1689 o Logging improvements:
1690 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
1691 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
1692 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
1693 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
1694 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
1695 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
1696 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
1698 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
1699 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
1700 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
1701 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
1702 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
1703 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
1704 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
1705 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
1706 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
1707 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
1708 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
1709 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
1710 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1711 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
1712 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
1713 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
1714 Good in combination with --hash-password.
1715 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
1716 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
1718 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
1719 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
1720 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
1721 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
1723 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
1724 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
1725 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
1726 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
1727 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
1729 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
1730 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
1731 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
1732 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
1733 makes the log messages nicer.
1734 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
1735 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
1737 o Contributed scripts and tools:
1738 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
1739 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
1741 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
1742 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
1743 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
1744 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
1745 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
1746 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
1747 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
1748 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
1749 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
1750 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
1752 o Newly deprecated features:
1753 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
1754 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
1755 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
1756 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
1759 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
1760 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
1761 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
1762 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
1763 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
1765 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
1766 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
1767 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
1768 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
1769 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
1770 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
1771 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
1772 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
1774 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
1775 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
1776 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
1777 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
1778 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
1779 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
1781 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
1782 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
1783 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
1784 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
1785 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
1786 patch from Karsten Loesing.
1787 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
1788 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
1789 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
1790 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
1791 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
1792 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
1793 code), this assumption no longer holds.
1794 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
1798 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
1799 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
1800 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
1801 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1804 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1805 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1806 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1807 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1811 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1812 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
1813 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1814 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
1815 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1816 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
1817 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1818 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1819 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
1820 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
1821 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
1822 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
1825 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1826 rebuild our server descriptor.
1827 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1828 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
1829 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
1830 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1831 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1832 nonstandard integer types.
1833 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1834 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1835 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
1836 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
1837 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
1839 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
1840 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
1841 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
1842 when they receive them.
1843 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
1844 This includes some 64-bit systems.
1845 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
1846 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
1847 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
1848 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
1849 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1850 router_get_by_hexdigest().
1851 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1852 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1856 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
1857 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
1858 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
1859 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
1860 lists for a few hours each day.
1862 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1863 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1864 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1865 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
1866 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
1867 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1868 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1869 rend_process_relay_cell().
1871 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1872 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1873 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1874 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1875 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1876 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1877 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
1878 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
1880 o Major bugfixes (other):
1881 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
1882 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
1883 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
1884 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1885 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1886 circuit cannibalization).
1887 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1888 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1889 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1890 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1891 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1892 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
1895 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1896 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
1898 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1899 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
1900 absent. Resolves bug 467.
1901 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
1902 a way to trigger this remotely.)
1903 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1904 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1905 were reporting the dir port.)
1906 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1907 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
1908 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1909 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1910 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1912 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1913 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1914 the onion key from getting rotated.
1915 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1916 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1917 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1918 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
1919 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1920 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1921 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1924 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
1925 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
1926 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
1927 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1928 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
1931 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
1932 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
1935 o Major bugfixes (security):
1936 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
1937 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
1938 become more of a headache than it's worth.
1940 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1941 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1942 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1944 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1945 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1946 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1947 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1948 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1949 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1951 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1952 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1953 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1954 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1955 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
1957 o Minor features (controller):
1958 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1959 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1960 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1961 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1963 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1964 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
1965 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
1966 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
1967 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
1968 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
1969 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
1970 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
1972 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1973 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
1974 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
1975 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
1976 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
1977 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
1978 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
1979 if we ran off the end of the list.
1980 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1981 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1982 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1983 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1984 every time we change any piece of our config.
1985 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1986 encourage people using them to stop.
1987 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
1989 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1990 servers to choose a circuit.
1991 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1992 unparseable piece of it.
1995 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
1996 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
1997 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
1998 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
1999 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
2000 TorK, etc. Or worse.
2002 o Major security fixes:
2003 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2004 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2007 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
2008 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
2009 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
2010 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
2012 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2013 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
2015 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2016 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
2017 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
2018 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
2019 routerlist while inserting a new router.
2020 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
2021 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
2023 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
2024 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
2025 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
2027 o Major bugfixes (security):
2028 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
2030 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
2031 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
2032 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
2033 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
2034 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
2035 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
2036 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
2037 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
2038 guard list unless we need to.
2040 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
2041 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
2042 don't get overused as guards.
2044 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2045 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
2046 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
2047 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
2048 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
2050 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2051 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
2052 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
2055 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2056 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2057 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
2058 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
2059 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
2060 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
2061 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
2062 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
2065 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
2066 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
2067 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
2068 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
2070 o Directory authority changes:
2071 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
2072 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
2073 or use hidden services.
2075 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2076 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
2077 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
2078 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
2079 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
2080 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
2081 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
2082 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
2083 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
2086 o Major bugfixes (security):
2087 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
2088 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
2089 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
2091 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
2092 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
2093 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
2094 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
2095 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
2096 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
2097 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
2098 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
2099 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
2100 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
2103 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
2105 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
2106 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
2108 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
2109 having a hard time downloading.
2110 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2111 partial results on small file reads.
2112 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
2113 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
2114 the gaps in the store get very large.
2117 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
2118 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
2120 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
2121 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
2124 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
2125 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
2126 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
2127 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
2128 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
2129 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
2131 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
2132 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
2133 free speech on the Internet.
2135 o Major features, client performance:
2136 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
2137 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
2138 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
2139 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
2140 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
2141 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
2142 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
2143 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
2144 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
2145 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
2146 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
2147 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
2148 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
2149 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
2150 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
2152 o Major features, client functionality:
2153 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
2154 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
2155 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
2156 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
2157 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
2158 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
2159 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
2160 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
2161 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
2162 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
2163 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
2164 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
2165 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
2167 o Major features, servers:
2168 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
2169 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
2170 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
2171 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
2172 authenticated, so use with care.
2173 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
2174 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
2175 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
2177 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
2178 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
2179 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
2180 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
2181 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
2182 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
2184 o Improvements on DNS support:
2185 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
2186 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
2187 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
2188 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
2189 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
2190 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
2191 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
2192 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
2193 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
2194 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
2195 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
2196 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
2197 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
2198 lets you turn it off.
2199 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
2200 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
2201 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
2202 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
2203 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
2204 useful to the network.
2205 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
2206 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
2207 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
2208 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
2209 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
2210 our tests for DNS hijacking.
2212 o Improvements on reachability testing:
2213 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
2214 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
2215 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
2216 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
2217 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
2218 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
2219 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
2220 if their identity keys are as expected.
2221 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
2222 chews through many circuits before giving up.
2223 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
2224 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
2225 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
2226 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
2227 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
2228 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
2229 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
2230 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
2231 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
2232 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
2233 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
2234 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
2236 o Improvements on rate limiting:
2237 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
2238 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
2239 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
2240 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
2241 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
2243 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
2244 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
2245 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
2246 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
2247 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
2248 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
2249 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
2250 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
2252 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
2253 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
2255 o Major features, NT services:
2256 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
2257 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
2258 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
2259 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
2260 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
2261 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
2262 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
2264 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
2265 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
2266 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
2268 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
2269 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
2270 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
2272 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
2273 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
2275 o Directory authority improvements:
2276 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
2278 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
2279 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
2280 too much load to the exit nodes.
2281 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
2282 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
2283 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
2284 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
2285 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
2286 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
2287 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
2288 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
2289 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
2290 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
2291 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
2292 broken. Not used yet.
2293 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
2294 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
2295 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
2296 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
2297 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
2298 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
2299 non-versioning dirservers.
2300 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
2301 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
2302 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
2304 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
2305 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
2306 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
2307 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
2309 o Directory mirrors and clients:
2310 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
2311 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
2312 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
2313 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
2314 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
2315 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
2316 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
2317 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
2318 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
2319 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
2320 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
2321 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
2322 routers for even longer.
2323 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
2324 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
2325 caching HTTP proxies.
2326 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
2327 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
2328 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
2329 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
2331 o Major fixes, crashes:
2332 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
2333 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
2334 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
2335 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
2337 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
2338 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
2339 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
2341 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
2342 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
2343 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
2344 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
2345 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
2346 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
2347 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
2348 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
2349 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
2350 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
2352 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
2353 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
2354 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
2355 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
2356 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
2357 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
2358 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
2359 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
2360 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
2361 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
2362 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
2363 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
2364 could return an unnamed server instead.
2365 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
2366 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
2367 a more attractive target for compromise.)
2368 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
2369 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
2370 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
2371 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
2373 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
2374 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
2376 o Major fixes, other:
2377 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
2378 uptime in the descriptor.
2379 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
2380 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
2381 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
2382 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
2383 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
2384 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
2385 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
2386 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
2387 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
2388 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
2389 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
2390 our DirPort now, etc.
2391 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
2392 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
2393 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
2395 o New config options or behaviors:
2396 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
2397 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
2398 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
2399 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
2400 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
2401 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
2402 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
2403 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
2404 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
2405 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
2406 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
2407 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
2409 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
2410 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
2411 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
2412 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
2413 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
2415 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
2416 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
2417 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
2418 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
2419 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
2420 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
2421 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
2422 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
2423 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
2424 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
2425 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
2426 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
2427 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
2428 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
2429 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
2430 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
2431 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
2432 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
2433 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
2434 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
2435 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
2436 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
2437 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
2438 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
2439 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
2440 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
2441 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
2442 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
2443 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
2444 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
2446 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
2447 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
2451 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
2452 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
2454 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
2455 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
2456 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
2457 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
2459 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
2460 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
2461 whether the config options are bad or good.
2462 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
2463 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
2464 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
2465 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
2466 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
2467 result more than once.
2468 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
2469 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
2470 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
2471 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
2472 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
2473 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
2474 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
2475 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
2476 before we check for libevent.
2477 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
2478 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
2479 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
2480 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
2481 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
2482 recommendation system saner.)
2483 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
2484 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
2485 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
2486 now universal binaries.
2487 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
2488 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
2490 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
2492 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
2493 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
2494 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
2495 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
2496 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
2497 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
2499 o Minor features, controller:
2500 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
2501 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
2502 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
2504 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
2505 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2506 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
2507 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
2508 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
2509 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
2510 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
2512 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
2513 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
2514 connected or resolved cell.
2515 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
2516 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
2517 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
2518 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
2519 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
2520 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
2521 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
2523 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
2524 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
2525 entry guard status as it changes.
2526 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
2527 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
2528 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
2529 watching for STREAM events.
2530 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
2531 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
2532 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
2533 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
2535 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
2536 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
2537 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
2538 working much like those for circuit events.
2539 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
2540 about the current status of a router.
2541 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
2542 a router's status has changed.
2543 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
2544 can tell which events and features are supported.
2545 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
2546 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
2547 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
2548 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
2549 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
2550 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
2551 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
2552 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
2553 for more information.
2554 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
2555 best guess to the user.
2556 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
2557 descriptor has changed.
2558 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
2559 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
2560 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
2562 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
2563 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
2564 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
2565 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
2566 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
2567 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
2568 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
2569 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
2570 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
2571 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
2572 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
2574 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
2575 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
2577 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
2578 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
2579 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
2581 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
2582 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
2583 the controller from learning about current events.
2584 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
2585 reported by Mike Perry.
2586 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
2587 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
2588 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
2589 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
2590 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
2591 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
2592 long nicknames where appropriate.
2593 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
2594 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
2596 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
2597 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
2598 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
2599 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
2600 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
2602 o Minor features, code performance:
2603 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
2604 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
2605 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
2607 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
2608 some profiles, but not others.)
2609 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
2610 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
2611 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
2612 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
2613 operations, for profiling.
2614 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
2615 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
2616 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
2617 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
2618 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
2619 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
2620 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
2621 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
2623 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
2624 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
2625 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
2626 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
2627 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
2628 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
2629 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
2630 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
2631 family lists conveniently.
2633 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
2634 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
2635 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
2636 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
2637 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
2638 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
2639 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
2640 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
2641 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
2642 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
2643 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
2644 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
2645 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
2646 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
2647 of it), is not therefore "up".
2649 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
2650 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
2651 what version a router is running.
2652 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
2653 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
2654 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
2655 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
2657 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
2658 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
2659 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
2660 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
2661 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
2664 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
2665 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
2666 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
2668 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
2669 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
2671 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
2672 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
2673 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
2674 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
2675 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
2676 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
2677 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
2678 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
2679 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
2680 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
2682 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
2683 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
2684 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
2685 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
2686 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
2687 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
2688 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
2689 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
2690 get one we don't recognize.
2693 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
2694 o Security bugfixes:
2695 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
2696 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
2697 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
2698 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
2702 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
2703 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
2704 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
2707 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
2709 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
2710 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
2711 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
2712 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
2713 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
2714 its circuits on demand.
2715 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
2716 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
2717 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
2718 connections more stable on average.
2719 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
2720 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
2721 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
2723 o Security bugfixes:
2724 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
2725 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
2728 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
2730 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
2731 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
2732 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
2733 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
2734 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
2735 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
2736 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
2737 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
2740 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
2742 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
2743 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
2744 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
2745 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
2746 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
2747 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
2748 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
2749 it can't resolve its hostname.
2750 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
2751 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
2752 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
2755 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
2756 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
2757 "extendcircuit" request.
2758 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
2759 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
2760 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
2761 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
2763 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
2764 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
2765 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
2767 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
2768 methods: these are known to be buggy.
2769 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
2770 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
2774 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
2776 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
2777 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
2778 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
2779 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
2780 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
2781 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
2782 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
2783 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
2784 test reachability, so you won't publish.
2787 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
2788 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
2789 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
2790 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
2791 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
2793 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
2794 own server descriptor yet.
2797 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
2799 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
2800 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
2801 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
2802 make sure to test via one of these.
2803 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
2804 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
2805 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
2806 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
2807 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
2809 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
2810 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
2811 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
2814 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
2815 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
2816 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
2817 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
2818 directory authority.
2819 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
2820 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
2821 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
2822 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
2825 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
2826 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
2827 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
2829 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
2830 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
2831 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
2832 current guards when picking a new guard.
2833 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
2834 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
2835 when we had more than one pending.
2836 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
2837 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
2838 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
2839 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
2840 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
2841 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
2842 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
2843 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
2844 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
2845 debug the reachability problems better.
2847 o Log / documentation fixes:
2848 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
2849 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
2850 about protocol violations by others.
2851 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
2852 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
2853 about what happened to our old torrc.
2856 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
2857 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
2858 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
2859 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
2860 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
2861 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
2863 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
2864 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
2865 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
2866 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
2867 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
2868 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
2869 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
2870 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
2871 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
2872 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
2873 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
2874 on malicious huge inputs.
2876 o Security fixes, major:
2877 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
2878 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
2879 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
2880 misreading their logs.
2881 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
2882 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
2883 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
2884 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
2885 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
2886 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
2887 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
2888 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
2889 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
2890 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
2891 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
2892 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
2893 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
2894 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
2896 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
2897 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
2898 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
2899 firewall options forbid.
2900 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
2901 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
2902 can only proxy to certain destinations.
2903 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
2904 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
2905 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
2907 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
2908 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
2909 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
2910 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
2911 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
2912 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
2913 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
2914 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
2915 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
2916 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
2917 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
2918 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
2919 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
2921 o Security fixes, minor:
2922 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
2923 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
2925 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
2926 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
2927 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
2928 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
2929 if we've not heard of a server.
2930 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
2931 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
2932 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
2933 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
2934 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
2935 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
2936 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
2937 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
2938 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
2939 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
2940 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
2941 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
2942 aids some statistical attacks.
2943 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
2944 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
2945 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
2946 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
2947 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
2948 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
2949 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
2950 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
2953 o Packaging improvements:
2954 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
2955 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
2956 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
2957 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
2958 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
2959 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
2961 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
2962 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
2963 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
2964 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
2965 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
2966 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
2968 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
2969 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
2970 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
2972 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
2973 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
2974 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
2975 They are useless now.
2976 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
2977 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
2978 is reachable by you.
2979 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
2982 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
2983 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
2984 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
2985 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
2986 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
2987 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
2988 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
2989 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
2990 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
2991 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
2992 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
2993 and isolating attacks better.
2994 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
2995 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
2996 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
2997 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
2998 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
2999 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
3000 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
3001 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
3002 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
3003 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
3004 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
3006 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
3007 can answer v2 directory requests too.
3008 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
3009 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
3010 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
3011 mirrors still cache and serve it).
3012 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
3013 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
3014 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
3015 for clients and for servers.
3016 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
3017 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
3018 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
3019 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
3020 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
3021 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
3022 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
3023 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
3024 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
3025 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
3026 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
3028 o Other directory improvements:
3029 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
3030 fifth authoritative directory servers.
3031 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
3032 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
3033 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
3035 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
3036 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
3037 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
3038 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
3039 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
3040 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
3042 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
3043 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
3044 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
3045 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
3046 connections more reliable.
3047 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
3048 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
3049 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
3050 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
3051 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
3052 we fail to connect).
3053 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
3055 o Controller protocol improvements:
3056 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
3057 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
3058 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
3059 applications without caring how our protocol works.
3060 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
3061 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
3062 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
3063 many bytes we've used in this time period.
3064 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
3065 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
3066 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
3067 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
3068 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
3069 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
3070 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
3071 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
3072 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
3073 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
3075 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
3076 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
3077 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
3078 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
3079 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
3080 a router in its role as directory authority.
3081 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
3082 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
3083 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
3084 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
3085 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
3086 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
3087 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
3088 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
3089 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
3090 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
3091 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
3092 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
3093 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
3094 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
3095 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
3096 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
3097 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
3098 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
3100 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
3101 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
3102 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
3103 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
3104 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
3105 just tell them to go read their logs.
3107 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
3108 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
3109 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
3110 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
3111 try to be a bit more fair.
3112 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
3113 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
3114 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
3115 and we're using a default DirPort.
3116 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
3117 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
3118 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
3119 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
3120 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
3121 services faster on the service end.
3122 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
3124 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
3125 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
3126 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
3127 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
3128 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
3129 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
3130 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
3131 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
3132 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
3133 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
3134 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
3135 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
3136 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
3137 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
3138 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
3139 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
3140 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
3141 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
3142 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
3143 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
3144 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
3145 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
3146 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
3147 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
3148 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
3150 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
3151 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
3152 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
3153 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
3154 so we can be backward-compatible.
3155 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
3156 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
3157 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
3158 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
3159 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
3160 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
3161 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
3162 initial descriptor forever.
3163 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
3164 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
3165 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
3166 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
3167 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
3168 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
3169 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
3170 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
3171 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
3172 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
3173 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
3174 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
3175 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
3176 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
3177 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
3178 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
3179 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
3180 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
3181 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
3182 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
3183 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
3184 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
3185 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
3186 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
3187 ports that have changed.
3188 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
3189 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
3190 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
3191 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
3192 connections once a week.
3193 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
3194 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
3195 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
3196 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
3197 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
3198 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
3199 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
3200 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
3201 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
3202 able to discover them.
3203 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
3204 want to make it an NT service.
3205 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
3206 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
3207 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
3208 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
3209 memory leaks better.
3210 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
3211 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
3212 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
3213 statistics are now uint64_t's.
3214 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
3215 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
3216 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
3217 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
3218 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
3219 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
3220 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
3221 default ulimit -n is 1024.
3222 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
3223 and its existence is confusing some users.
3225 o Config option fixes:
3226 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
3227 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
3228 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
3229 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
3230 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
3231 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
3232 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
3233 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
3234 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
3236 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
3237 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
3238 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
3239 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
3240 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
3241 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
3242 it would silently ignore the 6668.
3243 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
3244 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
3245 silently resetting it to its default.
3246 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
3247 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
3248 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
3249 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
3250 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
3251 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
3252 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
3253 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
3254 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
3255 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
3256 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
3257 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
3258 Address config option.
3259 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
3260 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
3262 o Config option features:
3263 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
3264 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
3265 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
3266 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
3267 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
3269 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
3270 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
3271 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
3272 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
3273 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
3274 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
3275 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
3276 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
3277 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
3278 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
3279 in at least some cases.)
3280 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
3281 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
3282 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
3283 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
3284 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
3285 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
3286 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
3287 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
3288 even if we know they're jerks.
3289 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
3290 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
3291 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
3292 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
3293 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
3294 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
3295 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
3296 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
3297 because older Tors do not understand it.
3298 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
3299 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
3300 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
3301 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
3302 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
3303 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
3304 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
3305 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
3306 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
3307 unattached before we fail it?
3308 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
3309 at least this many seconds ago.
3310 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
3311 at least this many seconds ago.
3312 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
3313 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
3315 o Improved and clearer log messages:
3316 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
3317 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
3318 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
3320 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
3321 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
3322 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
3323 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
3324 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
3325 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
3326 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
3327 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
3328 temporarily unreachable.
3329 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
3330 Windows-style errno back.
3331 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
3332 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
3334 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
3335 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
3336 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
3337 exactly for this case.
3338 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
3339 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
3340 don't warn twice about the same name.
3341 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
3343 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
3344 it was self-testing that told us so.
3345 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
3346 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
3347 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
3348 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
3349 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
3350 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
3351 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
3352 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
3353 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
3354 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
3355 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
3356 established a circuit.
3357 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
3358 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
3359 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
3360 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
3361 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
3362 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
3363 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
3364 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
3365 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
3366 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
3367 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
3368 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
3369 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
3370 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
3371 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
3372 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
3373 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
3374 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
3375 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
3376 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
3377 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
3378 testing for reachability.
3379 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
3380 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
3382 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
3385 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
3386 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3387 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
3388 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
3390 o Other important bugfixes:
3391 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
3392 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
3393 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
3394 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
3396 o Backported features:
3397 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
3398 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
3399 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
3400 without getting overloaded.
3401 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
3402 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
3403 503's whenever they feel busy.
3404 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
3405 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
3406 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
3407 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
3408 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
3411 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
3412 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3413 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
3414 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
3415 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
3416 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
3417 too -- so detect and avoid this.
3418 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
3420 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
3421 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
3422 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
3423 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
3424 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
3425 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
3426 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
3427 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
3428 rendezvous circuits.
3429 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
3431 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3432 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
3433 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
3434 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
3435 advertising it because of hibernation.
3436 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
3437 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
3438 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
3439 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
3440 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
3441 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
3442 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
3443 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
3444 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
3445 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
3446 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
3447 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
3448 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
3449 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
3450 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
3453 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
3454 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3455 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
3456 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
3457 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
3458 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
3459 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
3460 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
3461 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
3462 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
3463 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
3464 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
3465 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
3466 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
3467 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
3470 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
3471 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3472 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
3474 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
3475 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
3478 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
3479 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3480 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
3481 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
3482 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
3483 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
3484 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
3486 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
3487 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
3491 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
3492 o New directory servers:
3493 - tor26 has changed IP address.
3495 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3496 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
3497 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
3499 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
3500 claims its dirport is 0.
3501 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
3502 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
3506 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
3507 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3508 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
3509 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
3510 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
3511 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
3512 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
3513 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
3516 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
3518 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
3519 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
3520 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
3521 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
3522 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
3523 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
3524 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
3525 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
3526 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
3528 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
3529 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
3531 o Assert / crash bugs:
3532 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
3533 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
3534 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
3536 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3537 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
3538 TLS errors better in other situations too.
3539 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
3540 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
3543 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
3544 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
3545 duplicate ram over time.
3546 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
3547 reentry and threadsafeness.
3548 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
3549 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
3550 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
3552 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
3553 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
3554 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
3555 point at your Tor server.
3556 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
3558 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
3559 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
3562 o Protocol correctness:
3563 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
3564 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
3565 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
3566 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
3567 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
3568 to abandon partially built circuits.
3569 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
3570 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
3571 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
3572 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
3573 descriptors we just dropped.
3574 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
3575 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
3576 and to take errno into account where possible.
3577 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
3578 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
3579 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
3580 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
3582 o Robustness improvements:
3583 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
3584 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
3585 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
3587 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
3588 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
3589 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
3590 that will want high uptime circuits.
3591 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
3592 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
3593 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
3594 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
3595 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
3596 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
3597 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
3598 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
3599 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
3600 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
3601 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
3602 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
3603 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
3604 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
3605 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
3606 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
3607 for google.com" problem.
3608 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
3609 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
3610 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
3611 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
3612 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
3615 o Reachability testing.
3616 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
3617 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
3618 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
3619 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
3620 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
3621 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
3622 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
3623 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
3624 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
3625 already connected to them.
3626 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
3630 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
3631 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
3632 nickname+key are allowed.
3633 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
3634 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
3635 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
3636 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
3637 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
3638 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
3639 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
3640 have quite wrong clocks).
3641 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
3642 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
3643 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
3644 their descriptors are being rejected.
3646 o Efficiency improvements:
3647 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
3648 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
3649 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
3650 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
3651 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
3652 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
3653 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
3654 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
3655 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
3656 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
3658 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
3659 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
3660 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
3661 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
3662 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
3663 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
3664 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
3665 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
3666 of CPU time plus memory.
3667 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
3668 directory every time you regenerate it.
3669 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
3670 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
3671 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
3672 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
3673 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
3674 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
3675 lowercase when you first see them.
3678 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
3679 hidden services better.
3680 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
3681 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
3682 when we try to launch one.
3683 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
3684 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
3685 attempts to build a circuit.
3686 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
3687 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
3688 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
3689 normal web requests.
3692 - More Tor controller support. See
3693 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
3694 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
3695 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
3696 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
3697 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
3698 to make it easier to write controllers.
3699 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
3700 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
3701 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
3702 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
3703 new log event types.
3705 o New config options/defaults:
3706 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
3707 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
3708 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
3709 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
3710 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
3712 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
3714 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
3715 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
3716 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
3717 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
3718 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
3720 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
3721 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
3722 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
3723 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
3724 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
3725 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
3726 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
3727 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
3728 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
3729 required exit node for certain sites.
3730 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
3731 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
3732 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
3733 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
3734 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
3735 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
3736 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
3737 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
3738 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
3740 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
3741 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
3742 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
3743 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
3744 private-IP addresses.
3745 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
3746 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
3747 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
3748 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
3749 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
3750 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
3751 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
3752 is valid without actually launching Tor.
3754 o Logging improvements:
3755 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
3756 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
3757 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
3758 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
3760 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
3761 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
3762 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
3763 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
3764 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
3765 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
3766 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
3767 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
3768 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
3770 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
3772 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
3773 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
3774 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
3775 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
3776 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
3777 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
3779 o New contrib scripts:
3780 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
3781 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
3783 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
3784 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
3785 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
3786 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
3787 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
3788 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
3790 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
3791 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
3792 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
3793 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
3797 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
3798 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
3799 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
3800 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
3801 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
3802 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
3803 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
3805 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
3806 something more reasonable when first installing.
3807 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
3808 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
3809 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
3810 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
3812 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
3813 artificially capped at 500kB.
3814 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
3816 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
3817 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
3818 they could use instead.
3819 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
3820 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
3821 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
3822 the user asks you to.
3825 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
3826 rather than just rejecting it.
3827 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
3828 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
3829 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
3830 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
3831 rather than just "success" or "failure".
3832 - A more sane version numbering system. See
3833 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
3834 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
3835 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
3836 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
3837 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
3838 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
3840 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
3841 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
3842 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
3843 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
3845 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
3846 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
3848 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
3849 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
3850 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
3851 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
3853 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
3854 whether the server is hibernating.
3857 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
3858 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
3859 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
3860 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
3861 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
3865 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
3866 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3867 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3868 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
3869 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
3872 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
3873 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3874 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
3875 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
3876 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
3877 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
3878 busy for more than 100 seconds.
3881 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
3882 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3883 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
3884 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
3885 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
3886 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
3887 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
3888 creating actual system users.
3889 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
3890 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
3894 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
3895 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
3896 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
3897 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
3898 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
3899 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
3900 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
3901 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
3902 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
3903 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
3904 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
3905 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
3906 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
3907 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
3908 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
3910 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
3911 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
3912 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
3913 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
3914 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
3915 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
3916 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
3917 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
3918 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
3919 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
3920 existing torrc files.
3921 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
3924 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
3925 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3926 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
3927 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
3928 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
3929 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
3930 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
3931 the win32 SYSTEM account.
3932 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
3933 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
3934 file descriptors available.
3935 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
3936 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
3937 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
3940 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
3941 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3942 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
3943 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
3945 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
3946 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
3947 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
3948 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
3949 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
3951 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
3952 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
3953 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
3954 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
3955 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
3956 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
3957 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
3958 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
3959 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
3960 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
3961 800kB/s of capacity.
3962 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
3965 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
3966 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
3967 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
3968 need as much processor time.
3969 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
3970 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
3971 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
3972 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
3973 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
3974 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
3975 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
3976 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
3977 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
3978 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
3979 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
3980 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
3982 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
3983 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
3984 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
3985 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
3986 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
3987 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
3988 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
3991 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
3992 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
3993 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
3995 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
3996 style address, then we'd crash.
3997 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
3998 a dirserver is broken.
3999 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
4001 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
4002 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
4003 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
4005 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
4006 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
4007 name out of the warning/assert messages.
4008 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
4009 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
4010 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
4012 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
4013 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
4014 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
4016 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
4018 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
4019 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
4020 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
4021 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
4022 values at once couldn't work.
4023 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
4024 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
4025 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
4026 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
4027 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
4028 they can handle any number of routers.
4029 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
4030 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
4031 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
4032 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
4033 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
4034 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
4035 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
4036 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
4037 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
4040 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
4041 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4042 - Make hibernation actually work.
4043 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
4044 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
4045 don't use the stream status code.
4048 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
4049 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
4050 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
4051 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
4052 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
4053 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
4054 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
4055 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
4056 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
4057 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
4058 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
4059 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
4062 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
4063 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
4064 win32 socket errors better.
4065 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
4066 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
4067 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
4068 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
4070 - Make unit tests work on win32.
4072 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
4073 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
4074 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
4075 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
4076 right after sending the begin cell.
4077 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
4078 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
4079 exit nodes too. Oops.
4080 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
4081 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
4082 the user would get no response.
4083 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
4084 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
4085 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
4087 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
4088 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
4089 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
4090 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
4091 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
4093 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
4094 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
4095 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
4096 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
4097 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
4098 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
4099 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
4100 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
4101 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
4102 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
4103 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
4105 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
4106 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
4107 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
4108 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
4109 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
4110 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
4111 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
4112 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
4113 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
4114 so we don't see those messages days later.
4115 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
4116 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
4118 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
4119 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
4120 they ran out of file descriptors.
4121 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
4122 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
4123 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
4124 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
4126 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
4127 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
4128 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
4129 the ones we find in directories.)
4130 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
4131 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
4132 if you don't want it open.
4133 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
4134 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
4135 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
4136 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
4137 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
4138 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
4140 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
4141 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
4143 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
4145 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
4146 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
4148 o Features (circuits and streams):
4149 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
4150 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
4151 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
4152 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
4153 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
4154 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
4155 the user knows which one it's talking about.
4156 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
4157 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
4158 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
4159 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
4160 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
4162 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
4164 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
4165 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
4166 to fill the last cell completely.
4167 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
4168 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
4170 o Features (bandwidth):
4171 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
4172 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
4173 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
4174 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
4175 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
4176 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
4177 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
4178 your billing cycle starts on.
4179 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
4180 hibernation properties by
4181 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
4182 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
4183 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
4184 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
4185 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
4187 o Features (directories):
4188 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
4189 nickname to its identity key.
4190 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
4191 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
4192 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
4193 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
4194 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
4196 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
4197 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
4199 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
4200 will be able to get a directory.
4201 - Http proxy support
4202 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
4203 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
4204 be routed through this host.
4205 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
4206 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
4207 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
4208 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
4209 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
4210 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
4212 o Features (packages and install):
4213 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
4214 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
4215 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
4216 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
4217 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
4218 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
4219 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
4220 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
4221 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
4222 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
4225 o Features (ui controller):
4226 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
4227 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
4228 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
4229 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
4230 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
4231 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
4232 with the control port.
4233 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
4234 use in authenticating to the control interface.
4235 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
4236 configuration to torrc.
4237 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
4238 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
4239 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
4241 o Features (config and command-line):
4242 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
4243 not on the command line.
4244 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
4246 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
4247 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
4248 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
4249 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
4250 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
4251 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
4252 - New log format in config:
4253 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
4254 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
4255 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
4256 from their dirserver.
4257 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
4259 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
4260 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
4261 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
4262 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
4263 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
4264 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
4265 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
4266 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
4267 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
4268 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
4269 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
4270 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
4271 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
4272 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
4273 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
4274 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
4275 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
4276 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
4277 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
4278 than once per minute.
4281 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
4282 get back to normal.)
4283 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
4284 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
4285 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
4286 log more informatively.
4287 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
4288 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
4289 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
4290 from each other, to hinder linkability.
4291 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
4292 them act more like real nodes.
4293 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
4294 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
4295 1024) file descriptors.
4296 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
4299 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
4301 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
4302 clients/servers with an open dirport.
4303 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
4304 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
4305 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
4306 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
4307 intermittent connections.
4308 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
4309 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
4311 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
4312 in reporting stats locally.
4313 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
4314 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
4315 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
4318 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
4320 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
4321 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
4322 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
4323 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
4324 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
4325 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
4326 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
4327 list to decide who's running.
4328 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
4329 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
4330 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
4331 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
4332 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
4333 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
4334 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
4335 for pointing out this bug.)
4336 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
4338 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
4339 don't put it into the client dns cache.
4340 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
4341 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
4342 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
4345 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
4346 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
4347 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
4348 hadn't heard of before.
4351 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
4352 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
4353 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
4354 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
4355 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
4356 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
4357 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
4358 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
4359 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
4360 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
4361 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
4362 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
4363 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
4364 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
4365 - Directory caching.
4366 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
4367 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
4368 directory they've pulled down.
4369 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
4370 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
4371 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
4372 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
4373 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
4374 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
4375 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
4377 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
4378 This isn't used yet.
4379 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
4380 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
4381 clients don't use this yet.)
4382 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
4383 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
4384 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
4385 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
4386 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
4387 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
4388 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
4389 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
4390 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
4391 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
4392 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
4393 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
4394 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
4395 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
4396 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
4397 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
4398 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
4399 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
4400 - File and name management:
4401 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
4402 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
4404 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
4405 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
4406 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
4407 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
4408 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
4409 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
4410 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
4412 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
4413 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
4414 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
4416 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
4417 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
4418 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
4419 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
4420 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
4421 - New docs in the tarball:
4423 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
4424 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
4425 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
4426 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
4427 know you might want to get it verified.
4428 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
4429 kazaa, gnutella ports.
4430 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
4431 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
4432 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
4433 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
4434 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
4435 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
4436 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
4438 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
4440 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
4441 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
4443 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
4444 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
4445 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
4448 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
4449 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
4450 ask them to resolve the host "".
4453 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
4454 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
4455 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
4458 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
4459 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
4460 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
4463 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
4464 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
4465 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
4466 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
4468 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
4469 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
4470 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
4472 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
4473 hidden service per 15-minute period.
4474 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
4475 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
4476 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
4477 o Fixes for security bugs:
4478 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
4479 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
4480 a trusted dirserver.
4482 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
4483 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
4484 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
4485 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
4486 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
4487 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
4488 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
4489 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
4490 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
4491 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
4493 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
4494 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
4495 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
4496 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
4497 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
4498 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
4500 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
4503 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
4504 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
4505 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
4506 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
4507 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
4508 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
4509 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
4510 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
4511 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
4512 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
4513 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
4514 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
4515 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
4516 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
4519 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
4520 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
4521 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
4522 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4525 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
4526 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
4527 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
4528 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
4529 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
4530 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4531 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
4535 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
4537 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
4538 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
4539 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
4540 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
4541 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
4542 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
4543 if you decrypted them correctly.
4544 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
4545 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
4546 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
4547 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
4548 in-memory directories too.
4549 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
4550 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
4551 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
4552 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
4553 just close the circ.
4554 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
4555 - Better debugging for tls errors
4556 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
4557 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
4559 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
4560 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
4561 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
4562 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
4563 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
4564 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
4565 it tells you about the first error.
4566 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
4567 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
4568 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
4569 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
4570 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
4571 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
4572 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
4573 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
4574 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
4575 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
4577 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
4578 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
4581 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
4582 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
4584 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
4585 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
4586 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
4587 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
4588 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
4589 expect it to have a nickname.
4590 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
4591 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
4592 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
4593 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
4594 the dns farm to do it.
4595 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
4596 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
4598 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
4599 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
4600 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
4601 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
4602 but that aren't warnings
4605 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
4606 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
4610 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
4611 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
4612 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
4613 - include missing header fcntl.h
4614 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
4615 - deal with hardware word alignment
4616 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
4617 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
4618 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
4619 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
4620 by kill -USR1 currently.
4621 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
4622 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
4623 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
4626 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
4627 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
4628 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
4631 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
4633 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
4634 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
4635 - And fix a few endian issues.
4638 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
4640 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
4641 try that circuit again: try a new one.
4642 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
4643 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
4644 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
4645 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
4646 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
4647 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
4649 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
4650 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
4651 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
4653 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
4655 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
4656 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
4657 side isn't reading right then.
4658 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
4660 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
4661 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
4662 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
4665 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
4667 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
4668 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
4671 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
4675 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
4677 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
4678 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
4679 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
4680 connection is finished.
4681 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
4682 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
4683 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
4684 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
4685 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
4686 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
4687 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
4688 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
4689 rather than warn and continue.
4690 - Make --version work
4691 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
4694 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
4696 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
4698 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
4699 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
4701 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
4702 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
4703 so you can collect coredumps there.
4705 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
4706 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
4707 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
4708 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
4709 dns cache actually gets populated.
4710 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
4711 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
4712 end cell down it first.
4713 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
4714 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
4717 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
4719 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
4720 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
4722 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
4723 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
4724 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
4725 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
4726 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
4727 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
4729 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
4731 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
4732 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
4733 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
4734 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
4735 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
4736 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
4738 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
4739 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
4742 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
4744 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
4745 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
4746 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
4747 tor. It even has a man page.
4748 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
4749 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
4750 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
4751 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
4753 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
4755 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
4758 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
4760 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
4762 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
4763 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
4764 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
4765 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
4766 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
4767 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
4768 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
4769 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
4770 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
4771 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
4772 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
4774 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
4775 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
4778 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
4780 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
4781 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
4784 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
4786 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
4787 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
4788 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
4789 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
4790 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
4791 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
4792 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
4793 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
4794 logfile so you know it's working.
4795 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
4796 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
4799 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
4801 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
4802 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
4803 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
4806 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
4808 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
4809 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
4810 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
4813 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
4814 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
4815 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
4817 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
4818 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
4820 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
4821 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
4822 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
4824 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
4825 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
4829 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
4831 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
4832 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
4833 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
4836 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
4837 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
4838 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
4839 - Add port ranges to exit policies
4840 - Add a conservative default exit policy
4841 - Warn if you're running tor as root
4842 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
4843 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
4844 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
4845 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
4847 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
4850 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
4851 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4852 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
4853 really screw things up.
4854 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
4856 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
4857 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
4859 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
4860 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
4861 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
4862 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
4863 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
4864 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
4867 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
4870 - Change default loglevel to warn.
4871 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
4872 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
4874 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
4877 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
4878 o Robustness and bugfixes:
4879 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
4880 - to get ownership/permissions right
4881 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
4882 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
4883 pull down a directory again
4884 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
4885 causing server crashes
4886 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
4887 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
4888 - exit if bind() fails
4889 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
4890 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
4891 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
4892 - fix minor bias in PRNG
4893 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
4896 - Wrote the design document (woo)
4898 o Circuit building and exit policies:
4899 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
4901 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
4902 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
4903 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
4904 exists, rather than failing
4905 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
4906 which AP connections are standing by
4907 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
4908 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
4909 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
4911 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
4912 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
4915 - APPort is now called SocksPort
4916 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
4918 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
4919 hardcoded (for dirservers)
4920 - Reloads config on HUP
4921 - Usage info on -h or --help
4922 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
4924 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
4925 o General stability:
4926 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
4927 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
4928 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
4929 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
4930 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
4931 to take down the network when I approve a new router
4932 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
4935 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
4936 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
4938 o Autoconf improvements:
4939 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
4940 - Make install now works
4941 - create var/lib/tor on make install
4942 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
4943 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
4945 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
4946 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
4947 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
4948 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup