1 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
2 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
3 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
4 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
5 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
7 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
8 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
9 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
10 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
11 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
12 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
16 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
17 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
18 nickname) is reachable by you.
19 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
23 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
24 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
25 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
26 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
27 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
28 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
29 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
30 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
32 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
33 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
34 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
35 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
37 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38 it was self-testing that told us so.
41 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
42 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
43 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
44 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
45 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
46 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
47 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
48 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
49 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
50 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
51 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
52 exit policy and stopped using him for any exits.
53 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
56 o New controller features/fixes:
57 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
58 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
59 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
60 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
61 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
62 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
63 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
64 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
65 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
67 o Start on the new directory design:
68 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
69 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
71 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
72 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
73 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
74 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
76 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
77 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
78 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
79 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
80 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
81 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
82 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
83 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
86 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
87 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
88 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
89 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
90 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
91 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
92 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
93 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
94 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
95 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
97 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
98 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
99 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
100 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
101 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
102 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
103 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
104 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
105 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
107 o Config option changes:
108 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
109 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
110 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
111 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
112 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
113 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
116 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
117 people have started using them for spam too.
118 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
119 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
120 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
121 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
122 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
123 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
124 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
125 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
126 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
127 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
128 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
129 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
130 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
131 services faster on the service end.
132 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
133 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
134 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
135 it a fair shake next time we try.
136 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
137 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
138 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
139 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
140 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
141 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
142 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
143 able to discover them.
144 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
145 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
146 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
147 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
148 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
149 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
150 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
151 testing for reachability.
152 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
153 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
155 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
157 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
158 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
161 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
162 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
164 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
165 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
166 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
167 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
170 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
171 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
174 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
175 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
176 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
177 options, getinfo keys.
180 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-25
181 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
182 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
184 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
186 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
187 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
188 circuit events and we go offline.
189 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
190 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
191 you don't have enough intro points already.
193 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
194 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
195 many bytes we've used in this time period.
196 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
197 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
198 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
199 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
200 enabled by default yet.
202 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
203 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
204 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
205 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
206 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
209 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-14
210 o New directory servers:
211 - tor26 has changed IP address.
213 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
214 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 0.1.0.11.
215 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
216 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
217 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
218 ports that have changed.
219 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
221 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
222 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
223 Windows-style errno back.
224 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
225 want to make it an NT service.
226 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
227 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
228 name, give the full name in our response.
229 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
230 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
231 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
232 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
235 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
236 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
240 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
241 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
242 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
243 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
244 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
247 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
249 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
250 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
251 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
252 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
253 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
254 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
256 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
257 temporarily unreachable.
258 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
262 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
263 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
264 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
266 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
270 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
271 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
272 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes.
273 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
274 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
277 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
278 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
279 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
280 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
281 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
282 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
283 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
285 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
286 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
290 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
291 o New directory servers:
292 - tor26 has changed IP address.
294 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
295 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
296 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
298 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
299 claims its dirport is 0.
300 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
301 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
305 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
306 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
307 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
308 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
309 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
310 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
311 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
312 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
315 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
317 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
318 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
319 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
320 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
321 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
322 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
323 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
324 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
325 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
327 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
328 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
330 o Assert / crash bugs:
331 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
332 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
333 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process.
334 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
335 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
336 TLS errors better in other situations too.
337 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
338 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
341 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
342 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
343 duplicate ram over time.
344 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
345 reentry and threadsafeness.
346 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
347 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
348 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
350 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
351 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
352 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
353 point at your Tor server.
354 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
356 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
357 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
360 o Protocol correctness:
361 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
362 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
363 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
364 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
365 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
366 to abandon partially built circuits.
367 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
368 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
369 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
370 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
371 descriptors we just dropped.
372 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
373 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
374 and to take errno into account where possible.
375 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
376 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
377 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
378 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
380 o Robustness improvements:
381 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
382 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
383 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
385 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
386 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
387 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
388 that will want high uptime circuits.
389 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
390 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
391 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
392 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
393 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
394 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
395 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
396 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
397 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
398 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
399 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
400 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
401 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
402 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
403 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
404 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
405 for google.com" problem.
406 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
407 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
408 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
409 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
410 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
413 o Reachability testing.
414 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
415 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
416 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
417 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
418 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
419 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
420 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
421 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
422 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
423 already connected to them.
424 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
428 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
429 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
430 nickname+key are allowed.
431 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
432 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
433 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
434 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
435 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
436 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
437 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
438 have quite wrong clocks).
439 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
440 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
441 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
442 their descriptors are being rejected.
444 o Efficiency improvements:
445 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
446 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
447 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
448 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
449 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
450 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
451 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
452 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
453 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
454 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
456 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
457 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
458 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
459 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
460 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
461 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
462 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
463 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
464 of CPU time plus memory.
465 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
466 directory every time you regenerate it.
467 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
468 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
469 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
470 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
471 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
472 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
473 lowercase when you first see them.
476 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
477 hidden services better.
478 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
479 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
480 when we try to launch one.
481 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
482 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
483 attempts to build a circuit.
484 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
485 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
486 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
490 - More Tor controller support. See
491 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
492 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
493 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
494 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
495 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
496 to make it easier to write controllers.
497 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
498 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
499 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
500 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
503 o New config options/defaults:
504 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
505 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
506 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
507 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
508 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
510 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
512 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
513 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
514 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
515 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
516 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
518 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
519 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
520 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
521 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
522 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
523 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
524 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
525 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
526 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
527 required exit node for certain sites.
528 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
529 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
530 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
531 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
532 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
533 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
534 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
535 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
536 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
538 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
539 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
540 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
541 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
542 private-IP addresses.
543 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
544 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
545 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
546 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
547 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
548 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
549 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
550 is valid without actually launching Tor.
552 o Logging improvements:
553 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
554 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
555 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
556 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
558 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
559 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
560 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
561 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
562 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
563 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
564 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
565 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
566 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
568 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
570 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
571 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
572 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
573 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
574 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
575 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
577 o New contrib scripts:
578 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
579 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
581 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
582 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
583 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
584 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
585 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
586 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
588 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
589 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
590 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
591 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
595 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
596 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
597 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
598 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
599 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
600 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
601 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
603 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
604 something more reasonable when first installing.
605 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
606 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
607 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
608 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
610 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
611 artificially capped at 500kB.
612 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
614 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
615 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
616 they could use instead.
617 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
618 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
619 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
620 the user asks you to.
623 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
624 rather than just rejecting it.
625 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
626 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
627 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
628 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
629 rather than just "success" or "failure".
630 - A more sane version numbering system. See
631 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
632 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
633 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
634 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
635 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
636 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
638 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
639 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
640 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
641 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
643 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
644 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
646 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
647 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
648 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
649 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
651 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
652 whether the server is hibernating.
655 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
656 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
657 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
658 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
659 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process.
662 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
664 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
665 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
666 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
669 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
670 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
671 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
672 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
673 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
674 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
675 busy for more than 100 seconds.
678 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
679 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
680 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
681 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
682 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
683 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
684 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
685 creating actual system users.
686 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
687 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
691 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
692 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
693 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
694 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
695 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
696 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
697 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
698 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
699 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
700 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
701 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
702 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
703 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
704 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
705 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
707 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
708 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
709 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
710 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
711 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
712 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
713 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
714 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
715 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
716 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
717 existing torrc files.
718 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
721 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
722 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
723 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
724 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
725 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
726 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
727 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
728 the win32 SYSTEM account.
729 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
730 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
731 file descriptors available.
732 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
733 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
734 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
737 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
739 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
740 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
742 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
743 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
744 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
745 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
746 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
748 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
749 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
750 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
751 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
752 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
753 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
754 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
755 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
756 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
757 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
759 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
762 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
764 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
765 need as much processor time.
766 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
767 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
768 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
769 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
770 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
771 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
772 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
773 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
774 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
775 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
776 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
777 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
779 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
780 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
781 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
782 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
783 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
784 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
785 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
788 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
789 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
790 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
792 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
793 style address, then we'd crash.
794 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
795 a dirserver is broken.
796 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
798 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
799 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
800 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
802 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
803 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
804 name out of the warning/assert messages.
805 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
806 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
807 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
809 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
810 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
811 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
813 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
815 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
816 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
817 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
818 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
819 values at once couldn't work.
820 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
821 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
822 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
823 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
824 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
825 they can handle any number of routers.
826 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
827 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
828 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
829 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
830 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
831 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
832 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
833 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
834 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
837 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
839 - Make hibernation actually work.
840 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
841 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
842 don't use the stream status code.
845 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
846 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
847 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
848 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
849 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
850 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
851 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
852 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
853 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
854 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
855 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
856 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
859 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
860 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
861 win32 socket errors better.
862 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
863 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
864 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
865 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
867 - Make unit tests work on win32.
869 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
870 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
871 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
872 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
873 right after sending the begin cell.
874 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
875 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
876 exit nodes too. Oops.
877 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
878 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
879 the user would get no response.
880 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
881 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
882 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
884 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
885 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
886 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
887 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
888 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
890 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
891 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
892 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
893 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
894 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
895 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
896 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
897 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
898 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
899 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
900 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
902 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
903 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
904 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
905 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
906 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
907 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
908 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
909 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
910 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
911 so we don't see those messages days later.
912 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
913 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
915 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
916 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
917 they ran out of file descriptors.
918 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
919 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
920 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
921 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
923 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
924 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
925 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
926 the ones we find in directories.)
927 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
928 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
929 if you don't want it open.
930 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
931 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
932 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
933 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
934 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
935 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
937 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
938 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
940 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
942 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
943 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
945 o Features (circuits and streams):
946 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
947 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
948 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
949 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
950 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
951 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
952 the user knows which one it's talking about.
953 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
954 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
955 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
956 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
957 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
959 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
961 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
962 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
963 to fill the last cell completely.
964 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
965 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
967 o Features (bandwidth):
968 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
969 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
970 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
971 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
972 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
973 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
974 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
975 your billing cycle starts on.
976 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
977 hibernation properties by
978 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
979 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
980 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
981 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
982 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
984 o Features (directories):
985 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
986 nickname to its identity key.
987 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
988 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
989 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
990 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
991 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
993 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
994 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
996 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
997 will be able to get a directory.
999 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
1000 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
1001 be routed through this host.
1002 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
1003 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
1004 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
1005 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
1006 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
1007 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
1009 o Features (packages and install):
1010 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
1011 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
1012 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
1013 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
1014 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
1015 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
1016 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
1017 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
1018 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
1019 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
1022 o Features (ui controller):
1023 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
1024 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
1025 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
1026 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
1027 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
1028 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
1029 with the control port.
1030 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
1031 use in authenticating to the control interface.
1032 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
1033 configuration to torrc.
1034 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
1035 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
1036 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
1038 o Features (config and command-line):
1039 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
1040 not on the command line.
1041 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
1043 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
1044 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
1045 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
1046 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
1047 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
1048 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
1049 - New log format in config:
1050 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
1051 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
1052 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
1053 from their dirserver.
1054 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
1056 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
1057 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
1058 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
1059 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
1060 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
1061 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
1062 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
1063 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
1064 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
1065 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
1066 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
1067 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
1068 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
1069 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
1070 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
1071 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
1072 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
1073 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
1074 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
1075 than once per minute.
1078 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
1079 get back to normal.)
1080 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
1081 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
1082 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
1083 log more informatively.
1084 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
1085 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
1086 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
1087 from each other, to hinder linkability.
1088 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
1089 them act more like real nodes.
1090 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
1091 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1092 1024) file descriptors.
1093 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
1096 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
1098 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
1099 clients/servers with an open dirport.
1100 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
1101 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
1102 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
1103 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
1104 intermittent connections.
1105 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
1106 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
1108 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
1109 in reporting stats locally.
1110 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
1111 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
1112 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
1115 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
1117 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
1118 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
1119 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
1120 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
1121 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
1122 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
1123 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
1124 list to decide who's running.
1125 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
1126 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
1127 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
1128 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
1129 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
1130 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
1131 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
1132 for pointing out this bug.)
1133 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
1135 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
1136 don't put it into the client dns cache.
1137 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
1138 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
1139 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
1142 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
1143 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
1144 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
1145 hadn't heard of before.
1148 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
1149 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
1150 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
1151 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
1152 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
1153 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
1154 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
1155 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
1156 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
1157 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
1158 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
1159 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
1160 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
1161 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
1162 - Directory caching.
1163 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
1164 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
1165 directory they've pulled down.
1166 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
1167 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
1168 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
1169 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
1170 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
1171 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
1172 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
1174 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
1175 This isn't used yet.
1176 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
1177 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
1178 clients don't use this yet.)
1179 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
1180 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
1181 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
1182 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
1183 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
1184 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
1185 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
1186 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
1187 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
1188 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
1189 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
1190 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
1191 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
1192 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
1193 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
1194 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
1195 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
1196 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
1197 - File and name management:
1198 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
1199 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
1201 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
1202 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
1203 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
1204 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
1205 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
1206 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
1207 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
1209 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
1210 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
1211 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
1213 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
1214 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
1215 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
1216 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
1217 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
1218 - New docs in the tarball:
1220 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
1221 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
1222 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
1223 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
1224 know you might want to get it verified.
1225 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
1226 kazaa, gnutella ports.
1227 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
1228 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
1229 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
1230 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
1231 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
1232 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
1233 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
1235 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
1237 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
1238 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
1240 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
1241 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
1242 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
1245 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
1246 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
1247 ask them to resolve the host "".
1250 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
1251 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
1252 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
1255 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
1256 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
1257 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
1260 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
1261 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
1262 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
1263 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
1265 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
1266 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
1267 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
1269 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
1270 hidden service per 15-minute period.
1271 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
1272 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
1273 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
1274 o Fixes for security bugs:
1275 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
1276 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
1277 a trusted dirserver.
1279 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
1280 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
1281 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
1282 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
1283 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
1284 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
1285 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
1286 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
1287 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
1288 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
1290 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
1291 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
1292 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
1293 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
1294 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
1295 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
1297 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
1300 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
1301 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
1302 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
1303 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
1304 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
1305 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
1306 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
1307 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
1308 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
1309 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
1310 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
1311 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
1312 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
1313 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
1316 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
1317 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
1318 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
1319 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1322 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
1323 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
1324 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
1325 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
1326 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
1327 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1328 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
1332 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
1334 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
1335 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
1336 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
1337 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
1338 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
1339 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
1340 if you decrypted them correctly.
1341 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
1342 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
1343 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
1344 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
1345 in-memory directories too.
1346 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
1347 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
1348 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
1349 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
1350 just close the circ.
1351 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
1352 - Better debugging for tls errors
1353 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
1354 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1356 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1357 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1358 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1359 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1360 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1361 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1362 it tells you about the first error.
1363 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1364 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1365 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1366 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1367 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1368 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1369 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1370 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1371 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1372 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1374 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1375 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1378 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1379 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1381 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1382 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1383 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1384 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1385 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1386 expect it to have a nickname.
1387 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1388 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1389 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1390 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1391 the dns farm to do it.
1392 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1393 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1395 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1396 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1397 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1398 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1399 but that aren't warnings
1402 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1403 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1407 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1408 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1409 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1410 - include missing header fcntl.h
1411 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1412 - deal with hardware word alignment
1413 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1414 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1415 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1416 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1417 by kill -USR1 currently.
1418 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1419 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1420 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1423 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1424 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1425 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1428 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1430 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1431 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1432 - And fix a few endian issues.
1435 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1437 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1438 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1439 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1440 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1441 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1442 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1443 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1444 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1446 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1447 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1448 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1450 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1452 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1453 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1454 side isn't reading right then.
1455 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1457 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1458 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1459 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1462 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1464 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1465 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1468 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1472 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1474 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1475 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1476 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1477 connection is finished.
1478 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1479 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1480 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1481 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1482 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1483 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
1484 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
1485 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
1486 rather than warn and continue.
1487 - Make --version work
1488 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
1491 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
1493 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
1495 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
1496 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
1498 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
1499 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
1500 so you can collect coredumps there.
1502 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
1503 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
1504 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
1505 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
1506 dns cache actually gets populated.
1507 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
1508 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
1509 end cell down it first.
1510 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
1511 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
1514 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
1516 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
1517 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
1519 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
1520 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
1521 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
1522 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
1523 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
1524 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
1526 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
1528 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
1529 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
1530 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
1531 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
1532 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
1533 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
1535 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
1536 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
1539 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
1541 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
1542 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
1543 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
1544 tor. It even has a man page.
1545 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
1546 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
1547 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
1548 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
1550 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
1552 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
1555 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
1557 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
1559 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
1560 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
1561 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
1562 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
1563 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
1564 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
1565 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
1566 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
1567 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
1568 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
1569 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
1571 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
1572 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
1575 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
1577 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
1578 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
1581 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
1583 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
1584 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
1585 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
1586 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
1587 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
1588 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
1589 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
1590 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
1591 logfile so you know it's working.
1592 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
1593 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
1596 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
1598 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
1599 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
1600 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
1603 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
1605 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
1606 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
1607 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
1610 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
1611 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
1612 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
1614 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
1615 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
1617 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
1618 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
1619 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
1621 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
1622 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
1626 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
1628 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
1629 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
1630 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
1633 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
1634 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
1635 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
1636 - Add port ranges to exit policies
1637 - Add a conservative default exit policy
1638 - Warn if you're running tor as root
1639 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
1640 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
1641 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
1642 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
1644 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
1647 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
1648 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1649 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
1650 really screw things up.
1651 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
1653 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
1654 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
1656 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
1657 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
1658 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
1659 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
1660 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
1661 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
1664 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
1667 - Change default loglevel to warn.
1668 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
1669 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
1671 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
1674 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
1675 o Robustness and bugfixes:
1676 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
1677 - to get ownership/permissions right
1678 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
1679 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
1680 pull down a directory again
1681 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
1682 causing server crashes
1683 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
1684 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
1685 - exit if bind() fails
1686 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
1687 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
1688 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
1689 - fix minor bias in PRNG
1690 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
1693 - Wrote the design document (woo)
1695 o Circuit building and exit policies:
1696 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
1698 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
1699 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
1700 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
1701 exists, rather than failing
1702 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
1703 which AP connections are standing by
1704 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
1705 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
1706 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
1708 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
1709 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
1712 - APPort is now called SocksPort
1713 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
1715 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
1716 hardcoded (for dirservers)
1717 - Reloads config on HUP
1718 - Usage info on -h or --help
1719 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
1721 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
1722 o General stability:
1723 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
1724 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
1725 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
1726 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
1727 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
1728 to take down the network when I approve a new router
1729 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
1732 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
1733 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
1735 o Autoconf improvements:
1736 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
1737 - Make install now works
1738 - create var/lib/tor on make install
1739 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
1740 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
1742 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
1743 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
1744 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
1745 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup