1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
7 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
8 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
9 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
10 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
11 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
14 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
15 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
16 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
17 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
18 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
20 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
21 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
22 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
25 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
26 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
28 o New system requirements:
29 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
30 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
31 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
33 o Major features (build system):
34 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
35 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
36 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
37 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
38 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
40 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
41 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
42 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
43 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
44 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
46 o Major features (onion services):
47 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
48 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
49 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
50 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
51 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
52 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
53 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
55 o Major features (proxy):
56 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
57 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
58 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
59 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
60 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
61 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
63 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
64 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
65 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
66 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
67 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
68 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
69 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
70 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
71 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
73 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
74 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
75 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
76 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
77 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
79 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
80 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
81 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
82 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
83 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
85 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
86 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
87 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
88 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
89 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
90 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
92 o Major bugfixes (networking):
93 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
94 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
95 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
97 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
98 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
99 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
100 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
101 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
102 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
104 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
105 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
106 message. Closes ticket 31371.
108 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
109 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
110 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
111 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
112 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
114 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
115 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
116 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
117 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
119 o Minor features (configuration validation):
120 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
121 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
122 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
125 o Minor features (configuration):
126 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
127 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
129 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
130 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
131 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
132 Implements ticket 32404.
134 o Minor features (configure, build system):
135 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
136 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
138 o Minor features (continuous integration):
139 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
140 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
141 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
142 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
145 o Minor features (controller):
146 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
147 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
148 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
150 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
151 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
152 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
153 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
155 o Minor features (defense in depth):
156 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
157 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
160 o Minor features (developer tools):
161 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
162 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
164 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
165 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
166 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
167 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
168 target. Closes ticket 31919.
169 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
170 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
171 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
173 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
174 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
175 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
176 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
178 o Minor features (diagnostic):
179 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
180 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
181 code. Closes ticket 33290.
183 o Minor features (directory authorities):
184 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
185 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
186 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
188 o Minor features (Doxygen):
189 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
190 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
191 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
193 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
194 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
195 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
196 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
197 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
198 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
199 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
200 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
202 o Minor features (git scripts):
203 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
204 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
205 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
206 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
207 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
208 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
209 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
210 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
211 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
212 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
214 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
215 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
216 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
217 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
219 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
220 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
221 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
222 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
223 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
224 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
226 o Minor features (portability, android):
227 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
228 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
229 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
231 o Minor features (relay modularity):
232 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
233 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
234 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
235 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
236 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
237 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
238 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
239 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
240 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
242 o Minor features (release tools):
243 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
246 o Minor features (testing):
247 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
248 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
249 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
250 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
251 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
252 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
253 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
254 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
255 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
256 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
257 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
259 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
260 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
261 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
263 o Minor features (usability):
264 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
265 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
266 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
268 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
269 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
270 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
271 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
274 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
275 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
276 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
278 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
279 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
280 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
282 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
283 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
284 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
285 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
286 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
287 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
290 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
291 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
292 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
293 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
294 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
295 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
296 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
297 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
298 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
299 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
300 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
301 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
302 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
303 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
304 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
305 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
306 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
307 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
309 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
310 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
313 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
314 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
315 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
316 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
318 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
319 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
320 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
323 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
324 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
325 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
327 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
328 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
329 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
331 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
332 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
333 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
335 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
336 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
337 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
338 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
339 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
342 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
343 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
345 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
348 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
349 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
350 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
351 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
352 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
353 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
355 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
356 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
357 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
358 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
359 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
360 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
361 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
362 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
364 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
365 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
366 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
367 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
369 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
370 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
371 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
372 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
374 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
375 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
376 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
377 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
378 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
379 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
380 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
381 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
384 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
385 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
386 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
387 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
389 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
390 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
391 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
392 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
393 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
394 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
395 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
397 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
398 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
399 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
400 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
401 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
403 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
404 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
405 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
406 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
409 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
410 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
411 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
412 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
413 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
415 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
416 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
417 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
418 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
420 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
421 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
422 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
423 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
425 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
426 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
427 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
430 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
431 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
432 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
434 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
435 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
436 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
437 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
438 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
439 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
440 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
442 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
443 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
444 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
445 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
446 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
448 o Deprecated features:
449 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
450 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
451 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
455 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
456 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
457 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
458 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
459 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
460 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
461 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
462 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
464 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
465 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
468 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
469 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
470 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
471 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
472 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
473 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
475 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
476 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
477 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
478 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
479 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
482 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
483 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
484 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
485 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
486 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
488 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
489 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
491 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
492 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
493 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
494 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
495 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
498 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
499 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
500 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
502 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
503 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
504 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
505 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
506 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
507 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
508 Solves part of ticket 32339.
509 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
510 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
511 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
512 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
513 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
514 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
515 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
516 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
517 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
518 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
520 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
521 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
523 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
524 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
525 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
527 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
528 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
529 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
530 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
531 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
532 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
534 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
535 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
537 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
539 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
541 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
542 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
543 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
545 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
546 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
547 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
548 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
550 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
551 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
552 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
553 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
554 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
557 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
558 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
560 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
563 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
564 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
565 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
566 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
567 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
568 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
569 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
570 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
572 o Documentation (manpage):
573 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
574 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
575 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
576 Google Season of Docs.
577 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
578 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
579 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
580 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
581 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
582 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
584 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
586 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
587 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
588 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
590 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
591 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
592 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
594 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
595 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
596 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
597 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
598 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
599 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
600 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
601 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
604 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
605 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
608 o Testing (Travis CI):
609 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
610 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
611 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
613 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
614 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
615 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
616 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
617 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
620 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
621 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
622 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
623 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
624 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
625 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
626 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
627 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
628 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
629 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
630 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
631 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
633 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
634 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
635 as soon as packages are available.
637 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
638 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
639 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
640 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
641 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
642 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
643 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
644 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
645 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
647 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
648 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
649 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
650 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
651 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
653 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
654 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
655 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
656 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
657 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
659 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
660 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
661 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
664 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
665 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
666 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
668 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
669 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
670 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
671 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
672 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
675 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
676 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
677 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
678 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
681 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
682 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
683 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
684 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
686 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
687 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
688 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
689 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
691 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
692 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
693 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
694 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
695 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
698 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
699 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
700 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
701 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
702 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
703 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
704 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
705 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
706 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
707 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
708 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
709 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
711 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
712 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
713 as soon as packages are available.
715 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
716 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
717 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
718 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
719 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
720 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
721 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
722 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
723 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
725 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
726 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
727 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
728 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
729 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
731 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
732 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
733 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
735 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
736 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
737 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
738 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
739 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
742 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
743 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
744 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
745 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
748 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
749 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
750 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
751 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
753 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
754 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
755 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
756 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
758 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
759 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
760 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
761 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
762 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
765 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
766 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
767 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
768 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
769 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
770 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
771 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
772 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
773 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
774 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
775 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
778 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
779 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
780 as soon as packages are available.
782 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
783 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
784 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
785 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
786 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
787 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
788 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
789 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
790 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
792 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
793 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
794 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
795 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
796 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
797 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
798 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
799 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
802 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
803 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
804 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
807 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
808 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
809 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
812 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
813 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
814 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
815 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
817 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
818 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
819 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
820 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
821 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
824 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
825 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
826 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
827 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
830 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
831 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
832 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
833 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
835 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
836 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
837 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
838 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
840 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
841 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
842 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
844 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
845 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
847 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
848 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
849 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
850 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
852 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
853 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
854 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
855 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
858 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
859 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
860 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
861 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
862 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
863 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
865 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
866 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
867 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
868 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
869 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
870 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
871 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
872 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
874 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
875 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
876 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
878 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
879 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
880 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
881 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
883 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
884 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
885 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
886 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
888 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
889 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
890 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
891 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
892 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
893 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
896 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
897 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
898 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
900 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
901 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
902 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
903 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
904 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
905 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
906 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
909 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
910 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
913 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
914 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
915 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
916 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
917 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
918 current version of 0.4.1.x.
920 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
921 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
922 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
923 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
924 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
925 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
926 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
927 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
929 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
930 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
931 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
933 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
934 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
935 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
936 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
937 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
939 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
940 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
941 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
943 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
944 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
945 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
946 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
947 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
948 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
949 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
952 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
953 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
956 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
957 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
958 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
959 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
960 bugs present in previous series.
962 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
963 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
964 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
965 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
967 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
968 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
970 o Major features (directory authorities):
971 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
972 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
973 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
975 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
976 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
977 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
978 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
979 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
980 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
983 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
984 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
985 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
986 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
987 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
988 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
991 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
992 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
993 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
994 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
995 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
996 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
997 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
998 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
999 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1001 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1002 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1003 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1004 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1006 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1007 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1008 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1009 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1010 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1011 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1012 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1013 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1015 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
1016 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1017 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1018 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1019 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1021 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1022 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1023 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1024 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1025 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1028 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
1029 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
1030 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
1031 Closes ticket 29669.
1033 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
1034 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
1035 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
1036 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
1037 Closes ticket 31779.
1039 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1040 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
1041 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
1042 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
1043 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
1044 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
1045 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
1046 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
1047 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
1048 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
1049 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
1050 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
1051 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
1052 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
1053 files. Closes ticket 31175.
1055 o Minor features (build system):
1056 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
1057 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
1058 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
1059 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
1060 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
1062 o Minor features (compilation):
1063 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
1064 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
1065 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
1067 o Minor features (configuration):
1068 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
1069 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
1070 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
1071 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
1073 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1074 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1075 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1076 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1077 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
1078 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
1079 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
1081 o Minor features (debugging):
1082 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
1083 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
1084 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
1085 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
1087 o Minor features (geoip):
1088 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1089 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1091 o Minor features (git hooks):
1092 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
1093 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
1094 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
1095 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
1096 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
1098 o Minor features (git scripts):
1099 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
1100 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
1101 push. Closes ticket 31314.
1102 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
1103 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
1104 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
1105 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
1106 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
1107 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
1108 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
1109 Closes ticket 31314.
1110 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
1111 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
1112 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
1113 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
1114 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
1115 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
1116 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
1117 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
1118 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
1120 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
1121 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
1122 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
1125 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
1126 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
1127 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
1129 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
1130 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
1131 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
1132 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
1133 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
1134 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
1135 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
1137 o Minor features (onion service v3):
1138 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
1139 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
1141 o Minor features (onion service):
1142 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
1143 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
1144 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
1145 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
1147 o Minor features (onion services v3):
1148 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
1149 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
1152 o Minor features (stem tests):
1153 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1154 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1157 o Minor features (testing):
1158 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
1159 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
1160 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
1161 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
1162 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
1163 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
1164 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
1165 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
1166 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
1167 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
1168 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
1169 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
1170 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
1171 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
1172 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
1174 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
1175 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1176 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1177 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1179 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1180 Closes ticket 31859.
1181 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1182 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1184 o Minor features (token bucket):
1185 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
1186 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
1188 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
1189 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
1190 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1192 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
1193 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
1194 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
1195 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1196 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
1197 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
1198 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
1199 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
1202 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1203 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
1204 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1205 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
1207 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
1208 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1209 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
1210 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
1211 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1212 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1213 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1215 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
1216 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
1217 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
1218 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
1219 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
1220 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1222 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
1223 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1224 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1225 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1226 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1227 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1229 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
1230 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
1231 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1234 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
1235 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
1236 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
1237 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
1239 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1240 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1241 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1243 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1244 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
1245 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
1246 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
1248 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
1249 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1250 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1251 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1253 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1254 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
1255 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
1256 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
1259 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
1260 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
1261 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
1262 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
1263 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
1264 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
1265 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
1266 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
1267 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
1270 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1271 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1272 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1273 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1275 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
1276 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
1277 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
1280 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1281 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
1282 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1284 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
1285 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
1286 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1287 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1288 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1289 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1290 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1291 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1292 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1293 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
1294 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
1295 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
1298 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
1299 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1300 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1301 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1304 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
1305 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
1306 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
1307 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1309 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1310 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
1311 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
1312 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1313 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
1314 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1315 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
1316 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
1317 Closes ticket 31678.
1319 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
1320 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1321 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1322 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1323 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1326 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
1327 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
1328 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
1329 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1330 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
1331 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
1332 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
1333 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
1336 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1337 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1338 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1339 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1340 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1341 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1342 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1343 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1344 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1345 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
1346 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1347 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1348 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1350 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
1351 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
1352 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
1354 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
1355 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1356 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1357 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
1360 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1361 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1362 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1363 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1366 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
1367 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
1368 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
1371 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
1372 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
1373 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
1376 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
1377 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1378 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1380 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
1381 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
1382 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
1383 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
1384 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
1385 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
1387 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
1388 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
1389 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
1390 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
1393 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1394 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
1395 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
1396 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
1397 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1399 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1400 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
1401 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
1402 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
1403 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
1404 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1406 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
1407 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
1408 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
1409 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1411 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
1412 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1413 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1415 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1416 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1417 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1419 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1420 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1421 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1422 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1424 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1425 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1426 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1427 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
1428 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1430 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
1431 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
1432 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
1433 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1435 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1436 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
1437 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
1438 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
1439 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
1442 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
1443 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
1444 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
1445 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
1448 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1449 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1450 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
1452 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1453 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1454 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1455 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1456 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
1457 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
1460 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
1461 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1462 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1464 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
1465 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1466 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1469 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
1470 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1471 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1472 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1473 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1474 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1476 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1477 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
1478 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
1479 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
1480 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1482 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
1483 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1484 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
1485 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
1486 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
1487 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1488 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1489 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1490 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1491 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1493 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1494 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
1495 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
1496 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
1497 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
1498 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
1499 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
1501 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
1505 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
1506 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1507 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
1508 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
1509 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
1510 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
1511 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
1512 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
1514 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1515 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1516 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
1517 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
1518 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
1519 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
1520 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
1521 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
1522 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
1523 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
1524 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1525 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1526 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1529 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
1530 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
1531 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
1532 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
1533 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
1534 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
1536 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
1540 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
1541 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
1542 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1543 Closes ticket 32500.
1544 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
1545 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
1546 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
1547 Closes ticket 30967.
1549 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
1550 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
1551 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
1552 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
1553 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
1554 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
1555 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
1556 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
1557 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
1558 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
1559 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
1560 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
1561 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
1562 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
1563 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
1564 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
1566 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1567 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
1568 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
1569 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
1570 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
1571 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
1572 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
1573 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
1574 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
1575 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
1577 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
1578 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
1579 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
1581 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
1582 Closes ticket 30806.
1583 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
1584 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
1587 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
1588 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
1589 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
1591 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
1592 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
1593 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1595 o Testing (continuous integration):
1596 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1597 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1598 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1599 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1600 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1601 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1602 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1603 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1604 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1607 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
1608 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
1609 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
1610 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1612 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1613 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1614 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1615 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1617 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1618 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1619 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1620 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1622 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1623 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1624 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1625 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1626 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1627 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1628 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1629 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1631 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1632 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1633 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1634 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1635 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1637 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1638 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1639 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1640 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1641 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1644 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1645 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1646 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1647 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1649 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1650 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1651 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1654 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1655 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1657 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1658 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1659 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1660 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1661 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1662 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1664 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1665 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1666 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1667 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1669 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1670 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1671 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1672 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1673 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1674 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1675 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1676 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
1677 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
1678 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
1681 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1682 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1683 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1684 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1685 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1686 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1687 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1688 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1689 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1691 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1692 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1693 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1694 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1696 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1697 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1698 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1699 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1700 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1703 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1704 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1705 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1707 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1708 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1709 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1711 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1712 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1713 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1715 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1716 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1717 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1718 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1720 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1721 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1722 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1723 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1724 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1726 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1727 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1728 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1730 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1731 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1732 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1735 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1736 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1737 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1739 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1740 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1741 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1742 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1744 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1745 Closes ticket 31859.
1746 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1747 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1749 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1750 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1751 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1752 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1753 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1754 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1755 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1756 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1757 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1758 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1760 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1761 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1762 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1763 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1764 Closes ticket 32500.
1767 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
1768 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
1769 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
1770 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
1771 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1773 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
1774 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
1775 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
1776 support until 1 Feb 2022.
1778 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1779 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1782 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1783 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1784 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1785 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1786 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1787 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1788 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1789 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1790 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1791 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1792 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1794 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1795 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1796 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1797 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1798 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1799 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1801 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1802 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1803 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1804 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1805 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1808 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1809 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1810 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1811 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1812 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1814 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1815 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1816 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1817 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1820 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1821 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1822 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1823 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1824 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1825 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1826 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1827 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1829 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1830 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1831 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1832 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1833 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1835 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1836 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1837 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1838 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1839 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1842 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1843 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1844 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1846 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1847 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1848 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1851 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1852 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1853 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1855 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1856 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1857 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1858 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1860 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1861 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1862 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1863 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1864 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1866 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1867 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1868 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1870 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1871 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1872 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1875 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1876 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1877 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1879 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1880 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1881 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1884 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1885 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1887 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1888 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1889 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1892 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1893 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1894 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1895 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1896 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1897 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1900 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1901 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1902 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1903 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1906 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1907 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1910 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1911 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1912 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1914 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1915 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1916 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1917 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1920 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1921 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1922 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1924 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1925 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1926 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1927 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1929 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1930 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1931 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1932 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1935 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1936 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1937 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1938 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1939 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1940 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1942 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1943 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1944 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1945 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1947 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1948 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1949 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1950 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1952 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1953 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1954 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1957 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1958 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1959 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1960 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1961 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1962 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1963 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1965 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1966 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1967 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1968 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1971 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1972 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1973 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1974 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1975 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1977 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1978 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1979 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1980 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1981 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1983 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1984 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1985 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1988 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1989 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1990 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1991 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1992 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1994 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1995 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1996 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1997 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1999 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2000 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2001 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2002 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2003 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2006 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2007 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2008 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2011 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2012 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
2013 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
2014 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2016 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2017 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
2018 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
2019 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
2021 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2022 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2023 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2024 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2026 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2027 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2028 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2029 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2032 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2033 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2034 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2035 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2036 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2037 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2040 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2041 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2042 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2044 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2045 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2046 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2048 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2049 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2050 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2051 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2054 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2055 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2058 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2059 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2060 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2061 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2063 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2064 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2065 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2068 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2069 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2070 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2071 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2072 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2073 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2074 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2075 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2076 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2077 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2079 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2080 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2081 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2082 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2084 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2085 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2086 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2087 Resolves issue 29702.
2089 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2090 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2092 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2093 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2094 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2095 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2098 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2099 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2100 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2101 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2103 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2104 Closes ticket 31859.
2105 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2106 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2108 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2109 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2110 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2111 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2112 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2113 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2114 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2115 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2116 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2117 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2119 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2120 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2121 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2122 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2123 Closes ticket 32500.
2126 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
2127 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
2128 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
2131 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2132 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2135 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2136 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2137 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2138 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2139 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2140 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2141 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2142 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2143 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2144 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2145 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2147 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2148 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2149 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2150 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2151 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2152 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2154 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2155 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
2156 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
2157 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
2158 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
2159 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2161 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2162 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2163 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2164 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2165 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2168 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2169 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2170 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2171 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2172 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2174 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2175 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2176 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2177 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2180 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2181 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2182 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2183 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2184 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2186 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2187 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2188 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2189 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2190 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2193 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2194 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
2195 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
2196 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
2197 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
2198 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
2199 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
2200 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2202 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2203 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
2204 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
2205 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
2206 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
2209 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2210 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2211 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2213 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2214 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
2215 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
2218 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2219 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
2220 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
2221 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
2223 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2224 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2225 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2228 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2229 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2230 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2232 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2233 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2234 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2235 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2237 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2238 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2239 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2240 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2241 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2243 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2244 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2245 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2247 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2248 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
2249 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
2250 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
2252 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2253 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2254 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2257 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2258 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
2259 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
2260 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
2261 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2262 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
2263 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
2264 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
2265 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
2266 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
2267 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
2268 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
2269 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
2272 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2273 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
2274 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
2275 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
2276 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
2278 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
2279 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
2280 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2282 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2283 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2284 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2286 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2287 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2288 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2290 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2291 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
2292 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
2295 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2296 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2297 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2299 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2300 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2301 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2302 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2303 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2304 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2306 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2307 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2308 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2309 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2310 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2312 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2313 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2314 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
2318 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
2319 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2321 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2322 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2323 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2326 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2327 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2328 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2330 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2331 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2332 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2333 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2335 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2336 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2337 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2338 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2340 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2341 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2342 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2343 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2345 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2346 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2347 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2348 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2349 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2350 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2351 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2354 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2355 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2356 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2359 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2360 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2361 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2363 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2364 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2365 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2368 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2369 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2370 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2371 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2372 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2373 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2374 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2377 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2378 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2379 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2382 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2383 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2384 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2385 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2386 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2388 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
2389 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
2390 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2392 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2393 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
2394 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
2395 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
2396 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2397 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
2398 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
2399 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
2400 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2401 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
2402 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2404 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2405 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2406 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2407 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2408 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2411 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2412 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2415 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2416 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2417 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2418 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2419 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2421 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2422 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2423 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2424 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2426 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2427 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2428 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2429 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2430 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2433 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2434 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2435 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2438 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2439 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
2440 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
2441 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2443 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2444 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
2445 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
2446 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2448 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2449 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
2450 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2452 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2453 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2454 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2455 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2457 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2458 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2459 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2460 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2463 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2464 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2465 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2466 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2467 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2468 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2471 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2472 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2473 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2474 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2476 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2477 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
2478 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2480 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2481 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2482 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2484 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2485 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
2486 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
2487 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
2488 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
2489 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
2490 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
2492 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2493 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
2494 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
2497 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2498 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
2499 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
2500 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
2501 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
2502 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
2503 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
2504 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2506 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2507 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
2508 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
2509 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2510 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
2511 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
2514 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2515 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2516 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2517 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2518 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2520 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
2521 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
2522 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
2523 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
2524 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
2525 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
2526 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
2527 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2529 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2530 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2531 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2534 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2535 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2536 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2537 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2538 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2539 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2540 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2541 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2542 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2543 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2545 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2546 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
2547 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
2548 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
2549 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
2550 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2552 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2553 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2554 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2555 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2557 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2558 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2559 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2560 Resolves issue 29702.
2562 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2563 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2565 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2566 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2567 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2568 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2571 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2572 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2573 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2574 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2576 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2577 Closes ticket 31859.
2578 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2579 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2581 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2582 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2583 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2584 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2585 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2586 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2587 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2588 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2589 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2590 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2592 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2593 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2594 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2595 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2596 Closes ticket 32500.
2599 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
2600 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2601 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
2602 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
2605 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2606 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2607 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2608 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2609 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2610 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2611 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2612 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2613 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2615 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2616 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2617 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2620 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2621 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2622 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2625 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2626 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2627 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2628 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2630 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2631 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2632 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2634 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2635 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2636 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
2637 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2640 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2641 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2642 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2645 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2646 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2647 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2648 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2649 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2651 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2652 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2653 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2656 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2657 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2658 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2660 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2661 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2662 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2663 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2664 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2665 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2667 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2668 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2669 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2670 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2671 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2672 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2673 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2674 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2675 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2676 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2678 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2679 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2680 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2681 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2684 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
2685 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
2686 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
2687 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
2688 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
2689 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
2690 bugfixes on earlier versions.
2692 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
2693 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
2694 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2695 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2697 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
2698 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2700 o Directory authority changes:
2701 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2704 o Major features (circuit padding):
2705 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
2706 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
2707 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
2708 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
2709 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
2710 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
2711 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
2712 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
2713 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
2715 o Major features (code organization):
2716 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
2717 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
2718 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
2719 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
2722 o Major features (controller protocol):
2723 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
2724 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
2725 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
2726 Closes ticket 30091.
2728 o Major features (flow control):
2729 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
2730 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
2731 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
2732 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
2733 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
2734 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
2735 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
2737 o Major features (performance):
2738 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
2739 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
2740 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
2742 o Major features (performance, RNG):
2743 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
2744 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
2745 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
2746 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
2747 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
2748 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
2749 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
2750 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
2752 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2753 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2754 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2755 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2756 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2757 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2758 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2759 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2760 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2761 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2762 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2764 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2765 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2766 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2768 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2769 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2770 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2771 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2772 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2774 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
2775 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2776 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2777 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2778 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2781 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2782 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2783 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2784 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2785 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2787 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2788 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2789 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2790 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2793 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
2794 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
2795 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
2796 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
2797 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
2798 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
2801 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
2802 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
2803 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
2804 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
2806 o Minor features (circuit padding):
2807 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
2809 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
2810 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
2811 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
2812 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
2813 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2814 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
2815 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
2817 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
2818 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2819 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2821 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2822 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2823 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2824 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
2825 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
2827 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2828 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2830 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2832 o Minor features (controller):
2833 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
2834 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
2835 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2837 o Minor features (debugging):
2838 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
2839 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
2840 can use format strings to include information for trouble
2841 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
2843 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2844 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
2845 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
2846 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
2847 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
2848 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
2849 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
2850 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
2851 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
2852 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
2854 o Minor features (developer tools):
2855 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
2856 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
2857 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
2858 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
2859 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
2861 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
2862 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
2864 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
2865 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
2867 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2868 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2869 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2870 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2871 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2873 o Minor features (geoip):
2874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2875 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
2876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2877 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
2879 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
2880 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
2881 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
2883 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
2884 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
2885 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
2886 addresses. Implements 26992.
2888 o Minor features (logging):
2889 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
2890 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
2891 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
2892 Closes ticket 30686.
2894 o Minor features (maintenance):
2895 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
2896 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
2897 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
2899 o Minor features (modularity):
2900 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
2901 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
2903 o Minor features (performance):
2904 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
2905 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
2906 Closes ticket 28837.
2908 o Minor features (testing):
2909 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
2910 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
2911 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
2912 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
2914 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
2915 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
2916 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
2917 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
2918 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
2919 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
2920 Implements ticket 29732.
2921 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
2922 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
2924 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
2925 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
2927 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
2928 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
2929 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
2930 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
2931 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2932 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2934 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
2935 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
2936 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
2937 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2939 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
2940 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2941 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2943 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2944 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
2945 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2946 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
2947 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
2948 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
2949 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2950 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
2951 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
2952 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2953 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
2954 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2955 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
2956 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
2957 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2958 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
2959 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
2960 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2962 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
2963 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2964 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2965 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2966 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
2969 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
2970 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
2971 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
2972 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2973 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2975 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
2976 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2977 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
2980 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2981 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2982 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
2985 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2986 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2987 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2989 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
2990 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2991 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2992 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2995 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2996 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2997 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2998 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2999 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3000 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3002 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3003 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
3004 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
3005 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
3006 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
3009 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3010 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3011 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3013 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3014 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
3015 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
3018 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3019 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3020 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3021 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3022 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3023 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3025 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
3026 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3027 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3029 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3030 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
3031 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3032 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
3033 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
3034 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
3036 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
3037 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3039 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3040 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3041 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3042 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3043 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3044 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
3045 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
3048 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3049 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3050 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3052 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
3053 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
3056 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
3057 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3058 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3059 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3061 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3062 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3063 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3064 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3065 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
3066 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
3067 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
3068 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
3070 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
3071 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
3072 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3073 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
3074 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
3075 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
3076 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3078 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3079 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3080 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3081 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3082 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3083 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
3086 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3087 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3088 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3091 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3092 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3093 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3094 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3095 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3098 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3099 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3101 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3102 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3103 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3104 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3105 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3106 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3109 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3110 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3111 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3114 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3115 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3116 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3117 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3119 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3120 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3121 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3122 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3123 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
3126 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
3127 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
3128 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
3130 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3131 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3132 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3133 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3134 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3136 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3137 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3138 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3139 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3140 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3141 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3142 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3143 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3144 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3145 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3146 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3147 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3148 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3150 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3151 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3152 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3153 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3154 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3156 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3157 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3158 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3159 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3160 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
3161 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
3162 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
3163 string to directory connection with or without compression.
3164 Resolves issue 28816.
3165 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
3166 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
3167 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
3168 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
3169 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
3170 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
3171 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
3172 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
3173 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
3174 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
3175 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
3176 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
3177 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
3178 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
3179 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
3180 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
3181 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3182 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
3183 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3184 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
3185 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
3186 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
3187 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
3188 Closes ticket 29894.
3189 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
3190 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
3191 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
3192 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
3195 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
3196 Closes ticket 30630.
3197 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
3198 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
3202 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
3203 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
3204 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
3205 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
3209 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3210 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3211 Resolves issue 29702.
3213 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3214 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
3215 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
3216 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
3217 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
3218 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
3219 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
3220 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
3221 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
3222 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
3223 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
3226 o Testing (chutney):
3227 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
3228 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
3229 Closes ticket 27251.
3231 o Testing (continuous integration):
3232 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
3233 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3234 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
3235 Closes ticket 30694.
3238 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
3239 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
3240 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
3241 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
3242 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
3243 long-term maintainability.
3245 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
3246 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
3247 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3248 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3250 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
3251 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3253 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
3254 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
3255 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
3256 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
3257 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
3258 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
3260 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
3261 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
3263 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
3264 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
3267 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
3268 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
3269 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
3270 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
3271 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
3272 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
3273 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
3274 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
3275 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
3278 o Major features (circuit padding):
3279 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
3280 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
3281 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
3282 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
3283 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
3284 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
3285 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
3286 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
3289 o Major features (refactoring):
3290 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
3291 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
3292 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
3293 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
3296 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3297 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3298 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3299 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3300 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3301 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3302 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3303 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3305 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3306 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3307 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3308 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3309 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3311 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
3312 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3313 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3314 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3315 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3316 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3318 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
3319 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
3320 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
3321 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
3322 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
3323 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
3324 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3326 o Minor features (address selection):
3327 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3328 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3329 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3330 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3331 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3332 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3333 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3335 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
3336 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3337 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3338 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3339 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3341 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
3342 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
3343 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
3346 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3347 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
3348 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
3349 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
3350 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
3353 o Minor features (compilation):
3354 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3355 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3356 Patches from "Mangix".
3358 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3359 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3360 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3362 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
3364 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3365 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3366 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3368 o Minor features (controller):
3369 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
3370 Implements ticket 28843.
3372 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3373 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
3374 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
3375 release. Closes ticket 27761.
3376 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
3377 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
3378 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
3380 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
3381 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
3382 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
3384 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3385 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
3386 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
3389 o Minor features (directory authority):
3390 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
3391 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
3392 Closes ticket 26698.
3393 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
3394 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
3395 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
3396 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
3399 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
3400 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
3401 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
3402 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
3403 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
3404 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
3405 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
3407 o Minor features (dormant mode):
3408 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
3409 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
3410 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
3411 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
3412 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
3413 background. Closes ticket 29357.
3415 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3416 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
3417 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
3419 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
3420 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
3421 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
3422 Closes ticket 28518.
3424 o Minor features (geoip):
3425 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3426 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
3428 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
3429 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
3430 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
3431 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
3433 o Minor features (IPv6):
3434 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
3435 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
3436 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
3437 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
3438 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
3439 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3440 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
3441 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
3442 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
3443 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3445 o Minor features (log messages):
3446 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
3447 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
3450 o Minor features (memory usage):
3451 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
3452 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
3453 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
3454 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
3455 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
3457 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
3458 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3459 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3460 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3462 o Minor features (parsing):
3463 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
3464 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
3465 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
3467 o Minor features (performance):
3468 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
3469 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
3470 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
3471 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
3473 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
3474 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
3475 Closes ticket 28852.
3476 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
3477 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
3478 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
3479 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
3480 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
3481 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
3483 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3484 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
3485 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
3486 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
3487 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
3489 o Minor features (process management):
3490 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
3491 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
3492 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
3493 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
3494 module. Closes ticket 28847.
3496 o Minor features (relay):
3497 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
3498 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
3499 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
3501 o Minor features (required protocols):
3502 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
3503 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
3504 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
3505 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
3506 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
3507 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
3508 297; closes ticket 27735.
3510 o Minor features (testing):
3511 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3513 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
3514 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
3515 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
3516 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
3519 o Minor bugfixes (security):
3520 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3521 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3522 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3523 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3524 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3525 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3526 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3527 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3529 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3530 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3531 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3532 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3534 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
3535 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3536 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3537 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3538 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3540 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3541 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3542 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3544 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
3545 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3546 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3547 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3549 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3550 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3551 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3554 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
3555 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
3556 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3557 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3558 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3561 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3562 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
3563 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3564 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3565 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3566 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3567 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3568 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3570 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
3571 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3572 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3574 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
3575 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
3576 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
3577 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3579 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
3580 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
3581 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
3582 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
3583 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3586 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3587 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3588 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3590 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3591 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
3592 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
3593 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
3594 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
3595 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
3596 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3598 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
3599 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3600 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3601 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3604 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
3605 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
3606 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3608 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3609 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3610 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3611 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3612 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3613 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3614 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3615 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3616 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3617 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3618 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3619 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3620 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3621 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3622 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3623 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3624 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3625 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3626 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3627 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3628 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3629 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3631 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3632 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3633 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3634 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3635 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3636 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3638 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3639 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3640 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3641 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3642 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3644 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
3645 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
3646 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
3647 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3649 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3650 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3651 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3652 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3653 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3654 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3656 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3657 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3658 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3660 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3661 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3662 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3664 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3665 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3666 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3667 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3669 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
3670 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
3671 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
3672 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3674 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3675 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
3676 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
3677 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
3678 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3680 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3681 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3682 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3684 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
3685 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
3686 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
3687 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
3688 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
3691 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
3692 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
3693 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
3694 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3696 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
3697 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3698 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3699 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3700 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3701 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3702 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3704 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3705 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3706 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3709 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3710 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3711 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3712 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3713 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3714 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3716 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3717 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3718 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3719 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3720 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3721 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3722 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3723 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
3724 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3725 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
3726 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3727 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
3728 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
3729 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
3730 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3731 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3732 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3733 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3734 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3736 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
3737 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
3738 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
3739 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3740 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
3741 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
3743 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
3744 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3745 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3746 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3747 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3748 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3749 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3750 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3752 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
3753 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
3754 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3756 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
3757 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3758 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3759 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3760 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
3763 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3764 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3765 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3766 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3767 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3769 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3770 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
3771 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
3772 Resolves issue 28816.
3773 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
3774 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
3775 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
3776 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
3777 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
3779 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
3780 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
3781 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
3782 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
3783 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
3784 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
3785 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
3786 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
3790 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
3791 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
3792 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
3793 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
3794 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
3795 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
3796 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
3797 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
3798 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
3800 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
3803 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
3804 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
3805 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
3806 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
3807 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
3808 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
3809 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
3810 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
3813 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
3815 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
3816 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
3818 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
3819 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
3820 code from client and service into one function. Closes
3823 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3824 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
3826 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
3827 Resolves ticket 28006.
3828 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
3829 Resolves ticket 28012.
3830 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
3831 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
3832 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
3833 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
3837 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
3838 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
3839 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
3842 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3843 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3844 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3846 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3847 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3848 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3849 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3850 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3851 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3852 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3853 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3855 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3856 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3857 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3858 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3859 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3861 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3862 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3863 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3864 Patches from "Mangix".
3866 o Minor features (geoip):
3867 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3868 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3870 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3871 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3874 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3875 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3876 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3877 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3878 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3879 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3881 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3882 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3883 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3884 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3887 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3888 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3889 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3890 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3892 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3893 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3894 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3897 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3898 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3899 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3900 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3902 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3903 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3904 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3905 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3907 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3908 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3909 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3910 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3911 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3912 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3914 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3915 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3916 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3917 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3918 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3920 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3921 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3922 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3923 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3924 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3926 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3927 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3928 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3930 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3931 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3932 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3934 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3935 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3936 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3937 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3939 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3940 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3941 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3943 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3944 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3945 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3946 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3947 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3950 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3951 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3952 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3953 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3954 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3957 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
3958 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
3959 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
3960 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
3961 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3963 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3964 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3965 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3966 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3967 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3968 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3969 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3970 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3972 o Minor features (geoip):
3973 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3974 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3976 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3977 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3978 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3979 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3982 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3983 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3984 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3985 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3988 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
3989 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3990 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3991 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3993 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
3994 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
3995 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
3996 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
3998 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3999 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4000 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4001 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4002 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4003 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4004 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4005 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4007 o Minor features (geoip):
4008 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4009 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4011 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4012 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4013 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4014 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4016 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4017 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4018 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4019 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4020 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4023 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4024 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4025 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4026 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4027 to this version, or to a later series.
4029 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4030 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4031 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4032 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4033 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4034 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4036 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4037 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4038 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4039 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4040 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4043 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4044 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4045 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4046 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4048 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4049 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4050 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4051 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4052 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4053 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4054 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4055 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4057 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4058 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4059 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4060 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4062 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4063 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4064 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4065 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4066 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4068 o Minor features (geoip):
4069 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4070 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4072 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4073 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4074 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4075 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4076 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4077 Closes ticket 28973.
4079 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4080 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4081 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4082 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4084 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4085 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4086 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4089 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4090 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4091 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4094 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4095 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4096 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4098 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4099 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4100 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4101 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4104 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4105 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4106 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4107 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4108 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4111 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4112 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4113 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4116 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4117 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4118 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4119 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4120 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4122 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4123 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4124 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4125 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4126 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4128 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4129 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4130 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4131 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4132 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4133 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4135 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4136 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
4137 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
4140 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4141 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4142 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4144 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4145 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4146 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4148 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4149 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4150 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4153 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4154 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4155 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4156 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4157 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4158 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4159 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4160 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4162 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4163 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4164 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4165 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4167 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4168 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4169 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4170 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4171 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4172 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4173 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4174 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4175 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4176 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4178 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4179 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4180 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4181 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4182 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4183 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4185 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4186 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4187 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4188 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4189 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4191 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4192 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4193 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4196 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
4197 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4198 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
4199 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
4202 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
4203 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
4204 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
4207 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4208 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4209 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4210 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4211 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4214 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4215 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4216 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4217 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4218 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4219 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4220 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4222 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4223 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4224 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4227 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4228 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4229 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4230 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4231 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4234 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4235 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4236 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4237 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4238 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4240 o Minor features (geoip):
4241 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4242 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4244 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4245 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4246 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4247 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4248 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4249 Closes ticket 28973.
4251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4252 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4253 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4254 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4256 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4257 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4258 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4259 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4260 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4263 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4264 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4265 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4266 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4268 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4269 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4270 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4273 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4274 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4275 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4277 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4278 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4279 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4280 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4281 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4282 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4285 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4286 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4287 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4290 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4291 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4292 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4293 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4295 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4296 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4297 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4298 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4299 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4300 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4303 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4304 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4305 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4307 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4308 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4309 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4312 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
4313 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
4314 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
4315 affecting directory caches.
4317 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
4318 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
4319 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
4320 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
4321 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
4322 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
4323 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
4324 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
4326 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
4327 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
4328 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
4329 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
4330 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
4331 so it will recognize them.
4333 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
4334 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
4335 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
4336 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
4337 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
4338 with the latest stable release.)
4340 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
4341 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4343 o Major features (bootstrap):
4344 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
4345 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
4346 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
4347 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
4349 o Major features (new code layout):
4350 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
4351 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
4352 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
4353 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
4354 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
4355 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
4356 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
4358 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
4359 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
4360 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
4362 o Major features (onion services v3):
4363 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
4364 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
4365 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
4366 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
4367 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
4368 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
4369 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
4370 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4371 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
4372 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
4373 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
4374 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
4375 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
4376 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
4377 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
4378 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
4379 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
4380 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
4382 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
4383 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
4384 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
4385 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
4386 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
4387 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
4389 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
4390 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
4391 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
4392 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
4393 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
4394 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
4395 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
4397 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
4398 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
4399 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
4400 (if present), and restart Tor.
4402 o Major features (relay, UI change):
4403 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
4404 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
4405 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
4406 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
4407 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4408 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
4409 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
4411 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
4412 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
4413 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4415 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
4416 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
4417 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
4418 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
4419 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
4420 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4422 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4423 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
4424 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
4425 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
4428 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
4429 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
4430 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
4431 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
4432 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4434 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
4435 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
4436 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
4437 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
4438 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4440 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4441 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
4442 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
4443 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
4444 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
4445 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
4447 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
4448 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4449 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4450 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4451 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4454 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
4455 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
4456 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
4457 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
4458 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
4459 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
4461 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4462 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
4463 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
4464 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
4465 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
4467 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4468 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4469 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4470 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4471 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4472 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4474 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
4475 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4476 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4477 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4479 o Minor features (admin tools):
4480 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
4481 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
4484 o Minor features (build):
4485 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
4486 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
4487 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
4488 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
4490 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
4491 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
4492 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
4493 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
4494 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
4496 o Minor features (code layout):
4497 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
4498 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
4499 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
4500 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
4503 o Minor features (compilation):
4504 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
4505 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
4506 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
4507 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
4508 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
4509 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
4512 o Minor features (config):
4513 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
4516 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4517 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
4519 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
4520 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
4521 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4522 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4523 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4524 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
4525 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
4527 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
4528 Implements ticket 27252.
4529 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
4530 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
4531 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4532 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4533 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4534 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4535 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4536 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4537 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4539 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
4540 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4541 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4543 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
4544 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
4546 o Minor features (controller):
4547 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
4548 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
4549 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
4550 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
4551 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4552 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4553 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4554 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4556 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
4557 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
4558 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
4559 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
4561 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4562 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
4563 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
4564 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4566 o Minor features (development):
4567 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
4568 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
4570 o Minor features (directory authority):
4571 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
4572 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
4573 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
4574 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
4576 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
4577 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
4580 o Minor features (embedding API):
4581 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
4582 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
4583 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
4584 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
4585 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
4586 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
4589 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4590 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4591 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4592 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4593 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4595 o Minor features (geoip):
4596 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4597 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4599 o Minor features (memory management):
4600 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
4601 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
4604 o Minor features (memory usage):
4605 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
4606 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
4607 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
4609 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
4610 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4611 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4612 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4613 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4614 Closes ticket 28973.
4616 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
4617 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
4618 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
4620 o Minor features (performance):
4621 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
4622 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
4623 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
4624 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
4625 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
4626 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
4627 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
4628 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
4629 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
4630 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
4632 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
4633 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
4634 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
4635 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
4637 o Minor features (testing):
4638 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
4639 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
4641 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
4642 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
4643 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
4645 o Minor features (UI):
4646 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
4647 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
4648 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
4649 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
4650 Closes ticket 26703.
4652 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
4653 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
4654 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
4655 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
4656 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4658 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
4659 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
4660 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4661 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
4662 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4665 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
4666 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
4667 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
4668 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4670 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4671 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
4672 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
4673 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4674 - Use time_t for all values in
4675 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
4676 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
4677 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4679 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
4680 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
4681 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
4682 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
4683 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
4686 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
4687 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
4688 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
4689 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
4690 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
4691 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4693 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4694 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
4695 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
4696 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4698 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
4699 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4700 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4704 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4705 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4706 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4708 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4709 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
4710 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
4713 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
4714 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
4715 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
4716 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
4717 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
4719 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
4720 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4721 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4722 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4723 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4726 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4727 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
4728 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4729 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
4730 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
4731 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
4732 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4733 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4734 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4735 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4736 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4737 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4738 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4740 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4741 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4742 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4745 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
4746 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
4747 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
4748 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
4751 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4752 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
4753 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
4754 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
4755 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4757 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
4758 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
4759 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4761 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
4762 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4763 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4764 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4765 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4766 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4769 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4770 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
4771 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
4774 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4775 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
4776 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
4777 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
4778 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4780 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4781 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
4782 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
4785 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4786 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
4787 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
4789 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
4790 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
4791 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
4792 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4793 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
4794 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
4796 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
4797 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
4798 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
4799 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
4800 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4802 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4803 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4804 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4805 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
4806 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4808 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
4809 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4810 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4813 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
4814 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
4815 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
4818 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4819 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4820 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4821 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4822 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4823 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4824 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
4825 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
4826 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
4828 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
4829 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
4831 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
4832 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
4833 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
4834 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
4835 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4836 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4837 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4838 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4839 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4840 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4841 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4843 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
4844 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
4845 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
4846 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4848 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
4849 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
4850 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
4851 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
4852 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
4854 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
4855 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
4856 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
4857 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
4859 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
4860 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4861 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4864 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
4865 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
4867 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4868 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4869 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4870 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4871 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4872 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4873 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4874 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4875 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4876 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4878 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
4879 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
4880 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
4881 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
4882 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4884 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
4885 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4886 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4887 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4889 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4890 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
4891 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
4892 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
4893 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
4894 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4895 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4896 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
4897 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
4898 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4900 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4901 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
4902 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
4903 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4904 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4905 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4906 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
4907 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
4908 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
4910 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
4911 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
4912 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4913 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
4914 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4915 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4916 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4917 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4918 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4919 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4920 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
4921 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
4922 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4923 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
4924 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4926 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4927 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
4928 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
4929 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
4930 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
4931 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
4932 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
4933 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
4935 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
4936 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
4937 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
4938 reported by Keifer Bly.
4940 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4941 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
4942 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
4944 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
4945 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
4946 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
4947 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
4948 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
4949 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
4950 Closes ticket 27814.
4951 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
4952 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
4953 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
4954 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
4955 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
4956 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
4957 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
4958 Closes ticket 27799.
4959 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
4960 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
4961 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
4962 directory within the top-level src directory.
4963 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
4964 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
4965 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
4966 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
4967 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
4968 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
4969 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
4970 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
4971 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
4972 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
4973 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
4974 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
4975 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
4976 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
4977 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
4978 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
4979 Closes ticket 21349.
4980 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
4981 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
4982 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
4983 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
4984 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
4985 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
4986 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
4988 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
4989 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
4990 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
4993 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
4994 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
4995 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
4996 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
4997 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
4998 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
4999 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
5000 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
5001 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
5004 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
5005 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
5006 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
5007 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
5008 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
5009 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
5010 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
5011 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
5012 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
5013 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
5014 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
5015 Closes ticket 26367.
5018 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
5019 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
5021 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
5022 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
5023 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
5024 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
5025 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
5026 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
5027 Closes ticket 19566.
5029 o Documentation (onion services):
5030 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
5031 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
5032 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
5033 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
5034 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
5035 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
5036 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
5037 process. Closes ticket 28275.
5040 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
5041 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5042 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
5043 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
5044 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
5046 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5047 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5048 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5050 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5051 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5052 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5053 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5054 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5056 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5057 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5058 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5059 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5060 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5063 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5064 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5065 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5066 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5068 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5069 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5070 Implements ticket 27252.
5071 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5072 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5073 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5074 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5075 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5076 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5077 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5079 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5080 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5081 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5082 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5084 o Minor features (geoip):
5085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5086 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5088 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5089 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5090 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5091 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5092 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5094 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5095 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5096 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5097 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5098 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5101 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5102 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5103 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5106 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5107 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5108 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5109 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5110 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5112 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5113 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5114 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5116 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5117 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5118 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5120 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5121 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5122 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5123 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5125 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5126 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5127 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5129 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5130 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5131 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5134 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5135 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5136 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5138 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5139 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5140 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5143 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5144 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5145 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5146 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5147 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5149 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5150 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5151 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5152 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5153 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5154 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5156 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5157 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5158 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5161 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5162 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5163 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5164 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5165 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5166 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5167 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5168 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5170 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5171 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5172 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5173 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5175 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5176 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5177 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5178 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5179 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5182 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5183 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5184 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5185 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5186 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5188 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5189 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5190 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5191 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5192 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5193 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5195 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5196 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5197 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5198 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5201 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5202 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5203 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5204 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5205 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5208 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
5209 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
5211 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5212 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5213 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5214 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5216 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5217 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5219 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5220 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5221 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5222 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5224 o Minor features (geoip):
5225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5226 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5229 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5230 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5231 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5234 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5235 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5236 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5237 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5238 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5239 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5240 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5243 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5244 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5245 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5246 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5249 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5250 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5251 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5253 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5254 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5255 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5256 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5258 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5259 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5260 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5261 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5262 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5264 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5265 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5266 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5269 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5270 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5271 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5272 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5273 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5275 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5276 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5277 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5280 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5281 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5282 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5283 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5285 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5286 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5287 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5289 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5290 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5291 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5294 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5295 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5296 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5297 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5298 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5301 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5302 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5305 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
5306 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5308 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5309 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5310 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5311 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5313 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5314 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5316 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5317 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5318 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5319 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5321 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5322 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5325 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5326 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5327 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5328 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5330 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5331 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5332 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5333 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5335 o Minor features (geoip):
5336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5337 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5339 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5340 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5341 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5342 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5343 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5344 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5345 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5347 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5348 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5349 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5350 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5351 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5352 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5353 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5354 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5357 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5358 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5359 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5360 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5362 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5363 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5364 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5365 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5367 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5368 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5369 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5370 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5371 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5373 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5374 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5375 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5376 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5377 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5379 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5380 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5381 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5384 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5385 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5386 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5387 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5388 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5391 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5392 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5395 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5396 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5397 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5400 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5401 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5402 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5405 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5406 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5408 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
5409 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
5410 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5411 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5413 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5414 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5415 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5416 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5418 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5419 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5420 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5422 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5423 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5424 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5425 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5426 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5427 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5428 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5431 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
5432 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
5433 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
5434 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
5435 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5438 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5439 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5440 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5441 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5443 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5444 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5445 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5448 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
5449 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5451 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5452 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
5453 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
5454 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
5456 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5457 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5458 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5459 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5461 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5462 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
5463 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5465 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5466 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5467 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5468 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5470 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5471 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5474 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5475 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5476 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5477 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5479 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5480 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5481 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5482 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5484 o Minor features (geoip):
5485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5486 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5489 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5490 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5491 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5492 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5493 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5494 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5497 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5498 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5499 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5500 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5501 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5502 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5503 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5507 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5508 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5509 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5511 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5512 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5513 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5514 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5516 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5517 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5518 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5519 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5520 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5522 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5523 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5524 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5525 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5526 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5528 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5529 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5530 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5533 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5534 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
5535 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
5536 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5538 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5539 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5540 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5541 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5542 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5544 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5545 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5546 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5549 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5550 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5551 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5554 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5555 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5556 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5559 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5560 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
5561 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
5562 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5564 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5565 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
5566 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
5569 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5570 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5572 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
5573 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
5574 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
5575 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
5576 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5577 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
5578 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
5580 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5581 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5582 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
5583 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
5584 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5586 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5587 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5588 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5589 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5591 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5592 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5593 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5595 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5596 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5597 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5598 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5599 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5600 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5601 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5604 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5605 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5606 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5607 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5608 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5610 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5611 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
5612 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
5613 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
5614 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5616 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5617 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5618 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5621 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
5622 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5623 compilation and portability fixes.
5625 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
5626 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
5627 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
5628 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
5629 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
5630 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
5631 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
5632 our anti-denial-of-service code.
5634 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
5635 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5637 o New system requirements:
5638 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
5639 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
5640 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
5641 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
5643 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
5644 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
5645 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
5646 To disable the module, the configure option
5647 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
5648 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
5650 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
5651 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
5652 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
5653 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
5654 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
5655 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
5656 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
5657 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
5658 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
5659 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
5660 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
5662 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
5663 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
5664 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
5665 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
5666 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
5667 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
5668 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
5669 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
5670 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
5671 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
5672 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
5673 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
5674 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
5675 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
5676 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
5677 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
5678 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
5679 Tor's uptime (26009).
5681 o Minor features (accounting):
5682 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
5683 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
5684 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
5685 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
5687 o Minor features (bug workaround):
5688 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
5689 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
5690 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
5692 o Minor features (code quality):
5693 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
5694 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
5695 Closes ticket 25024.
5697 o Minor features (compatibility):
5698 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5699 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5700 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5701 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
5702 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
5703 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
5705 o Minor features (compilation):
5706 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5707 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5708 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5709 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5710 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5711 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5712 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
5713 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
5716 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
5717 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
5718 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
5719 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
5720 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
5721 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
5723 o Minor features (configuration):
5724 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
5725 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
5726 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
5727 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
5728 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
5730 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5731 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
5732 Implements ticket 27449.
5733 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
5734 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
5736 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
5737 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5739 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5740 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5741 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
5742 Implements ticket 27275.
5743 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5744 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5745 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
5746 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
5747 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
5749 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
5750 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5753 o Minor features (control port):
5754 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
5755 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
5756 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
5757 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5758 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
5759 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
5760 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
5761 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
5762 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
5763 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
5765 o Minor features (controller):
5766 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5767 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5768 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5770 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5771 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
5772 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
5773 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
5774 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5775 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5776 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5778 o Minor features (directory authority):
5779 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
5780 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
5781 Closes ticket 23909.
5783 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
5784 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
5785 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
5786 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
5788 o Minor features (entry guards):
5789 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
5790 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
5792 o Minor features (geoip):
5793 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5794 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5796 o Minor features (performance):
5797 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
5798 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
5799 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
5800 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
5802 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
5803 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
5805 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
5806 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
5808 o Minor features (testing):
5809 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
5810 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
5812 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
5813 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
5814 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
5815 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
5816 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
5817 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
5819 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
5820 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
5821 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
5822 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
5823 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
5825 o Minor features (unit tests):
5826 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
5827 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
5828 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
5831 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
5832 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
5833 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
5834 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
5835 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
5836 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
5838 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5839 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
5840 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
5841 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
5844 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
5845 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5846 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
5847 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
5849 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5850 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5851 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5852 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5853 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5854 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5855 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5856 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5858 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
5859 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
5860 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
5861 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5862 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
5863 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
5864 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5865 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
5866 Closes ticket 26245.
5867 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
5868 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
5869 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5871 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
5872 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5873 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5874 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5876 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5877 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5878 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5879 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5880 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5882 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
5883 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
5884 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
5885 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
5886 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5887 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
5888 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
5889 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
5890 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
5891 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
5892 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
5893 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5895 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
5896 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
5897 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
5900 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5901 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5902 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5905 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
5906 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
5907 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5908 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
5909 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
5910 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
5913 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
5914 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
5915 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
5916 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
5917 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
5918 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
5919 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5921 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
5922 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
5923 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
5924 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5926 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5927 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5928 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5929 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5930 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5932 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5933 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5934 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5937 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5938 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5939 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5941 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5942 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5944 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
5945 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
5946 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
5947 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
5948 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5950 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5951 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
5952 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
5954 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
5955 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
5956 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5957 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
5958 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
5961 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
5962 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
5963 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
5964 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5967 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
5968 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
5969 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
5970 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
5971 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
5972 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5974 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5975 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5977 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
5978 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
5979 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5980 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
5981 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
5983 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5984 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5985 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
5986 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
5987 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5989 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
5990 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
5991 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
5992 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5994 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
5995 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
5996 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
5997 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
6000 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6001 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6002 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6003 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
6004 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
6005 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
6006 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
6007 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6008 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
6009 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
6011 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
6012 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
6013 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6014 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
6015 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
6016 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
6017 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
6019 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
6020 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
6021 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
6022 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
6023 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
6025 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
6026 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
6027 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
6030 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6031 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6032 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6033 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6034 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
6037 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6038 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6039 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6040 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6041 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6042 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6045 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6046 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6047 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6048 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6049 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6051 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6052 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6053 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6054 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6055 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6057 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
6058 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
6059 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
6060 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
6061 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
6062 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6064 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6065 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6066 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6068 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6069 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
6070 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
6071 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6072 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
6073 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
6074 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
6075 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
6077 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
6078 confusing we renamed some functions and
6079 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
6080 router_should_check_reachability() and
6081 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
6082 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
6083 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
6084 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
6085 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
6087 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
6088 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
6090 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
6091 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
6092 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6093 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
6094 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
6095 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
6096 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
6097 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
6098 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
6099 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
6100 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
6101 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
6102 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
6103 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
6104 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
6105 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6106 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
6107 Closes ticket 25766.
6108 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
6109 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
6110 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
6111 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
6112 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
6113 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
6114 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
6115 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
6116 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
6117 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
6118 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6119 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
6120 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
6121 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
6123 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
6124 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
6125 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
6126 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
6127 before. Closes ticket 26016.
6128 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
6129 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
6130 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
6131 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
6133 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
6134 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
6135 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
6136 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6138 o Deprecated features:
6139 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
6140 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
6141 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
6142 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
6143 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
6144 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
6147 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
6148 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
6149 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
6150 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
6151 24378 and proposal 290.
6152 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
6153 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
6154 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
6155 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
6156 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
6157 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
6158 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
6159 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
6160 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
6161 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
6162 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
6163 their local router. Closes 25409.
6164 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
6165 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
6166 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
6167 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
6168 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
6169 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
6170 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
6171 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
6172 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
6173 Closes ticket 25268.
6176 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
6177 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6178 bridge relays should upgrade.
6180 o Directory authority changes:
6181 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6182 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6183 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6186 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
6187 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6188 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6191 o Directory authority changes:
6192 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6193 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6194 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6196 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6197 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6198 Closes ticket 26343.
6200 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6201 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6202 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6203 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6204 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6206 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6207 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6208 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6210 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6211 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6212 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6213 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6215 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6216 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6217 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6219 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6220 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6221 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6222 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6223 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6224 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6226 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6227 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6228 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6229 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6231 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6232 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6233 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6236 o Minor features (geoip):
6237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6238 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6240 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6241 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6242 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6243 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6244 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6246 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6247 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6248 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6251 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6252 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6253 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6254 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6255 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6256 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6257 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6260 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6261 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6262 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6263 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6264 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6265 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6267 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6268 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6269 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6270 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6271 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6273 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6274 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6275 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6276 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6277 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6279 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6280 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6281 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6284 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6285 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6286 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6288 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6289 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6290 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6291 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6293 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6294 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6295 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6296 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6297 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6298 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6299 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6301 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6302 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6303 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6304 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6307 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6308 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6309 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6311 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6312 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6313 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6315 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6316 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6317 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
6318 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
6321 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6322 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6323 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6324 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6326 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6327 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6328 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6330 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6331 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6332 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6335 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
6336 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6337 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6340 o Directory authority changes:
6341 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6342 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6343 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6345 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6346 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6347 Closes ticket 26343.
6349 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6350 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6351 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6352 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6353 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6355 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6356 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6357 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6358 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6360 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6361 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6362 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6363 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6364 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6365 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6367 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6368 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6369 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6372 o Minor features (geoip):
6373 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6374 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6376 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6377 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6378 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6379 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6380 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6383 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6384 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6386 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6387 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6388 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6389 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6392 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6393 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6394 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6395 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6396 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6397 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6399 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6400 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6401 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6402 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6403 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6405 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6406 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6407 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6410 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6411 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6412 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6414 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6415 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6416 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6417 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6419 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6420 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6421 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6423 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6424 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6425 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6428 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
6429 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6430 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
6432 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6433 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6434 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6435 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6437 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6438 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6439 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6442 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6443 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6444 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6447 o Minor features (geoip):
6448 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6449 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6451 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6452 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6453 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6454 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6456 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6457 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
6458 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
6459 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
6460 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
6463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6464 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6465 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6466 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6467 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6469 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6470 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6471 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6472 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6474 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6475 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6476 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6479 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6480 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6481 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6484 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6485 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
6486 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
6487 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6489 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6490 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6491 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6492 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6493 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6494 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6495 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6496 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6500 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
6501 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6502 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
6504 o Directory authority changes:
6505 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6506 Closes ticket 26343.
6508 o Minor features (geoip):
6509 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6510 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
6512 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6513 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6514 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6515 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6516 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6517 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6519 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6520 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6521 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6523 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6524 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
6525 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
6526 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
6527 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6529 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6530 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6531 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6533 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6534 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
6535 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
6536 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
6537 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
6538 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6541 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
6542 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
6543 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6545 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
6546 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
6547 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
6548 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
6549 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
6550 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
6552 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
6553 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6555 o New system requirements:
6556 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
6557 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
6559 o Major features (embedding):
6560 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
6561 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
6562 Closes ticket 23684.
6563 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
6564 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
6565 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
6566 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
6567 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
6568 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
6570 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
6571 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
6572 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
6573 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
6575 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
6576 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
6577 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
6578 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
6579 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
6581 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
6582 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
6585 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
6586 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
6587 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
6588 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
6589 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
6590 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
6591 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
6593 o Major features (onion services):
6594 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
6595 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
6596 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
6597 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
6598 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
6600 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
6601 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
6602 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
6603 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
6604 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
6605 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6607 o Major features (relay):
6608 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
6609 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
6610 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
6611 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
6612 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
6614 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
6615 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
6616 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
6617 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
6618 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
6619 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
6620 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
6621 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
6623 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6624 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6625 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6626 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6627 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6629 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
6630 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
6631 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
6632 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
6633 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
6635 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6636 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
6637 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
6638 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6640 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
6641 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
6642 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
6643 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
6644 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
6645 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
6646 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
6647 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6649 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6650 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
6651 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
6652 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
6654 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6655 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6656 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6658 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
6659 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
6660 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
6661 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
6662 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
6663 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
6664 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
6666 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6667 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
6668 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
6669 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
6670 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6672 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6673 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
6674 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
6677 o Minor features (cleanup):
6678 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
6679 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
6681 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6682 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
6683 Closes ticket 26006.
6685 o Minor features (config options):
6686 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
6687 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
6688 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
6691 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6692 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6693 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6695 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6696 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6697 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6698 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6699 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6700 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6702 o Minor features (defensive programming):
6703 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
6704 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
6705 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
6706 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
6707 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
6708 once. Part of ticket 24337.
6709 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
6710 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
6711 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
6713 o Minor features (directory authority):
6714 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
6715 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
6717 o Minor features (embedding):
6718 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
6719 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
6720 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
6721 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
6722 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
6723 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
6724 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
6725 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
6726 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
6727 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
6728 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
6729 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
6730 Closes ticket 23848.
6731 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
6732 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
6733 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
6735 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6736 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
6737 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
6738 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
6739 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
6740 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
6741 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
6742 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
6745 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
6746 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
6747 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
6748 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
6749 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
6750 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
6751 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
6753 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
6754 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
6755 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
6756 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
6757 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
6758 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
6759 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
6760 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
6761 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
6762 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
6763 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
6764 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
6766 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
6767 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
6768 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
6770 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
6771 Implements ticket 24791.
6773 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
6774 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
6775 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
6776 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
6777 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
6778 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
6780 o Minor features (geoip):
6781 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
6782 database. Closes ticket 26104.
6784 o Minor features (heartbeat):
6785 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
6786 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
6789 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
6790 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
6791 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
6792 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
6793 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
6795 o Minor features (IPv6):
6796 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
6797 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
6798 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
6799 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
6800 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
6803 o Minor features (log messages):
6804 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
6805 information about memory usage from the different compression
6806 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
6807 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
6808 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
6809 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
6810 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
6812 o Minor features (logging):
6813 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
6814 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
6815 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
6818 o Minor features (performance):
6819 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
6820 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
6821 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
6822 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
6824 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
6825 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
6826 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
6827 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
6828 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
6829 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
6830 Implements ticket 24374.
6832 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
6833 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
6834 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
6835 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
6836 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
6838 o Minor features (performance, windows):
6839 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
6840 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
6841 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
6844 o Minor features (sandbox):
6845 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6846 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6847 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6849 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
6850 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
6851 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
6852 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
6853 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
6855 o Minor features (testing):
6856 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
6859 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
6860 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
6861 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
6862 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
6863 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
6864 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
6865 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
6866 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
6867 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
6869 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
6870 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
6871 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
6872 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
6873 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
6874 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
6875 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
6876 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
6877 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
6880 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6881 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6882 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6883 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6885 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
6886 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
6887 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
6889 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
6890 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
6891 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
6892 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
6893 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6895 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6896 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6897 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6901 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6902 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6903 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6905 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6906 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
6907 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
6908 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6909 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
6910 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
6911 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6913 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6914 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
6915 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
6916 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6918 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6919 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6920 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6921 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6922 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6924 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
6925 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
6926 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
6927 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
6930 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6931 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6932 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6933 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6934 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6936 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6937 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
6938 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
6939 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
6940 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
6943 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
6944 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
6945 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
6946 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
6947 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
6949 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
6950 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
6951 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
6954 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
6955 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
6956 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
6958 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
6959 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6960 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
6961 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
6962 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
6964 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
6965 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6966 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
6967 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6969 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
6970 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
6971 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6972 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
6973 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
6974 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6976 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6977 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
6978 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
6979 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
6981 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6982 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6983 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6985 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6986 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
6987 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
6988 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6990 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
6991 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
6992 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
6993 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
6996 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6997 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
6998 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
6999 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
7000 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7001 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
7004 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
7005 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
7006 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
7007 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7009 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7010 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
7011 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
7013 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7014 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
7015 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
7016 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
7017 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
7018 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7020 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7021 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7022 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7023 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7024 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7025 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7026 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7028 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7029 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
7030 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
7031 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
7033 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7034 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
7035 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
7036 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
7037 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
7039 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
7040 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
7041 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
7042 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
7043 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
7044 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7046 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
7047 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
7048 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
7049 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
7050 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
7051 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7052 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
7053 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
7054 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
7055 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
7056 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
7057 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7059 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7060 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7061 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7063 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
7064 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
7065 would call the Rust implementation of
7066 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
7067 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
7068 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
7069 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
7070 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7072 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
7073 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
7074 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
7075 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7078 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7079 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7080 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7082 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
7083 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
7086 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
7087 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
7088 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
7089 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
7090 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7092 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7093 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7094 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7095 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
7096 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
7098 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
7100 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
7101 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
7102 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
7104 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
7106 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
7107 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
7108 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
7109 "aruna1234" and teor.
7110 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
7111 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
7112 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
7113 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
7115 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
7116 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
7117 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
7118 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
7119 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
7120 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
7121 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
7122 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
7123 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
7124 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
7126 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
7127 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
7130 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
7132 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
7133 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
7134 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
7135 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
7137 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
7138 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
7139 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
7140 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
7142 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
7143 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
7144 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
7145 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
7146 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
7148 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
7149 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
7150 adding very little except for unit test.
7152 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
7153 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
7154 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
7155 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
7157 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
7158 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
7159 const. Implements ticket 24489.
7161 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7162 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7163 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7165 o Documentation (man page):
7166 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
7167 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
7170 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
7171 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
7172 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
7176 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
7177 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
7180 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7181 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7183 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7184 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7186 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7189 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7190 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
7191 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7193 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
7194 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
7195 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
7196 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
7199 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7200 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7201 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7202 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7205 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7206 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7207 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7208 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7209 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7210 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7211 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7212 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7213 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7214 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7215 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7216 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7217 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7219 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7220 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7221 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7223 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7224 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7225 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7226 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7227 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7228 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7229 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7231 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7232 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7233 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7235 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7236 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7237 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7238 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7239 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7240 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7241 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7243 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7244 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7245 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7246 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7248 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7249 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7250 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7251 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7253 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7254 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7255 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7256 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7257 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7258 Closes ticket 24978.
7260 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7261 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7262 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7263 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7264 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7265 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7266 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7267 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7268 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7270 o Minor features (geoip):
7271 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7274 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7275 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7276 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7277 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7278 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7280 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7281 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7282 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7283 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7284 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7286 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7287 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7288 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7289 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7290 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7293 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7294 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7295 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7296 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7297 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7298 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7299 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7300 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7301 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7302 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
7303 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
7306 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
7307 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7308 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7310 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7311 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7312 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7315 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7316 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7317 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7318 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7319 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7320 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7321 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7323 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7324 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
7325 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7326 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
7327 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
7328 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
7329 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
7330 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
7331 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
7334 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7335 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
7336 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
7337 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
7338 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
7339 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7341 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7342 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
7343 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
7344 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7346 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
7347 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7348 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7349 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7350 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7353 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7354 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7355 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7356 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7357 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7358 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7360 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7361 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7362 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7363 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7364 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7365 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7366 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7367 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7368 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7369 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7370 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7371 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7373 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7374 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
7375 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
7376 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7378 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7379 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7380 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7381 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7383 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7384 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7385 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7386 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7389 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
7390 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
7391 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
7392 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
7393 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
7395 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7396 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7398 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7399 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7401 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7402 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
7403 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
7406 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
7407 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7410 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7411 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7413 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7414 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7416 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7419 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7420 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
7421 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7423 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7424 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7425 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7426 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7429 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
7430 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7431 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7432 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7433 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7434 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7435 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7436 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7437 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7438 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7439 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7440 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7441 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7443 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7444 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7445 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7446 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7447 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7448 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7449 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7450 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7451 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7453 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
7454 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7455 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7456 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7457 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7458 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7459 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7461 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
7462 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7463 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7464 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7466 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
7467 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7468 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7469 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7470 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7471 Closes ticket 24978.
7473 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7474 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7475 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7476 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7478 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7479 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7480 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7481 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7482 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7483 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7484 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7485 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7486 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7488 o Minor features (geoip):
7489 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7492 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7493 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7494 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7496 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
7497 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7498 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7499 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7500 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7502 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
7503 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7504 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7505 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7506 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7508 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
7509 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7510 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7511 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7512 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7515 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7516 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7517 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7519 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7520 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7521 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7524 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7525 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7526 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7527 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7528 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7529 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7530 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7532 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
7533 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7534 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7535 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7536 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7539 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
7540 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7541 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7542 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7543 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7544 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7546 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
7547 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7548 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7549 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7551 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7552 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7553 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7554 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7555 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7556 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7557 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7558 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7559 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7560 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7561 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7562 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7564 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
7565 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7566 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7567 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7570 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7571 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
7572 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
7573 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
7574 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
7576 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7577 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7579 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7580 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7583 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
7584 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
7585 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
7588 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7589 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7591 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
7592 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
7593 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
7594 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
7595 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
7596 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
7599 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7600 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7602 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7605 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
7606 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
7607 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
7608 the DoS mitigations.)
7610 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7611 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7612 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7613 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7616 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7617 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
7618 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
7619 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7621 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7622 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7623 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7624 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7625 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7626 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7627 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7628 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7629 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7630 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7631 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7632 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7633 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7635 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7636 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7637 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7638 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7639 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7640 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7641 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7642 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
7643 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
7644 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
7645 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7647 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7648 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7649 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7651 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7652 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7653 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7654 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7655 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7656 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7657 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7659 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7660 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
7661 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
7662 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7664 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7665 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7666 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7667 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7669 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7670 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7671 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7672 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7673 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7674 Closes ticket 24978.
7676 o Minor features (geoip):
7677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7680 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7681 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
7682 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
7685 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7686 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7687 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7688 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7689 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7691 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7692 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7693 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7694 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7695 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7696 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7697 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7699 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7700 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7701 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7702 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7703 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7705 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7706 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
7707 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
7708 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7710 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7711 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
7712 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
7713 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
7714 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7716 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7717 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
7718 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
7719 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7721 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7722 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
7723 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
7724 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7726 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7727 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7728 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7729 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7731 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7732 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7734 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7735 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7737 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7738 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
7739 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
7741 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7742 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
7743 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
7744 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
7745 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7747 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7748 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
7749 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
7751 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
7752 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
7753 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
7757 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
7758 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
7760 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
7761 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
7762 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
7763 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
7764 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
7765 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
7767 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
7768 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
7769 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
7770 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
7771 with the 0.2.9 series.
7773 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
7774 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7776 o Directory authority changes:
7777 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7778 Closes ticket 23910.
7779 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7780 Closes ticket 23592.
7781 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7782 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7783 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7784 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7785 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
7788 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
7789 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
7790 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
7791 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
7792 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
7793 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
7796 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
7797 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
7799 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
7802 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
7805 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
7807 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
7809 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
7811 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
7812 they are 56 characters long, as in
7813 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
7815 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
7816 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
7817 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
7818 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
7819 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
7822 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
7823 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
7824 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
7825 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
7826 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
7827 options. For more information, see our blog post at
7828 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
7830 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
7831 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
7832 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
7833 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
7834 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
7835 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
7836 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
7837 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
7838 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
7839 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
7840 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
7841 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
7843 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
7844 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
7845 more information, see the design paper at
7846 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
7847 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
7848 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
7849 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
7851 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
7852 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7853 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7854 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7855 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7856 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7857 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7858 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7860 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
7861 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
7862 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
7863 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
7866 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
7867 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7868 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7869 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7870 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7871 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7872 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7873 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7874 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7875 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7876 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7877 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7880 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
7881 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
7882 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
7883 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
7884 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
7885 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7886 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
7887 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
7888 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7890 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7891 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7892 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7893 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7894 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7895 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7896 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7897 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7898 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7899 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
7900 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
7903 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
7904 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
7905 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
7906 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
7907 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
7908 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
7909 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7911 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
7912 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7913 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7914 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7915 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7916 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7919 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
7920 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7921 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7922 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7924 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
7925 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
7926 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
7927 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
7929 o Minor features (bridge):
7930 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
7931 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
7932 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
7933 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
7934 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
7935 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
7936 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
7937 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
7938 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
7939 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
7940 related to ticket 23080.
7942 o Minor features (bug detection):
7943 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
7944 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
7945 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
7947 o Minor features (build, compilation):
7948 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
7949 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
7950 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
7951 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
7952 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
7953 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
7954 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
7955 Closes ticket 23643.
7957 o Minor features (client):
7958 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
7959 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
7960 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
7961 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
7962 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
7963 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
7964 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
7965 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
7966 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
7967 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
7968 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
7969 Resolves ticket 23670.
7971 o Minor features (command line):
7972 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
7973 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
7974 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
7976 o Minor features (control port):
7977 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
7978 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
7979 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
7981 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
7982 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
7984 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
7985 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
7986 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
7987 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
7988 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
7989 Closes ticket 23237.
7990 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
7991 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
7993 o Minor features (development support):
7994 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
7995 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
7996 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
7997 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
7998 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
7999 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
8001 o Minor features (directory authority):
8002 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
8003 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
8004 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
8005 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
8007 o Minor features (ed25519):
8008 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
8009 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
8010 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
8012 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
8013 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
8014 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
8016 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8017 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8018 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8019 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8020 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8021 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8022 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8023 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8024 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8026 o Minor features (geoip):
8027 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8030 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
8031 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
8032 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
8033 another program, regardless of the settings of
8034 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
8035 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
8036 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
8038 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8039 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8040 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8042 o Minor features (logging):
8043 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
8045 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
8046 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
8048 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
8049 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
8050 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
8051 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
8052 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
8053 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
8054 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
8055 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
8056 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
8057 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
8059 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
8060 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
8062 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
8063 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
8064 the circuit identifier(s).
8065 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
8066 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
8068 o Minor features (portability):
8069 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
8070 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
8072 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
8073 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
8074 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
8075 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
8077 o Minor features (relay):
8078 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
8079 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
8080 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
8081 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
8082 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
8083 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
8084 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
8085 results. Closes ticket 22731.
8087 o Minor features (relay statistics):
8088 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8089 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8090 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8092 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
8093 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
8094 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
8095 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
8096 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
8098 o Minor features (robustness):
8099 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
8100 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
8102 o Minor features (startup, safety):
8103 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
8104 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
8107 o Minor features (static analysis):
8108 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
8109 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
8112 o Minor features (testing):
8113 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
8114 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
8115 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
8116 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
8118 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
8119 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
8120 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
8121 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
8122 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
8124 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8125 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8126 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8127 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8128 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8131 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8132 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
8133 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
8136 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
8137 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
8138 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
8139 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
8140 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8141 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
8142 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
8143 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
8144 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8145 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
8146 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
8147 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
8148 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8150 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
8151 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
8152 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
8153 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8155 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
8156 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
8157 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
8158 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
8159 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
8160 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
8161 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
8162 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
8163 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8164 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8165 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8166 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
8167 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
8168 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8169 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
8170 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8171 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8173 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
8174 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
8175 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
8176 Coverity as CID 1415728.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8179 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
8180 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
8181 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8183 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
8184 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
8185 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
8186 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
8187 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
8188 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
8189 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
8190 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8192 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8193 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
8194 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
8195 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
8196 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8197 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
8198 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
8199 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
8200 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
8201 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
8202 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
8203 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
8204 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
8205 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
8208 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
8209 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
8210 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
8213 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
8214 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
8215 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
8216 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
8218 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8219 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8220 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8223 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
8224 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
8225 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
8226 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8228 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
8229 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8230 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8231 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8232 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8233 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8234 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8235 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8236 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8239 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
8240 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
8241 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
8242 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
8243 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8245 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
8246 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
8247 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
8248 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
8249 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
8250 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
8252 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
8253 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
8256 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8257 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
8258 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8259 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
8260 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
8261 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8263 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
8264 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
8265 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
8266 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8268 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
8269 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8270 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8271 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8272 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8273 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8275 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
8276 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
8277 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
8278 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
8279 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
8280 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
8281 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
8284 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
8285 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
8286 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
8287 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8289 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8290 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
8291 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
8292 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
8293 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8294 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
8295 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
8296 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8297 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
8298 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
8300 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
8301 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
8302 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
8304 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
8305 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
8306 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
8308 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
8309 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8310 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
8311 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
8312 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
8313 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
8315 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
8316 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
8317 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
8318 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
8319 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
8320 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8322 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
8323 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
8324 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8326 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8327 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8328 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8329 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8330 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8333 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8334 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8335 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8336 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8337 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8338 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8340 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8341 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
8342 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
8343 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
8344 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8345 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
8346 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
8348 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
8349 only fetch the service descriptor once.
8350 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
8351 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
8352 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8353 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
8354 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
8355 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
8356 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
8358 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8359 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8360 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8361 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8362 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8363 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8364 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8365 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8366 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8367 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8368 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8369 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8372 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
8373 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8374 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8375 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8376 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8379 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8380 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
8381 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
8382 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
8383 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
8384 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
8385 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
8386 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8387 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
8388 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
8389 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
8390 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8392 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8393 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
8394 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8395 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
8396 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
8397 Closes ticket 24109.
8398 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
8399 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8400 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
8401 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
8403 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
8404 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
8406 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
8407 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
8408 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
8409 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
8410 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
8411 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
8412 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
8413 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8414 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
8415 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
8416 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8418 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
8419 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
8420 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
8421 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8423 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8424 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
8425 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
8427 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
8428 function from the general code to handle channel state
8429 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
8430 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
8431 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
8432 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
8433 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
8434 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
8435 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
8436 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
8438 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
8439 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
8441 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
8442 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
8443 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
8444 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
8445 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8446 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
8447 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
8448 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
8449 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
8450 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
8451 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
8452 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
8454 o Deprecated features:
8455 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
8456 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
8457 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
8458 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
8459 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
8460 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
8464 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
8465 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
8466 section. Closes ticket 24254.
8467 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
8468 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
8469 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
8470 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
8471 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
8472 Closes ticket 18736.
8473 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
8474 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
8475 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
8476 Closes ticket 15645.
8477 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
8478 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
8479 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
8480 file. Closes ticket 21148.
8483 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
8484 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
8485 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
8486 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
8487 Closes ticket 21031.
8488 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
8489 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
8492 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
8493 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
8494 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
8495 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
8497 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8498 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8499 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8500 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8501 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8502 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8503 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8504 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8505 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8506 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8507 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8509 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8510 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8511 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8512 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8513 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8514 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8515 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8518 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8519 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8520 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8521 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8522 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8524 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8525 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8526 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8527 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8528 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8529 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8530 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8531 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8532 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8534 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8535 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8536 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8537 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8538 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8539 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8542 o Minor features (bridge):
8543 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8544 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8545 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8546 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8549 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8550 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8553 o Minor features (geoip):
8554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8557 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8558 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
8559 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
8560 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
8561 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8564 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8565 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8567 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8568 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
8569 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
8570 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
8571 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
8572 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8574 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8575 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
8576 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
8579 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8580 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
8581 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
8582 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
8583 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8586 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
8587 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8588 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
8589 to another of the releases coming out today.
8591 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
8592 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
8593 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8595 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8596 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8597 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8598 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8599 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8600 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8601 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8602 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8603 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8604 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8605 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8607 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8608 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8609 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8610 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8611 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8612 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8613 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8616 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8617 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8618 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8619 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8620 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8622 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8623 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8624 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8625 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8626 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8627 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8628 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8629 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8630 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8632 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8633 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8634 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8635 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8636 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8637 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8640 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8641 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
8642 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
8643 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
8644 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
8645 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
8647 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
8648 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8649 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8650 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8651 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8654 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8655 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8658 o Minor features (geoip):
8659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8662 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8663 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
8664 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
8665 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
8666 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8668 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8669 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8670 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8672 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8673 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
8674 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
8675 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
8676 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
8677 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8679 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8680 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
8681 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
8682 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
8683 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8685 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8686 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
8687 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
8690 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
8691 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8692 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
8693 to another of the releases coming out today.
8695 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8696 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8697 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8698 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8699 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8700 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8703 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8704 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8705 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8706 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8707 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8708 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8709 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8710 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8711 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8712 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8713 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8715 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8716 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8717 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8718 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8719 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8720 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8721 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8724 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8725 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8726 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8727 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8728 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8730 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8731 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8732 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8733 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8734 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8735 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8737 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
8738 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8739 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8740 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8741 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8744 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8745 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8748 o Minor features (geoip):
8749 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8752 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8753 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
8754 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
8755 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
8756 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
8757 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
8759 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8760 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
8761 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
8762 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
8763 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8766 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8767 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8770 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
8771 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
8772 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
8773 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
8774 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8776 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8777 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
8778 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
8779 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
8780 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8782 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8783 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
8784 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
8787 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
8788 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8789 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
8790 to another of the releases coming out today.
8792 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
8793 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
8794 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8796 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8797 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8798 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8799 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8800 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8801 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8802 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8803 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8804 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8805 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8806 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8807 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8808 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8809 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8810 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8813 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8814 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8815 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8816 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8817 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8819 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8820 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
8821 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
8822 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
8823 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
8826 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
8827 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8828 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8829 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8830 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8833 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8834 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8837 o Minor features (geoip):
8838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8841 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8842 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
8843 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
8846 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
8847 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8848 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
8849 to another of the releases coming out today.
8851 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
8852 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
8853 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8855 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8856 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8857 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8858 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8859 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8860 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8861 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8862 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8863 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8864 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8865 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8866 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8867 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8868 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8869 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8872 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8873 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8874 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8875 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8876 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8877 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8879 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
8880 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8881 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8882 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8883 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8886 o Minor features (geoip):
8887 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8891 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
8892 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8893 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8895 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
8896 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
8897 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8899 o Directory authority changes:
8900 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8901 Closes ticket 23910.
8902 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8903 Closes ticket 23592.
8905 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8906 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8907 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8908 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8909 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8911 o Minor features (geoip):
8912 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8915 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8916 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8917 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8918 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8919 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8920 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8921 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8922 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8923 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8925 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8926 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8927 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8928 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8929 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8930 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8931 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8932 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8933 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8936 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
8937 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8938 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
8939 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8941 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
8942 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
8943 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8945 o Directory authority changes:
8946 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8947 Closes ticket 23910.
8948 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8949 Closes ticket 23592.
8951 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8952 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8953 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8954 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8956 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8957 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8958 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8959 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8960 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8962 o Minor features (geoip):
8963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8967 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
8968 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8969 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
8970 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8972 o Directory authority changes:
8973 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8974 Closes ticket 23910.
8975 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8976 Closes ticket 23592.
8978 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8979 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8980 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8981 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8983 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8984 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8985 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8986 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8987 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8989 o Minor features (geoip):
8990 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8993 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8994 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8995 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8996 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8997 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8998 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8999 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9000 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9003 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9004 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9005 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9007 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9008 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9009 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9010 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9011 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9012 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9013 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9016 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
9017 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9018 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9019 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9021 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9022 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9023 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9025 o Directory authority changes:
9026 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9027 Closes ticket 23910.
9028 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9029 Closes ticket 23592.
9031 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9032 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9033 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9034 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9036 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9037 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9038 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9039 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9040 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9042 o Minor features (geoip):
9043 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9046 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9047 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9048 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9049 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9050 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9051 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9052 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9053 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9056 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9057 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9058 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9059 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9061 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9062 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9063 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9065 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9066 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9067 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9068 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9069 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9070 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9071 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9074 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
9075 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
9076 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
9077 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
9078 a new directory authority, Bastet.
9080 o Directory authority changes:
9081 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9082 Closes ticket 23910.
9083 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9084 Closes ticket 23592.
9086 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9087 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9088 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9089 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9091 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9092 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9093 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9094 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9095 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9097 o Minor features (geoip):
9098 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9101 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9102 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9103 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9104 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9106 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9107 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9108 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9111 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9112 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
9113 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
9115 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9116 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9117 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9118 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9120 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9121 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9122 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9124 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9125 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9126 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9130 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
9131 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
9134 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
9135 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
9136 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
9137 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9139 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9140 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
9141 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
9142 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
9144 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9145 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9146 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9147 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9148 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9151 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9154 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9155 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
9156 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
9159 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9160 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9161 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9162 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9163 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9164 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9165 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9166 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9167 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9169 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9170 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9171 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9172 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9173 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9174 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9175 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9176 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9177 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9180 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
9181 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
9184 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
9185 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
9186 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
9187 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9189 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
9190 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
9191 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
9192 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
9193 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
9194 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
9195 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
9197 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
9198 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
9199 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
9200 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9202 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
9203 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
9204 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9206 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9207 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
9208 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9209 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
9211 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9212 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9213 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9214 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9215 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9217 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9218 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
9219 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
9220 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
9222 o Minor features (geoip):
9223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9226 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9227 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9228 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9229 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9231 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9232 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
9233 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9234 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
9235 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9236 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
9237 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
9238 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9241 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
9242 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9244 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9245 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
9246 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
9249 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9250 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
9251 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9252 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
9253 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9255 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9256 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
9257 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
9258 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
9259 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
9260 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9262 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9263 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9264 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9265 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9266 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9267 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9268 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9269 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9270 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9272 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9273 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
9274 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
9275 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9277 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9278 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
9279 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9281 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9282 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
9283 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
9284 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
9285 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9287 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
9288 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
9289 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
9292 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9293 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9294 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9295 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9296 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9298 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9299 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9300 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9301 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9302 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9303 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9304 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9305 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9306 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9309 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
9310 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
9313 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
9314 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
9315 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
9316 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9318 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9319 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
9320 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
9321 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
9324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9327 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9328 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
9329 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
9332 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
9333 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9334 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
9335 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9337 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9338 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
9339 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
9340 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9342 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9343 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
9344 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
9346 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
9347 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
9348 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
9349 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9352 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
9353 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
9355 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
9356 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
9357 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
9358 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
9359 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
9360 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
9361 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
9363 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
9364 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
9365 disabled. For more information, see
9366 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
9368 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9369 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9370 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9371 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9372 with the 0.2.9 series.
9374 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
9375 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9378 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
9379 pkg-config tool at build time.
9381 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
9382 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
9383 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
9384 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9385 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
9387 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
9388 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9389 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9390 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9391 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9392 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9393 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9394 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9395 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9397 o Major features (directory protocol):
9398 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
9399 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
9400 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
9401 now request these documents when available. When both client and
9402 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
9403 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
9404 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
9405 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
9406 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
9407 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
9408 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
9409 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
9410 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
9411 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
9412 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
9413 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
9414 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
9416 o Major features (experimental):
9417 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
9418 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
9419 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
9420 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
9421 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
9422 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
9423 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
9425 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
9426 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
9427 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
9428 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
9429 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
9430 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
9433 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
9434 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
9435 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
9436 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
9437 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
9438 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
9439 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
9440 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
9441 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
9442 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
9445 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9446 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
9447 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
9448 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9449 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9450 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9451 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9454 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
9455 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
9456 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
9457 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
9458 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
9459 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
9461 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
9462 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
9463 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
9464 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
9465 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
9466 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
9467 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
9468 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
9469 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9470 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
9471 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
9472 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
9473 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
9474 Otherwise it is at info.
9476 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
9477 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
9478 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
9479 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9480 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
9481 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
9482 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9484 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
9485 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
9486 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9487 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
9489 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
9490 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9491 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9492 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9493 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9495 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
9496 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
9497 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
9498 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
9499 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
9500 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
9501 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
9504 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
9505 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
9506 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
9507 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
9508 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
9509 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
9510 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
9511 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9512 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
9513 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
9514 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
9515 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
9516 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
9519 o Minor features (security, windows):
9520 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9521 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9522 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9523 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9524 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9526 o Minor features (bridge authority):
9527 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
9528 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
9530 o Minor features (code style):
9531 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
9532 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
9533 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
9535 o Minor features (config options):
9536 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
9537 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
9538 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
9539 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
9540 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
9541 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
9542 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
9543 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
9545 o Minor features (controller):
9546 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
9547 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
9549 o Minor features (defaults):
9550 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
9551 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
9552 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
9553 can. Closes ticket 21407.
9554 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
9555 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
9556 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
9557 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
9558 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
9559 Closes ticket 21641.
9561 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9562 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
9563 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
9564 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
9567 o Minor features (diagnostic):
9568 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
9569 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
9570 attempt for bug 23105.
9571 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
9572 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
9573 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
9574 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
9575 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
9576 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
9577 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
9579 o Minor features (directory authority):
9580 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
9581 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
9582 Closes ticket 22348.
9584 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
9585 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
9586 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
9587 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
9588 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
9591 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9592 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
9593 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
9594 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
9595 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
9596 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
9597 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
9599 o Minor features (geoip):
9600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9603 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
9604 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
9605 introduction points than specified in
9606 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
9607 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
9608 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
9609 21594; closes ticket 21622.
9610 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
9611 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
9612 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
9613 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
9615 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9616 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
9617 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
9618 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
9619 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
9620 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
9621 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
9622 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
9623 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
9624 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
9626 o Minor features (logging):
9627 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
9628 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
9629 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
9630 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
9633 o Minor features (performance):
9634 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
9635 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
9637 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
9638 speed some controller functions.
9640 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
9641 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
9642 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
9643 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
9645 o Minor features (relay, performance):
9646 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
9647 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
9648 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
9649 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
9650 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
9653 o Minor features (safety):
9654 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
9655 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
9656 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
9659 o Minor features (testing):
9660 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
9662 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
9663 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
9664 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
9665 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
9666 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
9667 on. Closes ticket 21439.
9668 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
9669 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
9670 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
9671 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
9672 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
9673 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
9674 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
9675 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
9676 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
9677 21507. Partially implements 21470.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
9680 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9681 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9682 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9684 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9685 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
9686 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
9687 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
9690 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
9691 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
9692 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9693 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
9694 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9695 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
9696 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
9697 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
9700 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9701 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
9702 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9704 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
9705 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
9706 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
9707 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
9708 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
9709 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9711 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9712 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
9713 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9715 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
9716 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
9717 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
9718 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
9719 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
9720 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
9721 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9722 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
9723 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
9724 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
9725 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
9726 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
9727 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
9728 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
9730 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9731 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
9732 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9733 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
9734 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9735 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
9736 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9737 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
9738 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
9739 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
9740 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
9741 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9744 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9745 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9747 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
9748 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
9749 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
9750 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
9751 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
9752 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9754 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
9755 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
9756 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
9757 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
9758 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9759 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9760 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9761 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9762 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9763 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9764 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9765 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9767 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9768 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9769 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9770 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9771 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9772 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9773 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9774 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9776 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
9777 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
9778 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9779 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
9780 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
9781 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9783 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
9784 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
9785 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
9788 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
9789 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
9790 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
9791 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
9792 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
9794 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9795 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
9796 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9797 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
9798 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
9799 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9800 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
9801 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9802 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
9803 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
9804 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9806 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
9807 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
9808 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
9809 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9811 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9812 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
9813 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
9814 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
9815 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
9816 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
9817 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
9818 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
9819 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
9820 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
9821 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9822 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
9823 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
9824 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9826 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
9827 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
9828 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
9829 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
9830 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
9831 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
9832 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9834 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9835 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
9836 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9837 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
9838 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
9839 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
9840 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9842 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9843 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
9844 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
9845 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
9846 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
9847 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
9848 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9849 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
9850 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
9851 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
9852 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9853 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
9854 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
9856 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
9857 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
9858 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
9859 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
9861 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
9862 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
9863 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
9865 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
9866 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
9867 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
9868 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9870 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9871 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
9872 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
9873 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9875 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9876 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
9877 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9878 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
9879 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
9880 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9881 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
9882 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
9883 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
9885 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
9886 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
9887 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
9888 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
9889 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
9890 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
9891 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
9894 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
9895 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
9896 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
9897 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
9898 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
9899 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
9901 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9902 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9903 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9904 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
9905 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
9906 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9907 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
9908 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9909 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
9910 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
9911 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
9912 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
9913 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
9914 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9915 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
9916 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
9919 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
9920 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9921 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9922 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9923 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9925 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
9926 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9927 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9928 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9929 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9930 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9931 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9933 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
9934 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
9935 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9937 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9938 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
9939 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
9940 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
9941 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
9942 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
9943 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
9944 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
9945 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
9946 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
9947 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
9948 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
9950 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
9951 Resolves ticket 22213.
9952 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
9953 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
9954 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
9955 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
9956 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
9957 types. Closes ticket 21651.
9958 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
9959 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
9962 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
9964 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
9965 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
9967 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
9968 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
9969 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
9971 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
9973 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
9974 Closes ticket 21873.
9975 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
9976 Closes ticket 21151.
9977 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
9978 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
9980 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
9981 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9982 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
9983 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
9985 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
9986 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
9987 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9988 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
9989 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
9990 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
9991 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
9992 default behavior is now unavailable.
9993 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
9994 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
9995 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
9996 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
9997 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
9998 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
9999 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
10001 o Removed features (tools):
10002 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
10003 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
10004 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
10005 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
10006 required. Closes ticket 21842.
10009 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
10010 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
10011 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
10012 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
10014 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10015 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10016 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10017 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10018 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10019 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10020 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10021 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10022 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10024 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10025 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10026 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10027 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10029 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10030 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10031 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10032 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10033 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10035 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10036 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10039 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
10040 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10041 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10042 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10044 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10045 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10046 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10047 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10048 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10049 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10050 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10051 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10055 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10056 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10059 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10060 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10061 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10062 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10063 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10064 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10066 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10067 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
10068 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
10069 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10071 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10072 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10073 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10075 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
10076 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10077 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10080 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
10081 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
10082 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
10083 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
10084 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
10087 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
10090 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10091 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10092 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10093 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10094 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10095 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10097 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10098 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
10099 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
10100 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10102 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10103 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10104 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10105 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10107 o Minor features (geoip):
10108 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10111 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10112 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10113 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10114 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10115 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10117 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10118 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10119 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10120 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10121 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10123 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10124 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10125 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10126 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10127 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10128 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10129 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10130 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10131 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10134 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
10135 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
10136 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10137 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10138 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
10140 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
10141 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
10142 bugfixes described below.
10144 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
10145 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10146 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
10147 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
10148 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10149 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10150 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10151 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10154 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10155 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10156 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10157 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10158 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10159 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10160 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10163 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10164 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
10165 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
10166 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
10167 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
10168 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
10169 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
10170 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10171 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
10172 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
10173 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
10174 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
10175 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
10178 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10179 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
10180 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
10183 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10184 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10185 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10186 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10187 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10189 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10190 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
10191 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10193 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10194 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10195 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10197 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10198 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
10199 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
10200 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
10201 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
10202 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
10203 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10205 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
10207 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
10208 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
10209 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10212 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
10213 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10214 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10215 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10216 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10217 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10219 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
10220 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
10221 bugfixes described below.
10223 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
10224 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10225 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10226 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10227 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10230 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10231 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10232 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10233 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10234 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10235 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10236 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10239 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10240 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10241 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10242 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10243 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10245 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
10246 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
10247 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
10248 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
10249 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
10250 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
10251 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
10253 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
10254 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
10255 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
10256 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
10257 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
10259 o Minor features (geoip):
10260 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10263 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
10264 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
10265 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
10266 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10268 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10269 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10270 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10272 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
10273 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
10274 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
10275 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
10276 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
10279 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
10280 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
10281 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
10282 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
10283 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10285 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
10286 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10287 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10288 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10289 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10290 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10292 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10293 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10294 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10295 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10298 o Minor features (geoip):
10299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10302 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10303 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10304 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10305 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10306 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10308 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10309 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10310 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10312 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
10313 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10314 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10315 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10316 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10317 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10319 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10320 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10321 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10322 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10325 o Minor features (geoip):
10326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10329 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10330 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10331 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10334 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
10335 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10336 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10337 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10338 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10339 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10341 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10342 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10343 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10344 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10347 o Minor features (geoip):
10348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10351 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10352 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10353 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10355 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
10356 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10357 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10358 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10359 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10360 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10362 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10363 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10364 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10365 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10368 o Minor features (geoip):
10369 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10372 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10373 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10374 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10376 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
10377 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
10378 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
10379 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
10380 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
10381 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
10383 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10384 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10385 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10386 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10389 o Minor features (geoip):
10390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10393 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10394 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10395 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10398 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
10399 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
10400 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
10401 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
10402 clients are not affected.
10404 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
10405 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
10406 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
10407 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
10408 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
10409 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10412 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10415 o Minor features (future-proofing):
10416 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
10417 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
10418 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
10419 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
10420 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
10421 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
10423 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10424 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
10425 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
10426 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
10427 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
10431 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
10432 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
10434 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
10435 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
10436 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
10437 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
10438 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
10439 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
10442 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
10443 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
10445 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
10446 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
10447 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
10448 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
10449 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
10451 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
10452 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10454 o Major features (directory authority, security):
10455 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
10456 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
10457 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
10459 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
10460 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
10461 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
10462 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
10463 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
10466 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
10467 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
10468 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
10469 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
10470 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
10471 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
10472 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
10473 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
10476 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
10477 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
10478 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
10479 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
10480 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
10481 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
10482 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
10483 15056; part of proposal 220.
10484 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
10485 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
10486 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
10487 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
10488 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
10489 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
10490 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
10491 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
10492 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
10495 o Major features (security):
10496 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10497 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10498 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10499 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10500 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10501 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10503 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
10504 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10505 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10506 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10507 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10508 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10509 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10510 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10511 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10512 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10513 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10515 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
10516 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10517 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10518 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10520 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10521 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
10522 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
10523 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
10526 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
10527 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10528 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10530 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
10531 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
10532 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
10533 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
10534 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
10535 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
10536 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10538 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
10539 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10540 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10541 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10542 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10543 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10544 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10545 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
10546 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
10547 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
10548 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
10549 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
10550 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
10551 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
10552 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
10554 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10555 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
10556 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
10557 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
10558 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10560 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
10561 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10562 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
10563 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
10564 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
10565 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
10566 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10568 o Minor feature (client):
10569 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
10570 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
10572 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
10573 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
10574 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
10575 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
10577 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
10578 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
10579 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
10581 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
10582 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
10583 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
10584 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
10585 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
10587 o Minor features (controller):
10588 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
10589 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
10590 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
10591 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
10594 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
10595 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
10596 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
10597 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
10598 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
10599 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
10600 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
10601 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
10602 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
10603 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
10605 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
10606 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
10607 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
10610 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10611 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
10612 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
10614 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
10615 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
10616 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10618 o Minor features (directory authority):
10619 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
10620 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
10621 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
10622 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
10623 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
10625 o Minor features (directory cache):
10626 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
10627 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
10630 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
10631 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
10632 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
10633 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
10635 o Minor features (entry guards):
10636 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
10637 break regression tests.
10638 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
10639 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
10641 o Minor features (fallback directories):
10642 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
10643 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
10644 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
10645 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
10646 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
10647 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
10648 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
10649 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
10650 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
10651 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
10652 Closes ticket 20539.
10653 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
10654 Closes ticket 20822.
10655 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
10657 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
10658 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
10659 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
10660 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
10661 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
10663 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
10664 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
10665 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
10666 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
10667 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
10670 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
10671 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
10672 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
10673 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
10675 o Minor features (geoip):
10676 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10679 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
10680 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10683 o Minor features (infrastructure):
10684 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
10685 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
10687 o Minor features (linting):
10688 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
10689 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
10691 o Minor features (logging):
10692 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
10693 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
10695 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
10696 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
10697 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
10699 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
10700 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
10702 o Minor features (relay):
10703 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
10704 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
10705 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
10706 Written by Michael Sonntag.
10708 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
10709 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
10710 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
10713 o Minor features (testing):
10714 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
10715 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
10716 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
10718 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
10719 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
10720 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
10721 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
10722 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
10723 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
10724 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
10725 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
10726 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10728 o Minor bugfix (logging):
10729 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
10730 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
10731 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
10732 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
10735 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
10736 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
10737 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
10738 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
10740 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10741 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
10742 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
10745 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
10746 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
10747 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
10749 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10750 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
10751 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
10752 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10753 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
10754 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
10755 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10758 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
10759 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
10761 o Minor bugfixes (config):
10762 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
10763 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
10764 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
10765 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10767 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10768 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
10769 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10770 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
10771 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
10772 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10774 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
10775 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
10776 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
10777 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
10778 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
10779 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
10780 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
10783 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
10784 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
10785 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
10786 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
10787 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
10789 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
10790 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
10791 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
10792 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
10795 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
10796 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
10797 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
10798 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10800 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
10801 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
10802 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
10803 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
10804 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10806 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
10807 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
10808 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
10809 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10810 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
10811 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
10812 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
10815 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
10816 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
10817 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
10818 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
10819 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10820 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
10821 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
10822 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
10823 on all recent tor versions.
10825 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10826 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
10827 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
10829 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
10830 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
10831 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10833 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10834 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
10835 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
10836 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
10837 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10838 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
10839 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10840 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
10841 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10843 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10844 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
10845 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
10846 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
10847 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10848 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
10849 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
10850 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10851 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
10852 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
10853 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
10856 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10857 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
10858 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
10859 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10860 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
10861 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
10862 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
10863 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10864 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
10865 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
10866 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
10869 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10870 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
10871 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10872 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
10873 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
10874 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
10875 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
10876 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
10878 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
10879 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
10880 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
10883 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10884 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
10885 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10887 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10888 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
10889 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
10890 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
10893 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
10894 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10895 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10896 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10898 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10899 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10901 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10902 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10903 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10905 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
10906 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
10907 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
10908 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
10910 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10911 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
10912 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
10913 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
10914 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10915 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
10916 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
10917 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10919 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
10920 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10921 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10922 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10923 Patch by "junglefowl".
10925 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10926 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
10927 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
10928 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
10929 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10931 o Minor bugfixes (util):
10932 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
10933 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
10934 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
10935 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
10937 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
10938 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
10939 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
10942 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
10943 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
10944 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
10945 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
10947 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10948 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
10949 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
10950 Closes ticket 19858.
10951 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
10952 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
10953 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
10954 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
10955 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
10956 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
10957 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
10958 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
10959 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
10960 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
10961 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10962 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
10963 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
10964 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
10965 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
10966 redundant with the similar structures used in the
10967 channel abstraction.
10968 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
10969 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
10970 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
10971 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10972 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
10973 replaced with code automatically generated by the
10976 o Documentation (formatting):
10977 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
10978 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
10980 o Documentation (man page):
10981 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
10982 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
10985 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
10986 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
10988 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
10989 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
10990 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
10992 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
10993 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
10994 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
10995 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10996 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
10997 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
10998 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
10999 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
11000 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
11001 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
11003 o Removed features:
11004 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
11005 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
11006 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
11008 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
11009 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
11010 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
11013 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
11014 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
11015 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
11017 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
11018 from "overcaffeinated".
11019 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
11020 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
11023 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
11024 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
11025 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
11026 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11027 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
11030 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
11031 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
11032 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11034 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11035 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11036 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11037 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11038 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11039 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11040 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11042 o Minor features (geoip):
11043 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11047 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
11048 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11049 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
11050 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11053 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
11054 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
11055 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11057 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11058 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11060 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11061 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11062 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11064 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11065 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11066 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11069 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11070 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11071 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11072 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11073 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11074 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11075 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11076 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11077 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11079 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11080 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11081 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11082 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11083 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11084 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11085 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11086 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11087 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11088 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11089 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11090 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11091 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11093 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11094 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11095 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11096 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11097 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11099 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11100 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11101 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11103 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11104 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11105 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11106 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11107 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11108 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11109 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11112 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11113 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11114 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11115 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11116 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11117 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11118 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11120 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11121 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11122 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11123 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11126 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11127 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11128 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11129 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11131 o Minor features (geoip):
11132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11136 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
11137 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11138 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
11139 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11142 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
11143 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
11144 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11146 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11147 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11149 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11150 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11151 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11153 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11154 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11155 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11158 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11159 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11160 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11161 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11162 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11163 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11164 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11165 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11166 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11168 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11169 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11170 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11171 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11172 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11173 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11174 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11175 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11176 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11178 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11179 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11180 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11181 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11182 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11184 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
11185 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11186 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
11187 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
11188 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
11191 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11192 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11193 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11194 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11195 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11197 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11198 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11199 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11201 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11202 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
11203 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
11204 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
11205 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
11206 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
11209 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11210 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11211 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11212 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11213 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11214 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11215 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11218 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11219 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11220 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11221 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11222 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11223 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11224 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11226 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11227 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11228 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11229 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11232 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11233 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11234 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11235 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11237 o Minor features (geoip):
11238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11241 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11242 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
11243 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
11246 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
11247 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11248 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
11249 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11252 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
11253 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
11254 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11256 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11257 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11259 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11260 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11261 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11263 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11264 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11265 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11268 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11269 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11270 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11271 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11272 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11273 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11274 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11275 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11276 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11278 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11279 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11280 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11281 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11282 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11283 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11284 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11285 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11286 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11288 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11289 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11290 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11291 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11292 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11294 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
11295 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11296 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
11297 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
11298 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
11301 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11302 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11303 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11304 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11305 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11307 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11308 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11309 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11311 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11312 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
11313 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
11314 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
11315 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
11316 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
11319 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11320 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11321 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11322 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11323 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11324 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11325 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11328 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11329 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11330 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11331 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11332 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11333 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11334 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11336 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11337 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11338 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11339 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11342 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11343 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11344 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11345 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11347 o Minor features (geoip):
11348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11352 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
11353 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
11355 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
11356 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
11357 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
11358 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
11359 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
11360 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
11362 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11363 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11364 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11368 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
11369 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
11370 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
11371 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11374 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
11375 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
11376 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11378 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
11379 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11381 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
11382 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11383 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11385 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11386 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11387 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11390 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11391 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11392 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11393 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11394 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11395 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11396 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11397 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11398 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11400 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
11401 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11402 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11403 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11404 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11405 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11406 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11407 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11408 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11410 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
11411 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
11412 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
11413 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
11414 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
11417 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11418 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11419 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11420 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11421 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11423 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11424 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11425 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11427 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11428 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
11429 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
11430 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
11431 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
11432 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
11435 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
11436 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11437 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11438 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11439 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11440 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11441 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11444 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11445 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11446 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11447 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11448 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11449 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11450 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11452 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
11453 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11454 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11455 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11458 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
11459 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11460 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11461 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11463 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11464 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
11465 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
11466 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
11468 o Minor features (geoip):
11469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
11473 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
11474 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
11476 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
11477 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
11478 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
11482 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
11483 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
11484 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
11485 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
11487 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
11488 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
11489 least January of 2020.
11491 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
11492 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
11493 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
11494 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
11497 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
11498 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
11499 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
11500 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
11501 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
11502 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
11503 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11505 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
11506 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11507 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11508 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11509 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11510 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11511 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11513 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
11514 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
11515 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
11517 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
11518 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
11519 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11521 o Minor features (geoip):
11522 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11525 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
11526 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
11527 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
11529 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
11530 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
11532 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
11533 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
11534 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
11536 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
11537 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
11538 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
11539 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11540 Patch by "junglefowl".
11543 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
11544 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
11545 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
11546 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
11547 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
11548 version should upgrade.
11550 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
11551 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
11553 o Major bugfixes (security):
11554 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
11555 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
11556 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
11557 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
11558 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
11559 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11561 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
11562 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
11563 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
11564 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
11565 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
11566 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
11567 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
11568 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
11569 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
11570 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
11571 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11573 o Minor features (geoip):
11574 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11577 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11578 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
11579 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
11580 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
11582 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
11583 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11586 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
11587 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
11588 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
11589 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
11590 become available for their systems.
11592 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
11595 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
11596 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
11598 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
11599 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11600 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11601 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11602 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11603 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11604 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11605 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11606 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11608 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
11609 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
11610 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
11611 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
11612 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
11614 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
11615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11619 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
11620 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
11622 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
11623 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
11624 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
11625 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
11626 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
11627 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
11628 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
11629 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
11631 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
11633 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
11634 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
11635 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
11636 become available for their systems.
11638 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
11639 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11641 o New system requirements:
11642 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
11643 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
11644 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
11645 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
11646 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
11647 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
11648 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
11649 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
11650 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
11651 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
11652 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
11654 o Deprecated features:
11655 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
11656 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
11657 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
11658 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
11659 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
11660 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
11661 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
11662 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
11663 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11664 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
11665 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11666 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11667 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
11668 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
11669 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
11670 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
11671 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
11672 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
11673 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
11674 and TransListenAddress.
11676 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
11677 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
11678 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
11679 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
11680 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
11681 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
11682 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
11683 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
11684 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
11686 o Major features (build, hardening):
11687 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
11688 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
11689 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
11690 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
11691 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
11692 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
11693 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
11694 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
11695 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
11697 o Major features (circuit building, security):
11698 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
11699 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
11700 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
11702 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
11703 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
11705 o Major features (compilation):
11706 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
11707 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
11708 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
11709 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
11711 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
11712 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
11713 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
11715 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
11716 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
11717 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
11718 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
11719 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
11720 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
11721 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
11722 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
11724 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
11725 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
11726 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
11727 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
11728 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
11729 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
11730 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
11732 o Major features (resource management):
11733 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
11734 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
11735 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
11736 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
11737 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
11738 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
11740 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
11741 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
11742 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
11743 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
11744 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
11745 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
11746 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
11747 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
11748 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
11749 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
11750 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
11752 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
11753 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
11754 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
11755 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
11756 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
11757 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
11758 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
11759 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
11760 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
11761 part of proposal 264.
11763 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
11764 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
11765 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
11766 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
11768 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
11769 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
11770 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
11771 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11772 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
11773 download, stop waiting for certificates.
11774 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
11775 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
11776 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
11778 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
11779 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
11780 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
11782 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
11783 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
11784 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
11785 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
11786 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
11787 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
11788 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11790 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11791 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
11792 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
11793 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
11794 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
11795 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
11796 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
11797 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
11798 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
11799 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11801 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
11802 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
11803 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
11804 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
11805 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
11806 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11808 o Minor features (port flags):
11809 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
11810 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
11811 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
11812 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
11813 18693; patch by "teor".
11815 o Minor features (build, hardening):
11816 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
11817 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
11818 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
11819 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
11820 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
11821 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
11822 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
11823 Closes ticket 18895.
11825 o Minor features (client, directory):
11826 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
11827 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
11828 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
11831 o Minor features (code safety):
11832 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
11833 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
11834 patch from "U+039b".
11836 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
11837 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
11840 o Minor features (config):
11841 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
11842 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
11844 o Minor features (controller):
11845 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
11846 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
11847 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
11848 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
11849 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
11850 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
11851 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
11852 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
11854 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
11855 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
11856 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
11859 o Minor features (directory authority):
11860 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
11861 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
11862 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
11863 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
11864 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
11865 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
11866 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
11867 Implements ticket 18624.
11868 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
11869 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
11870 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
11873 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
11874 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
11875 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
11876 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
11877 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
11879 o Minor features (hidden service):
11880 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
11881 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
11882 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
11885 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
11886 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
11887 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
11888 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
11889 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
11890 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
11891 Closes ticket 18365.
11892 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
11893 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
11894 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
11895 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
11897 o Minor features (logging):
11898 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
11899 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
11900 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
11901 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
11902 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11903 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
11904 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
11905 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
11906 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
11907 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
11909 o Minor features (performance):
11910 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
11911 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
11912 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
11913 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
11914 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
11915 Closes ticket 18815.
11917 o Minor features (relay, usability):
11918 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
11919 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
11920 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
11921 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
11924 o Minor features (security, TLS):
11925 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
11926 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
11927 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
11928 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
11930 o Minor features (testing):
11931 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
11932 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
11933 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
11934 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
11935 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
11936 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
11937 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
11938 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
11939 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
11940 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
11942 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
11943 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
11944 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
11945 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
11946 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
11947 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
11948 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
11950 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
11951 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
11952 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
11953 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
11954 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
11955 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
11956 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
11957 assertion as a test failure.
11958 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
11960 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
11961 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
11962 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
11963 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
11964 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
11965 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
11966 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
11967 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
11968 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
11970 o Minor features (Tor2web):
11971 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
11972 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
11973 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
11975 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11976 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
11977 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
11978 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
11979 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
11981 o Minor features (user interface):
11982 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
11983 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
11984 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
11985 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
11988 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
11989 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
11990 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
11991 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
11994 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
11995 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
11996 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
11997 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
11998 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
11999 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
12001 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12002 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
12003 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
12004 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12006 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
12007 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
12008 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
12009 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
12010 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
12012 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
12013 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
12014 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
12015 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
12016 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
12018 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
12019 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
12020 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
12021 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
12022 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12024 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
12025 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
12026 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12028 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
12029 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
12030 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12032 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
12033 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
12034 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
12037 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12038 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
12039 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
12041 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12042 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
12043 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
12045 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
12046 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
12047 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12048 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
12049 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
12050 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
12051 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
12052 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
12054 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12055 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
12056 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
12057 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
12059 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12060 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
12061 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
12062 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12063 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
12064 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
12065 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
12066 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12067 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
12068 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
12070 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
12071 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
12072 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
12073 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12075 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
12076 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
12077 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
12078 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
12081 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
12082 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
12083 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
12084 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
12086 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
12087 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
12090 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12091 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
12092 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
12093 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
12095 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
12096 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
12098 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
12099 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
12100 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
12101 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
12102 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
12104 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
12105 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
12106 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12108 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
12109 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
12110 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
12112 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12113 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
12114 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
12115 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
12116 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
12117 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12119 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12120 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
12121 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
12123 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
12124 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12125 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
12126 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
12127 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
12128 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
12129 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
12131 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
12132 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
12133 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12134 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
12135 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12136 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
12137 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12138 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
12139 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
12140 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12141 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
12142 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
12143 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12144 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
12145 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
12148 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
12149 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
12150 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
12151 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
12152 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
12153 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
12155 o Minor bugfixes (options):
12156 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
12157 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
12159 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
12160 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
12161 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12164 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12165 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
12166 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12167 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
12168 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
12169 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12171 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12172 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
12173 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
12174 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
12175 patch from "cypherpunks".
12176 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
12177 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12178 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
12179 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12180 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
12181 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
12182 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
12183 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
12184 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12185 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
12186 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
12188 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
12189 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
12191 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
12192 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
12193 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12194 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
12195 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
12198 o Minor bugfixes (time):
12199 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
12200 bugfix on all released tor versions.
12201 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
12202 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
12203 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
12204 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
12207 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
12208 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
12209 19678. Patch by teor.
12211 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
12212 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
12213 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
12214 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
12215 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
12217 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
12218 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12220 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12221 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
12223 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
12224 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
12225 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
12226 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
12229 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
12230 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
12231 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
12232 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
12233 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
12234 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
12235 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
12236 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
12237 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
12238 tickets 19287 and 19290.
12239 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
12240 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12241 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
12242 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
12243 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12244 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
12245 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
12246 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
12248 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
12249 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
12250 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
12251 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
12254 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
12255 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
12257 o Removed features:
12258 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
12259 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
12260 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
12261 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
12262 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
12263 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
12264 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
12267 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
12268 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
12269 command-line options to enable them.
12270 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
12271 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
12274 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
12275 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
12276 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
12277 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
12280 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12281 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
12282 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
12283 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
12284 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
12285 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
12288 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
12289 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
12290 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
12293 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
12294 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
12295 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
12296 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
12298 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
12299 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
12300 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
12301 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
12304 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
12305 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
12306 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
12307 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
12310 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
12311 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
12312 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
12315 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
12316 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
12317 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12319 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
12320 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
12321 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
12323 o Minor features (geoip):
12324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12328 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
12329 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
12330 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
12331 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
12332 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
12335 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12336 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12337 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12338 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12339 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12340 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12341 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12342 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12343 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12345 o Minor features (geoip):
12346 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12350 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
12351 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
12352 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
12353 who select public relays as their bridges.
12355 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12356 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
12357 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
12358 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
12359 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
12360 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12362 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
12363 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
12364 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
12365 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
12366 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
12369 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
12370 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
12371 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
12373 o Minor features (geoip):
12374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12378 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
12379 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
12380 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
12381 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
12382 encouraged to upgrade.
12384 o Directory authority changes:
12385 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12386 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12388 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
12389 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
12390 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
12391 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
12392 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
12393 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12395 o Minor features (geoip):
12396 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12399 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12400 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
12401 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
12404 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12405 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
12406 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
12407 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
12410 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
12412 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
12414 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
12415 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
12416 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
12417 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
12418 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
12419 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12421 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
12423 o New system requirements:
12424 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
12425 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
12426 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
12428 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
12429 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
12430 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
12431 longer runs with, these versions.
12432 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
12433 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
12434 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
12435 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
12436 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
12438 o Directory authority changes:
12439 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12440 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12442 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12444 o Major features (directory system):
12445 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
12446 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
12447 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
12448 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
12449 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
12450 gsathya, and karsten.
12451 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
12452 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
12453 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
12454 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
12455 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
12457 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
12458 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
12459 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
12460 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
12461 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
12462 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
12463 mikeperry and teor.
12465 o Major features (security, Linux):
12466 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
12467 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
12468 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
12469 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
12470 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
12472 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
12473 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
12474 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
12475 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
12476 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
12477 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
12478 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
12480 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
12481 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
12484 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
12485 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12486 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12488 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
12489 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
12490 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
12491 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
12492 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
12494 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
12495 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
12496 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
12497 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12498 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
12499 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
12500 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
12501 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
12502 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
12503 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12505 o Major bugfixes (key management):
12506 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12507 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12508 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12509 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12510 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12511 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12514 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
12515 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12516 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12517 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12518 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12520 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
12521 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
12522 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
12523 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
12524 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
12525 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
12526 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
12527 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
12528 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12530 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
12531 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12532 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12533 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12534 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12536 o Major bugfixes (testing):
12537 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
12538 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12540 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
12541 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
12542 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
12543 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12545 o Minor features (accounting):
12546 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
12547 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
12548 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
12549 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
12551 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
12552 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12553 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12554 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12555 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
12556 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
12557 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
12560 o Minor features (build):
12561 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
12562 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
12563 Steven Chamberlain.
12564 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
12565 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
12566 patch from "cypherpunks".
12567 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
12568 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
12569 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
12570 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
12571 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
12572 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
12573 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12574 Patch from intrigeri.
12576 o Minor features (clients):
12577 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
12578 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
12579 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
12581 o Minor features (controller):
12582 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
12583 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
12584 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
12586 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
12587 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
12588 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
12589 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
12590 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
12592 o Minor features (crypto):
12593 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
12594 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
12596 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
12597 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
12598 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12599 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
12600 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
12602 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
12603 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
12604 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
12605 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
12607 o Minor features (directory downloads):
12608 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
12609 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
12610 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
12611 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
12612 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
12613 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
12614 17864; patch by teor.
12616 o Minor features (geoip):
12617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12620 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
12621 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
12622 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
12623 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
12624 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
12626 o Minor features (IPv6):
12627 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
12628 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
12629 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
12630 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
12631 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
12632 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
12633 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
12634 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
12635 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
12636 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
12637 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
12638 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
12640 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
12641 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
12642 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
12643 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
12644 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
12645 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
12646 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
12647 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
12648 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
12649 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
12651 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12652 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
12653 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
12654 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
12655 while fixing 18548.
12657 o Minor features (logging):
12658 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
12659 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
12660 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
12661 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
12664 o Minor features (portability):
12665 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
12666 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
12668 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
12669 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
12670 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
12671 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
12672 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
12674 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
12675 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
12676 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
12677 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
12678 Resolves ticket 17951.
12680 o Minor features (replay cache):
12681 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
12682 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
12684 o Minor features (robustness):
12685 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
12686 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
12687 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
12689 o Minor features (security, clock):
12690 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
12691 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
12692 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
12693 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
12695 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
12696 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
12697 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
12698 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
12699 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
12700 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
12702 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
12703 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12704 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12705 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12707 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
12708 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
12709 Implements ticket 17026.
12710 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
12711 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
12712 Implements feature 17986.
12713 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
12714 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
12715 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
12717 o Minor features (security, RNG):
12718 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
12719 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
12720 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
12721 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
12722 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
12723 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
12724 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
12725 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
12726 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
12727 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
12730 o Minor features (security, win32):
12731 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
12732 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
12735 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
12736 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
12737 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
12738 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
12739 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
12740 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
12741 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
12744 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
12745 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
12746 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
12747 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
12748 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12749 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
12750 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
12751 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
12752 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
12753 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
12754 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12755 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
12756 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
12757 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12759 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
12760 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
12761 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
12762 from "unixninja92".
12764 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
12765 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
12766 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
12769 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
12770 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
12771 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
12773 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12774 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
12775 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
12776 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12777 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
12778 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
12780 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
12781 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
12783 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
12784 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
12785 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
12786 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
12787 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
12789 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
12790 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12791 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
12792 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
12793 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12794 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
12796 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
12797 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
12798 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
12799 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
12800 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12801 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
12802 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
12803 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12804 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
12805 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12806 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
12808 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
12809 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
12812 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
12813 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
12814 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
12815 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
12816 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12818 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12819 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
12820 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
12821 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
12822 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
12823 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12824 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
12825 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
12827 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
12829 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
12830 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
12831 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
12833 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
12834 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
12835 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12837 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12838 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
12839 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12841 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
12842 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
12843 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
12844 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12846 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
12847 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
12848 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
12849 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
12850 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12852 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
12853 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
12854 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
12856 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
12857 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
12858 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
12859 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
12860 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
12861 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12862 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
12863 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
12864 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
12866 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
12867 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
12868 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
12869 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
12872 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
12873 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
12874 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
12875 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
12876 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
12878 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12879 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
12880 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
12881 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
12882 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
12883 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
12884 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
12885 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
12887 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
12888 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
12889 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
12890 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
12891 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
12892 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
12893 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
12894 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
12895 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
12898 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
12899 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
12900 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
12901 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12903 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
12904 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
12905 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
12907 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12908 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
12909 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12911 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12912 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
12913 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
12914 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
12915 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12916 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
12917 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
12918 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12919 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
12920 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
12921 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12922 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
12923 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
12924 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12925 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
12926 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12927 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
12928 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
12929 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
12931 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12932 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
12933 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
12934 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
12935 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
12937 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
12938 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12939 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
12940 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
12941 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
12942 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
12943 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12944 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
12945 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
12946 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12947 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
12948 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
12951 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
12952 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
12953 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
12954 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
12956 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
12957 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12958 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
12961 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12962 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
12963 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
12964 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12966 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
12967 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
12968 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
12969 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
12970 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
12971 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
12974 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
12975 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
12976 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
12977 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
12979 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12980 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
12981 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
12982 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
12983 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
12984 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
12985 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
12986 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
12987 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12989 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
12990 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
12991 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
12992 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
12993 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
12995 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
12996 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
12997 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
12998 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
13000 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13001 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
13002 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
13003 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13004 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
13005 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
13006 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
13007 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
13009 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
13010 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
13012 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
13013 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
13014 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
13017 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13018 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
13019 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
13020 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
13022 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
13023 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
13024 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13025 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
13026 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
13027 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
13028 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
13029 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
13030 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
13031 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
13032 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13033 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
13034 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
13035 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
13036 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
13037 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13039 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
13040 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
13041 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
13042 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
13043 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
13044 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
13045 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
13047 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
13048 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
13049 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
13050 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
13052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13053 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
13054 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
13056 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
13057 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
13058 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
13059 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
13061 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
13062 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
13063 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
13064 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
13065 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
13066 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
13067 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
13068 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
13069 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
13070 17744. Patch from zerosion.
13071 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
13072 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
13073 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
13074 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
13075 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
13076 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
13077 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
13078 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
13079 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
13080 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
13081 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
13082 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
13086 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
13087 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
13088 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
13089 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
13090 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
13091 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
13092 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
13093 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
13094 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
13095 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
13096 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
13097 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
13099 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
13100 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
13102 o Removed features:
13103 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
13104 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
13105 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
13106 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
13107 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
13108 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
13109 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
13110 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
13113 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
13114 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
13115 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
13116 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
13117 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
13118 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
13119 portion of ticket 16831.
13120 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
13122 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
13123 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
13124 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
13125 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
13126 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
13128 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
13129 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
13130 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
13131 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
13134 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
13135 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
13136 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
13138 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
13139 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13140 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13141 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13142 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13143 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13146 o Minor features (geoip):
13147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13151 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
13152 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
13153 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
13154 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13155 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13157 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13158 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
13159 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
13160 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
13161 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
13162 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
13163 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
13164 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13165 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
13166 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13169 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
13170 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
13171 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
13172 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
13173 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
13174 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
13175 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
13176 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
13177 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
13178 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
13179 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
13180 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
13181 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
13182 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
13183 that would make him proud.
13185 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
13187 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
13188 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
13189 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
13190 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
13191 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
13192 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
13193 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
13195 o New system requirements:
13196 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
13197 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
13199 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
13200 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
13201 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
13202 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
13203 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
13204 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
13205 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
13206 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
13207 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
13208 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
13209 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
13210 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
13211 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
13213 o Major features (controller):
13214 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
13215 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
13217 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
13218 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
13219 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
13220 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
13221 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
13222 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
13223 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13225 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
13226 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
13227 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
13228 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
13229 key). Closes ticket 13642.
13230 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
13231 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
13232 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
13233 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
13234 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
13235 Implements part of ticket 12498.
13236 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
13237 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13238 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
13239 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
13240 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13241 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
13242 part of ticket 12498.
13243 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
13244 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
13246 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
13247 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
13248 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
13249 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
13250 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
13251 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
13252 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
13253 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
13254 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
13257 o Major features (ECC performance):
13258 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
13259 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
13261 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
13262 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
13263 available. Implements ticket 16535.
13264 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
13265 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
13266 Implements ticket 16467.
13267 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
13268 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
13269 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
13270 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
13272 o Major features (Hidden services):
13273 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
13274 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
13275 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
13276 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
13277 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
13278 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
13279 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
13280 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
13281 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
13282 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
13283 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
13284 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
13286 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
13287 introduction points, which used to change the number of
13288 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
13289 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
13291 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
13292 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
13293 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
13294 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
13295 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
13296 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
13298 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
13299 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13300 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
13301 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
13302 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
13303 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
13305 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13306 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13307 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13308 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13309 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13310 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13311 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13312 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13315 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13316 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13317 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13318 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13320 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
13321 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
13322 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
13323 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
13324 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
13325 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
13328 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
13329 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
13330 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13332 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
13333 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
13334 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
13335 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
13336 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
13337 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
13339 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
13340 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13341 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13342 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13343 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13346 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13347 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13348 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13349 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13350 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13351 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13352 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13353 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13356 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
13357 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
13358 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
13359 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
13361 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
13362 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
13363 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
13364 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13365 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
13366 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
13367 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
13370 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
13371 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
13372 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
13373 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
13374 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
13375 own. Implements feature 15482.
13376 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
13377 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
13379 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
13380 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
13381 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
13382 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
13383 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
13385 o Minor features (command-line interface):
13386 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
13387 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13388 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
13389 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
13391 o Minor features (compilation):
13392 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
13393 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
13394 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
13395 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
13396 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
13398 o Minor features (control protocol):
13399 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
13400 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
13402 o Minor features (controller):
13403 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
13404 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
13405 present. Implements ticket 14840.
13406 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
13407 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
13408 Closes ticket 14845.
13409 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
13410 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
13411 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
13413 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13414 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
13415 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
13416 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
13417 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
13418 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
13420 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
13421 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13422 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13423 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13424 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
13425 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
13426 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13428 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
13429 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13430 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13431 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13433 o Minor features (geoip):
13434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13437 o Minor features (hidden services):
13438 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
13439 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
13440 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
13441 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
13443 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
13444 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
13445 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
13447 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
13448 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
13449 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
13450 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
13451 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
13452 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
13453 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
13454 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
13456 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
13457 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
13458 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
13459 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
13460 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
13461 Closes ticket 15745.
13463 o Minor features (logging):
13464 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
13465 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
13468 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
13469 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
13470 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
13471 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
13473 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
13474 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
13475 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
13476 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
13477 Resolves ticket 15435.
13479 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
13480 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
13481 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
13482 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13483 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
13484 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
13485 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
13486 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13487 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
13488 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
13489 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
13490 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
13491 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
13492 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
13493 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
13494 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
13495 Related to ticket 16069.
13497 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
13498 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
13499 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
13501 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
13502 stderr, not stdout.
13503 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
13504 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
13505 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
13508 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13509 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
13510 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
13511 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
13512 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
13514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
13515 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13516 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13517 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13519 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
13520 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
13521 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
13522 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
13523 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
13524 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
13525 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
13526 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13528 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13529 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
13530 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
13531 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13533 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13534 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
13535 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
13537 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
13538 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
13539 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
13541 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
13542 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
13543 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
13544 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13546 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
13547 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13548 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13549 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13550 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13551 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13553 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13554 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13555 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13557 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
13558 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13560 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13561 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
13562 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13563 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
13564 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13565 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
13566 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
13567 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
13569 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
13570 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13571 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13572 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13574 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
13575 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13576 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13578 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
13579 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
13580 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
13583 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13584 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
13585 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
13586 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
13587 recent enough Clang.
13589 o Minor bugfixes (network):
13590 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
13591 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
13592 unsuitable for public communications.
13594 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
13595 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
13596 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
13597 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
13599 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13600 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
13601 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13602 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
13603 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
13605 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
13606 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
13608 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13609 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
13610 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
13611 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
13612 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
13614 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
13615 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13616 from "cypherpunks".
13617 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
13618 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
13621 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
13622 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
13623 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
13624 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
13625 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
13627 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13628 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
13629 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
13630 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
13631 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
13632 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
13634 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
13635 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
13636 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
13637 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13639 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
13640 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
13641 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
13642 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
13643 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
13644 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
13645 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
13646 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
13648 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
13649 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13650 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13652 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13653 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
13654 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
13655 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
13656 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
13657 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
13658 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
13659 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
13660 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
13661 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
13662 function. Closes ticket 16763.
13663 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
13664 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
13666 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
13667 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
13668 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
13669 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
13670 haven't supported that in ages.
13671 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
13672 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
13673 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
13674 suite of other microdesc functions.
13675 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
13676 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
13677 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
13678 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
13679 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
13680 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
13681 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
13682 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
13683 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
13684 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
13685 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
13686 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
13687 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
13688 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
13689 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
13690 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
13692 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
13693 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
13697 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
13698 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
13699 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
13701 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
13702 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13703 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
13704 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
13705 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
13706 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
13707 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
13708 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
13709 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
13710 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
13712 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
13714 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
13715 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
13716 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
13717 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
13718 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
13719 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
13720 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
13721 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
13722 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
13723 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
13724 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
13725 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
13726 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
13728 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
13729 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13732 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
13733 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
13734 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
13735 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
13736 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
13737 Closes ticket 14922.
13738 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
13739 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
13740 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
13741 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
13742 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
13743 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
13744 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
13745 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
13746 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
13747 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
13748 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
13749 Closes ticket 13338.
13751 o Removed features:
13752 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
13753 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
13754 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
13755 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
13756 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
13757 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
13758 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
13759 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
13760 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
13761 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
13762 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
13763 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
13764 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
13765 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
13766 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
13769 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
13770 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
13771 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
13772 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
13773 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
13774 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
13775 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
13776 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
13777 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
13778 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
13779 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
13781 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
13782 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
13783 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
13784 Closes ticket 15817.
13785 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
13786 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
13787 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
13788 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
13789 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
13790 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
13791 network before we begin.
13792 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
13793 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
13794 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
13795 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
13796 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
13797 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
13799 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
13800 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
13802 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
13803 default as a part of "make check".
13804 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
13805 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
13806 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
13807 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
13808 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
13809 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
13810 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
13811 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
13812 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
13813 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
13814 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
13815 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
13816 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
13817 files. Closes ticket 15180.
13818 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
13819 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
13820 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
13821 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
13822 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
13823 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
13824 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
13825 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
13826 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
13827 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
13828 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
13829 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
13830 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
13831 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
13832 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
13833 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
13834 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
13836 - Set the severity correctly when testing
13837 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
13838 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
13839 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
13840 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
13842 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
13843 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
13844 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
13845 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
13846 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
13847 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
13849 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
13850 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13851 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13852 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13853 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13854 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13855 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13856 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13859 o Major bugfixes (stability):
13860 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13861 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13862 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13863 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13864 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13865 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13866 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13869 o Minor features (geoip):
13870 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13871 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13873 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
13874 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13875 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13876 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13877 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13878 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13880 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13881 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13882 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13883 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13886 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
13887 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
13888 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
13889 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
13890 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
13892 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13893 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13894 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
13895 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
13896 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13899 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
13900 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13901 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13902 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13903 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
13904 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
13905 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13908 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13909 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13910 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13912 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13913 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
13914 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
13915 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
13916 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13917 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13920 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13921 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13922 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13925 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
13926 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
13927 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
13928 authorities should upgrade.
13930 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13931 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13932 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13933 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13937 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13938 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13941 o Minor features (geoip):
13942 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13943 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13947 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
13948 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
13949 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
13950 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
13951 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13953 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
13954 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13956 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13957 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13958 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13959 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13960 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13961 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13962 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13964 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13965 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13966 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13967 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13968 Resolves ticket 15515.
13969 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
13970 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
13971 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
13975 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
13976 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13977 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13978 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13979 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13981 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13982 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13984 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13985 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13986 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13987 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13988 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13989 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13990 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13992 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13993 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13994 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13995 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13996 Resolves ticket 15515.
13999 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
14000 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14001 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14002 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14003 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14005 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14006 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14008 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14009 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14010 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14011 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14012 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14013 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14014 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14016 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14017 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14018 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14019 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14020 Resolves ticket 15515.
14023 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
14024 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
14026 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
14027 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
14028 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
14029 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
14030 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
14031 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
14032 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
14033 bugs should be addressed.
14035 o New compiler and system requirements:
14036 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
14037 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
14038 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
14039 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
14041 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
14042 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
14043 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
14044 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
14045 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
14046 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
14047 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
14048 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
14049 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
14051 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
14052 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
14053 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
14054 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
14055 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
14056 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
14057 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
14059 o Directory authority changes:
14060 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14061 closes ticket 14487.
14062 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14063 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14064 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14066 o Major features (bridges):
14067 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
14068 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
14069 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
14072 o Major features (changed defaults):
14073 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
14074 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
14075 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
14076 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
14077 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
14078 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
14080 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
14081 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
14082 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
14083 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
14086 o Major features (directory system):
14087 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
14088 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
14089 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
14090 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
14091 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
14092 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
14093 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
14094 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
14095 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
14096 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
14097 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
14098 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
14099 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
14100 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
14101 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
14102 227. Closes ticket 10395.
14104 o Major features (guards):
14105 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
14106 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
14107 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
14108 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
14109 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
14111 o Major features (hidden services):
14112 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
14113 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
14114 Closes ticket 13667.
14115 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
14116 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
14117 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
14118 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
14119 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
14120 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
14121 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
14122 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
14123 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
14124 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
14125 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
14127 o Major features (performance):
14128 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
14129 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
14130 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
14131 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
14132 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
14133 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
14134 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
14135 Implements ticket 9682.
14137 o Major features (relay):
14138 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
14139 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
14140 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
14141 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
14142 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
14143 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
14144 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
14145 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
14147 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
14148 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
14149 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
14150 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
14151 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
14152 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
14153 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
14156 o Major features (sample torrc):
14157 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
14158 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
14159 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
14160 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
14161 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
14162 generally useful "sample torrc".
14164 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
14165 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
14166 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
14167 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
14168 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
14169 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
14171 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
14172 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
14173 Implements ticket 11485.
14175 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
14176 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
14177 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
14178 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
14179 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
14180 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
14183 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14184 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14185 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14188 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14189 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
14190 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14192 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
14193 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
14194 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
14195 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
14196 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14198 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14199 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14200 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14201 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14203 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
14204 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
14205 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
14208 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14209 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
14210 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
14211 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
14212 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
14213 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
14215 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14216 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14217 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14218 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14220 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
14221 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
14222 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
14223 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
14224 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
14225 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
14226 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
14228 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14229 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
14230 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
14231 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
14232 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
14233 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14235 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14236 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14237 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
14238 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14239 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14240 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14241 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14242 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14244 o Minor features (build):
14245 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
14246 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
14247 Resolves ticket 13037.
14249 o Minor features (client):
14250 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
14251 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
14252 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
14253 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
14255 o Minor features (client):
14256 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
14257 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
14258 Resolves ticket 13315.
14260 o Minor features (controller):
14261 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
14262 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
14264 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
14265 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
14267 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
14268 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
14269 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
14270 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14271 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
14272 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
14273 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
14274 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
14275 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
14277 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
14278 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
14279 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
14280 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
14281 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
14282 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
14283 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
14284 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
14285 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
14286 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
14288 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14289 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
14290 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
14291 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
14292 argument more than once.
14293 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
14294 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
14295 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
14296 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
14297 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
14298 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
14300 o Minor features (geoip):
14301 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14302 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14305 o Minor features (guard nodes):
14306 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
14307 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
14308 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
14310 o Minor features (heartbeat):
14311 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
14312 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
14313 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
14314 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
14316 o Minor features (hidden service):
14317 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
14318 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
14319 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
14320 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
14321 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
14322 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
14323 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
14324 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
14325 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
14326 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
14327 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
14328 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
14329 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
14330 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
14332 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
14333 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
14334 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
14336 o Minor features (interface):
14337 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
14338 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
14339 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
14341 o Minor features (logging):
14342 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
14343 Resolves ticket 6852.
14344 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
14345 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
14346 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
14348 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
14349 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
14350 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
14351 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
14352 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
14353 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
14354 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
14355 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
14356 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
14357 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
14358 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
14359 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
14362 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
14363 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
14364 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
14365 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
14367 o Minor features (relay):
14368 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
14369 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
14370 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
14372 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
14373 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
14374 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
14375 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
14376 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
14377 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
14378 document. Implements feature 10427.
14380 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
14381 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
14382 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
14383 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
14385 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
14386 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
14387 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
14388 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
14389 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
14390 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
14392 o Minor features (stability):
14393 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
14394 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
14397 o Minor features (systemd):
14398 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
14399 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
14400 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
14401 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14402 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
14403 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14405 o Minor features (testing networks):
14406 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
14407 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
14408 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
14409 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
14410 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
14412 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
14413 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
14414 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
14415 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
14416 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
14417 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
14419 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
14420 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
14421 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
14422 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
14423 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
14425 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
14426 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
14427 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
14428 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
14429 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
14431 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
14432 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
14433 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
14434 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
14435 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
14438 o Minor features (validation):
14439 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
14440 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
14441 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
14442 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
14443 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
14444 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
14445 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
14446 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
14447 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
14448 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
14449 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
14452 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
14453 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
14454 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
14455 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14457 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14458 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
14459 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
14460 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14462 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
14463 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
14464 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
14466 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
14467 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
14468 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
14470 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
14471 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14472 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
14473 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
14474 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14475 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
14476 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14478 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14479 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
14480 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
14481 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14482 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
14483 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
14484 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
14485 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
14486 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
14488 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14489 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
14490 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
14491 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
14492 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
14493 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14494 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
14495 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
14496 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
14498 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
14499 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
14500 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
14501 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14502 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
14503 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14504 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
14505 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
14507 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
14508 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
14509 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
14512 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
14513 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
14514 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
14515 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
14516 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14518 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
14519 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
14520 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
14521 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14522 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
14523 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
14524 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
14525 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14527 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
14528 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
14529 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
14530 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
14531 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14533 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
14534 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
14535 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
14536 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
14537 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
14539 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
14540 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
14541 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14543 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
14544 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
14545 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
14546 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
14547 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
14549 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
14550 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
14551 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
14553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14554 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
14556 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
14557 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
14558 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
14559 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
14561 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
14562 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
14564 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
14565 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
14566 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
14567 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
14568 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
14569 Addresses ticket 14188.
14570 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
14571 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
14572 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
14573 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
14574 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
14575 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
14576 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
14577 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14578 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
14579 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
14580 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
14583 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14584 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
14585 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
14586 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
14587 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
14588 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14590 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14591 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
14592 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
14593 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
14594 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
14596 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14597 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
14598 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
14599 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
14600 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
14601 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
14602 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
14603 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14604 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
14605 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14606 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
14607 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
14608 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14609 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
14610 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
14611 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14613 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14614 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
14615 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
14616 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14617 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
14618 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
14619 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
14620 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
14623 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
14624 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
14625 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
14626 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
14627 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
14628 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14629 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
14630 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
14631 state, and key files.
14632 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
14633 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
14636 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14637 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
14638 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
14639 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
14640 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14641 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
14642 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
14643 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14644 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
14645 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
14646 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
14647 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
14648 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
14649 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
14650 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
14651 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
14652 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
14653 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
14656 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14657 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
14658 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
14659 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
14660 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
14661 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
14662 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
14663 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
14664 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
14665 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14667 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14668 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
14669 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14670 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
14671 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
14672 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
14674 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
14675 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14677 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
14678 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
14679 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
14680 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
14681 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14683 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
14684 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
14685 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
14686 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
14687 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
14688 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14690 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14691 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
14692 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
14694 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
14695 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
14696 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14698 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
14699 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
14700 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
14701 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
14702 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
14704 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
14705 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
14706 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
14709 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14710 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
14711 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14712 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
14713 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
14716 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
14717 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
14718 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
14719 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
14722 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
14723 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
14724 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
14727 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14728 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
14729 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14731 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
14732 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
14733 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
14734 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
14735 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
14738 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
14739 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
14740 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14741 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
14742 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
14743 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14745 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
14746 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
14747 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
14748 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
14749 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
14750 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
14752 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
14753 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
14754 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
14755 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
14756 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14757 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
14758 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
14759 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
14760 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
14761 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
14762 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
14763 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
14764 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
14765 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
14766 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
14767 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
14768 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
14769 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
14770 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
14771 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14772 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
14773 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
14774 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
14775 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
14776 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
14777 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
14778 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
14779 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14780 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
14781 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
14782 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
14783 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
14785 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
14786 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
14787 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
14788 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
14789 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14791 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14792 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
14793 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
14794 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
14795 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
14796 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14797 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
14798 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
14799 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14801 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
14802 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
14803 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
14805 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
14806 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
14807 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
14810 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
14811 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
14812 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
14813 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
14816 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
14817 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
14818 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14820 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14821 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
14822 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
14824 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
14825 Resolves ticket 12205.
14826 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
14827 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
14828 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
14829 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
14831 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
14832 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
14833 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
14835 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
14836 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
14838 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
14839 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
14840 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
14841 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
14842 or_options_t structure.
14843 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
14844 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
14845 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
14846 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
14847 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
14848 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
14849 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
14850 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
14852 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
14853 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
14855 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
14857 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
14858 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
14859 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
14860 with a function instead.
14861 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
14862 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
14863 Closes ticket 13172.
14864 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
14865 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
14866 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
14867 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
14868 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
14869 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
14870 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
14871 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
14872 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
14873 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
14874 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
14875 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
14879 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
14880 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
14881 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
14882 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
14884 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
14885 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
14886 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
14887 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14888 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
14889 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14890 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
14891 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
14892 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
14893 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
14894 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
14895 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
14896 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
14897 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
14898 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
14899 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
14900 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
14901 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
14903 o Distribution (systemd):
14904 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
14905 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
14906 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
14907 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
14908 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14910 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
14911 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
14913 o Downgraded warnings:
14914 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
14915 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
14918 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
14919 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
14920 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
14923 o Removed features (directory authorities):
14924 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
14925 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
14926 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
14927 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
14928 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
14929 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
14930 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
14931 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
14932 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
14934 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
14935 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
14936 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
14937 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
14940 o Removed features:
14941 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
14942 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
14943 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
14944 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
14945 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
14947 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
14948 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
14949 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
14950 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
14951 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
14952 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
14953 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
14954 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
14955 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
14957 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
14958 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
14960 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
14961 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
14962 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
14963 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
14964 anymore, and ignore it.
14966 o Removed platform support:
14967 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
14968 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
14969 Closes ticket 11446.
14971 o Testing (test-network.sh):
14972 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
14973 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
14975 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
14977 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
14978 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
14979 Partially implements ticket 13161.
14982 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
14983 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
14984 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
14985 (existing behavior).
14986 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
14987 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
14988 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
14989 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
14990 Closes ticket 14107.
14991 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
14992 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14993 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
14994 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
14996 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
14997 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
14998 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
14999 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
15000 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
15001 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
15003 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
15005 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
15006 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
15007 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
15008 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15009 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
15010 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
15011 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
15012 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
15013 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
15014 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
15015 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
15016 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
15018 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
15019 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
15020 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
15022 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
15023 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15025 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
15026 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
15027 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
15029 o Directory authority changes:
15030 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15031 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15032 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15033 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15034 closes ticket 14487.
15036 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
15037 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
15038 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
15041 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
15042 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15043 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
15044 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15045 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
15046 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15047 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15048 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15050 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
15051 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15052 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15053 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15055 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15056 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
15057 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
15058 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
15060 o Minor features (controller):
15061 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
15062 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15063 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15065 o Minor features (geoip):
15066 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15067 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15070 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
15071 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
15072 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
15073 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15074 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
15075 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15077 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15078 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
15079 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
15080 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
15082 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15083 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
15084 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
15085 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
15086 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
15087 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
15088 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
15089 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15091 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15092 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
15093 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15095 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
15096 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
15097 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
15098 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
15099 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
15103 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
15104 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
15105 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
15108 o Directory authority changes:
15109 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15110 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15111 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15112 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15113 closes ticket 14487.
15115 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
15116 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15117 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15118 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15120 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
15121 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15122 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
15123 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15124 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
15125 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15126 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15127 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15129 o Minor features (geoip):
15130 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15131 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15134 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
15135 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15137 It adds several new security features, including improved
15138 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
15139 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
15140 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
15141 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
15142 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
15143 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
15144 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
15145 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
15146 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
15147 and features mentioned below.
15149 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
15150 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15152 o Major features (security):
15153 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
15154 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
15155 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
15156 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
15157 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
15158 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
15159 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
15160 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15161 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15162 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15164 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
15165 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
15166 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
15167 streams attached to each circuit.
15169 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
15170 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
15171 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
15172 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
15173 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
15174 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
15175 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
15176 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
15177 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
15178 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
15179 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
15180 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
15181 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
15183 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
15184 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
15185 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
15186 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
15188 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
15189 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
15190 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
15191 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
15192 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
15193 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
15195 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
15196 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
15197 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
15198 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
15199 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
15200 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
15201 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
15202 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
15205 o Major features (controller):
15206 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
15207 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
15208 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
15209 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
15210 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
15211 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
15213 o Major features (relay performance):
15214 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
15215 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
15216 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
15217 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
15218 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
15219 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
15220 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
15221 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
15222 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
15223 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
15225 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
15226 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
15227 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
15228 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
15229 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
15230 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
15231 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
15232 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
15233 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
15234 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
15236 o Major features (testing networks):
15237 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
15238 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
15239 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
15240 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
15241 Implements ticket 8530.
15243 o Major features (other):
15244 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
15245 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
15246 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
15247 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
15248 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
15249 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
15251 o Deprecated versions:
15252 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15253 attention for some while.
15255 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15256 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
15257 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
15259 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
15260 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
15261 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
15262 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
15263 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
15264 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
15265 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
15266 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
15267 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
15268 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
15269 router's identity is not forgeable.
15271 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
15272 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15273 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
15274 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15276 o Major bugfixes (client):
15277 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
15278 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
15279 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
15280 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
15281 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
15282 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
15283 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
15284 to build circuits".
15286 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
15287 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
15288 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
15289 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
15292 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
15293 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
15294 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
15295 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
15296 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
15297 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
15298 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15300 o Major bugfixes (relay):
15301 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
15302 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15303 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15304 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
15305 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
15306 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
15307 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15308 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
15309 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
15310 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
15311 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15312 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
15313 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
15314 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
15315 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
15316 bugfix on every version of Tor.
15318 o Minor features (security):
15319 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
15320 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
15321 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
15322 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
15324 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
15325 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
15326 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
15327 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
15328 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
15329 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
15330 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
15332 o Minor features (security, memory management):
15333 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
15334 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
15335 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
15336 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
15337 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
15338 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
15340 o Minor features (bridge client):
15341 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
15342 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
15343 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
15345 o Minor features (bridge):
15346 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
15347 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
15349 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
15350 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
15351 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
15352 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
15353 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
15354 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
15355 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
15356 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
15357 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
15358 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
15359 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
15360 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
15361 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
15362 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
15363 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
15365 o Minor features (build):
15366 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
15367 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
15368 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
15369 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
15370 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
15371 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
15372 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
15373 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
15374 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
15375 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
15376 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
15377 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
15378 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
15379 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
15380 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
15383 o Minor features (client):
15384 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
15385 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
15386 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
15387 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
15389 o Minor features (config options and command line):
15390 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
15391 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
15392 Implements ticket 10060.
15393 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
15394 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
15395 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
15397 o Minor features (config options):
15398 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
15399 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
15400 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
15401 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
15402 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
15403 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
15404 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
15405 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
15406 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
15407 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
15408 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
15409 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
15410 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
15411 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
15412 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
15413 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
15414 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
15417 o Minor features (controller):
15418 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
15419 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
15421 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
15422 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
15423 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
15424 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
15425 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
15426 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
15427 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
15428 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
15430 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
15431 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
15432 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
15434 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15435 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
15436 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
15437 help diagnose bug 7164.
15438 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
15439 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
15440 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
15441 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
15442 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
15444 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
15445 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
15446 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
15447 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
15448 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
15449 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
15450 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
15451 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
15452 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
15453 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
15454 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
15455 still referenced by a live node_t object.
15456 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
15457 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
15458 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15460 o Minor features (geoip):
15461 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15464 o Minor features (interface):
15465 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
15466 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
15467 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
15468 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
15470 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
15471 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
15472 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
15474 o Minor features (log messages):
15475 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
15476 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
15477 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
15478 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
15479 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
15480 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
15481 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
15482 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
15484 o Minor features (log verbosity):
15485 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
15486 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
15487 Resolves ticket 5286.
15488 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
15489 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
15490 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
15491 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
15492 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
15493 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
15495 o Minor features (performance):
15496 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
15497 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
15498 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
15499 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
15500 Closes ticket 8109.
15502 o Minor features (relay):
15503 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
15504 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
15505 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
15507 o Minor features (testing):
15508 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
15509 the unit test scripts.
15510 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
15511 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
15512 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
15513 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
15515 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
15516 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
15517 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
15518 10267; patch from "yurivict".
15519 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
15520 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
15521 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
15522 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
15523 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
15524 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
15526 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
15527 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
15528 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
15529 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15531 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15532 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
15533 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
15534 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15535 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
15536 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
15537 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
15538 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
15539 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
15540 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
15542 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
15543 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
15544 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
15546 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
15547 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
15548 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
15549 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
15550 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15552 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15553 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
15554 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
15555 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
15556 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15557 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
15558 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
15559 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
15560 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15561 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
15562 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
15563 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
15565 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
15566 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
15567 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
15568 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
15569 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
15570 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15571 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
15572 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
15573 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15574 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
15575 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
15576 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15578 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
15579 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
15580 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
15581 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
15583 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
15584 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
15585 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
15586 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
15589 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
15590 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
15591 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
15592 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15593 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
15594 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
15597 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
15598 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
15599 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
15600 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
15601 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
15603 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
15604 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
15605 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
15608 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15609 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
15610 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
15611 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
15612 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
15613 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
15614 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
15615 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
15616 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
15617 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
15619 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
15620 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
15621 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
15622 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
15623 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
15625 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
15626 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15628 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15629 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
15630 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
15631 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
15632 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
15633 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
15634 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
15635 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
15636 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
15637 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15638 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
15639 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
15640 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
15642 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
15643 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
15644 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
15645 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
15646 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
15647 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
15648 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
15649 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
15650 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
15651 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
15652 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
15653 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
15654 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
15656 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
15657 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
15658 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
15660 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
15661 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
15662 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
15663 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
15664 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
15665 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
15667 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
15668 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
15669 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
15670 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15671 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
15672 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
15673 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
15674 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
15675 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
15676 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15678 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15679 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
15680 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15682 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
15683 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
15684 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
15685 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
15686 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15688 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15689 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
15690 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
15691 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15692 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
15693 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
15694 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
15695 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15696 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
15697 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
15698 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
15699 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
15700 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
15701 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
15703 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15704 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
15705 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
15706 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
15707 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15708 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
15709 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
15710 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
15711 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
15713 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
15714 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
15715 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
15716 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
15717 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
15718 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
15719 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
15721 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
15722 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
15724 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
15725 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
15726 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
15727 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
15729 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
15730 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
15731 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
15732 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15733 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
15734 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
15735 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
15736 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
15737 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
15738 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
15739 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
15740 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
15741 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15742 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
15743 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
15744 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
15745 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
15747 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
15748 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
15749 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
15750 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
15751 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
15752 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
15753 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
15754 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
15757 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
15758 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
15759 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
15760 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
15761 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
15762 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
15763 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15764 Reported by "mr-4".
15765 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
15766 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
15767 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
15768 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15770 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15771 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
15772 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
15773 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
15774 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
15775 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
15776 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
15777 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
15778 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15779 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
15780 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
15781 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
15783 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
15784 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
15785 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
15787 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
15788 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
15789 early. Fixes bug 10081.
15791 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15792 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
15793 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
15794 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
15797 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
15798 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
15799 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
15800 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
15803 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
15804 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
15805 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
15806 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
15808 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
15809 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
15810 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15812 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
15813 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
15814 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
15815 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
15816 versions. Found by "skruffy".
15817 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
15818 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
15819 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
15822 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
15823 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
15824 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15825 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
15826 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
15827 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
15828 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
15829 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
15830 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15831 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
15832 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
15834 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15835 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
15836 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
15837 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
15838 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
15840 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
15841 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
15842 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
15843 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
15846 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
15847 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
15848 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15849 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
15850 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
15851 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
15852 should never have affected anyone in practice.
15854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15855 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
15856 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
15857 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
15858 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
15859 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
15860 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
15861 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
15862 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
15863 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15864 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
15865 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
15866 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
15867 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
15868 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
15869 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
15870 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15871 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
15872 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
15873 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
15874 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
15875 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
15876 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
15877 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
15879 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
15880 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
15881 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
15882 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
15883 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15884 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
15885 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
15886 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
15887 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
15889 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
15890 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
15893 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
15894 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
15896 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
15898 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
15899 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
15900 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
15901 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
15902 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
15903 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
15905 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
15906 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
15908 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
15909 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
15910 caches don't get confused.
15911 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
15912 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15913 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
15914 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
15915 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
15916 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
15917 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
15918 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
15919 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
15920 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
15921 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
15922 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
15923 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
15924 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
15925 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15926 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
15927 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
15928 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15931 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
15932 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
15933 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
15934 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
15935 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
15937 o Removed code and features:
15938 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
15939 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
15940 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
15941 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
15942 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
15943 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
15945 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
15946 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
15947 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
15948 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
15949 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
15950 part of a fix for bug 10841.
15951 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
15952 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
15953 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
15954 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
15955 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
15956 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
15958 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
15959 Resolves ticket 11070.
15960 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
15961 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15962 the rest of bug 10841.
15963 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
15964 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
15965 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
15966 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
15968 o Test infrastructure:
15969 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
15970 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
15971 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
15972 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
15973 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
15974 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
15975 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
15976 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
15977 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
15978 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
15980 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
15981 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
15982 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
15983 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
15984 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
15985 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
15986 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
15987 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
15988 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
15989 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
15990 invoking the other functions it calls.
15993 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
15994 Patch from Dana Koch.
15995 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
15996 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
15997 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
15998 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
16000 o Distribution (systemd):
16001 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
16002 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
16003 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
16004 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
16005 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
16006 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
16007 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
16008 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
16009 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
16010 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
16011 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
16012 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
16013 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16017 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
16018 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
16019 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
16020 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
16021 (which does affect Tor).
16023 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
16024 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
16025 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
16026 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
16028 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
16029 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16030 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
16031 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16034 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
16035 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
16036 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
16037 the directory authorities.
16040 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
16041 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
16042 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
16043 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
16044 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
16045 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
16046 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
16047 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
16048 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
16049 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
16050 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
16051 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16053 o Directory authority changes:
16054 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
16056 o Minor features (geoip):
16057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16061 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
16062 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
16063 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
16064 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
16067 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
16068 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
16069 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
16070 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
16071 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
16072 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
16073 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
16074 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
16075 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
16076 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
16079 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
16080 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
16081 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
16082 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
16083 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
16084 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
16085 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
16086 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
16090 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
16091 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
16092 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
16093 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
16094 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
16095 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
16096 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
16097 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
16098 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16099 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
16100 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
16101 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
16102 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
16105 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16109 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
16110 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
16111 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
16112 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
16113 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
16114 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
16115 of RAM, and several others.
16117 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16118 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
16119 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
16120 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
16121 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
16123 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
16124 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
16125 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
16126 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
16129 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16130 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
16131 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
16132 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
16133 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
16134 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
16135 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16136 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
16137 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
16138 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
16139 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
16140 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
16141 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
16142 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
16143 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
16144 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
16145 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
16146 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
16147 Resolves ticket 11438.
16149 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
16150 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
16151 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
16152 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
16153 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
16154 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16156 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16157 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
16158 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16160 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16161 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
16162 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16164 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16165 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
16166 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
16167 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16169 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16170 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
16171 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
16173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16174 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
16175 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16178 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
16179 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
16180 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
16181 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
16184 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16185 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
16186 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
16187 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
16189 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16190 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
16191 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
16192 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16194 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16195 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
16196 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
16200 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
16201 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
16202 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
16203 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
16205 o Major features (client security):
16206 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16207 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16208 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16209 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16210 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16211 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16214 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16215 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16216 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16217 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16219 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16220 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16221 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
16222 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
16223 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
16226 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16227 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16229 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16230 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16231 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16232 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16233 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
16234 GeoLite2 Country database.
16237 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
16238 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
16239 bugfix on every released Tor.
16240 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16241 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16242 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16243 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16244 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16245 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16246 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16247 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16248 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16249 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16250 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16251 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16252 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16253 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16254 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16256 o Documentation fixes:
16257 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16258 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16261 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
16262 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
16263 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
16264 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
16265 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
16266 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
16267 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
16269 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
16270 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
16273 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
16274 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
16275 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
16276 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
16277 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
16278 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
16279 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
16280 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
16282 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
16283 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16284 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16285 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
16286 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
16287 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16290 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
16291 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16292 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
16293 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
16294 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
16297 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
16298 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
16299 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
16300 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
16301 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
16302 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
16303 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
16304 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
16306 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
16307 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
16308 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
16309 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
16310 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
16311 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
16312 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
16313 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
16314 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
16315 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
16316 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
16317 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
16318 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
16319 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
16320 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
16321 security, and privacy fixes.
16323 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
16324 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
16325 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
16326 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
16327 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
16328 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
16329 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
16330 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
16331 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
16332 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
16333 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
16335 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
16336 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
16337 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
16339 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
16341 o Major features (better link encryption):
16342 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
16343 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
16344 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
16345 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
16346 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
16347 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
16350 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
16351 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
16352 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
16353 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
16355 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
16357 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
16358 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
16359 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
16360 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
16361 them to solve bug 6033.)
16363 o Major features (relay performance):
16364 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
16365 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
16366 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
16367 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
16368 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
16369 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
16370 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
16371 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
16372 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
16373 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
16374 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
16375 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
16376 Implements ticket 9574.
16378 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
16379 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
16380 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
16381 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
16382 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
16383 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
16384 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
16385 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
16386 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
16387 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
16388 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
16389 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
16390 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
16391 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
16392 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
16393 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
16395 o Major features (use of guards):
16396 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
16397 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
16398 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
16399 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
16400 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
16401 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
16402 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
16403 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
16404 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
16405 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
16406 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
16407 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
16408 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
16409 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16411 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
16412 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
16413 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
16414 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
16416 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
16417 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
16420 o Major features (geoip database):
16421 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
16422 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
16423 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
16424 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
16425 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
16426 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
16428 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
16430 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16432 o Major features (IPv6):
16433 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
16434 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
16435 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
16436 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
16437 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
16438 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
16439 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
16440 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
16441 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
16442 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
16443 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
16444 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
16445 revised in proposal 208.
16446 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
16447 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
16448 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
16450 o Major features (directory authorities):
16451 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
16452 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
16454 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
16455 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
16456 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
16457 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
16458 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
16459 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
16460 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
16461 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
16462 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
16463 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
16464 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
16466 o Major features (build and portability):
16467 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
16468 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
16469 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
16470 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
16471 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
16472 fixes by Jim Meyering.
16473 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
16474 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
16475 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
16476 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
16477 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
16478 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
16480 o Security features:
16481 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
16482 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
16483 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
16484 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
16485 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
16486 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
16487 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
16488 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
16489 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
16492 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
16493 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
16494 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
16495 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
16496 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
16497 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
16498 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
16499 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
16500 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
16501 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
16502 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
16503 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
16504 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
16505 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
16506 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16507 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
16508 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
16509 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16511 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
16512 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
16513 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
16514 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
16516 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
16517 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
16518 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
16520 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
16521 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
16522 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16523 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
16524 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
16525 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16526 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
16527 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
16528 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
16530 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
16531 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16533 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
16534 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
16535 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
16536 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
16537 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
16538 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
16539 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
16540 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
16541 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
16542 last time we raised it).
16543 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
16544 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
16545 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
16547 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16548 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
16549 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
16550 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
16551 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
16552 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
16553 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
16554 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16555 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
16556 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
16557 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
16558 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
16559 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16561 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
16562 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
16563 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
16564 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
16565 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
16566 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
16567 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
16568 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
16569 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16570 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
16571 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
16572 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
16573 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
16575 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
16576 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
16577 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
16578 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
16579 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
16580 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
16581 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
16582 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
16583 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16585 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
16586 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
16587 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
16588 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
16589 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
16590 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
16591 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
16592 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
16593 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
16594 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
16595 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
16596 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
16597 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
16598 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
16599 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
16600 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
16601 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
16604 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
16605 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
16606 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
16607 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16609 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
16610 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
16611 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
16612 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
16614 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
16615 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
16616 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
16617 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
16618 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
16619 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
16622 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
16623 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
16624 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
16625 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
16626 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
16627 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
16628 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16630 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
16631 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
16632 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
16633 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16635 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16636 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
16637 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
16638 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
16639 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16640 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
16641 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
16642 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16644 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
16645 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
16646 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16648 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
16649 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
16650 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16652 o Internal abstraction features:
16653 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
16654 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
16655 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
16656 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
16657 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
16658 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
16659 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
16660 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
16661 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
16662 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
16663 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
16664 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
16665 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
16666 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
16667 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
16668 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
16669 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
16671 o New build requirements:
16672 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
16673 strongly recommended.
16674 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
16675 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
16676 from a source distribution.)
16678 o Minor features (protocol):
16679 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
16680 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
16682 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
16683 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
16684 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
16685 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
16686 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
16687 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
16688 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
16689 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
16690 closes ticket 7199.
16691 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
16692 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
16694 o Minor features (security):
16695 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
16696 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
16697 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
16698 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
16699 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
16700 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
16701 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
16702 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
16703 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
16705 o Minor features (control protocol):
16706 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
16708 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
16709 Implements ticket 4971.
16710 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
16711 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
16712 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
16713 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
16714 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
16716 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
16717 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
16719 o Minor features (path selection):
16720 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
16721 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
16722 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
16723 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
16724 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
16725 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
16726 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
16727 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
16728 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
16729 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
16730 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
16731 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
16732 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
16733 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
16735 o Minor features (hidden services):
16736 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
16737 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
16738 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
16739 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
16740 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
16741 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
16742 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
16743 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
16744 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
16745 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
16746 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
16747 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
16748 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
16750 o Minor features (clients):
16751 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
16752 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
16753 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
16754 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
16755 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
16756 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
16757 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
16758 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
16759 the ORPort and the DirPort.
16761 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
16762 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
16763 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
16764 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
16765 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
16766 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
16767 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
16768 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
16769 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
16770 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
16771 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
16772 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
16773 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
16774 Implements part of proposal 222.
16776 o Minor features (bridges):
16777 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
16778 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
16779 bugs 1913 and 1992.
16780 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
16781 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
16782 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
16783 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
16784 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
16785 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
16786 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
16787 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
16788 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
16789 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
16790 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
16792 o Minor features (relays):
16793 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
16794 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
16796 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
16797 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
16798 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
16799 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
16800 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
16801 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
16802 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
16803 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
16804 connect to the wrong addresses.
16805 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
16806 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
16807 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
16808 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
16811 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
16812 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
16813 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
16814 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
16815 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
16816 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
16818 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16819 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
16820 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
16821 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
16823 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
16824 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
16825 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
16826 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
16827 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
16828 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
16830 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
16831 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
16832 Implements ticket 8151.
16833 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
16834 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
16835 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
16836 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
16838 o Minor features (path bias detection):
16839 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
16840 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
16841 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
16842 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
16843 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
16844 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
16845 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
16846 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
16847 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
16848 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
16849 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
16850 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
16851 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
16852 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
16853 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
16854 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
16855 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
16856 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
16857 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
16858 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
16859 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
16860 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
16861 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
16862 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
16863 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
16864 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
16865 detection capability loss.
16867 o Minor features (build):
16868 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
16869 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
16870 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
16872 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
16873 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
16874 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16876 o Build improvements (autotools):
16877 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
16878 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
16879 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
16881 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
16882 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
16883 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
16884 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
16886 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
16887 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
16888 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
16889 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
16890 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
16891 than to perform erroneously.
16892 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
16894 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
16895 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
16896 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
16898 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
16899 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
16900 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
16901 hard-to-track-down errors.
16902 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
16903 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
16904 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
16905 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
16906 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
16907 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
16908 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
16909 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16910 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
16911 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
16912 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
16914 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
16915 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
16916 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
16917 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
16918 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
16919 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
16920 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
16921 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
16922 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
16923 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
16925 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
16926 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
16927 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
16928 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
16929 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
16930 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
16931 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
16932 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
16933 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
16934 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
16935 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
16936 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
16937 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
16939 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
16940 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
16941 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
16942 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
16943 or at least make it more diagnosable.
16944 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
16945 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
16946 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
16947 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
16949 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
16950 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
16951 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
16952 part of ticket 6736.
16953 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
16954 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
16955 Resolves ticket 6758.
16956 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
16957 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
16958 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
16959 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16960 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
16961 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
16962 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
16964 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
16965 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
16966 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
16967 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16969 o Minor features (testing):
16970 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
16971 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
16973 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
16974 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
16975 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
16978 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
16979 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
16981 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
16982 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
16983 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
16984 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
16985 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
16986 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
16987 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
16988 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
16989 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
16990 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
16991 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
16992 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
16993 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
16994 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
16995 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
16996 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
16997 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
16999 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
17000 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
17001 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
17002 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
17003 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
17004 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
17005 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
17006 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
17007 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
17008 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
17009 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
17010 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
17011 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
17012 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
17013 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
17014 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
17015 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
17016 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17017 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
17018 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
17021 o Minor fixes (config options):
17022 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
17023 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
17024 or we just won't work.)
17025 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
17026 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
17027 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17028 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
17029 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
17030 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17031 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
17032 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17033 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
17034 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
17035 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
17036 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17037 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
17038 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
17039 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
17040 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17041 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
17042 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
17043 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
17045 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
17046 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
17047 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
17049 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
17050 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
17051 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
17052 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
17054 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
17055 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
17056 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
17057 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
17058 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
17059 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17060 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
17061 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
17062 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
17063 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
17064 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17065 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
17066 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
17067 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
17068 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
17069 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
17072 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
17073 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
17074 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
17075 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
17076 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
17077 Should help resolve bug 8235.
17078 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
17079 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
17080 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
17081 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17082 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
17083 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
17084 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
17085 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
17086 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
17087 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
17088 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17090 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17091 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
17092 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
17093 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
17094 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
17095 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
17096 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
17097 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
17099 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
17100 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
17101 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
17102 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
17104 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17105 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
17106 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
17107 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
17108 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
17110 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17111 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
17112 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
17113 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17114 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
17115 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17117 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17118 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
17119 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
17120 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
17121 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
17122 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
17123 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
17124 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
17125 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
17127 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17128 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
17129 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
17130 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
17131 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17132 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
17133 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
17134 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
17135 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
17136 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
17137 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
17138 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
17140 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
17141 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
17142 this is CID 718634.
17143 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
17144 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
17145 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
17146 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
17148 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
17149 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
17151 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
17152 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
17153 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
17154 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
17155 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
17156 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
17157 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
17158 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17159 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
17160 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
17161 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
17162 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17163 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
17164 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
17165 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17166 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
17167 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
17168 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
17170 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
17171 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
17172 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
17173 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
17174 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17175 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
17176 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
17177 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
17178 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
17179 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17180 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
17181 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
17182 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
17185 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
17186 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
17187 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
17188 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
17189 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
17191 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
17192 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17193 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
17194 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
17195 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
17196 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17197 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
17198 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
17199 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
17202 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17203 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
17204 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17205 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17207 o Documentation fixes:
17208 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
17209 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17210 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
17211 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
17212 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
17213 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
17214 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
17216 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
17217 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
17218 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
17219 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
17220 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
17221 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
17222 message is logged at notice, not at info.
17223 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
17224 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
17225 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
17226 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
17227 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
17228 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
17230 o Removed features:
17231 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
17232 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
17233 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
17235 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
17236 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
17237 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
17238 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
17239 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
17240 compatibility code.
17243 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
17244 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
17246 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
17247 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
17249 o Code simplification:
17250 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
17251 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
17252 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
17253 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
17255 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
17256 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
17258 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
17259 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
17260 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
17261 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
17262 present the same extensions.)
17263 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
17265 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
17266 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
17267 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
17268 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
17270 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
17271 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
17272 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
17273 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
17276 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
17278 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
17279 and the different handshakes it supports.
17280 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
17281 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
17282 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
17283 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
17285 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
17286 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
17287 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
17288 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
17289 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
17290 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
17291 testable, and a little less fragile too.
17292 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
17293 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
17294 Implements ticket 5529.
17295 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
17296 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
17297 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
17300 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
17301 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
17302 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
17303 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
17304 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
17305 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17306 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
17307 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
17308 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
17309 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
17310 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
17311 any encoding is overkill.
17312 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
17313 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17314 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
17315 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
17316 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
17317 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
17318 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
17319 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
17320 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
17323 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
17324 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
17325 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
17326 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
17327 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
17328 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
17329 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
17330 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
17332 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
17333 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
17334 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
17335 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
17336 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
17337 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
17338 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
17339 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
17340 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
17341 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
17342 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
17344 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
17345 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
17346 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
17347 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
17348 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
17349 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
17350 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
17351 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
17352 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
17353 describes microdescriptors.
17355 o Major features (build hardening):
17356 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
17358 o Major features (relay scaling):
17359 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
17360 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
17361 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
17362 much faster than other AES implementations.
17363 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
17364 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
17365 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
17366 Resolves ticket 4526.
17367 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
17368 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
17370 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
17371 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
17372 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
17373 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
17375 o Major features (blocking resistance):
17376 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
17378 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
17379 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
17380 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
17381 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
17382 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
17383 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
17384 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
17385 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
17386 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
17387 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
17388 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
17389 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
17390 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
17391 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
17392 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
17393 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
17394 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
17395 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
17396 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
17398 o Major features (pluggable transports):
17399 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
17400 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
17401 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
17402 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
17404 o Major features (DoS resistance):
17405 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
17406 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
17407 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
17408 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
17409 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
17410 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
17411 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
17412 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
17413 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
17414 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
17415 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
17417 o Major features (hidden services):
17418 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
17419 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
17420 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
17422 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
17423 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
17424 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
17425 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
17426 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
17427 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
17429 o Major features (IPv6):
17430 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
17431 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
17432 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
17433 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
17434 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
17436 o Major features (directory authorities):
17437 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
17438 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
17439 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
17440 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
17441 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
17442 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
17443 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
17444 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
17445 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
17446 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
17448 o Major features (performance):
17449 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
17450 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
17451 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
17452 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
17453 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
17454 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
17455 side of Proposal 174.
17456 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
17457 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
17458 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
17459 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
17460 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
17461 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
17462 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
17463 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
17464 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
17465 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
17466 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
17467 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
17469 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
17470 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
17471 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
17472 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
17473 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
17476 o Major features (relays):
17477 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
17478 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
17479 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
17480 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
17481 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
17482 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
17483 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
17485 o Major features (stream isolation):
17486 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
17487 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
17488 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
17489 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
17490 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
17491 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
17492 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
17493 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
17494 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
17495 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
17496 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
17497 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
17498 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
17499 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
17501 o Major features (bufferevents):
17502 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
17503 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
17504 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
17505 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
17506 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
17507 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
17508 zero-copy transports where available.
17509 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
17510 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
17511 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
17512 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
17513 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
17514 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
17516 o Major features (path selection):
17517 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
17518 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
17519 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
17520 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
17523 o Major features (port forwarding):
17524 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
17525 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
17526 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
17527 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
17528 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
17529 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
17531 o Major features (logging):
17532 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
17533 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
17534 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
17535 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
17536 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
17537 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
17538 Implements enhancement 1668.
17540 o Major features (other):
17541 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
17542 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
17543 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
17544 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
17545 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
17546 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
17547 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
17548 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
17549 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
17550 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
17551 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
17552 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
17553 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
17554 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
17555 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
17556 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
17557 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
17558 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
17559 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
17560 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
17562 o New directory authorities:
17563 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
17564 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
17566 o Security/privacy fixes:
17567 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
17568 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
17569 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17570 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
17571 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
17572 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
17573 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17574 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
17575 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
17576 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
17577 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
17578 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
17579 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
17580 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
17581 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
17582 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
17583 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
17584 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
17585 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
17586 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
17587 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
17588 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
17589 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
17590 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
17591 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
17592 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
17593 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
17594 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
17595 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
17596 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
17597 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
17599 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
17600 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
17601 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
17602 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
17603 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
17604 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
17605 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
17606 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17607 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
17608 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
17609 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
17610 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
17611 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
17612 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
17615 o Major bugfixes (clients):
17616 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
17617 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
17618 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
17619 which introduced predicted ports.
17620 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
17621 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
17622 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
17623 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
17624 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
17625 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
17626 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17627 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
17628 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
17630 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
17631 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
17632 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
17633 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
17634 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
17635 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
17637 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
17638 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
17639 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
17640 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
17641 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17642 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
17643 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
17644 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
17645 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
17646 documents entirely.
17648 o Major bugfixes (relays):
17649 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
17650 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
17651 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
17652 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
17653 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
17654 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
17655 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
17656 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
17657 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
17658 immensely in tracking this bug down.
17659 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
17660 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
17661 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
17662 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
17663 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
17664 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
17665 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17667 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
17668 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
17669 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
17670 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
17671 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
17672 cells were introduced.
17673 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
17674 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
17675 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
17676 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
17678 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17679 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
17680 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
17681 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
17682 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
17683 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
17684 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
17685 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
17686 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
17687 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
17688 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
17689 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
17690 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
17691 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
17692 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
17693 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
17694 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
17695 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
17696 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
17697 Fixes part of bug 3825.
17699 o Changes to default torrc file:
17700 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
17701 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
17703 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
17704 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
17705 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
17707 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
17708 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
17709 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
17711 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17712 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
17713 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
17714 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
17715 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
17716 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
17717 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
17718 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
17719 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
17720 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
17721 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
17722 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
17723 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
17724 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
17725 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
17726 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
17729 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
17730 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
17731 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
17732 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
17733 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
17734 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
17735 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
17736 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
17737 sure. Closes bug 5139.
17738 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
17739 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
17740 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
17741 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
17742 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
17744 o Minor features (IPv6):
17745 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
17746 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
17747 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
17748 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
17749 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
17750 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
17752 o Minor features (hidden services):
17753 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
17754 Required by fix for bug 3460.
17755 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
17756 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
17757 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
17758 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
17759 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
17760 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
17761 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
17762 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
17763 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
17765 o Minor features (relays):
17766 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
17767 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
17768 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
17769 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
17770 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
17771 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
17772 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
17773 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
17774 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
17775 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
17776 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
17779 o Minor features (new config options):
17780 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
17781 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
17782 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
17783 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
17784 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
17785 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
17786 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
17787 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
17788 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
17789 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
17790 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
17791 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
17793 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
17794 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
17795 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
17796 Implements issue 933.
17797 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
17798 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
17799 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
17800 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
17801 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
17802 implements ticket 3439.
17803 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
17804 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
17805 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
17806 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
17807 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
17808 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
17809 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
17810 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
17812 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
17813 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
17814 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
17815 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
17816 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
17817 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
17818 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
17819 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
17820 appending to the list.
17821 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
17822 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
17823 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
17824 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
17827 o Minor features (controller, new events):
17828 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
17829 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
17830 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
17831 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
17832 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
17833 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
17835 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
17836 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
17837 circuit-status' control-port command.
17838 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
17839 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
17840 user. Implements ticket 1692.
17841 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
17842 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
17843 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
17845 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
17846 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
17847 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
17848 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
17849 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
17850 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
17851 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
17852 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
17853 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
17855 o Minor features (controller, other):
17856 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
17857 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
17858 part of ticket 3457.
17859 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
17860 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
17861 file. Resolves bug 1101.
17862 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
17863 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
17865 o Minor features (log messages):
17866 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
17867 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
17868 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
17869 please let us know about it.
17870 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
17871 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
17872 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
17873 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
17874 Resolves ticket 2474.
17875 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
17876 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
17878 o Minor features (other):
17879 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
17880 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
17881 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
17882 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
17884 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
17885 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
17886 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
17887 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
17888 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
17889 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
17890 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
17892 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
17893 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
17894 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
17895 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
17896 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
17898 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
17899 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
17900 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
17901 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
17902 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
17903 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
17904 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17905 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
17906 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17907 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
17908 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
17909 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
17910 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
17911 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
17912 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
17913 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
17916 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
17917 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
17918 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
17919 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
17920 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
17921 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
17922 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17923 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
17924 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
17926 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
17927 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
17928 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
17929 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
17930 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
17931 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
17932 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17933 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
17934 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
17935 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17937 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17938 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
17939 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17940 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
17941 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
17942 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
17943 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17944 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
17945 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
17947 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17948 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17949 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17950 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
17951 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
17952 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
17953 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
17954 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
17955 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
17957 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17958 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
17959 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
17960 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
17961 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
17962 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
17963 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
17965 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
17966 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
17967 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
17968 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
17970 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17971 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
17972 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
17973 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17974 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17975 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17976 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17977 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17978 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
17979 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
17980 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
17981 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
17984 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
17985 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
17986 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17987 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
17988 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
17989 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
17991 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
17992 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
17993 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17994 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
17995 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
17996 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
17997 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17998 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
17999 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
18000 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
18001 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
18002 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
18003 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
18004 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18005 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18007 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
18008 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
18009 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
18010 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
18011 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
18012 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
18014 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18015 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18016 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18017 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18018 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18019 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
18020 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
18021 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
18022 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
18023 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
18024 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
18025 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
18026 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
18027 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
18028 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18030 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
18031 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
18032 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
18033 be disabled using the new
18034 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
18035 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18036 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
18037 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
18038 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
18039 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
18040 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
18042 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
18043 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
18044 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
18045 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18046 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
18047 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
18048 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
18050 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
18051 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
18052 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
18053 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
18054 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18055 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
18056 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
18057 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
18059 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
18060 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
18061 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
18062 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18063 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
18064 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
18065 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18066 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18068 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18069 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
18070 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
18071 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
18072 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
18073 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
18074 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
18075 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
18077 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
18078 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
18079 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
18080 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
18082 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
18083 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
18084 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
18086 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
18087 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
18089 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
18090 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
18091 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
18092 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
18093 case for flushing marked connections.
18094 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
18095 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
18096 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
18097 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
18098 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
18099 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18100 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
18101 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
18102 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
18103 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18105 o Minor bugfixes (other):
18106 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
18107 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
18108 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
18109 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
18110 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
18111 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
18112 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
18113 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
18114 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
18115 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
18117 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
18118 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18119 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
18120 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
18121 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18123 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
18124 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
18125 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
18126 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
18127 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18128 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
18129 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
18130 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
18131 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
18132 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
18133 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
18134 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
18135 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
18136 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
18137 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
18138 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
18140 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
18141 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
18142 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
18143 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18144 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
18145 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
18146 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18147 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
18148 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18149 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
18150 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
18151 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
18152 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
18153 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
18154 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
18155 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
18156 Implements ticket 3264.
18157 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
18159 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
18160 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
18161 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
18162 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
18163 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
18164 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
18166 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
18167 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
18168 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18169 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
18170 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
18171 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18172 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
18173 them from the other auths.
18174 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
18175 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
18176 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
18177 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18178 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
18179 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
18180 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
18181 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
18185 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
18186 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
18187 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
18189 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
18190 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
18191 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
18192 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
18193 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
18194 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
18195 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
18196 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
18198 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
18199 ./src/test/bench binary.
18200 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
18201 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
18202 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
18203 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
18206 o Build improvements:
18207 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
18208 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
18209 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
18210 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
18211 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
18212 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
18213 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
18214 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18215 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
18216 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
18217 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
18218 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
18219 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
18220 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
18221 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
18222 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
18223 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
18224 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
18225 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
18226 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
18227 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
18229 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
18231 o Build requirements:
18232 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
18233 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
18234 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
18235 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
18236 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
18237 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
18238 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
18239 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
18240 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
18241 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
18242 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
18243 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
18244 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
18246 o Build fixes (compile/link):
18247 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
18248 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
18250 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
18251 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
18252 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
18253 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
18254 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
18255 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
18256 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18257 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
18258 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18260 o Build fixes (other):
18261 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
18262 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
18264 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
18265 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
18266 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
18267 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18268 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
18269 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
18270 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
18271 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
18273 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
18274 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
18277 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
18278 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
18279 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
18280 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
18281 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
18282 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
18283 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
18284 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
18286 o Code refactoring (safety):
18287 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
18288 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
18289 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
18290 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
18291 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
18292 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
18293 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
18294 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
18295 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
18296 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
18297 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
18298 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
18300 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
18301 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
18302 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
18303 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
18304 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
18305 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
18306 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
18307 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
18308 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
18309 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
18310 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
18311 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
18312 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
18313 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
18314 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
18315 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
18316 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
18317 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
18319 o Code refactoring (separate):
18320 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
18321 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
18322 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
18324 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
18325 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
18328 o Code refactoring (name changes):
18329 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
18330 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
18331 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
18332 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
18333 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
18334 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
18335 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
18337 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
18338 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
18339 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
18340 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
18341 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
18342 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
18343 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
18344 invalid value, rather than just -1.
18345 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
18346 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
18347 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
18349 o Code refactoring (other):
18350 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
18351 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
18353 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
18354 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
18355 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
18356 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
18357 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
18358 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
18359 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
18360 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
18361 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
18362 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
18363 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
18364 our library structure used to force them to link it.
18366 o Removed features and files:
18367 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
18368 it would be a bad idea to start.
18369 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
18371 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
18372 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
18373 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
18374 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
18375 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
18376 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
18377 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
18378 are no longer in use as relays.
18379 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
18380 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
18381 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
18382 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
18383 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
18384 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
18388 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
18389 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
18390 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
18392 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
18393 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
18395 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
18396 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
18397 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
18399 o Documentation fixes:
18400 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
18401 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
18402 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
18403 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
18404 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
18405 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
18406 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
18407 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
18410 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
18411 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
18415 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18416 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18417 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18418 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
18419 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
18420 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
18421 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
18425 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
18426 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
18427 attack that could in theory leak path information.
18430 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
18431 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
18432 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18433 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
18434 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
18435 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
18436 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
18437 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
18438 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
18439 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
18440 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
18441 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
18442 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
18443 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
18446 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
18447 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
18448 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
18452 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
18453 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
18454 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
18455 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
18456 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
18457 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
18458 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18459 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
18460 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
18461 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
18462 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18465 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
18466 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18469 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
18470 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
18473 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
18474 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
18475 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
18476 and fixes several crash bugs.
18478 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
18479 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
18480 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
18481 those packages and upgrade anyway.
18483 o Directory authority changes:
18484 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
18485 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
18489 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
18490 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
18491 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
18492 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
18493 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
18494 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
18495 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
18496 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
18497 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
18498 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
18499 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
18500 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
18501 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
18502 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
18503 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
18504 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
18505 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
18506 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
18507 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
18508 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
18509 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
18510 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
18511 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
18512 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
18513 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
18514 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
18515 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
18518 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
18519 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18520 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
18521 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
18523 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
18524 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
18526 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
18527 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
18528 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
18529 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
18530 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
18531 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
18532 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
18533 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
18536 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
18537 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
18538 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
18539 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
18540 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
18541 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
18542 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
18543 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
18544 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
18545 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
18546 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
18547 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
18548 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
18549 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
18550 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
18551 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
18552 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
18553 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
18554 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
18555 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
18556 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
18557 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
18558 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
18559 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
18560 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18561 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
18562 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
18563 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
18564 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
18565 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
18566 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
18567 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
18568 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18569 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
18570 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18571 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
18572 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
18573 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
18574 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
18575 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18576 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
18577 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18578 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
18579 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
18580 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
18581 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18583 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18584 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
18585 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
18586 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
18587 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
18588 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
18589 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
18590 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
18591 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
18592 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
18593 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18594 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
18595 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18596 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
18597 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
18600 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
18601 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
18602 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
18603 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
18605 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18608 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
18609 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
18610 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
18611 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
18612 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
18613 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
18614 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
18617 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
18618 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
18619 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
18621 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
18622 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
18623 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
18624 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
18625 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
18626 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
18627 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
18628 (which Tor does not do by default).
18630 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
18631 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
18632 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
18633 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
18634 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
18636 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
18637 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
18638 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
18641 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
18642 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
18643 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
18644 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
18645 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
18647 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
18648 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
18651 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
18652 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
18653 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
18654 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
18655 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
18656 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
18657 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
18658 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
18660 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
18661 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
18662 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
18663 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
18664 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
18665 close based on processing a cell on it.
18666 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18667 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18668 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18669 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18670 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
18671 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
18672 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18673 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
18674 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
18675 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
18676 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
18677 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
18678 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
18679 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
18680 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
18683 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
18684 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
18685 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
18686 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
18687 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
18688 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
18689 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
18691 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
18692 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
18693 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
18694 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
18695 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
18696 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18697 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
18698 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
18699 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18700 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
18701 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
18702 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
18703 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
18704 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18705 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
18706 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
18707 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
18708 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
18709 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18710 Reported by "troll_un".
18711 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
18712 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18713 Reported by "troll_un".
18714 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
18715 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
18716 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
18717 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
18720 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
18721 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
18722 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
18723 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
18724 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
18725 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
18726 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
18727 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
18728 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
18729 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
18730 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18732 o Packaging changes:
18733 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
18734 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
18737 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
18738 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18739 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18740 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18741 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18743 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
18744 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
18746 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18747 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
18748 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
18749 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
18750 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18751 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
18752 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
18753 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
18754 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
18757 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18760 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
18761 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
18762 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
18764 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
18765 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
18766 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
18767 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
18768 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
18769 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
18770 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
18771 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
18772 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
18773 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
18774 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
18775 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
18776 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
18778 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
18779 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
18780 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
18781 currently connected to them.
18783 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
18784 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
18785 remain; see for example proposal 188.
18787 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
18788 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18789 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18790 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18791 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18792 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18793 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18794 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18795 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18796 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18797 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18798 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
18799 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
18800 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
18801 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
18802 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
18803 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
18804 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
18807 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
18808 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
18809 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
18810 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
18811 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
18812 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
18813 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
18814 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
18815 when bridges were introduced.
18816 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18817 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18818 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18819 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18820 Found by "frosty_un".
18823 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
18824 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
18826 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
18827 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
18828 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
18829 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
18830 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
18831 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
18832 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
18835 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
18836 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
18837 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
18838 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
18839 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
18840 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
18841 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
18842 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
18843 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
18844 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
18845 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
18846 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
18847 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
18848 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
18849 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
18850 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
18851 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
18852 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18854 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
18855 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18856 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18857 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18858 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18859 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18860 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18861 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18862 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
18863 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
18864 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
18865 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18868 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18869 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18870 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
18871 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18874 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
18875 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18876 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18877 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18878 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18880 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18881 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18882 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18883 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18884 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18885 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18886 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18887 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18888 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18889 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18891 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18892 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18893 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18894 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18895 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18896 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18897 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18898 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18899 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18900 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18901 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18902 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18903 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18904 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18905 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18906 Found by "frosty_un".
18907 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18908 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18909 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18910 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18911 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18912 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18913 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18914 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18915 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18916 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18917 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
18918 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18919 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18920 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18921 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18922 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18923 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18924 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18925 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18927 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18928 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
18929 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
18930 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
18931 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
18932 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
18933 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
18934 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
18936 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
18937 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
18938 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
18939 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
18940 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
18941 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
18942 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
18943 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18944 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18945 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18946 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
18947 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
18949 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18950 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18951 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
18952 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18953 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
18954 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18955 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18956 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18957 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18959 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
18961 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
18962 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
18963 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
18964 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18965 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
18966 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
18967 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
18968 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18970 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
18971 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
18972 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
18973 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
18974 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
18976 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18977 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18978 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18979 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
18980 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18983 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
18984 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
18985 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
18986 reachable from Iran again.
18989 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
18990 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
18991 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18993 o Minor features (security):
18994 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
18995 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
18996 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
18997 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
18998 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
18999 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
19000 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
19001 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
19002 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
19003 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
19006 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19007 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19008 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
19009 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
19010 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
19011 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
19012 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
19013 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
19014 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19016 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19017 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
19018 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
19019 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
19020 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
19021 raised by bug 3898.
19022 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
19023 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
19024 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
19025 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
19026 fixes part of bug 2442.
19027 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
19028 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
19029 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
19031 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
19032 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
19033 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
19034 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
19035 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19038 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
19039 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19040 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
19041 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
19042 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
19043 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
19046 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
19047 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
19048 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
19049 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
19050 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
19051 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
19052 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
19053 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
19054 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
19055 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
19057 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
19058 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
19059 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
19060 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
19061 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
19062 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
19063 many many other features and bugfixes.
19065 o Major features (client performance):
19066 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
19067 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
19068 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
19069 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
19070 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
19071 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
19073 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
19074 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
19075 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
19076 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
19077 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
19078 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
19079 the first implementation of this feature.
19081 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
19082 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
19083 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
19084 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
19085 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
19086 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
19087 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
19088 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
19089 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
19090 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
19091 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
19092 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
19093 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
19094 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
19095 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
19096 file. Implements ticket 1296.
19098 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
19099 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
19100 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
19101 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
19102 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
19103 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
19104 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
19105 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
19106 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
19107 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
19108 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
19109 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
19110 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
19111 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
19112 they first get the Guard flag.
19113 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
19114 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
19115 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
19116 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
19117 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
19118 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
19119 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
19120 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
19122 o Major features (relays control their load better):
19123 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
19124 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
19125 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
19126 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
19127 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
19128 based on a variant of proposal 163.
19129 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
19130 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
19131 but never per-conn write limits.
19132 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
19133 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
19134 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
19135 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
19137 o Major features (controllers):
19138 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
19139 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
19140 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
19141 contributions to the network.
19142 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
19143 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
19144 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
19146 o Major features (directory authorities):
19147 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
19148 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
19149 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
19151 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
19152 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
19153 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
19154 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
19155 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
19156 download consensus + microdescriptors".
19157 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
19158 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
19159 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
19160 hash algorithm in the future.
19161 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
19162 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
19163 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
19165 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
19166 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
19167 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
19168 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
19169 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
19170 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
19171 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
19172 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
19173 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
19174 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
19175 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
19176 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
19177 connections to directory servers.
19178 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
19179 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
19180 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
19181 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
19182 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
19183 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
19184 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
19185 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
19186 information, or fetch directory information.
19187 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
19188 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
19189 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
19190 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
19191 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
19193 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
19194 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
19195 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
19196 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
19197 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
19198 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
19199 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
19200 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
19201 the network changes.
19202 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
19203 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
19205 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
19206 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
19207 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
19208 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
19209 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
19210 unless you really want your Tor to break.
19211 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
19212 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
19213 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
19214 - When StrictNodes is 1:
19215 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
19216 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
19217 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
19218 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
19219 reachability self-tests.
19220 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
19221 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
19222 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
19223 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
19224 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
19226 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
19227 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19228 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
19230 o Major features (misc):
19231 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
19232 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
19233 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
19234 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
19235 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
19236 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
19237 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
19238 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
19239 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
19240 part of ticket 3076.
19241 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
19242 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
19243 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
19245 o Code security improvements:
19246 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19247 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19248 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19249 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19250 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19251 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19252 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
19253 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
19254 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
19255 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19256 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
19257 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
19258 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
19259 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
19260 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
19261 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
19262 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
19263 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
19264 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
19265 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
19266 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
19267 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
19268 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
19269 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
19270 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
19271 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
19272 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
19273 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
19275 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19276 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
19277 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
19278 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
19279 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
19280 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
19281 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
19282 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19283 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19284 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19285 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19286 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19287 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19289 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
19290 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
19291 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
19293 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
19294 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
19296 o Major bugfixes (stability):
19297 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19298 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19299 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19300 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
19301 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19302 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
19303 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
19304 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
19305 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
19306 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
19307 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
19308 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
19309 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
19310 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
19311 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19312 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
19314 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
19315 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
19316 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
19318 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
19319 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
19320 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
19321 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
19322 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
19323 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
19324 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
19325 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
19326 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
19327 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
19328 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
19329 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
19330 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
19331 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
19332 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
19333 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19334 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
19335 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19336 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19338 o Privacy fixes (clients):
19339 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19340 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19341 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19342 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19343 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19344 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19345 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
19346 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
19347 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
19349 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
19350 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
19351 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
19352 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
19353 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
19354 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
19355 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
19356 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
19357 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
19358 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
19360 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
19361 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
19362 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
19363 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19364 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
19365 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
19366 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19367 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19368 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19369 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19370 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19371 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19372 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19374 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
19375 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
19376 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
19377 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
19378 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
19379 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
19380 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
19381 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
19382 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
19383 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19385 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
19386 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
19387 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
19388 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
19389 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
19390 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
19391 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
19393 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
19394 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
19395 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
19396 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
19397 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
19398 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
19399 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
19400 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
19401 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
19402 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
19403 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
19404 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
19405 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
19406 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
19407 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
19409 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19410 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
19411 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
19412 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
19413 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
19414 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
19415 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
19417 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
19418 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
19419 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
19420 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
19421 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
19422 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
19423 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
19424 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
19426 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
19427 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
19428 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
19429 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
19430 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
19431 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
19432 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
19433 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
19434 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
19435 the longest-lived bug prize.
19436 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
19437 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
19438 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
19439 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
19440 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
19441 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
19442 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
19443 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
19444 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
19445 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
19447 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
19448 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
19449 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
19450 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
19451 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
19452 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
19455 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19456 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
19457 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
19458 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
19459 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
19460 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
19461 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
19462 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
19463 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
19464 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
19465 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
19466 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19467 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
19468 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
19469 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
19470 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
19471 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
19472 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
19473 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
19474 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
19475 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
19476 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
19477 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
19478 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
19479 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
19480 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
19482 o Major bugfixes (misc):
19483 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
19484 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
19485 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19486 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
19487 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
19488 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
19489 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
19490 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
19492 o Minor features (relays):
19493 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
19494 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
19495 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
19496 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
19497 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
19498 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
19499 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
19500 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
19502 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
19503 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
19504 Resolves ticket 3252.
19505 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
19506 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
19508 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
19509 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
19510 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
19511 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
19512 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
19514 o Minor features (network statistics):
19515 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
19516 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
19517 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
19518 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
19519 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
19520 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
19521 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
19522 measure download times.
19523 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19524 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
19526 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
19527 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
19528 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19529 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
19531 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
19532 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
19533 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
19535 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
19536 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
19537 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
19538 Implements ticket 2432.
19539 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
19540 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
19541 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
19542 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
19543 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
19544 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
19545 Implements enhancement 1790.
19546 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
19547 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
19549 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
19550 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
19551 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
19552 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
19553 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
19554 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
19555 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
19557 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19559 o Minor features (clients):
19560 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
19561 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
19562 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
19563 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
19565 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
19566 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
19567 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
19568 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
19569 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
19570 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
19571 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
19572 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
19574 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
19575 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
19576 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
19577 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
19578 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
19579 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
19580 SSL handshake issues.
19582 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19583 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
19584 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
19585 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
19586 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
19587 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
19588 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
19589 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
19590 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
19591 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
19592 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
19593 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
19594 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
19595 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
19596 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
19597 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
19598 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
19599 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
19600 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
19601 hour of their uptime.
19602 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
19603 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
19604 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
19605 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
19607 o Minor features (hidden services):
19608 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
19609 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
19610 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
19611 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
19612 Required by fix for bug 3000.
19613 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
19614 by fix for bug 3000.
19615 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
19616 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
19617 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
19618 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
19619 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
19621 o Minor features (controller interface):
19622 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
19623 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
19624 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
19625 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
19626 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
19627 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
19628 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
19629 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
19630 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
19631 over our stored history.
19632 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
19633 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
19634 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
19636 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
19637 to the circuit build timeout.
19638 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
19639 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
19640 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
19642 o Minor features (controller protocol):
19643 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
19644 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
19645 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
19647 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
19648 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
19649 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
19650 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
19651 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
19652 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
19653 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
19654 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
19655 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
19656 arguments we do not recognize.
19658 o Minor features (more useful logging):
19659 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
19660 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
19661 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
19662 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
19663 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
19664 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
19665 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
19666 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
19667 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
19668 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
19669 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
19670 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
19671 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
19672 got suppressed since the last warning.
19673 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
19674 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
19675 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
19676 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
19677 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
19678 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
19679 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
19681 o Minor features (log domains):
19682 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
19683 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
19684 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
19686 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
19687 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
19689 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
19690 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
19691 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
19693 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
19694 during the TLS handshake.
19696 o Minor features (build process):
19697 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
19698 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
19699 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
19701 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
19702 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
19703 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
19705 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
19706 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
19707 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
19708 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
19709 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
19710 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
19712 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
19713 source files Tor was built with.
19714 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
19715 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
19716 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
19717 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
19718 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
19719 speeds up the build considerably.
19721 o Minor features (options / torrc):
19722 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
19723 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
19724 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
19725 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
19726 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
19727 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
19728 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
19729 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
19730 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
19731 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
19732 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
19733 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
19734 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
19735 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
19736 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
19737 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
19738 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
19739 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
19740 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
19741 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
19742 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
19743 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
19744 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
19745 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
19746 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
19747 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
19748 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
19750 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
19751 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
19752 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
19755 o Minor features (unit tests):
19756 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
19757 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
19758 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
19759 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
19760 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
19761 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
19763 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
19764 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
19767 o Minor features (misc):
19768 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
19769 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
19770 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
19771 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
19773 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
19774 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
19775 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
19776 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
19777 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
19779 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
19780 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
19781 open() without checking it.
19782 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
19783 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
19784 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
19785 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19787 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19788 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
19789 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
19790 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
19791 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
19792 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
19793 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
19794 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
19795 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
19796 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
19797 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
19798 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
19799 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
19800 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
19801 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
19802 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
19803 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
19804 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
19805 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
19806 based on the time during which we were active and not in
19807 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
19808 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
19809 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
19810 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
19811 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19812 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
19813 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
19814 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
19816 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
19817 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
19818 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
19819 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
19821 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19822 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
19823 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
19824 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
19825 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
19827 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
19828 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
19829 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19830 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
19831 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
19832 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
19833 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
19834 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
19835 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
19836 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
19837 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
19838 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
19839 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
19841 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19842 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
19843 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
19844 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
19845 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
19846 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
19847 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
19848 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
19849 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
19850 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
19851 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
19852 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19853 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
19854 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
19855 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
19856 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
19857 two-hop circuits are actually created.
19858 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
19859 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19860 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
19861 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
19863 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
19864 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
19865 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
19866 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
19867 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
19868 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
19869 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
19870 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
19871 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
19873 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
19874 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
19875 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
19876 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
19877 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
19878 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
19879 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
19880 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
19881 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
19882 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
19883 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
19884 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
19885 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
19888 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19889 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
19890 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
19891 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
19892 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19893 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
19894 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
19895 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
19896 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
19897 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
19898 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
19900 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19901 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19903 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
19904 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
19905 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
19906 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
19907 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19908 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
19909 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
19910 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
19912 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
19913 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
19914 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
19915 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19916 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
19917 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
19918 discovered by katmagic.
19919 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
19920 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
19922 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
19923 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19924 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19925 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19926 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19927 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19928 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19929 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19930 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19932 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
19933 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
19935 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
19936 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
19938 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
19939 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
19941 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
19942 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
19943 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
19944 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19945 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
19946 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
19947 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19948 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
19949 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
19950 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
19951 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
19952 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
19953 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
19954 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
19955 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
19957 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
19958 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
19959 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
19960 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
19961 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
19962 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
19963 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
19964 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
19965 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
19967 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
19968 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
19969 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
19971 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
19972 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
19973 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
19974 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
19976 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
19977 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19978 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19979 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19980 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19981 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
19982 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
19984 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19985 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
19986 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
19987 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19988 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
19989 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
19991 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
19992 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
19993 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
19994 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
19995 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
19996 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
19997 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
19998 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19999 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
20001 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
20002 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
20003 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20004 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
20005 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20006 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
20007 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
20008 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
20009 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
20010 control-spec.txt said they were.
20012 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20013 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
20014 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
20016 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
20017 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20018 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
20019 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
20020 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
20022 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
20023 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
20025 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
20026 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
20027 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
20028 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
20029 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
20030 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
20031 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
20033 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
20034 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20035 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20036 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20037 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
20038 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
20039 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
20040 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
20043 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20044 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20045 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20046 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20047 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20048 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20049 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20050 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20051 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20052 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20053 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20054 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20055 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20056 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20057 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
20059 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
20060 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
20061 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
20062 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
20063 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
20064 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20065 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20067 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
20068 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
20071 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20072 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20073 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20074 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20075 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20076 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20077 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
20078 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
20079 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
20080 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
20081 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
20082 fixes part of bug 3407.
20083 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20084 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
20085 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
20086 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
20087 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
20088 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
20089 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
20090 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
20091 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
20092 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
20094 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
20095 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
20096 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
20097 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
20098 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
20099 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
20100 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
20101 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20102 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
20103 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
20104 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
20105 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20106 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
20107 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
20108 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20109 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
20110 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20112 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
20113 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
20114 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
20115 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
20116 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
20117 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
20118 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20119 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
20120 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
20121 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
20122 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
20123 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
20125 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
20126 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
20127 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
20128 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
20129 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
20131 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
20132 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
20133 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
20134 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
20136 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
20137 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
20138 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
20139 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
20140 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
20141 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
20142 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
20143 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
20144 structures and defines in or.h for now.
20145 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
20147 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
20148 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20149 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20150 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20151 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
20152 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
20153 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
20154 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
20156 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
20157 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
20158 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
20160 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
20161 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
20162 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
20163 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
20164 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
20165 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
20166 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
20167 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
20168 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
20169 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
20171 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
20173 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
20174 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
20175 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
20176 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
20177 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
20178 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
20179 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
20180 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
20181 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
20182 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
20184 o Documentation changes:
20185 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
20186 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
20188 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
20189 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
20190 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
20191 what should go in a patch.
20192 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
20194 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
20195 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
20196 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
20197 projects directory in svn.
20199 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
20200 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
20201 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
20202 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
20203 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
20204 hidden service usage.
20205 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
20206 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
20207 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
20208 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
20209 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
20212 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
20213 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
20214 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
20215 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
20216 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
20219 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
20220 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
20221 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
20222 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
20223 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
20224 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20225 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20226 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
20227 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
20228 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
20229 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
20230 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
20231 via application-level web tricks.
20232 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
20233 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
20234 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
20235 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
20236 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
20237 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
20238 send a body too). Since only server versions before
20239 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
20240 keep the workaround in place.
20241 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
20242 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
20243 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
20244 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
20245 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
20246 want to do it differently.
20247 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
20248 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
20249 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
20252 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
20253 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
20254 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
20255 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
20256 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
20257 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
20260 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20261 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
20262 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
20263 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
20264 the rest of bug 1074.
20265 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
20266 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20267 Found by "piebeer".
20268 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
20269 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
20270 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
20271 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
20272 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
20273 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
20274 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20277 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
20279 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20282 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
20283 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
20284 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
20285 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
20286 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
20287 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
20288 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
20289 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
20290 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
20291 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
20292 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20294 o Packaging changes:
20295 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
20296 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
20297 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
20298 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
20299 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
20300 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20303 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
20304 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
20305 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
20306 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
20307 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
20309 o Major bugfixes (security):
20310 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
20311 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
20312 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
20314 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
20315 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
20316 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
20317 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
20318 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
20319 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
20320 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
20321 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
20323 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20324 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
20325 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
20326 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
20327 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
20328 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
20329 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
20330 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
20331 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
20332 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
20333 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
20334 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
20335 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
20336 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
20339 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20340 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
20341 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
20342 bug reported by doorss.
20343 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
20344 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
20345 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20346 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
20347 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
20349 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
20350 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
20351 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
20352 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
20353 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20356 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20357 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
20360 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
20361 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
20362 Automake 1.7 or later.
20363 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
20364 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
20365 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
20366 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
20369 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
20370 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
20371 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
20372 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
20376 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
20377 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
20378 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
20379 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
20381 o Directory authority changes:
20382 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20385 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20388 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
20389 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
20390 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
20391 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
20392 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
20395 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
20396 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
20397 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
20398 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
20399 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20400 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
20401 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
20402 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
20403 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
20404 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20405 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
20406 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20407 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
20408 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
20409 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
20410 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
20411 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
20412 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20413 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
20414 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
20415 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
20416 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
20417 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
20420 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
20421 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
20422 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
20423 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
20425 o New directory authorities:
20426 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
20430 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
20431 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
20432 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
20434 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
20435 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
20436 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
20437 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
20438 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
20439 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
20441 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
20442 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
20443 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
20446 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
20447 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
20448 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
20449 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
20450 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
20451 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
20452 Patch from mingw-san.
20455 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
20456 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
20457 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
20458 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
20459 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
20460 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
20463 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
20464 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
20465 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
20466 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
20467 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
20469 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
20470 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
20473 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
20474 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
20475 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
20476 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
20477 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
20478 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
20479 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
20480 their directory fetches over TLS).
20481 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
20482 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
20483 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
20484 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
20485 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
20486 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
20487 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
20488 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
20491 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
20492 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
20496 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
20497 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20498 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
20499 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
20500 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
20501 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
20502 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20505 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
20506 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
20507 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
20508 several minor potential security bugs.
20511 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
20512 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
20513 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
20514 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
20515 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
20516 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
20517 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
20520 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
20521 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
20523 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
20524 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
20525 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
20526 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
20529 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
20530 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
20534 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
20535 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
20536 customized patches to run/build.
20539 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
20540 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
20541 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
20544 o Major bugfixes (performance):
20545 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
20546 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
20547 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
20548 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
20549 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
20550 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
20551 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
20554 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
20555 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
20556 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
20557 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
20558 libraries in a security patch.
20559 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
20560 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
20561 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
20562 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
20566 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
20567 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
20570 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
20571 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
20572 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
20573 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
20574 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
20577 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
20578 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
20579 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
20580 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
20581 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
20583 o Directory authority changes:
20584 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
20588 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
20589 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
20590 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20593 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
20594 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
20595 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
20596 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
20597 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
20600 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
20601 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
20602 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
20603 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
20604 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
20605 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
20606 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
20609 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
20610 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
20611 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20612 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
20613 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
20614 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
20616 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
20617 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
20620 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
20621 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
20622 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
20623 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
20625 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
20626 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
20628 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
20629 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
20630 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
20631 in the Vidalia Settings window.
20634 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
20635 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
20636 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
20637 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
20638 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
20640 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
20641 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
20643 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
20644 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
20645 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
20648 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
20649 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
20650 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
20652 o New directory authorities:
20653 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
20655 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
20658 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
20659 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
20661 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
20662 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
20663 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20664 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
20665 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
20666 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
20667 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20668 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20669 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
20670 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
20671 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
20672 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
20673 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
20674 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
20675 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
20676 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
20677 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
20679 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
20680 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
20681 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
20683 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
20684 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
20688 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
20689 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
20690 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
20691 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
20692 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
20695 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
20696 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
20700 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
20701 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
20702 part of patch provided by "optimist".
20705 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
20706 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
20707 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
20708 and confuse fewer users.
20711 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
20712 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
20713 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
20714 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
20715 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
20716 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
20717 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
20720 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
20721 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
20722 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
20723 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
20724 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
20725 other features and bug fixes.
20727 o Major features (clients):
20728 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
20729 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
20730 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
20731 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
20733 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
20734 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
20735 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
20736 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
20737 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
20738 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
20739 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
20740 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
20741 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
20742 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
20744 o Major features (relays):
20745 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
20746 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
20747 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
20748 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
20749 data. Found by Jacob.
20750 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
20751 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
20752 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
20753 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
20755 o Major features (hidden services):
20756 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
20757 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
20758 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
20759 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
20760 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
20761 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
20762 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
20763 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
20764 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
20765 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
20766 lookups more reliable.
20768 o Major features (path selection):
20769 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
20770 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
20771 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
20772 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
20773 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
20775 o Major features (misc):
20776 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
20777 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
20779 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
20780 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
20781 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
20782 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
20783 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
20784 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
20786 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
20787 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
20788 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
20789 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
20791 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
20794 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
20795 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
20796 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
20797 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
20798 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
20799 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
20800 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
20801 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
20802 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
20803 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
20804 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
20805 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
20806 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
20807 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
20808 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
20809 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
20810 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
20811 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
20812 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
20813 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
20814 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20815 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
20816 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
20817 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
20818 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
20819 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
20820 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
20821 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
20822 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
20823 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
20824 Implements proposal 148.
20826 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20827 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
20828 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
20829 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
20830 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
20831 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
20833 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
20834 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
20835 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
20836 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
20837 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
20838 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20839 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
20840 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20841 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
20843 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
20844 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
20845 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
20846 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
20848 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
20849 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
20850 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
20851 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
20852 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
20853 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
20854 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
20855 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
20856 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20858 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20859 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
20860 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
20861 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
20862 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
20863 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
20864 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
20865 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
20866 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
20867 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
20868 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
20869 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
20870 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
20871 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
20872 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
20873 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
20876 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20877 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
20878 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
20879 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
20880 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
20881 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
20882 patch by Sebastian.
20883 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
20884 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
20885 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
20886 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
20887 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
20888 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
20889 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
20890 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
20891 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
20892 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
20895 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20896 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
20897 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
20898 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
20899 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
20900 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
20902 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
20903 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
20904 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
20905 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
20906 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
20907 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
20908 on a typical directory cache.
20909 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
20910 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
20911 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
20912 and may reduce fragmentation.
20914 o New/changed config options:
20915 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
20916 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
20917 Suggested by Lucky Green.
20918 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
20919 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
20920 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
20921 locked down these days.
20922 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
20923 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
20924 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
20925 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
20926 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
20927 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
20928 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
20929 output to messages of warning and error severity.
20930 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
20931 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
20932 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
20933 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
20934 directory requests we should expect to see.
20935 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
20936 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
20937 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
20938 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
20939 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
20940 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
20941 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
20943 o Minor features (relays):
20944 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
20945 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
20946 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
20947 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
20948 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
20950 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
20951 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
20952 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
20953 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
20954 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
20955 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
20956 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
20957 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
20958 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
20959 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
20960 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
20961 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
20962 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
20964 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20965 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
20966 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
20967 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
20968 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
20969 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
20970 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
20971 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
20972 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
20973 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
20974 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
20976 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
20977 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
20978 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
20979 fingerprints with or without space.
20981 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
20982 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
20983 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
20984 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
20985 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
20986 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
20987 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
20988 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
20989 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
20991 o Minor features (bridges):
20992 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
20993 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
20995 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
20996 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
20999 o Minor features (hidden services):
21000 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
21001 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
21002 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
21003 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
21004 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
21005 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
21006 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
21007 faster after restart.
21008 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
21009 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
21011 o Minor features (build and packaging):
21012 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
21014 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
21015 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
21017 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
21018 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
21019 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
21020 entirely. Patch from coderman.
21021 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
21022 are built without support for deprecated functions.
21023 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
21024 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
21025 system to do it for us.
21026 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
21027 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
21028 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
21029 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
21030 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
21031 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
21032 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
21033 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
21034 the letter of C99's alias rules.
21035 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
21036 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
21037 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
21038 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
21039 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
21040 with log.h on Android.
21041 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
21042 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
21044 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
21045 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
21046 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
21047 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
21049 o Minor features (controllers):
21050 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
21051 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
21052 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
21053 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
21054 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
21055 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
21056 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
21057 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
21058 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
21059 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
21061 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
21062 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
21063 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
21064 been fetched and validated.
21065 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
21066 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
21068 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
21070 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
21071 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
21072 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
21073 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
21074 partway through and wants to catch up.
21075 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
21077 o Minor features (tools):
21078 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
21079 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
21080 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
21081 people find host:port too confusing.
21082 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
21083 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
21085 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
21086 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
21087 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21088 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
21089 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
21090 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
21091 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
21092 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
21093 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
21095 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
21096 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
21097 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
21098 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
21099 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
21101 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
21102 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
21103 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
21105 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
21106 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21107 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
21108 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
21109 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
21110 have already been marked for close.
21111 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
21112 memory performance during directory parsing.
21114 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21115 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
21116 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
21117 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
21118 done that for a long time.
21119 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
21120 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
21121 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
21122 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
21123 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
21124 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
21125 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
21126 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
21127 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21128 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
21129 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
21130 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
21131 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
21132 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
21133 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
21134 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
21135 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
21136 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
21137 because of a pending download.
21138 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
21139 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
21140 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
21141 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
21142 bug 820, reported by seeess.
21144 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21145 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
21146 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
21147 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
21148 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
21149 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
21150 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
21151 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
21152 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
21154 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21155 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
21157 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
21158 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
21159 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21160 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
21161 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
21162 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
21163 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
21164 of 0. Suggested by lark.
21165 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
21166 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
21167 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21168 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
21169 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
21171 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
21172 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
21173 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
21175 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
21176 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
21178 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
21179 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
21180 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
21181 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
21182 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
21183 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
21184 rest, and don't automatically fail.
21185 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
21186 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
21187 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
21188 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
21189 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
21190 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21192 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21193 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
21194 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
21195 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
21196 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
21197 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
21198 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
21200 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
21201 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21203 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21204 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
21205 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
21206 Workaround for bug 1024.
21207 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
21208 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
21209 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
21210 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
21211 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
21212 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
21213 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
21214 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
21217 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
21218 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
21221 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21222 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
21223 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
21224 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
21225 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
21226 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
21227 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
21229 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
21230 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
21231 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
21232 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
21233 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
21234 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
21235 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
21236 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
21239 o Deprecated and removed features:
21240 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
21241 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
21242 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
21244 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
21246 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
21247 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
21248 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
21249 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
21250 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
21251 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
21252 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
21253 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
21254 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
21255 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
21256 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
21257 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
21258 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
21259 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
21262 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21263 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
21264 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
21265 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
21266 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
21268 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
21269 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
21270 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
21271 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
21272 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
21273 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
21274 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
21275 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
21276 actual mistakes we're making here.
21277 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
21278 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
21279 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
21280 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
21281 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
21282 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
21283 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
21284 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
21285 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
21286 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
21287 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
21288 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
21289 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
21290 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
21291 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
21294 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
21296 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
21297 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
21298 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
21299 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
21300 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21303 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
21304 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
21305 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
21306 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
21307 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
21308 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
21309 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
21310 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
21311 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
21312 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
21315 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
21316 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
21317 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
21318 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
21319 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
21320 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
21321 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
21322 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
21325 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
21326 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
21327 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
21328 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
21329 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
21331 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
21332 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
21333 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
21334 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21337 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
21338 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21339 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
21340 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
21341 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
21342 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
21343 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
21344 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
21347 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
21348 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
21349 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
21350 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
21353 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
21354 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
21355 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
21356 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
21358 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
21359 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
21360 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
21363 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
21364 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
21367 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
21368 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
21369 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
21370 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
21371 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
21372 reported by "wood".
21373 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
21374 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
21375 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
21376 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
21377 identify a connection.
21378 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
21379 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
21380 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
21381 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
21382 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
21383 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
21384 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21385 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
21386 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
21387 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
21389 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
21390 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
21391 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
21392 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
21393 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
21394 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
21395 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
21398 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
21399 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
21401 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
21402 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
21403 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
21404 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
21405 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
21406 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
21407 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21408 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
21410 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
21411 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
21412 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
21413 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
21414 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
21415 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
21416 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
21417 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
21418 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
21419 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
21420 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
21421 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
21422 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
21423 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
21424 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21425 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
21426 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
21427 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21428 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
21429 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
21430 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
21431 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
21432 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
21433 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
21434 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
21435 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
21436 840. Patch from rovv.
21437 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
21438 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
21439 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
21441 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
21442 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
21443 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
21444 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
21445 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
21446 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
21447 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
21449 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21450 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
21451 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
21454 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
21455 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
21457 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
21458 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
21459 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
21460 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
21461 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
21462 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
21463 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
21464 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
21465 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
21467 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
21469 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
21470 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
21474 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
21475 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
21476 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
21477 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
21478 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
21479 variety of other issues.
21482 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
21483 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
21484 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
21485 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
21486 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
21487 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
21488 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
21489 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
21490 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
21491 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
21492 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
21493 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
21496 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
21497 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21499 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21500 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
21501 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
21502 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
21503 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
21504 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
21505 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21506 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
21507 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
21508 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
21509 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
21510 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
21511 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
21512 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
21513 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
21517 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
21518 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
21519 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
21520 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
21521 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
21522 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
21523 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
21524 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
21525 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
21526 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
21527 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
21528 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
21529 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
21530 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
21531 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
21532 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
21533 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
21534 list. It has been gone for many months.
21535 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
21536 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
21537 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
21540 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21541 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
21542 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
21545 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
21546 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
21547 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
21548 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
21551 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
21552 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
21553 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
21554 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
21555 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
21556 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
21558 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
21559 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
21560 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
21561 pointed out by rovv.
21564 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
21565 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21566 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
21567 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21568 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
21569 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
21570 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
21571 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
21572 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
21573 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21574 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
21575 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
21576 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
21577 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21578 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
21579 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
21580 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
21581 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
21582 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
21583 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
21584 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
21587 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
21588 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
21589 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
21590 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
21591 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
21592 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
21593 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
21595 o New v3 directory design:
21596 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
21597 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
21598 network status document rather than each publishing their own
21599 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
21600 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
21601 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
21602 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
21604 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
21605 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
21606 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
21607 dannenberg (run by CCC).
21608 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
21609 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
21610 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
21611 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
21612 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
21613 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
21614 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
21615 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
21616 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
21617 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
21619 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
21620 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
21621 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
21622 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
21623 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
21624 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
21625 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
21626 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
21627 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
21628 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
21629 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
21630 certain censored countries by default again.
21631 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
21632 Tor's x509 certificates.
21634 o Implement bridge relays:
21635 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
21636 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
21637 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
21638 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
21639 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
21640 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
21641 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
21642 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
21643 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
21644 rather than "v2,v3".
21645 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
21646 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
21647 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
21648 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
21649 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
21650 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
21651 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
21652 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
21653 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
21654 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
21655 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
21657 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
21658 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
21659 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
21660 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
21661 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
21662 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
21663 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
21664 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
21665 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
21666 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
21667 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
21668 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
21669 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
21670 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
21671 bridges are functioning.
21672 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
21673 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
21674 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
21675 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
21676 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
21677 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
21678 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
21679 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
21680 knows that password. Unset by default.
21681 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
21682 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
21683 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
21684 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
21685 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
21686 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
21687 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
21688 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
21689 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
21690 and bridges@torproject.org.
21692 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
21693 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
21694 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
21695 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
21696 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
21697 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
21698 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
21699 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
21700 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
21701 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
21702 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
21703 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
21704 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
21705 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
21706 longer a completely silly thing to do.
21708 o Major features (relay usability):
21709 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
21710 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
21711 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
21712 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
21713 proposal 111 for details.
21714 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
21715 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
21716 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
21717 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
21719 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
21720 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
21721 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
21723 o Major features (directory authorities):
21724 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
21725 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
21726 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
21727 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
21728 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
21729 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
21730 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
21731 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
21732 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
21733 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
21734 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
21735 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
21736 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
21738 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
21739 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
21740 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
21741 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
21742 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
21743 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
21744 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
21745 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
21746 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
21747 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
21748 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
21749 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
21750 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
21751 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
21752 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
21753 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
21754 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
21755 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
21756 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
21757 general, controller, or bridge.
21759 o Major features (other):
21760 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
21761 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
21762 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
21763 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
21764 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
21765 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
21766 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
21767 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
21768 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
21769 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
21770 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
21771 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
21772 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
21773 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
21776 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
21777 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
21778 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
21780 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
21781 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
21782 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
21783 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
21784 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
21785 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
21786 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
21787 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
21788 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
21789 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
21790 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
21792 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
21793 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
21795 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
21796 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
21797 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
21798 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
21800 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
21801 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
21802 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
21803 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
21804 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
21806 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
21807 address maps to an internal address space.
21808 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
21809 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
21810 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
21811 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
21812 complements proposal 107.
21813 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
21814 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
21815 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
21816 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
21817 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
21818 reported by taranis and lodger.
21819 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
21820 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
21821 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
21822 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
21823 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
21824 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
21825 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
21826 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
21827 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
21828 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
21829 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
21830 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
21831 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
21833 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
21834 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
21836 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
21837 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
21838 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
21839 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
21840 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
21841 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
21842 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
21844 o Major bugfixes (other):
21845 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
21846 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
21847 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
21849 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
21850 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
21851 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
21852 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
21853 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
21854 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
21855 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
21856 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
21857 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
21858 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
21859 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
21860 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
21861 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
21862 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
21863 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
21864 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
21865 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
21866 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
21867 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
21869 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
21870 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
21871 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
21872 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
21873 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
21874 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
21875 eat all of our bandwidth.
21876 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
21877 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
21878 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
21879 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
21880 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
21881 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
21882 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
21883 bug 688, reported by mfr.
21884 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
21885 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
21886 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
21887 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
21889 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
21890 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
21891 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
21892 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
21893 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
21894 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
21895 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
21896 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
21897 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
21898 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
21899 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
21900 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
21902 o Performance improvements (memory):
21903 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
21904 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
21905 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
21906 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
21907 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
21908 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
21909 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
21910 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
21911 memory fragmentation.
21912 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
21913 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
21914 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
21915 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
21916 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
21918 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
21919 of them were actually distinct.
21920 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
21922 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
21923 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
21924 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
21925 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
21926 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
21927 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
21928 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
21929 performance-intensive.
21930 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
21931 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
21932 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
21933 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
21934 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
21937 o Performance improvements (socket management):
21938 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
21939 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
21940 our allocated connection limit.
21941 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
21942 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
21943 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
21944 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
21945 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
21947 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
21948 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
21950 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
21951 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
21952 is interested in a given message.
21953 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
21954 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
21955 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
21956 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
21957 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
21959 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
21960 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
21961 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
21963 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
21964 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
21965 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
21966 they are the same).
21967 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
21968 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
21969 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
21970 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
21973 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
21974 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
21975 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
21976 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
21977 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
21978 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
21979 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
21981 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
21982 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
21983 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
21984 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
21985 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
21986 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
21987 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
21988 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
21989 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
21990 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
21991 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
21992 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
21993 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
21996 o Changed config option behavior (features):
21997 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
21998 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
21999 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
22000 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
22001 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
22002 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
22003 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
22004 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
22005 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
22006 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
22007 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
22008 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
22009 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
22010 and are reaching it.
22011 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
22012 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
22013 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
22014 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
22016 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
22017 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
22018 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
22019 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
22020 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
22021 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
22022 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
22023 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
22024 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
22026 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
22027 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
22028 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
22029 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
22030 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
22031 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
22032 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
22033 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
22035 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
22036 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
22038 o New config options:
22039 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
22040 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
22041 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
22042 running a test network on a single host.
22043 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
22044 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
22045 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
22046 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
22047 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
22048 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
22049 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
22050 the approved-routers file.
22051 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
22052 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
22053 v2 directory information.
22055 o Minor features (other):
22056 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
22057 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
22058 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
22059 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
22060 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
22061 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
22063 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
22064 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
22065 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
22066 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
22067 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
22068 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
22069 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
22071 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
22072 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
22073 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
22075 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
22076 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
22077 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
22078 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
22079 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
22081 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
22082 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
22083 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
22084 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
22085 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
22086 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
22087 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
22089 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
22090 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
22091 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
22092 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
22093 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
22094 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
22095 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
22096 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
22097 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
22100 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22101 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
22102 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
22104 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
22105 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
22106 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
22107 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
22108 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
22109 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
22111 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
22112 bandwidthburst values.
22113 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
22114 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
22115 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
22116 to mark all our entry points down.
22117 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
22118 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
22119 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
22120 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
22121 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
22123 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
22124 more often than they are allowed to appear.
22125 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
22126 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
22127 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
22128 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
22129 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
22130 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
22131 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
22133 o Controller features:
22134 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
22135 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
22136 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
22137 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
22138 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
22139 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
22141 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
22142 multiple controller passwords.
22143 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
22144 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
22145 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
22146 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
22148 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
22149 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
22150 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
22151 cookie authentication file, and config option
22152 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
22153 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
22154 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22155 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
22157 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
22158 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
22159 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
22160 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
22161 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
22162 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
22163 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
22165 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
22166 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
22168 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
22169 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
22170 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
22171 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
22172 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
22173 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
22174 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
22175 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
22176 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
22177 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
22178 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
22179 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
22180 report the value as a "minimum skew."
22182 o Controller bugfixes:
22183 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
22184 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
22185 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
22186 processes can't run us out of memory.
22187 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
22188 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
22189 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
22191 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
22192 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
22193 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
22194 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
22195 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
22196 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
22197 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
22198 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
22199 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
22200 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
22201 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
22202 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
22203 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
22204 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
22205 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
22207 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
22208 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
22210 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
22211 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
22212 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
22213 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
22214 WARN-severity events.
22216 o Portability / building / compiling:
22217 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
22218 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
22219 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
22220 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
22221 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
22222 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
22223 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
22224 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
22225 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
22226 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
22227 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
22228 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
22229 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
22231 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
22232 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
22233 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
22234 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
22235 Use this version consistently in log messages.
22236 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
22237 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
22238 partial results on small file reads.
22239 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
22240 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
22241 a directory. Fix from lodger.
22242 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
22243 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
22244 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
22246 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
22247 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
22248 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
22249 logging for the unit tests.
22250 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
22251 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
22253 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
22254 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
22256 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
22257 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
22258 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
22259 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
22262 o Logging improvements:
22263 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
22264 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
22265 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
22266 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
22267 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
22268 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
22269 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
22271 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
22272 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
22273 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
22274 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
22275 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
22276 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
22277 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
22278 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
22279 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
22280 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
22281 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
22282 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
22283 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22284 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
22285 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
22286 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
22287 Good in combination with --hash-password.
22288 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
22289 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
22291 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
22292 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
22293 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
22294 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
22296 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
22297 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
22298 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
22299 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
22300 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
22302 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
22303 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
22304 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
22305 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
22306 makes the log messages nicer.
22307 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
22308 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
22310 o Contributed scripts and tools:
22311 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
22312 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
22314 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
22315 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
22316 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
22317 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
22318 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
22319 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
22320 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
22321 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
22322 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
22323 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
22325 o Newly deprecated features:
22326 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
22327 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
22328 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
22329 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
22331 o Removed features:
22332 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
22333 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
22334 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
22335 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
22336 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
22338 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
22339 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
22340 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
22341 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
22342 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
22343 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
22344 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
22345 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
22347 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
22348 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
22349 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
22350 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
22351 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
22352 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
22354 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
22355 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
22356 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
22357 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
22358 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
22359 patch from Karsten Loesing.
22360 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
22361 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
22362 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
22363 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
22364 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
22365 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
22366 code), this assumption no longer holds.
22367 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
22371 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
22372 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
22373 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
22374 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22377 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
22378 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
22379 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
22380 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
22381 on network address.
22384 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
22385 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
22386 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
22387 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
22388 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
22389 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
22390 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
22391 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
22392 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
22393 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
22394 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
22395 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
22398 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
22399 rebuild our server descriptor.
22400 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
22401 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
22402 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
22403 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
22404 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
22405 nonstandard integer types.
22406 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
22407 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
22408 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
22409 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
22410 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
22412 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
22413 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
22414 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
22415 when they receive them.
22416 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
22417 This includes some 64-bit systems.
22418 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
22419 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
22420 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
22421 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
22422 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
22423 router_get_by_hexdigest().
22424 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
22425 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
22429 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
22430 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
22431 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
22432 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
22433 lists for a few hours each day.
22435 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22436 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
22437 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
22438 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
22439 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
22440 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22441 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
22442 rend_process_relay_cell().
22444 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22445 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
22446 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
22447 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
22448 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
22449 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
22450 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
22451 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
22453 o Major bugfixes (other):
22454 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
22455 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
22456 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
22457 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
22458 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
22459 circuit cannibalization).
22460 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
22461 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
22462 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
22463 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
22464 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
22465 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
22468 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
22469 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
22471 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
22472 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
22473 absent. Resolves bug 467.
22474 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
22475 a way to trigger this remotely.)
22476 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
22477 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
22478 were reporting the dir port.)
22479 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
22480 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
22481 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
22482 the future. Fixes bug 434.
22483 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
22485 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
22486 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
22487 the onion key from getting rotated.
22488 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
22489 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
22490 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
22491 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
22492 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
22493 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
22494 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22497 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
22498 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
22499 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
22500 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
22501 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
22504 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
22505 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
22508 o Major bugfixes (security):
22509 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
22510 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
22511 become more of a headache than it's worth.
22513 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
22514 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
22515 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
22517 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
22518 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
22519 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
22520 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
22521 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
22522 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
22524 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
22525 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
22526 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
22527 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
22528 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
22530 o Minor features (controller):
22531 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
22532 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
22533 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
22534 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
22536 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
22537 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
22538 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
22539 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
22540 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
22541 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
22542 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
22543 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
22545 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22546 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
22547 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
22548 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
22549 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
22550 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
22551 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
22552 if we ran off the end of the list.
22553 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
22554 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
22555 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
22556 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
22557 every time we change any piece of our config.
22558 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
22559 encourage people using them to stop.
22560 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
22562 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
22563 servers to choose a circuit.
22564 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
22565 unparseable piece of it.
22568 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
22569 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
22570 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
22571 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
22572 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
22573 TorK, etc. Or worse.
22575 o Major security fixes:
22576 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
22577 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
22580 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
22581 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
22582 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
22583 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
22585 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
22586 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
22588 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22589 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
22590 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
22591 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
22592 routerlist while inserting a new router.
22593 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
22594 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
22596 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
22597 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
22598 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
22600 o Major bugfixes (security):
22601 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
22603 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
22604 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
22605 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
22606 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
22607 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
22608 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
22609 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
22610 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
22611 guard list unless we need to.
22613 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
22614 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
22615 don't get overused as guards.
22617 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
22618 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
22619 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
22620 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
22621 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
22623 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22624 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
22625 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
22628 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22629 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
22630 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
22631 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
22632 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
22633 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
22634 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
22635 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
22638 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
22639 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
22640 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
22641 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
22643 o Directory authority changes:
22644 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
22645 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
22646 or use hidden services.
22648 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22649 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
22650 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
22651 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
22652 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
22653 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
22654 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
22655 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
22656 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
22659 o Major bugfixes (security):
22660 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
22661 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
22662 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
22664 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
22665 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
22666 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
22667 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
22668 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
22669 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
22670 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
22671 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
22672 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
22673 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
22676 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
22677 purpose=controller.
22678 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
22679 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
22681 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
22682 having a hard time downloading.
22683 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
22684 partial results on small file reads.
22685 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
22686 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
22687 the gaps in the store get very large.
22690 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
22691 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
22693 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
22694 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
22697 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
22698 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
22699 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
22700 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
22701 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
22702 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
22704 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
22705 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
22706 free speech on the Internet.
22708 o Major features, client performance:
22709 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
22710 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
22711 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
22712 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
22713 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
22714 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
22715 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
22716 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
22717 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
22718 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
22719 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
22720 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
22721 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
22722 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
22723 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
22725 o Major features, client functionality:
22726 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
22727 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
22728 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
22729 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
22730 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
22731 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
22732 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
22733 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
22734 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
22735 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
22736 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
22737 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
22738 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
22740 o Major features, servers:
22741 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
22742 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
22743 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
22744 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
22745 authenticated, so use with care.
22746 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
22747 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
22748 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
22750 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
22751 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
22752 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
22753 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
22754 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
22755 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
22757 o Improvements on DNS support:
22758 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
22759 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
22760 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
22761 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
22762 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
22763 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
22764 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
22765 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
22766 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
22767 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
22768 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
22769 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
22770 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
22771 lets you turn it off.
22772 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
22773 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
22774 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
22775 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
22776 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
22777 useful to the network.
22778 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
22779 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
22780 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
22781 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
22782 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
22783 our tests for DNS hijacking.
22785 o Improvements on reachability testing:
22786 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
22787 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
22788 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
22789 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
22790 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
22791 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
22792 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
22793 if their identity keys are as expected.
22794 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
22795 chews through many circuits before giving up.
22796 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
22797 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
22798 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
22799 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
22800 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
22801 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
22802 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
22803 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
22804 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
22805 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
22806 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
22807 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
22809 o Improvements on rate limiting:
22810 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
22811 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
22812 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
22813 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
22814 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
22816 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
22817 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
22818 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
22819 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
22820 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
22821 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
22822 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
22823 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
22825 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
22826 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
22828 o Major features, NT services:
22829 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
22830 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
22831 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
22832 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
22833 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
22834 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
22835 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
22837 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
22838 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
22839 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
22841 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
22842 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
22843 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
22845 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
22846 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
22848 o Directory authority improvements:
22849 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
22851 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
22852 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
22853 too much load to the exit nodes.
22854 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
22855 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
22856 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
22857 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
22858 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
22859 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
22860 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
22861 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
22862 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
22863 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
22864 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
22865 broken. Not used yet.
22866 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
22867 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
22868 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
22869 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
22870 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
22871 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
22872 non-versioning dirservers.
22873 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
22874 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
22875 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
22877 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
22878 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
22879 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
22880 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
22882 o Directory mirrors and clients:
22883 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
22884 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
22885 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
22886 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
22887 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
22888 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
22889 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
22890 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
22891 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
22892 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
22893 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
22894 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
22895 routers for even longer.
22896 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
22897 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
22898 caching HTTP proxies.
22899 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
22900 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
22901 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
22902 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
22904 o Major fixes, crashes:
22905 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
22906 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
22907 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
22908 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
22910 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
22911 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
22912 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
22913 stream is detached.
22914 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
22915 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
22916 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
22917 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
22918 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
22919 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
22920 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
22921 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
22922 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
22923 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
22925 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
22926 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
22927 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
22928 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
22929 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
22930 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
22931 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
22932 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
22933 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
22934 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
22935 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
22936 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
22937 could return an unnamed server instead.
22938 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
22939 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
22940 a more attractive target for compromise.)
22941 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
22942 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
22943 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
22944 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
22946 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
22947 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
22949 o Major fixes, other:
22950 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
22951 uptime in the descriptor.
22952 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
22953 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
22954 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
22955 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
22956 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
22957 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
22958 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
22959 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
22960 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
22961 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
22962 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
22963 our DirPort now, etc.
22964 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
22965 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
22966 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
22968 o New config options or behaviors:
22969 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
22970 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
22971 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
22972 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
22973 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
22974 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
22975 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
22976 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
22977 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
22978 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22979 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
22980 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
22982 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
22983 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
22984 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
22985 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
22986 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
22988 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
22989 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
22990 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
22991 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
22992 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
22993 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
22994 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
22995 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
22996 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
22997 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
22998 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
22999 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
23000 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
23001 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
23002 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
23003 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
23004 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
23005 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
23006 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
23007 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
23008 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
23009 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
23010 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
23011 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
23012 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
23013 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
23014 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
23015 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
23016 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
23017 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
23019 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
23020 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
23021 your ORPort is set.
23024 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
23025 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
23027 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
23028 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
23029 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
23030 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
23032 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
23033 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
23034 whether the config options are bad or good.
23035 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
23036 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
23037 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
23038 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
23039 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
23040 result more than once.
23041 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
23042 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
23043 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
23044 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
23045 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
23046 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
23047 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
23048 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
23049 before we check for libevent.
23050 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
23051 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
23052 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
23053 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
23054 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
23055 recommendation system saner.)
23056 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
23057 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
23058 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
23059 now universal binaries.
23060 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
23061 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
23063 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
23065 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
23066 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
23067 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
23068 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
23069 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
23070 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
23072 o Minor features, controller:
23073 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
23074 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
23075 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
23077 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
23078 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
23079 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
23080 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
23081 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
23082 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
23083 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
23085 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
23086 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
23087 connected or resolved cell.
23088 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
23089 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
23090 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
23091 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
23092 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
23093 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
23094 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
23096 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
23097 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
23098 entry guard status as it changes.
23099 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
23100 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
23101 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
23102 watching for STREAM events.
23103 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
23104 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
23105 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
23106 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
23108 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
23109 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
23110 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
23111 working much like those for circuit events.
23112 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
23113 about the current status of a router.
23114 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
23115 a router's status has changed.
23116 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
23117 can tell which events and features are supported.
23118 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
23119 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
23120 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
23121 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
23122 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
23123 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
23124 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
23125 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
23126 for more information.
23127 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
23128 best guess to the user.
23129 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
23130 descriptor has changed.
23131 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
23132 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
23133 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
23135 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
23136 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
23137 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
23138 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
23139 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
23140 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
23141 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
23142 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
23143 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
23144 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
23145 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
23147 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
23148 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
23150 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
23151 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
23152 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
23154 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
23155 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
23156 the controller from learning about current events.
23157 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
23158 reported by Mike Perry.
23159 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
23160 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
23161 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
23162 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
23163 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
23164 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
23165 long nicknames where appropriate.
23166 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
23167 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
23169 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
23170 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
23171 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
23172 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
23173 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
23175 o Minor features, code performance:
23176 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
23177 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
23178 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
23180 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
23181 some profiles, but not others.)
23182 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
23183 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
23184 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
23185 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
23186 operations, for profiling.
23187 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
23188 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
23189 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
23190 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
23191 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
23192 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
23193 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
23194 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
23196 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
23197 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
23198 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
23199 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
23200 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
23201 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
23202 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
23203 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
23204 family lists conveniently.
23206 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
23207 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
23208 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
23209 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
23210 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
23211 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
23212 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
23213 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
23214 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
23215 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
23216 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
23217 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
23218 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
23219 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
23220 of it), is not therefore "up".
23222 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
23223 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
23224 what version a router is running.
23225 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
23226 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
23227 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
23228 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
23230 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
23231 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
23232 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
23233 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
23234 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
23237 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
23238 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
23239 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
23241 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
23242 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
23244 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
23245 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
23246 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
23247 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
23248 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
23249 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
23250 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
23251 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
23252 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
23253 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
23255 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
23256 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
23257 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
23258 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
23259 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
23260 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
23261 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
23262 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
23263 get one we don't recognize.
23266 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
23267 o Security bugfixes:
23268 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
23269 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
23270 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
23271 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
23275 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
23276 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
23277 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
23280 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
23282 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
23283 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
23284 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
23285 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
23286 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
23287 its circuits on demand.
23288 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
23289 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
23290 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
23291 connections more stable on average.
23292 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
23293 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
23294 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
23296 o Security bugfixes:
23297 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
23298 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
23301 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
23303 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
23304 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
23305 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
23306 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
23307 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
23308 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
23309 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
23310 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
23313 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
23315 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
23316 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
23317 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
23318 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
23319 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
23320 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
23321 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
23322 it can't resolve its hostname.
23323 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
23324 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
23325 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
23328 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
23329 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
23330 "extendcircuit" request.
23331 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
23332 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
23333 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
23334 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
23336 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
23337 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
23338 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
23340 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
23341 methods: these are known to be buggy.
23342 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
23343 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
23344 we don't recognize.
23347 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
23349 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
23350 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
23351 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
23352 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
23353 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
23354 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
23355 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
23356 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
23357 test reachability, so you won't publish.
23360 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
23361 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
23362 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
23363 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
23364 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
23366 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
23367 own server descriptor yet.
23370 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
23372 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
23373 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
23374 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
23375 make sure to test via one of these.
23376 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
23377 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
23378 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
23379 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
23380 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
23382 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
23383 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
23384 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
23387 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
23388 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
23389 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
23390 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
23391 directory authority.
23392 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
23393 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
23394 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
23395 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
23398 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
23399 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
23400 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
23402 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
23403 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
23404 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
23405 current guards when picking a new guard.
23406 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
23407 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
23408 when we had more than one pending.
23409 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
23410 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
23411 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
23412 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
23413 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
23414 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
23415 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
23416 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
23417 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
23418 debug the reachability problems better.
23420 o Log / documentation fixes:
23421 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
23422 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
23423 about protocol violations by others.
23424 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
23425 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
23426 about what happened to our old torrc.
23429 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
23430 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
23431 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
23432 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
23433 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
23434 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
23436 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
23437 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
23438 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
23439 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
23440 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
23441 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
23442 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
23443 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
23444 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
23445 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
23446 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
23447 on malicious huge inputs.
23449 o Security fixes, major:
23450 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
23451 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
23452 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
23453 misreading their logs.
23454 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
23455 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
23456 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
23457 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
23458 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
23459 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
23460 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
23461 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
23462 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
23463 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
23464 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
23465 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
23466 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
23467 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
23469 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
23470 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
23471 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
23472 firewall options forbid.
23473 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
23474 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
23475 can only proxy to certain destinations.
23476 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
23477 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
23478 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
23480 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
23481 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
23482 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
23483 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
23484 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
23485 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
23486 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
23487 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
23488 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
23489 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
23490 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
23491 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
23492 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
23494 o Security fixes, minor:
23495 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
23496 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
23498 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
23499 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
23500 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
23501 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
23502 if we've not heard of a server.
23503 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
23504 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
23505 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
23506 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
23507 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
23508 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
23509 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
23510 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
23511 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
23512 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
23513 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
23514 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
23515 aids some statistical attacks.
23516 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
23517 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
23518 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
23519 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
23520 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
23521 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
23522 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
23523 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
23526 o Packaging improvements:
23527 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
23528 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
23529 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
23530 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
23531 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
23532 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
23534 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
23535 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
23536 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
23537 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
23538 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
23539 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
23541 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
23542 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
23543 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
23545 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
23546 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
23547 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
23548 They are useless now.
23549 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
23550 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
23551 is reachable by you.
23552 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
23555 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
23556 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
23557 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
23558 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
23559 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
23560 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
23561 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
23562 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
23563 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
23564 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
23565 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
23566 and isolating attacks better.
23567 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
23568 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
23569 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
23570 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
23571 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
23572 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
23573 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
23574 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
23575 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
23576 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
23577 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
23579 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
23580 can answer v2 directory requests too.
23581 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
23582 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
23583 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
23584 mirrors still cache and serve it).
23585 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
23586 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
23587 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
23588 for clients and for servers.
23589 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
23590 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
23591 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
23592 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
23593 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
23594 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
23595 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
23596 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
23597 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
23598 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
23599 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
23601 o Other directory improvements:
23602 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
23603 fifth authoritative directory servers.
23604 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
23605 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
23606 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
23607 to hang up on them.
23608 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
23609 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
23610 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
23611 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
23612 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
23613 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
23615 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
23616 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
23617 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
23618 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
23619 connections more reliable.
23620 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
23621 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
23622 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
23623 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
23624 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
23625 we fail to connect).
23626 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
23628 o Controller protocol improvements:
23629 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
23630 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
23631 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
23632 applications without caring how our protocol works.
23633 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
23634 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
23635 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
23636 many bytes we've used in this time period.
23637 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
23638 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
23639 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
23640 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
23641 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
23642 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
23643 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
23644 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
23645 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
23646 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
23647 or "signal reload".
23648 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
23649 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
23650 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
23651 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
23652 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
23653 a router in its role as directory authority.
23654 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
23655 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
23656 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
23657 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
23658 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
23659 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
23660 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
23661 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
23662 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
23663 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
23664 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
23665 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
23666 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
23667 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
23668 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
23669 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
23670 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
23671 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
23673 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
23674 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
23675 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
23676 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
23677 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
23678 just tell them to go read their logs.
23680 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
23681 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
23682 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
23683 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
23684 try to be a bit more fair.
23685 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
23686 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
23687 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
23688 and we're using a default DirPort.
23689 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
23690 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
23691 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
23692 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
23693 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
23694 services faster on the service end.
23695 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
23697 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
23698 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
23699 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
23700 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
23701 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
23702 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
23703 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
23704 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
23705 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
23706 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
23707 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
23708 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
23709 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
23710 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
23711 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
23712 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
23713 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
23714 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
23715 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
23716 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
23717 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
23718 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
23719 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
23720 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
23721 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
23723 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
23724 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
23725 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
23726 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
23727 so we can be backward-compatible.
23728 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
23729 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
23730 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
23731 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
23732 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
23733 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
23734 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
23735 initial descriptor forever.
23736 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
23737 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
23738 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
23739 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
23740 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
23741 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
23742 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
23743 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
23744 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
23745 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
23746 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
23747 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
23748 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
23749 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
23750 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
23751 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
23752 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
23753 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
23754 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
23755 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
23756 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
23757 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
23758 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
23759 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
23760 ports that have changed.
23761 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
23762 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
23763 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
23764 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
23765 connections once a week.
23766 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
23767 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
23768 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
23769 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
23770 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
23771 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
23772 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
23773 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
23774 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
23775 able to discover them.
23776 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
23777 want to make it an NT service.
23778 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
23779 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
23780 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
23781 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
23782 memory leaks better.
23783 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
23784 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
23785 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
23786 statistics are now uint64_t's.
23787 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
23788 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
23789 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
23790 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
23791 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
23792 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
23793 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
23794 default ulimit -n is 1024.
23795 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
23796 and its existence is confusing some users.
23798 o Config option fixes:
23799 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
23800 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
23801 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
23802 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
23803 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
23804 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
23805 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
23806 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
23807 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
23809 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
23810 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
23811 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
23812 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
23813 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
23814 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
23815 it would silently ignore the 6668.
23816 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
23817 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
23818 silently resetting it to its default.
23819 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
23820 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
23821 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
23822 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
23823 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
23824 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
23825 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
23826 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
23827 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
23828 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
23829 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
23830 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
23831 Address config option.
23832 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
23833 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
23835 o Config option features:
23836 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
23837 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
23838 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
23839 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
23840 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
23842 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
23843 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
23844 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
23845 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
23846 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
23847 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
23848 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
23849 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
23850 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
23851 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
23852 in at least some cases.)
23853 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
23854 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
23855 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
23856 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
23857 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
23858 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
23859 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
23860 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
23861 even if we know they're jerks.
23862 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
23863 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
23864 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
23865 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
23866 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
23867 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
23868 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
23869 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
23870 because older Tors do not understand it.
23871 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
23872 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
23873 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
23874 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
23875 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
23876 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
23877 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
23878 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
23879 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
23880 unattached before we fail it?
23881 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
23882 at least this many seconds ago.
23883 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
23884 at least this many seconds ago.
23885 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
23886 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
23888 o Improved and clearer log messages:
23889 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
23890 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
23891 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
23893 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
23894 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
23895 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
23896 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
23897 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
23898 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
23899 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
23900 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
23901 temporarily unreachable.
23902 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
23903 Windows-style errno back.
23904 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
23905 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
23907 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
23908 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
23909 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
23910 exactly for this case.
23911 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
23912 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
23913 don't warn twice about the same name.
23914 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
23916 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
23917 it was self-testing that told us so.
23918 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
23919 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
23920 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
23921 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
23922 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
23923 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
23924 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
23925 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
23926 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
23927 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
23928 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
23929 established a circuit.
23930 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
23931 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
23932 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
23933 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
23934 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
23935 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
23936 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
23937 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
23938 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
23939 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
23940 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
23941 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
23942 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
23943 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
23944 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
23945 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
23946 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
23947 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
23948 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
23949 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
23950 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
23951 testing for reachability.
23952 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
23953 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
23955 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
23958 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
23959 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23960 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
23961 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
23963 o Other important bugfixes:
23964 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
23965 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
23966 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
23967 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
23969 o Backported features:
23970 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
23971 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
23972 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
23973 without getting overloaded.
23974 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
23975 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
23976 503's whenever they feel busy.
23977 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
23978 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
23979 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
23980 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
23981 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
23984 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
23985 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23986 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
23987 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
23988 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
23989 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
23990 too -- so detect and avoid this.
23991 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
23993 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
23994 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
23995 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
23996 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
23997 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
23998 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
23999 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
24000 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
24001 rendezvous circuits.
24002 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
24004 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24005 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
24006 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
24007 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
24008 advertising it because of hibernation.
24009 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
24010 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
24011 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
24012 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
24013 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
24014 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
24015 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
24016 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
24017 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
24018 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
24019 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
24020 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
24021 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
24022 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
24023 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
24026 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
24027 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24028 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
24029 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
24030 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
24031 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
24032 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
24033 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
24034 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
24035 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
24036 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
24037 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
24038 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
24039 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
24040 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
24043 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
24044 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24045 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
24047 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
24048 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
24051 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
24052 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24053 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
24054 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
24055 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
24056 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
24057 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
24059 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
24060 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
24064 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
24065 o New directory servers:
24066 - tor26 has changed IP address.
24068 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24069 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
24070 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
24071 pthreads libraries.
24072 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
24073 claims its dirport is 0.
24074 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
24075 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
24079 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
24080 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24081 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
24082 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
24083 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
24084 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
24085 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
24086 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
24089 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
24091 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
24092 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
24093 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
24094 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
24095 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
24096 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
24097 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
24098 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
24099 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
24101 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
24102 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
24104 o Assert / crash bugs:
24105 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
24106 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
24107 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
24109 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
24110 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
24111 TLS errors better in other situations too.
24112 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
24113 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
24116 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
24117 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
24118 duplicate ram over time.
24119 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
24120 reentry and threadsafeness.
24121 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
24122 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
24123 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
24125 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
24126 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
24127 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
24128 point at your Tor server.
24129 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
24131 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
24132 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
24135 o Protocol correctness:
24136 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
24137 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
24138 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
24139 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
24140 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
24141 to abandon partially built circuits.
24142 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
24143 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
24144 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
24145 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
24146 descriptors we just dropped.
24147 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
24148 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
24149 and to take errno into account where possible.
24150 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
24151 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
24152 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
24153 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
24155 o Robustness improvements:
24156 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
24157 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
24158 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
24160 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
24161 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
24162 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
24163 that will want high uptime circuits.
24164 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
24165 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
24166 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
24167 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
24168 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
24169 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
24170 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
24171 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
24172 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
24173 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
24174 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
24175 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
24176 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
24177 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
24178 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
24179 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
24180 for google.com" problem.
24181 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
24182 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
24183 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
24184 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
24185 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
24188 o Reachability testing.
24189 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
24190 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
24191 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
24192 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
24193 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
24194 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
24195 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
24196 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
24197 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
24198 already connected to them.
24199 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
24203 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
24204 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
24205 nickname+key are allowed.
24206 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
24207 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
24208 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
24209 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
24210 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
24211 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
24212 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
24213 have quite wrong clocks).
24214 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
24215 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
24216 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
24217 their descriptors are being rejected.
24219 o Efficiency improvements:
24220 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
24221 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
24222 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
24223 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
24224 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
24225 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
24226 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
24227 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
24228 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
24229 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
24231 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
24232 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
24233 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
24234 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
24235 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
24236 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
24237 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
24238 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
24239 of CPU time plus memory.
24240 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
24241 directory every time you regenerate it.
24242 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
24243 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
24244 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
24245 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
24246 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
24247 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
24248 lowercase when you first see them.
24251 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
24252 hidden services better.
24253 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
24254 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
24255 when we try to launch one.
24256 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
24257 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
24258 attempts to build a circuit.
24259 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
24260 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
24261 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
24262 normal web requests.
24265 - More Tor controller support. See
24266 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
24267 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
24268 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
24269 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
24270 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
24271 to make it easier to write controllers.
24272 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
24273 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
24274 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
24275 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
24276 new log event types.
24278 o New config options/defaults:
24279 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
24280 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
24281 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
24282 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
24283 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
24285 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
24287 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
24288 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
24289 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
24290 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
24291 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
24293 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
24294 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
24295 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
24296 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
24297 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
24298 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
24299 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
24300 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
24301 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
24302 required exit node for certain sites.
24303 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
24304 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
24305 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
24306 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
24307 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
24308 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
24309 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
24310 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
24311 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
24313 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
24314 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
24315 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
24316 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
24317 private-IP addresses.
24318 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
24319 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
24320 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
24321 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
24322 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
24323 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
24324 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
24325 is valid without actually launching Tor.
24327 o Logging improvements:
24328 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
24329 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
24330 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
24331 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
24333 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
24334 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
24335 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
24336 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
24337 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
24338 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
24339 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
24340 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
24341 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
24343 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
24345 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
24346 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
24347 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
24348 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
24349 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
24350 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
24352 o New contrib scripts:
24353 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
24354 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
24356 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
24357 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
24358 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
24359 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
24360 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
24361 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
24363 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
24364 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
24365 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
24366 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
24370 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
24371 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
24372 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
24373 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
24374 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
24375 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
24376 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
24378 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
24379 something more reasonable when first installing.
24380 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
24381 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
24382 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
24383 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
24385 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
24386 artificially capped at 500kB.
24387 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
24389 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
24390 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
24391 they could use instead.
24392 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
24393 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
24394 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
24395 the user asks you to.
24398 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
24399 rather than just rejecting it.
24400 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
24401 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
24402 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
24403 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
24404 rather than just "success" or "failure".
24405 - A more sane version numbering system. See
24406 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
24407 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
24408 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
24409 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
24410 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
24411 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
24413 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
24414 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
24415 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
24416 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
24418 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
24419 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
24421 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
24422 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
24423 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
24424 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
24426 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
24427 whether the server is hibernating.
24430 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
24431 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
24432 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
24433 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
24434 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
24438 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
24439 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24440 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
24441 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
24442 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
24445 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
24446 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24447 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
24448 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
24449 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
24450 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
24451 busy for more than 100 seconds.
24454 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
24455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24456 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
24457 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
24458 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
24459 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
24460 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
24461 creating actual system users.
24462 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
24463 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
24467 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
24468 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
24469 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
24470 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
24471 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
24472 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
24473 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
24474 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
24475 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
24476 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
24477 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
24478 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
24479 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
24480 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
24481 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
24483 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
24484 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
24485 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
24486 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
24487 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
24488 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
24489 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
24490 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
24491 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
24492 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
24493 existing torrc files.
24494 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
24497 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
24498 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
24499 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
24500 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
24501 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
24502 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
24503 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
24504 the win32 SYSTEM account.
24505 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
24506 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
24507 file descriptors available.
24508 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
24509 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
24510 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
24513 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
24514 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24515 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
24516 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
24518 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
24519 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
24520 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
24521 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
24522 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
24524 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
24525 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
24526 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
24527 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
24528 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
24529 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
24530 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
24531 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
24532 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
24533 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
24534 800kB/s of capacity.
24535 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
24538 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
24539 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24540 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
24541 need as much processor time.
24542 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
24543 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
24544 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
24545 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
24546 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
24547 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
24548 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
24549 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
24550 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
24551 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
24552 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
24553 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
24555 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
24556 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
24557 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
24558 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
24559 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
24560 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
24561 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
24564 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
24565 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
24566 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
24568 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
24569 style address, then we'd crash.
24570 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
24571 a dirserver is broken.
24572 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
24574 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
24575 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
24576 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
24578 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
24579 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
24580 name out of the warning/assert messages.
24581 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
24582 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
24583 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
24585 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
24586 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
24587 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
24589 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
24591 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
24592 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
24593 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
24594 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
24595 values at once couldn't work.
24596 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
24597 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
24598 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
24599 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
24600 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
24601 they can handle any number of routers.
24602 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
24603 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
24604 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
24605 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
24606 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
24607 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
24608 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
24609 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
24610 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
24613 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
24614 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
24615 - Make hibernation actually work.
24616 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
24617 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
24618 don't use the stream status code.
24621 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
24622 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
24623 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
24624 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
24625 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
24626 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
24627 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
24628 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
24629 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
24630 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
24631 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
24632 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
24635 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
24636 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
24637 win32 socket errors better.
24638 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
24639 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
24640 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
24641 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
24643 - Make unit tests work on win32.
24645 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
24646 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
24647 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
24648 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
24649 right after sending the begin cell.
24650 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
24651 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
24652 exit nodes too. Oops.
24653 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
24654 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
24655 the user would get no response.
24656 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
24657 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
24658 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
24660 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
24661 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
24662 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
24663 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
24664 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
24666 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
24667 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
24668 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
24669 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
24670 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
24671 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
24672 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
24673 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
24674 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
24675 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
24676 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
24678 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
24679 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
24680 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
24681 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
24682 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
24683 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
24684 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
24685 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
24686 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
24687 so we don't see those messages days later.
24688 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
24689 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
24691 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
24692 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
24693 they ran out of file descriptors.
24694 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
24695 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
24696 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
24697 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
24699 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
24700 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
24701 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
24702 the ones we find in directories.)
24703 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
24704 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
24705 if you don't want it open.
24706 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
24707 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
24708 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
24709 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
24710 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
24711 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
24713 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
24714 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
24716 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
24718 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
24719 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
24721 o Features (circuits and streams):
24722 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
24723 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
24724 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
24725 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
24726 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
24727 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
24728 the user knows which one it's talking about.
24729 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
24730 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
24731 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
24732 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
24733 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
24734 from Geoff Goodell.
24735 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
24737 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
24738 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
24739 to fill the last cell completely.
24740 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
24741 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
24743 o Features (bandwidth):
24744 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
24745 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
24746 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
24747 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
24748 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
24749 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
24750 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
24751 your billing cycle starts on.
24752 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
24753 hibernation properties by
24754 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
24755 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
24756 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
24757 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
24758 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
24760 o Features (directories):
24761 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
24762 nickname to its identity key.
24763 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
24764 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
24765 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
24766 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
24767 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
24769 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
24770 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
24772 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
24773 will be able to get a directory.
24774 - Http proxy support
24775 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
24776 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
24777 be routed through this host.
24778 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
24779 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
24780 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
24781 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
24782 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
24783 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
24785 o Features (packages and install):
24786 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
24787 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
24788 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
24789 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
24790 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
24791 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
24792 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
24793 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
24794 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
24795 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
24798 o Features (ui controller):
24799 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
24800 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
24801 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
24802 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
24803 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
24804 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
24805 with the control port.
24806 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
24807 use in authenticating to the control interface.
24808 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
24809 configuration to torrc.
24810 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
24811 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
24812 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
24814 o Features (config and command-line):
24815 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
24816 not on the command line.
24817 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
24819 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
24820 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
24821 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
24822 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
24823 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
24824 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
24825 - New log format in config:
24826 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
24827 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
24828 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
24829 from their dirserver.
24830 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
24832 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
24833 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
24834 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
24835 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
24836 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
24837 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
24838 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
24839 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
24840 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
24841 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
24842 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
24843 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
24844 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
24845 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
24846 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
24847 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
24848 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
24849 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
24850 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
24851 than once per minute.
24853 o Features (other):
24854 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
24855 get back to normal.)
24856 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
24857 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
24858 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
24859 log more informatively.
24860 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
24861 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
24862 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
24863 from each other, to hinder linkability.
24864 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
24865 them act more like real nodes.
24866 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
24867 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
24868 1024) file descriptors.
24869 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
24872 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
24874 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
24875 clients/servers with an open dirport.
24876 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
24877 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
24878 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
24879 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
24880 intermittent connections.
24881 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
24882 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
24884 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
24885 in reporting stats locally.
24886 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
24887 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
24888 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
24891 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
24893 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
24894 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
24895 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
24896 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
24897 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
24898 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
24899 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
24900 list to decide who's running.
24901 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
24902 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
24903 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
24904 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
24905 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
24906 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
24907 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
24908 for pointing out this bug.)
24909 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
24911 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
24912 don't put it into the client dns cache.
24913 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
24914 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
24915 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
24917 o Protocol changes:
24918 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
24919 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
24920 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
24921 hadn't heard of before.
24924 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
24925 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
24926 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
24927 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
24928 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
24929 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
24930 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
24931 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
24932 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
24933 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
24934 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
24935 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
24936 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
24937 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
24938 - Directory caching.
24939 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
24940 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
24941 directory they've pulled down.
24942 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
24943 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
24944 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
24945 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
24946 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
24947 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
24948 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
24950 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
24951 This isn't used yet.
24952 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
24953 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
24954 clients don't use this yet.)
24955 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
24956 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
24957 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
24958 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
24959 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
24960 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
24961 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
24962 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
24963 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
24964 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
24965 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
24966 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
24967 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
24968 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
24969 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
24970 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
24971 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
24972 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
24973 - File and name management:
24974 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
24975 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
24977 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
24978 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
24979 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
24980 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
24981 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
24982 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
24983 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
24985 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
24986 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
24987 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
24989 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
24990 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
24991 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
24992 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
24993 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
24994 - New docs in the tarball:
24996 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
24997 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
24998 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
24999 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
25000 know you might want to get it verified.
25001 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
25002 kazaa, gnutella ports.
25003 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
25004 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
25005 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
25006 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
25007 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
25008 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
25009 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
25011 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
25013 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
25014 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
25016 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
25017 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
25018 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
25021 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
25022 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
25023 ask them to resolve the host "".
25026 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
25027 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
25028 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
25031 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
25032 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
25033 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
25036 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
25037 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
25038 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
25039 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
25041 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
25042 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
25043 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
25045 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
25046 hidden service per 15-minute period.
25047 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
25048 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
25049 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
25050 o Fixes for security bugs:
25051 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
25052 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
25053 a trusted dirserver.
25055 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
25056 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
25057 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
25058 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
25059 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
25060 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
25061 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
25062 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
25063 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
25064 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
25066 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
25067 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
25068 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
25069 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
25070 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
25071 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
25073 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
25076 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
25077 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
25078 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
25079 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
25080 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
25081 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
25082 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
25083 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
25084 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
25085 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
25086 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
25087 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
25088 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
25089 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
25092 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
25093 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
25094 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
25095 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25098 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
25099 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
25100 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
25101 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
25102 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
25103 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
25104 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
25108 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
25110 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
25111 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
25112 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
25113 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
25114 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
25115 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
25116 if you decrypted them correctly.
25117 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
25118 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
25119 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
25120 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
25121 in-memory directories too.
25122 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
25123 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
25124 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
25125 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
25126 just close the circ.
25127 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
25128 - Better debugging for tls errors
25129 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
25130 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
25132 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
25133 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
25134 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
25135 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
25136 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
25137 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
25138 it tells you about the first error.
25139 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
25140 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
25141 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
25142 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
25143 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
25144 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
25145 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
25146 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
25147 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
25148 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
25150 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
25151 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
25154 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
25155 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
25157 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
25158 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
25159 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
25160 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
25161 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
25162 expect it to have a nickname.
25163 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
25164 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
25165 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
25166 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
25167 the dns farm to do it.
25168 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
25169 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
25171 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
25172 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
25173 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
25174 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
25175 but that aren't warnings
25178 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
25179 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
25183 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
25184 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
25185 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
25186 - include missing header fcntl.h
25187 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
25188 - deal with hardware word alignment
25189 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
25190 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
25191 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
25192 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
25193 by kill -USR1 currently.
25194 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
25195 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
25196 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
25199 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
25200 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
25201 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
25204 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
25206 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
25207 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
25208 - And fix a few endian issues.
25211 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
25213 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
25214 try that circuit again: try a new one.
25215 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
25216 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
25217 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
25218 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
25219 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
25220 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
25222 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
25223 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
25224 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
25226 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
25228 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
25229 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
25230 side isn't reading right then.
25231 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
25232 RecommendedVersions
25233 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
25234 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
25235 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
25238 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
25240 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
25241 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
25244 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
25248 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
25250 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
25251 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
25252 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
25253 connection is finished.
25254 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
25255 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
25256 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
25257 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
25258 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
25259 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
25260 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
25261 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
25262 rather than warn and continue.
25263 - Make --version work
25264 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
25267 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
25269 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
25270 knows it's working.
25271 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
25272 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
25274 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
25275 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
25276 so you can collect coredumps there.
25278 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
25279 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
25280 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
25281 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
25282 dns cache actually gets populated.
25283 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
25284 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
25285 end cell down it first.
25286 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
25287 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
25290 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
25292 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
25293 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
25295 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
25296 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
25297 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
25298 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
25299 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
25300 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
25302 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
25304 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
25305 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
25306 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
25307 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
25308 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
25309 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
25311 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
25312 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
25315 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
25317 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
25318 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
25319 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
25320 tor. It even has a man page.
25321 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
25322 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
25323 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
25324 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
25326 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
25328 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
25331 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
25333 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
25334 it, apt-getters. :)
25335 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
25336 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
25337 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
25338 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
25339 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
25340 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
25341 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
25342 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
25343 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
25344 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
25345 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
25347 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
25348 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
25351 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
25353 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
25354 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
25357 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
25359 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
25360 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
25361 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
25362 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
25363 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
25364 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
25365 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
25366 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
25367 logfile so you know it's working.
25368 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
25369 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
25372 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
25374 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
25375 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
25376 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
25379 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
25381 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
25382 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
25383 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
25386 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
25387 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
25388 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
25390 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
25391 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
25393 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
25394 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
25395 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
25397 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
25398 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
25402 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
25404 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
25405 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
25406 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
25409 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
25410 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
25411 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
25412 - Add port ranges to exit policies
25413 - Add a conservative default exit policy
25414 - Warn if you're running tor as root
25415 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
25416 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
25417 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
25418 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
25420 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
25423 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
25424 o Robustness and bugfixes:
25425 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
25426 really screw things up.
25427 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
25429 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
25430 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
25432 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
25433 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
25434 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
25435 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
25436 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
25437 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
25440 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
25443 - Change default loglevel to warn.
25444 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
25445 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
25447 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
25450 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
25451 o Robustness and bugfixes:
25452 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
25453 - to get ownership/permissions right
25454 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
25455 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
25456 pull down a directory again
25457 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
25458 causing server crashes
25459 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
25460 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
25461 - exit if bind() fails
25462 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
25463 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
25464 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
25465 - fix minor bias in PRNG
25466 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
25469 - Wrote the design document (woo)
25471 o Circuit building and exit policies:
25472 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
25474 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
25475 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
25476 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
25477 exists, rather than failing
25478 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
25479 which AP connections are standing by
25480 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
25481 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
25482 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
25484 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
25485 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
25488 - APPort is now called SocksPort
25489 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
25491 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
25492 hardcoded (for dirservers)
25493 - Reloads config on HUP
25494 - Usage info on -h or --help
25495 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
25497 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
25498 o General stability:
25499 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
25500 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
25501 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
25502 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
25503 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
25504 to take down the network when I approve a new router
25505 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
25508 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
25509 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
25511 o Autoconf improvements:
25512 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
25513 - Make install now works
25514 - create var/lib/tor on make install
25515 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
25516 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
25518 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
25519 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
25520 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
25521 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup