1 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
3 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
4 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
7 o Minor features (client):
8 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
9 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
10 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
11 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
13 o Minor features (command line):
14 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
15 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
18 o Minor features (dormant mode):
19 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
20 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
21 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
23 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
24 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
25 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
27 o Minor features (geoip data):
28 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
29 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
31 o Minor features (logging):
32 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
33 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
36 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
37 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
38 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
41 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
42 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
43 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
44 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
46 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
47 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
48 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
49 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
51 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
52 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
53 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
54 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
57 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
58 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
59 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
61 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
62 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
63 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
66 o Documentation (manual):
67 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
69 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
70 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
71 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
72 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
75 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
76 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
77 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
78 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
79 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
81 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
82 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
84 o Major features (control port, onion services):
85 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
86 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
87 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
90 o Major features (directory authority):
91 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
92 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
93 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
94 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
96 o Major features (metrics):
97 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
98 documents. This information is controlled with the
99 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
100 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
101 328; closes ticket 40222.
103 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
104 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
105 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
107 o Major features (statistics):
108 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
109 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
110 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
112 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
113 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
114 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
115 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
116 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
117 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
118 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
119 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
120 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
121 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
122 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
123 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
124 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
125 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
126 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
127 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
128 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
129 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
130 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
131 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
134 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
135 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
136 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
137 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
139 o Minor features (bridge):
140 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
141 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
142 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
144 o Minor features (build system):
145 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
146 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
147 this. Closes ticket 40227.
149 o Minor features (command-line interface):
150 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
151 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
152 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
153 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
154 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
155 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
156 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
157 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
158 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
159 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
161 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
162 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
163 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
165 o Minor features (dormant mode):
166 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
167 control over whether the client can become dormant from
168 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
170 o Minor features (logging):
171 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
172 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
173 any). Closes ticket 40308.
174 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
175 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
176 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
178 o Minor features (performance, windows):
179 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
180 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
181 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
182 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
184 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
185 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
186 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
188 o Minor features (tests, portability):
189 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
190 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
193 o Minor features (vote document):
194 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
195 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
196 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
198 o Minor bugfixes (build):
199 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
200 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
201 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
203 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
204 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
205 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
206 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
209 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
210 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
211 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
212 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
214 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
215 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
216 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
217 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
218 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
219 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
221 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
222 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
223 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
224 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
225 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
227 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
228 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
229 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
230 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
231 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
233 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
234 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
235 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
236 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
238 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
239 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
240 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
241 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
243 o Code simplification and refactoring:
244 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
245 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
246 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
249 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
250 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
251 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
252 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
253 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
254 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
255 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
258 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
259 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
260 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
262 o Removed features (relay):
263 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
264 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
265 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
266 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
267 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
270 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
271 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
272 in earlier versions of Tor.
274 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
275 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
276 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
277 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
278 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
279 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
280 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
281 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
282 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
285 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
286 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
289 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
292 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
293 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
294 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
295 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
296 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
297 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
298 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
299 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
300 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
303 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
304 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
305 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
306 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
307 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
308 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
309 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
310 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
313 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
314 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
318 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
319 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
320 in earlier versions of Tor.
322 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
323 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
324 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
325 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
326 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
327 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
328 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
329 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
330 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
333 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
334 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
337 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
340 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
341 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
342 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
343 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
344 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
345 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
346 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
347 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
348 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
351 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
352 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
353 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
354 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
355 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
356 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
357 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
358 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
361 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
362 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
366 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
367 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
370 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
371 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
372 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
373 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
374 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
375 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
376 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
377 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
378 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
381 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
382 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
385 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
386 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
388 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
389 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
390 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
391 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
392 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
393 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
394 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
395 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
396 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
399 o Minor features (geoip data):
400 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
401 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
402 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
403 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
404 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
405 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
406 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
409 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
410 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
411 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
412 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
413 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
415 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
416 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
417 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
419 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
420 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
421 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
422 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
423 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
425 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
426 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
427 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
430 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
431 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
433 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
434 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
435 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
437 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
438 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
439 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
440 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
441 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
442 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
443 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
444 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
446 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
447 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
451 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
452 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
453 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
454 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
455 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
456 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
457 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
458 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
459 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
460 welcoming approach to growing our community.
462 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
463 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
464 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
465 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
466 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
467 smaller features and bugfixes.
469 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
470 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
472 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
473 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
474 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
475 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
477 o Minor features (protocol versions):
478 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
479 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
480 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
481 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
484 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
485 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
486 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
487 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
488 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
489 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
491 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
492 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
493 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
495 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
496 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
497 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
498 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
499 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
501 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
502 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
503 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
504 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
505 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
509 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
510 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
511 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
512 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
513 DoS attacks harder to perform.
515 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
516 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
517 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
518 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
519 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
522 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
523 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
524 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
525 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
528 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
529 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
530 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
531 this. Closes ticket 40227.
533 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
534 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
535 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
536 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
537 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
539 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
540 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
541 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
542 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
543 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
544 weasel for diagnosing this.
546 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
547 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
548 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
549 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
550 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
551 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
552 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
554 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
555 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
556 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
557 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
559 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
560 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
561 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
562 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
564 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
565 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
566 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
567 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
568 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
569 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
570 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
572 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
573 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
576 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
577 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
578 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
579 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
580 DoS attacks harder to perform.
582 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
583 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
585 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
586 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
587 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
588 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
589 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
592 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
593 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
594 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
595 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
596 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
598 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
599 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
600 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
601 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
604 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
605 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
606 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
607 this. Closes ticket 40227.
609 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
610 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
611 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
612 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
613 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
615 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
616 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
617 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
618 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
619 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
620 weasel for diagnosing this.
622 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
623 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
624 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
625 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
626 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
627 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
628 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
630 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
631 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
632 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
634 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
635 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
636 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
637 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
639 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
640 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
641 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
642 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
644 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
645 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
646 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
647 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
648 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
649 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
650 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
652 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
653 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
656 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
657 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
658 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
659 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
660 DoS attacks harder to perform.
662 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
663 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
664 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
665 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
666 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
669 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
670 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
671 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
672 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
673 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
675 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
676 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
677 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
678 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
681 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
682 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
683 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
684 this. Closes ticket 40227.
686 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
687 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
688 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
689 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
690 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
692 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
693 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
694 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
695 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
696 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
697 weasel for diagnosing this.
699 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
700 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
701 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
702 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
703 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
704 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
705 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
707 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
708 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
709 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
712 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
713 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
714 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
716 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
717 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
718 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
719 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
721 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
722 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
723 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
724 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
726 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
727 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
730 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
731 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
732 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
733 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
734 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
736 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
737 release, though of course that could change.
739 o Major feature (exit):
740 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
741 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
742 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
745 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
746 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
747 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
751 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
752 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
753 several bugs present in previous releases.
755 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
756 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
758 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
759 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
760 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
762 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
763 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
764 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
765 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
766 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
768 o Minor feature (build system):
769 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
770 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
771 this. Closes ticket 40227.
773 o Minor features (authority, logging):
774 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
775 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
777 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
778 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
782 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
783 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
784 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
785 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
786 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
787 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
789 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
790 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
791 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
792 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
793 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
796 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
797 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
798 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
799 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
801 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
802 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
803 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
804 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
807 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
808 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
809 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
810 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
812 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
813 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
814 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
815 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
817 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
818 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
819 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
820 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
821 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
824 o Minor features (crypto):
825 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
826 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
827 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
828 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
829 weasel for diagnosing this.
831 o Minor features (documentation):
832 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
833 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
834 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
837 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
838 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
839 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
840 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
841 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
844 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
845 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
846 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
847 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
848 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
850 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
851 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
852 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
854 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
855 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
856 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
858 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
859 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
860 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
861 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
862 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
865 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
866 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
867 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
868 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
871 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
872 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
873 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
874 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
875 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
876 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
879 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
880 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
881 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
882 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
883 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
884 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
885 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
887 o Minor features (compilation):
888 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
889 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
890 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
891 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
893 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
894 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
895 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
896 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
897 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
899 o Minor features (safety):
900 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
901 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
904 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
905 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
906 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
907 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
908 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
909 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
911 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
912 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
913 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
914 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
915 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
916 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
917 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
918 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
919 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
921 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
922 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
923 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
924 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
925 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
926 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
928 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
929 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
930 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
931 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
932 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
933 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
934 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
936 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
937 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
938 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
939 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
941 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
942 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
943 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
945 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
946 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
947 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
949 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
950 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
951 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
952 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
953 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
954 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
955 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
957 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
958 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
959 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
960 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
961 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
962 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
963 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
965 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
966 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
967 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
969 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
970 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
972 o Removed features (controller):
973 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
974 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
977 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
978 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
979 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
980 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
981 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
982 intended for a different relay.
984 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
985 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
986 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
987 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
988 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
989 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
990 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
992 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
993 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
994 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
995 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
996 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
997 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
998 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
999 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1000 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1001 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1002 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1004 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1005 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1006 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1007 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1008 closes ticket 40133.
1010 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1011 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1012 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1014 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1015 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1016 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1018 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1019 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1020 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1021 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1022 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1023 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1025 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1026 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1027 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1029 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1030 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1031 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1034 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1035 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1036 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1037 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1040 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
1041 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1042 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1043 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1044 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1046 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
1047 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
1048 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
1051 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1052 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1053 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1054 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1056 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1057 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1058 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1059 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1060 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1061 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1062 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1064 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1065 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1066 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1067 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1068 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1071 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1072 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1073 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1074 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1075 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1076 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1078 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1079 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1080 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1081 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1082 closes ticket 40133.
1084 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1085 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1086 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1087 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1089 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1090 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1091 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1093 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1094 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1095 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1097 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1098 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1099 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1100 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1101 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1104 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1105 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1108 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1109 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1110 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1111 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1112 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1113 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1115 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1116 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1117 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1120 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1121 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1122 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1123 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1124 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1125 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1128 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1129 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1130 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1131 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1133 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1134 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1135 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1136 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1139 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1140 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1142 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1143 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1146 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1147 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1148 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1149 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1150 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1151 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1152 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
1155 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
1156 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1157 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1158 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1159 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1161 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1162 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1163 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1164 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1166 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1167 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1168 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1169 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1170 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1171 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1172 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1174 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1175 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1176 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1177 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1178 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1181 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1182 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1183 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1184 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1185 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1186 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1188 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1189 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1190 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1191 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1193 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1194 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1195 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1196 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1197 closes ticket 40133.
1199 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1200 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1201 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1202 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1204 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1205 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1206 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1208 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1209 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1210 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1212 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1213 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1214 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1215 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1216 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1219 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1220 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1222 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1223 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1224 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1225 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1226 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1227 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1228 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1230 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1231 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1232 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1235 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1236 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1237 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1238 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1239 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1240 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1243 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1244 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1245 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1246 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1248 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1249 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1250 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1251 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1253 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1254 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1255 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1257 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1258 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1262 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
1263 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
1264 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
1265 metrics and tracing.
1267 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1268 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1269 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
1270 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
1271 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
1272 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
1273 series soon, after it has had some testing.
1275 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
1277 o Major features (build):
1278 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1279 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1280 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1281 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1282 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1284 o Major features (metrics):
1285 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1286 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1287 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1288 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1289 information and security considerations.
1290 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1291 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1292 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1293 Closes ticket 33233.
1294 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1295 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1296 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1297 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1298 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1299 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1300 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1301 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1302 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1303 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1304 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1305 Closes ticket 34067.
1307 o Major features (tracing):
1308 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1309 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1310 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1311 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1312 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1314 o Major bugfixes (security):
1315 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1316 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1317 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1318 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1319 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1320 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1322 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1323 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1324 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1325 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1326 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1327 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1329 o Minor features (address discovery):
1330 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1331 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1332 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1333 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1335 o Minor features (admin tools):
1336 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1337 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1338 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1341 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1342 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1343 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1344 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1345 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1346 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1348 o Minor features (build):
1349 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1350 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1351 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1352 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1353 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1355 o Minor features (configuration):
1356 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1357 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1358 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1359 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1360 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1361 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1363 o Minor features (control port):
1364 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1365 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1366 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1367 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1369 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1370 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1371 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1374 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1375 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1376 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1377 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1378 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1379 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1380 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1382 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1383 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
1384 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
1385 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
1386 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
1387 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
1388 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
1389 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1390 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1392 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1393 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1394 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1395 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1396 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1397 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1398 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1399 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1400 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1401 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1402 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1403 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1404 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1405 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1406 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1408 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1409 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1410 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1411 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1413 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1414 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1415 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1416 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1418 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1419 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1420 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1422 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1423 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1424 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1426 o Minor features (logging):
1427 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1428 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1429 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1430 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1431 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1432 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1434 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1435 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1436 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1437 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1439 o Minor features (onion services):
1440 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1441 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1442 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1444 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1445 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1446 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1447 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1448 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1449 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1451 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1452 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1453 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1454 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1455 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1456 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1457 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1459 o Minor features (relay):
1460 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1461 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1462 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1463 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1464 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1465 Closes ticket 34137.
1467 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1468 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1469 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1472 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1473 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1474 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1475 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1476 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1477 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1478 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1479 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1480 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1482 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1483 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1485 o Minor features (specification update):
1486 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1487 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1488 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1490 o Minor features (state management):
1491 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1492 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1493 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1494 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1495 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1497 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1498 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1499 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1500 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1501 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1503 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1504 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1505 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1506 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1507 closes ticket 40133.
1508 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1509 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1511 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1512 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1513 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1514 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1515 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1517 o Minor features (testing):
1518 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1519 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1521 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
1522 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1523 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1525 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1526 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1527 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1529 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1530 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1531 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1532 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1534 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1535 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1536 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1537 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1538 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1539 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1540 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1541 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1542 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1544 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1545 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1546 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1547 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1548 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1549 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1550 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1552 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1553 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1554 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1555 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1556 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1557 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1560 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
1561 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
1562 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
1565 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1566 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1567 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1568 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1569 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1571 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1572 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1573 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1574 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1575 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1576 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1577 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1578 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1581 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
1582 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1583 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1586 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1587 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1588 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1589 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1590 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1591 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1592 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1594 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1595 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1596 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1597 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1598 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1599 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1601 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1602 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1603 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1605 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1606 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1607 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1608 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1609 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1610 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1611 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1612 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1614 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
1615 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1616 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1617 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1619 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1620 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1621 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1622 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1623 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1624 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1625 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1626 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1627 Closes ticket 34200.
1628 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1629 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1630 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1631 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1632 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1633 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1634 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1636 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1637 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1638 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1639 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1640 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1641 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1644 o Deprecated features:
1645 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1646 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1647 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1650 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1651 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1654 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1655 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1656 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1657 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1659 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1660 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1662 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1663 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1664 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1665 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1666 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1670 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1671 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1673 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1674 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1675 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1677 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1678 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
1679 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
1680 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
1681 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
1683 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1684 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
1685 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
1686 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
1687 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
1689 o Documentation (manual page):
1690 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
1691 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
1692 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
1693 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
1695 o Documentation (tracing):
1696 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
1697 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
1700 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
1701 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
1702 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
1703 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
1704 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
1705 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
1706 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1708 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1709 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1710 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1711 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
1712 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
1714 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
1715 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
1716 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
1718 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1719 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1721 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1722 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1723 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1724 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1725 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1726 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1728 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1729 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1730 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1731 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1732 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1734 o Minor features (control port):
1735 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1736 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1737 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1739 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1740 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1741 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1742 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1743 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1744 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1746 o Minor features (tests):
1747 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1748 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1749 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1751 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
1752 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
1753 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1755 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1756 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1757 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1758 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1761 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
1762 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
1763 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
1766 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1767 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1768 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1769 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1771 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1772 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1773 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1774 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1775 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1778 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1779 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1780 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1781 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1782 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1784 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1785 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1786 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1787 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1790 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1791 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1792 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1793 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1794 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1795 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1799 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1800 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1801 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1804 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1805 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1806 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1807 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1808 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1809 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1812 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1813 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1814 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1816 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1817 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1818 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1819 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1820 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1821 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1822 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1825 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1826 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1827 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1828 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1831 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1832 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1833 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1834 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1835 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1836 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1838 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1839 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1840 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1841 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1842 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1843 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1845 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1846 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1847 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1849 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1850 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1851 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1852 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1855 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1856 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1857 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1858 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1861 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1862 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1863 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1864 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1865 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1868 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1869 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1871 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1872 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1873 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1874 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1875 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1878 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1879 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1880 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1881 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1882 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1883 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1885 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1886 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1887 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1888 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1890 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1891 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1892 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1893 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1896 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1897 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1898 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1899 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1900 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1901 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1902 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1903 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1907 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1908 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1909 several that affect usability and portability.
1911 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1912 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1913 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1914 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1915 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1916 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1917 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1920 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1921 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1922 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1923 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1926 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1927 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1928 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1929 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1930 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1931 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1933 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1934 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1935 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1936 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1937 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1939 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1940 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1941 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1942 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1944 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1945 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1946 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1947 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1948 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1949 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1951 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1952 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1953 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1955 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1956 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1957 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1958 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1961 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1962 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1963 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1964 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1967 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1968 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1969 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1970 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1971 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1972 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1975 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1976 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1977 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1979 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1980 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1981 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1982 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1984 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1985 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1986 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1987 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1988 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1991 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1992 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1993 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1994 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1995 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1996 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1998 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1999 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2000 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2001 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2002 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2004 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2005 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2006 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2007 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2009 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2010 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2011 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2012 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2014 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2015 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2016 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2017 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2020 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2021 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2022 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2023 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2024 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2025 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2026 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2027 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2031 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
2032 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
2033 some affecting usability.
2035 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2036 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2037 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2038 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2039 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2040 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2041 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2044 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2045 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2046 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2047 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2050 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2051 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2052 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2055 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2056 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2057 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2060 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2061 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2062 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2064 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2065 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2066 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2067 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2069 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2070 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2071 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2072 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2074 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2075 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2076 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2078 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2079 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2080 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2081 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2082 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2084 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2085 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2086 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2088 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2089 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2090 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2091 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2093 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2094 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2098 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
2099 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
2100 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
2101 compatibility, and portability issues.
2103 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2104 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2105 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2106 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2107 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2108 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2109 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2112 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
2113 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2114 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2115 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2118 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2119 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2120 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2121 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2122 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2125 o Minor features (directory authority):
2126 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2127 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2128 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2129 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2130 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2132 o Minor features (entry guards):
2133 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2134 Closes ticket 40001.
2136 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2137 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2138 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2139 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2140 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2141 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2142 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2144 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
2145 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2146 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2148 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
2149 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2150 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2152 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
2153 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2154 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2157 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2158 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2159 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2161 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2162 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2163 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2164 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2166 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2167 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2168 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2169 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2171 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2172 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2173 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2176 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2177 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2180 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
2181 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
2182 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
2183 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
2184 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
2185 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
2186 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
2187 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2190 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
2191 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
2192 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
2193 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
2194 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
2195 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2197 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
2199 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2200 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2201 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2202 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2203 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2204 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2205 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2206 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2207 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2208 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2210 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2211 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2212 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2213 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2214 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2215 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2216 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2218 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2220 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2221 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2222 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2223 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2225 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2226 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2227 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2228 Closes ticket 32709.
2230 o Minor feature (developer tools):
2231 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2232 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2234 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2235 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2236 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2237 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2240 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
2241 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2242 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2244 o Minor feature (python scripts):
2245 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2246 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2247 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2248 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2250 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2251 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2252 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2253 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2254 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2256 o Minor features (code safety):
2257 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2258 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2259 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2260 Resolves issue 33788.
2262 o Minor features (compilation size):
2263 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2264 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2266 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2267 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2268 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2269 Resolves ticket 32143.
2271 o Minor features (control port):
2272 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2273 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2274 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2275 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2277 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2278 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2279 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2280 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2281 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2282 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2284 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2285 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2286 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2287 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2289 o Minor features (directory):
2290 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2291 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2292 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2295 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2296 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2297 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2299 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2300 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2301 Closes ticket 33901.
2303 o Minor features (logging):
2304 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2305 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2307 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2308 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2309 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2310 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2311 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2312 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2313 up from ticket 33316.
2315 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2316 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2317 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2318 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2320 o Minor features (windows):
2321 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2322 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2324 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
2325 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2326 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2327 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2328 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2330 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
2331 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2332 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2333 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2335 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
2336 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2337 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2338 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2341 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2342 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2343 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2344 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2345 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2346 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2348 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2349 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2350 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2351 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2354 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2355 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2356 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2357 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2359 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2360 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2361 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2363 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2364 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2365 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2366 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2367 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2368 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2369 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2370 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2371 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2372 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2374 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
2375 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2376 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2377 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2379 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2380 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2381 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2382 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2383 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2385 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
2386 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2387 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2389 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2390 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2391 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2393 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
2394 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2395 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2397 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2398 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2399 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2402 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2403 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2404 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2406 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2407 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2408 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2411 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2412 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2415 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2416 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2417 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2418 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2420 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2421 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2422 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2423 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2424 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2425 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2426 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2427 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2428 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2429 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2430 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2431 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2433 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2434 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2435 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2436 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2440 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2441 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2442 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2443 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2447 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2448 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2449 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2450 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2451 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2452 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2453 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2456 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2457 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2458 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2459 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2460 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2461 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2462 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2463 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2465 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2466 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2468 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2469 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2470 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2471 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2472 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2473 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2474 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2475 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2476 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2477 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2478 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2479 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2481 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
2482 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2483 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2485 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2486 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2487 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2489 o Documentation (manual page):
2490 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2491 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2492 Google Season of Docs.
2493 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
2494 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
2495 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
2496 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2497 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
2498 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
2499 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
2500 Closes ticket 33778.
2503 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2504 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
2505 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
2506 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
2507 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2508 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2511 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2512 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2513 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2514 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2515 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2517 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2518 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2519 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2522 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2523 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2525 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2526 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2527 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2528 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2529 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2530 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2533 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2534 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2535 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2536 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
2537 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
2538 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
2542 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
2543 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2544 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
2545 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
2547 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2548 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2549 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2550 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2551 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2552 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2554 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2555 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2556 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2557 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2558 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2560 o Minor features (testing):
2561 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2562 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2563 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2564 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2565 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2567 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
2568 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
2569 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
2570 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2572 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
2573 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
2574 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
2575 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2577 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2578 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
2579 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
2580 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
2583 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
2584 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
2585 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
2586 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2587 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
2588 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
2589 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
2590 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
2591 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
2592 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2594 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2595 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2596 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2597 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2598 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2599 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2601 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2602 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2603 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2604 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2605 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2606 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2609 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2610 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2611 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2612 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2613 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2614 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
2615 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
2616 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
2618 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2619 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
2620 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
2623 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2624 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2625 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2626 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2627 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2631 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2632 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2633 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2634 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2635 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2636 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2637 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2641 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
2642 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
2643 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
2644 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2645 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2646 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2647 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2648 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2649 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2650 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2651 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2654 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2655 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2656 as soon as packages are available.
2658 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2659 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2660 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2661 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2662 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2663 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2664 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2665 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2666 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2668 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2669 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2670 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2671 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2672 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2674 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2675 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2676 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2677 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2678 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2680 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2681 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2682 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2683 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2685 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2686 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2687 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2688 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2690 o Minor features (usability):
2691 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
2692 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
2693 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
2695 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
2696 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2697 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2698 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2701 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
2702 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
2703 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
2704 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
2705 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2707 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2708 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2711 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2712 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2713 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2714 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2717 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2718 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2719 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2720 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2723 o Documentation (manpage):
2724 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2725 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2726 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2727 Google Season of Docs.
2728 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2729 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2731 o Testing (Travis CI):
2732 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2733 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2734 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2736 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2737 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2738 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2739 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2740 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2743 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2744 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2745 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2746 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2747 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2748 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2749 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2750 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2751 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2752 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2753 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2754 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2756 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2757 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2758 as soon as packages are available.
2760 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2761 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2762 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2763 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2764 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2765 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2766 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2767 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2768 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2770 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2771 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2772 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2773 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2774 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2776 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2777 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2778 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2779 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2780 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2782 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2783 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2784 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2785 Closes ticket 33075.
2787 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2788 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2789 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2791 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2792 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2793 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2794 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2795 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2798 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2799 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2800 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2801 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2804 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2805 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2806 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2807 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2809 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2810 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2811 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2812 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2814 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2815 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2816 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2817 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2818 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2821 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2822 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2823 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2824 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2825 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2826 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2827 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2828 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2829 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2830 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2831 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2832 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2834 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2835 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2836 as soon as packages are available.
2838 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2839 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2840 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2841 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2842 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2843 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2844 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2845 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2846 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2848 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2849 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2850 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2851 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2852 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2855 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2856 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2858 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2859 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2860 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2861 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2862 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2865 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2866 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2867 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2868 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2871 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2872 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2873 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2874 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2876 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2877 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2878 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2879 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2881 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2882 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2883 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2884 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2885 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2888 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2889 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2890 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2891 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2892 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2893 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2894 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2895 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2896 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2897 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2898 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2901 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2902 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2903 as soon as packages are available.
2905 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2906 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2907 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2908 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2909 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2910 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2911 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2912 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2913 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2915 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2916 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2917 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2918 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2919 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2920 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2921 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2922 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2925 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2926 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2927 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2928 Closes ticket 33075.
2930 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2931 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2932 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2934 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2935 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2936 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2937 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2938 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2940 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2941 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2942 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2943 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2944 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2947 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2948 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2949 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2950 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2953 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2954 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2955 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2956 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2958 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2959 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2960 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2961 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2962 Closes ticket 32629.
2963 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2964 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2965 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2967 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2968 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2970 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2971 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2972 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2973 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2975 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2976 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2977 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2978 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2981 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
2982 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
2983 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
2984 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
2987 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
2988 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
2989 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
2990 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2992 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2993 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2994 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2995 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2997 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2998 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2999 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3000 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3001 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3002 Closes ticket 33075.
3004 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3005 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
3006 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3009 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
3010 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3011 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
3013 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3014 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3015 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3017 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3018 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3019 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3020 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3021 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3023 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3024 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3025 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3026 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3028 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
3029 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3030 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3031 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3033 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
3034 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
3035 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
3036 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
3039 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3040 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3041 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3042 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3044 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3045 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3046 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3047 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3049 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3050 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3051 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3052 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3053 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3055 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3056 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3057 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3059 o Documentation (manpage):
3060 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3061 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3062 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3065 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
3066 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3067 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
3068 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
3069 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
3070 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
3072 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3073 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3074 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3075 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3076 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3077 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3078 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3079 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3081 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3082 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3083 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3086 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3087 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3088 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3090 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3091 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3092 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3093 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3095 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3096 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3097 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3098 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3099 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3100 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3103 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3104 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3105 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3107 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3108 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3109 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3110 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3111 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3112 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3113 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3114 Closes ticket 32629.
3116 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3117 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3120 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
3121 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
3122 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
3123 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
3124 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
3125 current version of 0.4.1.x.
3127 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3128 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3129 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3130 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3131 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3132 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3133 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3134 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3136 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3137 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3138 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3140 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
3141 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3142 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3143 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3144 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3147 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3148 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3150 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3151 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3152 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3153 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3154 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3155 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3156 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3157 Closes ticket 32629.
3159 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3160 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3163 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
3164 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
3165 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
3166 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
3167 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
3168 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
3169 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
3170 write better code in the future.
3172 o New system requirements:
3173 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3174 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3175 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3177 o Major features (build system):
3178 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3179 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3180 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3181 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3182 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3184 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3185 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3186 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3187 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3188 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3190 o Major features (onion service, controller):
3191 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3192 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3193 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3194 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3196 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
3197 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3198 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3199 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3201 o Major features (proxy):
3202 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3203 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3204 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3205 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3206 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3207 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3209 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
3210 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3211 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3212 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3213 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3214 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3215 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3216 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3218 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3219 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3220 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3222 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3223 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3224 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3225 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3227 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3228 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3229 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3230 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3231 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3232 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3234 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
3235 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3236 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3238 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3239 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3240 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3242 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3243 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3244 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3245 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3246 Closes ticket 31241.
3248 o Minor features (configuration):
3249 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3250 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3252 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3253 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3254 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3255 Implements ticket 32404.
3257 o Minor features (controller):
3258 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3259 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3260 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3262 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3263 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3264 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3265 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3267 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3268 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3269 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3272 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3273 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3274 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3275 Closes ticket 32772.
3277 o Minor features (developer tools):
3278 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3279 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3280 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3281 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3282 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3283 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3284 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3285 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3287 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3288 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3289 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3290 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3292 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3293 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3294 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3295 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3297 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3298 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3299 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3300 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3301 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3302 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3303 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3304 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3306 o Minor features (git scripts):
3307 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3308 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3309 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3310 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3311 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3312 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3313 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3314 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3315 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3316 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3317 Closes ticket 32216.
3318 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3319 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3320 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3321 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3323 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3324 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3325 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3326 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3327 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3328 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3330 o Minor features (portability, android):
3331 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3332 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3333 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3335 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3336 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3337 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3338 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3339 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3340 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3341 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3342 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3344 o Minor features (relay):
3345 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3346 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3348 o Minor features (release tools):
3349 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3350 Closes ticket 32704.
3352 o Minor features (testing):
3353 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3354 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3355 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3356 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3357 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3358 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3361 o Minor features (tests, Android):
3362 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3363 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3364 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3366 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3367 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3368 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3370 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3371 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3372 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3374 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3375 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3376 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3377 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3379 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3380 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3381 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3382 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3383 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3384 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3385 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3386 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3387 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3388 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3389 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3390 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3391 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3392 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3393 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3396 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3397 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3400 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
3401 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3402 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3403 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3405 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3406 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3407 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3409 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3410 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3411 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3412 Closes ticket 32213.
3413 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3414 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3415 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3417 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3418 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3419 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3420 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3421 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3424 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3425 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3427 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3428 Closes ticket 32216.
3430 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
3431 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3432 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3433 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3436 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
3437 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3438 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3439 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3441 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
3442 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3443 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3444 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3445 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3448 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
3449 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3450 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3451 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3452 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3453 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3455 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3456 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3457 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3458 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3459 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3461 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3462 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3463 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3465 o Minor bugfixes (test):
3466 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3467 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3468 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3471 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3472 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3473 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3474 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3475 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3476 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3477 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3478 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3481 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3482 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3483 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3484 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3485 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3486 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3488 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
3489 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3490 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3492 o Deprecated features:
3493 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3494 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3495 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3499 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3500 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3501 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3502 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3503 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3504 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3505 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3506 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3508 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3509 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3512 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3513 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3514 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3515 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3516 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3517 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3519 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3520 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3521 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3522 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3523 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3526 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3527 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3529 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3530 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3531 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3532 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3533 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3534 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3535 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3536 Closes ticket 32629.
3537 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3539 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3540 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3541 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3543 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3544 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3545 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3547 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3548 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3549 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3550 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3551 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3552 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3553 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3554 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3555 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3556 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3557 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3558 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3559 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3560 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3561 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3562 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3563 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3565 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3566 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3568 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3569 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3570 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3572 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3573 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3574 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3575 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3576 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3577 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3579 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3580 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3581 Closes ticket 32163.
3582 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3584 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3586 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3587 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3588 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3589 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3590 Closes ticket 32304.
3591 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3592 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3593 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3594 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3595 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3598 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3599 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3601 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3604 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3605 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3606 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3607 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3608 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3609 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3610 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3611 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3613 o Documentation (manpage):
3614 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3616 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3618 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3619 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3620 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3622 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3623 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3624 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3626 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3627 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3630 o Testing (continuous integration):
3631 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3634 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
3635 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
3636 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
3637 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
3638 bugs present in previous series.
3640 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3641 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3642 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3643 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3645 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3646 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3647 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3648 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3650 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3651 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3653 o Minor features (geoip):
3654 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3655 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3658 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3659 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3660 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3661 Closes ticket 32500.
3664 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3665 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3666 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3667 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3669 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3670 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3671 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3672 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3674 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3675 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3676 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3677 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3679 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3680 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3681 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3682 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3683 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3684 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3685 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3686 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3688 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3689 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3690 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3691 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3692 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3694 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3695 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3696 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3697 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3698 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3701 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3702 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3703 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3704 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3706 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3708 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3710 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3711 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3712 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3714 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3715 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3716 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3717 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3718 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3719 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3721 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3722 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3723 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3724 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3726 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3727 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3728 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3729 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3730 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3731 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3732 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3733 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3734 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3735 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3738 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3739 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3740 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3741 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3742 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3743 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3744 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3745 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3746 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3748 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3749 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3750 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3751 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3753 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3754 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3755 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3756 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3757 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3760 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3761 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3762 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3764 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3765 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3766 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3768 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3769 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3770 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3772 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3773 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3774 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3775 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3778 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3779 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3780 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3781 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3784 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3785 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3787 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3788 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3789 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3792 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3793 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3794 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3796 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3797 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3798 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3799 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3801 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3802 Closes ticket 31859.
3803 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3804 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3806 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3807 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3808 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3809 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3810 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3811 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3812 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3813 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3814 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3815 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3817 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3818 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3819 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3820 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3821 Closes ticket 32500.
3824 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3825 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3826 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3827 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3828 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3830 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3831 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3832 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3833 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3835 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3836 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3839 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3840 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3841 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3842 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3843 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3844 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3845 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3846 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3847 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3848 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3849 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3851 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3852 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3853 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3854 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3855 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3856 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3858 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3859 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3860 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3861 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3862 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3865 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3866 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3867 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3868 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3869 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3871 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3872 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3873 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3874 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3877 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3878 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3879 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3880 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3881 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3882 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3883 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3884 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3886 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3887 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3888 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3889 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3890 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3892 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3893 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3894 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3895 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3896 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3899 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3900 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3901 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3903 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3904 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3905 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3908 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3909 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3910 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3912 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3913 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3914 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3915 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3917 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3918 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3919 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3920 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3921 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3923 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3924 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3925 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3927 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3928 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3929 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3932 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3933 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3934 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3936 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3937 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3938 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3940 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3941 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3942 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3944 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3945 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3946 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3949 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3950 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3951 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3952 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3953 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3954 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3956 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3957 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3958 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3959 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3960 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3962 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3963 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3964 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3968 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3969 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3972 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3973 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3974 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3976 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3977 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3978 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3979 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3981 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3982 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3983 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3984 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3986 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3987 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3988 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3989 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3991 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3992 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3993 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3994 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3995 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3996 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3997 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3999 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4000 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4001 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4002 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4004 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4005 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4006 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4007 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4009 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4010 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4011 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4014 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4015 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4016 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4017 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4018 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4019 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4020 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4022 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4023 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4024 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4025 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4028 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4029 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4030 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4031 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4032 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4034 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4035 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4036 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4037 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4038 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4041 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4042 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4045 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4046 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4047 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4048 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4049 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4051 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4052 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4053 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4054 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4056 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4057 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4058 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4059 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4060 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4063 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4064 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4065 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4068 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4069 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4070 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4071 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4073 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4074 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4075 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4076 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4078 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4079 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4080 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4081 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4083 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4084 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4085 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4086 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4089 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4090 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4091 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4092 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4093 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4094 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4097 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4098 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4099 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4101 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4102 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4103 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4105 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4106 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4107 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4108 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4110 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4111 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4112 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4114 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4115 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4116 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4117 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4118 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4120 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4121 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4122 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4125 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4126 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4127 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4128 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4129 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4130 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4131 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4132 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4133 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4134 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4136 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4137 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4138 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4139 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4141 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4142 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4143 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4144 Resolves issue 29702.
4146 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4147 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4149 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4150 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4151 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4152 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4155 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4156 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4157 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4158 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4160 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4161 Closes ticket 31859.
4162 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4163 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4165 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4166 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4167 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4168 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4169 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4170 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4171 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4172 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4173 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4174 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4176 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4177 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4178 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4179 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4180 Closes ticket 32500.
4182 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
4183 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
4184 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
4187 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4188 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4191 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4192 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4193 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4194 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4195 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4196 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4197 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4198 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4199 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4200 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4201 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4203 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4204 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4205 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4206 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4207 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4208 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4210 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4211 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4212 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4213 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4214 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4215 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4217 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4218 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4219 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4220 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4221 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4224 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4225 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4226 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4227 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4228 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4230 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4231 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4232 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4233 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4236 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4237 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4238 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4239 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4240 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4242 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4243 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4244 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4245 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4246 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4249 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4250 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4251 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4252 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4253 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4254 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4255 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4256 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4258 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4259 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4260 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4261 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4262 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4265 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4266 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4267 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4269 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4270 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4271 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4274 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4275 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4276 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4277 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4279 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4280 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4281 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4284 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4285 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4286 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4288 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4289 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4290 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4291 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4293 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4294 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4295 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4296 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4297 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4299 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4301 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4303 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4304 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4305 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4306 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4308 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4309 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4310 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4313 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4314 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4315 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4316 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4317 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4318 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4319 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4320 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4321 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4322 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4323 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4324 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4325 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4328 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4329 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4330 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4331 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4332 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4334 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4335 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4336 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4338 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4339 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4340 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4342 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4343 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4344 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4346 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4347 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4348 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4351 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4352 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4353 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4355 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4356 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4357 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4358 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4359 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4360 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4362 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4363 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4364 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4365 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4366 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4369 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4370 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4374 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4375 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4377 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4378 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4379 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4382 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4383 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4384 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4386 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4387 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4388 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4389 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4391 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4392 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4393 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4394 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4396 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4397 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4398 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4399 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4401 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4402 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4403 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4404 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4405 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4406 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4407 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4409 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4410 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4411 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4412 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4414 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4415 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4416 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4417 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4419 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4420 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4421 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4424 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4425 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4426 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4427 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4428 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4429 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4430 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4432 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4433 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4434 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4435 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4438 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4439 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4440 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4441 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4442 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4444 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4445 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4446 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4448 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4449 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4450 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4451 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4452 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4453 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4454 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4455 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4456 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4457 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4458 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4461 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4462 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4463 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4464 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4466 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4467 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4468 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4471 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4472 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4473 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4474 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4475 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4477 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4478 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4479 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4480 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4482 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4483 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4484 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4485 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4486 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4489 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4490 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4491 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4494 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4495 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4496 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4497 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4499 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4500 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4501 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4502 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4504 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4505 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4506 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4508 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4509 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4510 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4511 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4513 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4514 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4515 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4516 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4519 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4520 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4521 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4522 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4523 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4524 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4527 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4528 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4529 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4530 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4532 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4533 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4534 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4536 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4537 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4538 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4541 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4542 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4543 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4544 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4545 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4546 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4548 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4549 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4550 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4553 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4554 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4555 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4556 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4557 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4558 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4559 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4560 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4562 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4563 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4564 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4565 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4566 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4567 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4570 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4571 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4572 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4573 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4574 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4576 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4577 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4578 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4579 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4580 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4581 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4582 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4583 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4585 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4586 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4587 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4590 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4591 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4592 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4593 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4594 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4595 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4596 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4597 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4598 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4599 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4601 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4602 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4603 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4604 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4605 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4606 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4608 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4609 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4610 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4611 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4613 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4614 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4615 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4616 Resolves issue 29702.
4618 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4619 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4621 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4622 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4623 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4624 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4627 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4628 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4629 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4630 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4632 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4633 Closes ticket 31859.
4634 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4635 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4637 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4638 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4639 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4640 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4641 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4642 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4643 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4644 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4645 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4646 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4648 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4649 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4650 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4651 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4652 Closes ticket 32500.
4654 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
4655 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4656 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
4657 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
4659 o Minor features (build system):
4660 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4661 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4663 o Minor features (geoip):
4664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4665 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
4667 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4668 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4669 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4670 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4671 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4672 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4674 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4675 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4676 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4678 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4679 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
4680 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4682 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4683 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4684 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4685 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4686 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4688 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4689 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
4690 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
4691 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
4692 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4694 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4695 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
4696 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4697 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
4698 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4700 o Testing (continuous integration):
4701 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4702 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4703 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4704 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4705 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4706 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4707 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4708 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4709 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4712 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
4713 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4714 from earlier versions of Tor.
4716 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4717 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4718 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4719 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4720 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4721 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4722 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4723 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4725 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4726 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4727 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4728 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4729 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4732 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4733 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4734 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4735 Closes ticket 29669.
4737 o Minor features (testing):
4738 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4739 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4740 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4741 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4743 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4744 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4745 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4746 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4748 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4749 Closes ticket 31859.
4750 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4751 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4753 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4754 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4755 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4756 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4758 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4759 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4760 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4761 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4762 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4765 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4766 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4767 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4769 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4770 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4771 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4773 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4774 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4775 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4776 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4777 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4780 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4781 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4782 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4784 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4785 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4786 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4788 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4789 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4790 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4792 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4793 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4794 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4795 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4798 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4799 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4802 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4803 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
4804 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4805 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
4806 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
4808 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4809 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4810 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4811 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4814 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4815 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4816 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4817 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4818 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4819 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4822 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
4823 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4824 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
4825 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
4827 o Major features (directory authorities):
4828 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4829 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4830 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4832 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4833 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4834 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4835 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4837 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4838 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4839 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4840 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4841 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4843 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4844 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4845 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4846 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4847 Closes ticket 31779.
4849 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4850 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4851 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4852 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4854 o Minor features (geoip):
4855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4856 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
4858 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4859 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4860 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4861 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4862 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4863 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4864 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4866 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4867 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4868 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4871 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4872 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4873 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4875 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4876 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
4877 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
4878 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4880 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4881 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4882 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4883 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4885 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4886 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4887 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4888 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4889 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4890 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4891 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4892 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4893 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4894 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4895 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4897 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4898 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4899 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4900 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4902 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4903 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4904 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4907 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4908 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4909 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4911 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4912 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4913 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4914 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4917 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4918 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4920 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4921 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4922 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4923 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4924 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4925 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4926 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4928 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4932 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4933 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4935 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4936 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4937 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4938 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4939 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4940 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4943 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4944 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4945 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4946 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4949 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4950 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4951 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4952 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4953 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4954 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4955 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4956 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4957 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4959 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4960 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4961 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4964 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4965 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4966 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4969 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4970 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4971 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4972 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4974 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4975 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4976 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4978 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4979 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4980 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4981 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4984 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4985 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4986 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4989 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4990 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4991 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4992 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4993 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4995 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4996 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4997 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5000 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5001 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5002 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5004 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5005 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5006 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5007 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5008 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5009 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5011 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5012 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5013 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5014 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5015 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5016 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5017 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5018 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5019 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5020 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5022 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5023 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5024 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5025 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5028 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
5029 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
5030 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
5031 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
5032 Tor's stability and ease of development.
5034 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5035 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5036 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5037 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5038 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5039 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5042 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5043 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5044 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5045 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5046 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5047 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5050 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5051 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5052 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5053 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5054 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5055 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5056 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5057 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5058 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5060 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5061 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5062 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5063 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5064 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5065 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5066 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5067 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5068 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5069 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5070 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5071 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5072 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5073 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5074 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5076 o Minor features (build system):
5077 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5078 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5079 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5081 o Minor features (compilation):
5082 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5083 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5084 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5086 o Minor features (configuration):
5087 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5088 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5089 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5090 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5092 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5093 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5094 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5095 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5097 o Minor features (debugging):
5098 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5099 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5100 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5101 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5103 o Minor features (git hooks):
5104 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5105 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5106 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5107 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5108 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5110 o Minor features (git scripts):
5111 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5112 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5113 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5114 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5115 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5116 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5117 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5118 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5119 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5120 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5121 Closes ticket 31314.
5122 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5123 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5124 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5125 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5126 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5127 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5128 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5129 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5130 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5132 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5133 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5134 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5137 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5138 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5139 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5141 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5142 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5143 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5145 o Minor features (onion service):
5146 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5147 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5148 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5149 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5151 o Minor features (stem tests):
5152 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5153 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5156 o Minor features (testing):
5157 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5158 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5159 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5160 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5161 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5162 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5163 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5164 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5165 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5166 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5167 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5169 o Minor features (token bucket):
5170 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5171 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5173 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5174 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5175 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5176 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5177 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5178 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5179 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5180 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5183 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5184 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5185 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5187 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5188 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5189 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5190 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5191 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5192 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5195 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5196 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5197 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5198 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5200 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5201 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5202 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5205 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5206 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5207 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5209 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5210 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5211 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5212 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5213 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5214 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5215 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5216 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5217 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5218 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5220 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5221 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5222 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5225 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5226 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5227 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5229 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5230 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5231 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5232 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5233 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5234 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5235 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5236 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5237 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5238 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5241 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5242 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5243 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5244 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5247 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5248 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5249 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5250 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5252 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5253 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5254 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5255 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5256 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5257 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5258 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5259 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5260 Closes ticket 31678.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5263 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5264 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5265 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5266 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5269 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5270 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5271 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5272 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5273 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5274 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5275 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5276 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5279 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5280 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5281 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5283 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5284 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5285 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5287 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5288 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5289 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5292 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5293 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5294 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5295 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5296 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5297 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5299 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5300 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5301 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5302 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5305 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5306 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5307 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5308 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5309 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5312 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5313 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5314 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5315 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5316 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5319 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5320 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5321 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5323 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5324 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5325 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5326 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5327 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5329 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5330 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5331 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5332 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5334 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5335 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5336 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5337 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5338 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5340 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5341 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5342 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5343 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5344 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5347 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5348 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5349 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5352 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5353 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5354 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5355 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5356 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5357 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5359 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5360 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5361 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5362 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5363 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5364 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5365 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5366 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5367 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5368 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5371 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5372 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5373 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5374 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5375 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5376 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5377 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5380 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5381 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5382 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5383 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5384 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5385 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5387 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5391 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5392 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5393 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5394 Closes ticket 30967.
5396 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5397 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5398 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5399 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5400 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5401 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5402 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5403 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5404 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5405 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5406 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5407 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5408 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5409 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5410 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5411 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5413 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5414 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5415 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5416 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5417 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5418 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5419 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5420 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5421 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5422 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5424 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5425 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5426 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5428 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5429 Closes ticket 30806.
5430 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5431 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5434 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5435 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5436 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5438 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5439 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5440 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5443 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5444 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5445 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5446 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5447 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5448 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5449 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5451 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5452 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5453 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5454 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5456 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5457 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5459 o Directory authority changes:
5460 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5463 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
5464 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
5465 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
5466 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
5468 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
5469 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
5470 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
5471 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
5472 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
5473 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
5474 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5476 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5477 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
5478 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
5479 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5481 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
5482 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5483 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5484 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5485 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5487 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
5488 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
5489 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
5490 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
5491 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5492 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
5495 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5496 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5499 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5500 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5501 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5503 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
5504 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
5505 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
5508 o Testing (continuous integration):
5509 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5510 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5511 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5515 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
5516 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
5517 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
5518 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
5520 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5521 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5522 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5523 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5524 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5525 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5527 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5528 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5529 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5531 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5532 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5533 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5534 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5535 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5537 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5538 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5539 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5541 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
5542 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
5543 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5545 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5546 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5547 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5548 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5550 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5551 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
5552 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
5555 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5556 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5557 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5560 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5561 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
5562 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
5566 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
5567 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
5568 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
5570 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
5571 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5572 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5573 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5574 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5577 o Minor features (geoip):
5578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5579 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5581 o Minor features (logging):
5582 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5583 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
5584 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
5585 Closes ticket 30686.
5587 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
5588 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5589 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5591 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5592 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5593 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5594 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5595 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5596 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5597 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5599 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5600 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5601 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5602 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5604 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5605 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
5606 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
5607 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
5608 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5611 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
5612 Closes ticket 30630.
5615 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
5616 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
5617 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
5618 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
5619 SENDME implementation.
5621 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5622 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5623 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5624 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5625 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5626 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5627 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5628 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5629 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5630 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5631 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5633 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
5634 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
5635 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
5636 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
5637 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
5638 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5640 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
5641 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
5642 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
5643 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
5644 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5647 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
5648 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
5649 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
5650 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
5651 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
5652 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
5655 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5656 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
5657 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
5660 o Minor features (maintenance):
5661 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
5662 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
5663 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
5665 o Minor features (testing):
5666 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
5667 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
5668 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
5669 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
5671 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
5672 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
5673 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
5675 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
5676 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5677 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5678 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5680 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5681 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
5682 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
5684 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
5685 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
5688 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5689 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
5690 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
5693 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5694 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5695 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5698 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5699 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5700 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5701 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5703 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5704 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5705 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5706 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5709 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5710 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5711 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5712 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5713 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5714 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5717 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
5718 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
5719 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
5720 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
5721 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
5722 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5724 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5725 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5726 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5727 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5730 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5731 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5732 Resolves issue 29702.
5735 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
5736 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
5737 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
5738 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
5739 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
5740 performance in several areas.
5742 o Major features (circuit padding):
5743 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5744 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5745 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5746 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5747 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5748 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5749 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5750 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5751 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5753 o Major features (code organization):
5754 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5755 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5756 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5757 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5760 o Major features (controller protocol):
5761 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5762 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5763 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5764 Closes ticket 30091.
5766 o Major features (flow control):
5767 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5768 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5769 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5770 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5771 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5772 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5773 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5775 o Major features (performance):
5776 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5777 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5778 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5780 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5781 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5782 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5783 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5784 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5785 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
5786 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
5787 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
5788 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
5790 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5791 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5792 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5793 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5794 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5796 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5797 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5798 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5799 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5802 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5803 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
5805 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
5806 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
5807 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
5808 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
5809 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5810 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
5811 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
5813 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
5814 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5815 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5817 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5818 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5819 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5821 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5823 o Minor features (controller):
5824 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
5825 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
5826 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5828 o Minor features (debugging):
5829 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
5830 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
5831 can use format strings to include information for trouble
5832 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
5834 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5835 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
5836 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
5837 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
5838 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
5839 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
5840 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
5841 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
5842 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
5843 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
5845 o Minor features (developer tools):
5846 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
5847 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
5848 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
5849 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
5850 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
5852 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
5853 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
5855 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
5856 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
5858 o Minor features (geoip):
5859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5860 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
5862 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
5863 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
5864 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
5866 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
5867 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
5868 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
5869 addresses. Implements 26992.
5871 o Minor features (modularity):
5872 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
5873 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
5875 o Minor features (performance):
5876 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
5877 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
5878 Closes ticket 28837.
5880 o Minor features (testing):
5881 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
5882 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
5883 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
5884 Implements ticket 29732.
5885 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
5886 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
5888 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
5889 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
5891 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
5892 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
5893 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
5894 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
5895 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5896 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5898 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
5899 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
5900 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
5901 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5904 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
5905 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5906 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
5907 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
5908 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
5909 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5910 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
5911 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
5912 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5913 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
5914 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5915 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5916 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
5917 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5918 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
5919 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
5920 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
5923 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5924 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5925 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5927 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5928 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
5929 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
5930 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
5931 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5933 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
5934 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
5935 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5936 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5938 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5939 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
5940 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5941 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
5942 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
5943 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
5945 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
5946 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5948 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5949 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5950 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5951 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5952 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5953 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
5954 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5957 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5958 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5959 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5962 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5963 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5964 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5965 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5966 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5967 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5968 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5969 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5971 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5972 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5973 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5974 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5975 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5976 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5977 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5980 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5981 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5982 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5983 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5984 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5986 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5987 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5988 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5989 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5990 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5992 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5993 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5994 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5996 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5997 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5998 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6001 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6002 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6003 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6004 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6006 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6007 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6008 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6009 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6010 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6012 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6013 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6014 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6015 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6016 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6018 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6019 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6020 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6021 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6022 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6023 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6024 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6025 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6026 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6027 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6028 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6029 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6030 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6033 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6034 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6035 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6036 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6038 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6039 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6040 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6041 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6042 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6043 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6044 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6045 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6046 Resolves issue 28816.
6047 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6048 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6049 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6050 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6051 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6052 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6053 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6054 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6055 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6056 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6057 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6058 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6059 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6060 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6061 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6062 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6063 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6064 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6065 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6066 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6067 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6068 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6069 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6070 Closes ticket 29894.
6071 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6072 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6073 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6074 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6077 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6078 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6082 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6083 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6084 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6085 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6088 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6089 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6090 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6091 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6092 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6093 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6094 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6095 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6096 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6097 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6098 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6101 o Testing (chutney):
6102 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6103 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6104 Closes ticket 27251.
6107 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6108 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6109 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6110 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6111 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6112 long-term maintainability.
6114 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6115 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6116 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6117 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6119 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6120 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6122 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6123 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6124 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6125 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6127 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6128 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6129 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6132 o Minor features (testing):
6133 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6134 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6137 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6138 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6139 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6141 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6142 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
6143 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
6144 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6146 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6147 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
6148 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
6150 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
6151 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
6152 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6155 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
6156 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
6157 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
6158 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
6160 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6161 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6162 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6163 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6164 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6165 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6167 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6168 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6169 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6170 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6171 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6173 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6174 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6175 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6178 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6179 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
6180 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
6181 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
6182 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
6185 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6186 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6187 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6190 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6191 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6192 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6193 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6194 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6195 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6196 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6198 o Minor features (geoip):
6199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6200 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6202 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6203 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6204 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6205 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6207 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6208 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6209 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6210 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6211 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6212 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6213 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6214 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6215 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6217 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6218 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6219 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6220 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6222 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6223 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6224 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6225 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6226 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6228 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6229 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6230 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
6233 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
6234 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
6237 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6238 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6239 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6242 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
6243 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
6244 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6246 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6247 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
6248 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6251 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
6252 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
6253 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
6254 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
6255 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
6258 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6259 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
6260 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
6261 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
6262 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6264 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6265 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6266 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6267 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6268 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6269 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6272 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
6273 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6274 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6275 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6276 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6277 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6278 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6279 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6281 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6282 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
6283 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
6284 Resolves issue 28816.
6285 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
6286 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
6289 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
6290 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
6293 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
6294 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
6295 bugs from earlier versions.
6297 o Minor features (address selection):
6298 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6299 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6300 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6301 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6302 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6303 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6304 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6306 o Minor features (geoip):
6307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6308 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
6310 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
6311 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6312 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
6313 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6315 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6316 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6317 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6318 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6319 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6320 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6321 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6322 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6323 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6324 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6325 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6327 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6328 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6329 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6330 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6332 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
6333 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6334 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6336 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6337 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
6338 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
6341 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
6342 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
6343 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6345 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6346 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6347 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6348 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6349 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6350 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6351 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6353 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6354 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6355 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6358 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6359 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6360 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6361 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6362 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6363 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6364 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6365 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6366 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
6367 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6369 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
6370 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6371 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6372 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6373 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6374 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6377 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
6378 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
6379 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
6382 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6383 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6384 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6386 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6387 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6388 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6389 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6390 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6391 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6392 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6393 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6395 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6396 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6397 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6398 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6399 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6401 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6402 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6403 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6404 Patches from "Mangix".
6406 o Minor features (geoip):
6407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6408 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6410 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6411 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6414 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6415 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6416 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6417 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6418 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6419 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6422 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6423 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6424 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6427 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6428 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6429 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6430 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6432 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6433 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6434 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6438 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6439 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6440 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6442 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6443 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6444 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6445 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6447 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6448 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6449 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6450 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6451 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6452 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6454 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6455 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6456 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6457 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6458 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6460 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6461 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6462 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6463 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6464 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6466 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6467 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6468 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6470 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6471 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6472 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6474 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6475 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6476 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6477 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6479 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6480 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6481 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6483 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6484 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6485 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6486 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6487 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6490 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6491 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6492 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6493 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6494 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6497 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
6498 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
6499 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
6500 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
6501 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6503 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6504 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6505 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6506 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6507 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6508 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6509 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6510 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6512 o Minor features (geoip):
6513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6514 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6516 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6517 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6518 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6519 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6521 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6522 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6523 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6524 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6525 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6528 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6529 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6530 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6531 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6533 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6534 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6535 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6536 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6538 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6539 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6540 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6541 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6542 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6543 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6544 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6545 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6547 o Minor features (geoip):
6548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6549 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6551 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6552 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6553 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6554 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6556 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6557 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6558 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6559 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6560 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6563 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
6564 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
6565 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
6566 backward compatibility.
6568 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6569 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6570 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6572 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6573 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6574 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6575 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6576 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6577 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6578 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6579 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6581 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6582 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6583 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6584 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6585 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6587 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
6588 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
6589 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
6590 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
6591 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
6592 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
6593 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6595 o Minor features (compilation):
6596 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6597 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6598 Patches from "Mangix".
6600 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6601 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6602 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6603 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6604 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6605 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6606 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6609 o Minor features (directory authority):
6610 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6611 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6612 Closes ticket 26698.
6614 o Minor features (geoip):
6615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6616 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6618 o Minor features (testing):
6619 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6622 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6623 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6624 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6625 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6628 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
6629 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6630 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6631 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6633 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6634 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6635 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6636 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6638 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
6639 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
6640 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
6642 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6643 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6644 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6645 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6646 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6647 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6648 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6651 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6652 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6653 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6654 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6656 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6657 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6658 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6660 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6661 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6662 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6664 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6665 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6666 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6667 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6669 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6670 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6671 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6672 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6673 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6676 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6677 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
6678 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6679 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
6680 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
6681 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
6682 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6683 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6684 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6685 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6686 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6690 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
6691 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
6692 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
6695 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
6698 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
6699 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
6700 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
6701 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
6702 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
6703 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
6706 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6707 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6708 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6709 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6710 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6711 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6713 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6714 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6716 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6717 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6720 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6721 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6722 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6723 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6724 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6725 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6726 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6727 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6728 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6731 o Major features (circuit padding):
6732 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6733 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6734 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6735 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6736 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6737 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6738 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6739 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6742 o Major features (refactoring):
6743 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6744 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6745 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6746 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6749 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6750 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6751 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6752 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6753 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6756 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6757 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6760 o Minor features (controller):
6761 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6762 Implements ticket 28843.
6764 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6765 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6766 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6767 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6769 o Minor features (directory authority):
6770 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6771 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6772 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6773 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6776 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6777 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6778 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6779 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6780 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6781 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6782 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6784 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6785 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6786 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6788 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6789 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6790 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6791 Closes ticket 28518.
6793 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6794 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6795 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6796 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6798 o Minor features (IPv6):
6799 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6800 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6801 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6802 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6803 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6804 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6805 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6806 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6807 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6808 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6810 o Minor features (log messages):
6811 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6812 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6815 o Minor features (memory usage):
6816 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6817 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6818 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6819 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6820 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6822 o Minor features (parsing):
6823 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6824 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6825 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6827 o Minor features (performance):
6828 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6829 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6830 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6831 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6833 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6834 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6835 Closes ticket 28852.
6836 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6837 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6838 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6839 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6840 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6841 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6843 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6844 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6845 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6846 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6847 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6849 o Minor features (process management):
6850 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6851 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6852 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6853 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6854 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6856 o Minor features (relay):
6857 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6858 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6859 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6861 o Minor features (required protocols):
6862 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6863 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6864 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6865 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6866 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6867 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6868 297; closes ticket 27735.
6870 o Minor features (testing):
6871 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6872 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6874 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6875 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6876 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6877 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6878 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6881 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6882 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6883 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6884 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6886 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6887 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6888 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6890 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6891 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6892 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6893 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6895 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6896 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6897 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6898 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6899 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6901 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6902 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6903 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6904 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6905 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6906 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6907 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6909 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6910 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6911 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6912 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6915 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6916 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6917 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6918 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6919 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6920 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6922 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6923 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6924 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6925 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6927 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6928 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6929 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6930 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6931 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6932 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6934 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6935 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6936 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6937 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6939 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6940 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6941 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6942 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6943 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6945 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6946 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6947 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6948 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6949 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6951 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6952 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6953 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6954 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6955 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6957 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6958 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6959 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6960 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6962 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6963 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
6964 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
6965 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
6966 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
6967 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
6968 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
6969 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
6973 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
6974 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
6975 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6976 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6978 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6981 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6982 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6983 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6984 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6985 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6986 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6987 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6990 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6992 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6993 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6995 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6996 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6997 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7000 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7001 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7003 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7004 Resolves ticket 28006.
7005 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7006 Resolves ticket 28012.
7007 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7008 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7009 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7010 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7014 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7015 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7016 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7017 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7018 to this version, or to a later series.
7020 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7021 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7022 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7023 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7024 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7025 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7027 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7028 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7029 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7030 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7031 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7034 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7035 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7036 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7037 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7039 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7040 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7041 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7042 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7043 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7044 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7045 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7046 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7048 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7049 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7050 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7051 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7053 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7054 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7055 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7056 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7057 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7059 o Minor features (geoip):
7060 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7061 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7063 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7064 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7065 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7066 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7067 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7068 Closes ticket 28973.
7070 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7071 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7072 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7073 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7075 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7076 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7077 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7080 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7081 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7082 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7085 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7086 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7087 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7089 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7090 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7091 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7092 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7094 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7095 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7096 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7097 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7098 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7099 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7102 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7103 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7104 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7107 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7108 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7109 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7110 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7111 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7113 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7114 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7115 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7116 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7117 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7119 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7120 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7121 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7122 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7123 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7124 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7126 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7127 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7128 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7131 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7132 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7133 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7135 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7136 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7137 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7140 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7141 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7144 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7145 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7146 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7147 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7148 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7149 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7150 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7151 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7154 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7155 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7156 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7158 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7159 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7160 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7161 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7162 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7163 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7164 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7165 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7166 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7167 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7169 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7170 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7171 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7172 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7173 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7174 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7176 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7177 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7178 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7179 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7180 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7182 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7183 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7184 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7187 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7188 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7189 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7190 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7193 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7194 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7195 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7198 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7199 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7200 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7201 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7202 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7205 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7206 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7207 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7208 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7209 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7210 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7211 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7213 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7214 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7215 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7218 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7219 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7220 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7221 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7222 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7225 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7226 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7227 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7228 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7229 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7231 o Minor features (geoip):
7232 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7233 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7235 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7236 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7237 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7238 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7239 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7240 Closes ticket 28973.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7243 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7244 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7245 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7247 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7248 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7249 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7250 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7251 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7254 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7255 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7256 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7257 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7259 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7260 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7261 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7263 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7264 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7265 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7266 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7269 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7270 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7271 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7272 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7273 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7276 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7277 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7278 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7280 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7281 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7282 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7283 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7284 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7286 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7287 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7288 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7289 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7290 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7291 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7293 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7294 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7295 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7296 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7298 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7299 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7300 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7303 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7304 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7305 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7306 affecting directory caches.
7308 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7309 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7310 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7311 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7312 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7313 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7314 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7315 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7317 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7318 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7319 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7320 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7321 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7322 so it will recognize them.
7324 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7325 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7326 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7327 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7328 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7329 with the latest stable release.)
7331 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
7332 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7334 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
7335 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7336 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7337 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7338 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7339 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7340 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7342 o Minor features (compilation):
7343 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7344 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7346 o Minor features (geoip):
7347 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7348 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7350 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7351 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7352 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7353 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7354 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7355 Closes ticket 28973.
7357 o Minor features (performance):
7358 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7359 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7360 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7361 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7362 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7363 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7364 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7365 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7366 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7367 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7369 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7370 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
7371 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7373 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7374 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
7375 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
7376 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
7377 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7379 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7380 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
7381 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
7382 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7383 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
7384 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
7385 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7387 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
7388 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
7389 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
7391 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7392 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
7393 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
7397 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
7398 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
7399 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
7400 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
7402 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7403 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7404 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7407 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7408 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7409 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7410 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7411 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7413 o Minor features (geoip):
7414 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7415 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
7417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7418 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
7419 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7421 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7422 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7423 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7424 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7426 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7427 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7428 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7429 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7430 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7431 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7433 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
7434 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
7435 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
7438 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7439 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
7440 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
7441 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7442 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
7443 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7444 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7446 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
7447 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
7448 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
7449 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
7450 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
7451 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
7452 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
7453 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
7455 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
7456 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
7457 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
7458 reported by Keifer Bly.
7461 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
7462 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
7464 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
7465 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
7466 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
7467 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
7468 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
7469 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
7470 Closes ticket 19566.
7472 o Documentation (onion services):
7473 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
7474 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
7475 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
7476 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
7477 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
7478 process. Closes ticket 28275.
7481 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
7482 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
7483 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
7486 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7487 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7488 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7489 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7490 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7493 o Minor features (geoip):
7494 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7495 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7498 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7499 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7500 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7502 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7503 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7504 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7505 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7506 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7509 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7510 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7511 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7512 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7514 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7515 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7516 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7518 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7519 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
7520 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7522 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7523 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7524 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7527 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7528 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7529 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7532 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7533 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7534 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7536 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7537 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7538 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
7539 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7540 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7541 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7542 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7543 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7544 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7545 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7548 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
7549 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
7550 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
7551 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
7552 acceptable long-term-support release.
7554 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7555 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7556 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7557 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7558 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7559 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7561 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7562 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7563 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7564 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7565 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7567 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7568 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7570 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7571 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7573 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
7574 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7575 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7577 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
7578 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7579 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7583 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
7584 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7586 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
7587 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
7588 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
7591 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7592 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7593 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7596 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7597 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7598 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
7599 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7601 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7602 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
7603 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
7604 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
7607 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
7608 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
7609 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
7610 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7612 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7613 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
7614 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
7615 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
7616 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
7617 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
7618 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7620 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7621 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
7622 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
7625 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
7626 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
7629 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
7630 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
7631 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
7632 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
7633 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7635 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
7636 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7637 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7638 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7639 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7640 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7642 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7643 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7644 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7645 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7646 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7648 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7649 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
7650 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7652 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
7653 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7654 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7655 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7656 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7658 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
7659 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
7660 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
7663 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
7664 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7665 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
7666 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
7667 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7669 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7670 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7671 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7673 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7674 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7675 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7676 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7677 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7679 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7680 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7681 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7682 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7683 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7686 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7687 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7688 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7689 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7691 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7692 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7693 Implements ticket 27252.
7694 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7695 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7696 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7697 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7698 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7699 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7700 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7702 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7703 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7704 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7705 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7707 o Minor features (geoip):
7708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7709 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7711 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7712 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7713 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7714 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7715 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7717 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7718 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7719 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7720 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7721 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7724 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7725 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7726 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7729 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7730 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7731 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7732 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7733 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7735 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7736 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7737 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7739 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7740 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7741 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7743 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7744 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7745 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7746 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7748 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7749 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7750 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7752 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7753 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7754 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7757 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7758 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7759 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7761 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7762 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7763 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7766 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7767 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7768 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7769 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7770 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7772 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7773 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7774 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7775 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7776 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7777 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7779 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7780 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7781 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7784 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7785 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7786 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7787 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7788 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7789 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7790 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7791 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7793 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7794 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7795 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7796 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7798 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7799 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7800 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7801 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7802 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7804 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7805 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7806 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7807 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7808 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7809 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7811 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7812 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7813 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7814 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7815 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7816 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7818 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7819 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7820 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7821 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7824 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7825 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7826 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7827 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7828 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7831 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
7832 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
7833 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
7834 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
7835 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
7836 getting closer and closer to stability.
7838 o Major features (onion services):
7839 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7840 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7841 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7842 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7843 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7845 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7846 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7847 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7849 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
7850 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
7851 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
7852 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7854 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
7855 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7856 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7857 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7858 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7860 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7861 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7862 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7863 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7864 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7867 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7868 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7869 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7870 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7871 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7872 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7875 o Minor features (geoip):
7876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7877 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7879 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7880 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7881 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7885 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
7886 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
7887 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
7888 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
7889 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
7892 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
7893 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
7896 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
7897 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7898 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7899 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7900 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7902 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7903 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7904 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7905 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7906 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7907 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7910 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7911 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
7912 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7914 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7915 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
7916 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
7918 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
7919 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
7920 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7922 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7923 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
7924 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
7926 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7927 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7928 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7929 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7930 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7931 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7932 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7933 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7934 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
7937 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7938 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7941 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7942 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7943 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7944 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7946 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
7947 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7949 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7950 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
7951 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
7952 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
7953 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
7954 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
7955 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
7956 Closes ticket 27814.
7957 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
7958 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
7959 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
7960 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
7961 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
7962 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
7965 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
7966 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
7967 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
7968 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
7971 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
7972 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
7973 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
7974 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
7976 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7977 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7978 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7979 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7980 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7981 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7983 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
7984 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
7985 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
7986 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
7987 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
7990 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7991 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7992 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7993 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7994 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7996 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7997 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7998 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7999 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8000 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8003 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8004 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8005 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8006 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8007 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8009 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8010 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
8011 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
8012 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
8015 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
8016 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
8019 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8020 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8021 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8022 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8024 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8025 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8026 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8027 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8029 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8030 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8031 Closes ticket 27799.
8034 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
8035 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
8036 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
8037 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
8038 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
8040 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8041 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8042 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8043 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8044 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8045 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8047 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8048 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8049 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8050 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8051 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8052 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8053 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8054 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8056 o Major features (bootstrap):
8057 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8058 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8059 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8060 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8062 o Major features (new code layout):
8063 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8064 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8065 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8066 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8067 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8068 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8069 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8071 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8072 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8073 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8075 o Major features (onion services v3):
8076 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8077 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8078 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8079 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8080 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8081 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8082 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8083 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8084 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8085 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8086 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8087 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8088 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8090 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8091 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8092 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8093 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8094 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8095 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8096 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8098 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8099 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8100 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8101 (if present), and restart Tor.
8103 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8104 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8105 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8106 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8109 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8110 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8111 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8112 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8114 o Minor features (admin tools):
8115 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8116 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8119 o Minor features (build):
8120 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8121 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8122 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8123 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8125 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8126 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8127 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8128 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8129 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8131 o Minor features (code layout):
8132 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8133 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8134 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8135 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8138 o Minor features (compilation):
8139 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8140 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8141 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8142 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8145 o Minor features (config):
8146 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8149 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8150 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8151 Implements ticket 27252.
8152 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8153 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8154 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8155 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8156 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8157 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8158 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8159 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8160 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8162 o Minor features (controller):
8163 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8164 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8165 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8166 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8167 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8168 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8169 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8170 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8172 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8173 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8174 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8175 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8177 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8178 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8179 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8180 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8182 o Minor features (development):
8183 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8184 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8186 o Minor features (directory authority):
8187 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8188 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8189 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8190 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8192 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8193 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8196 o Minor features (embedding API):
8197 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8198 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8199 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8200 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8201 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8202 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8205 o Minor features (geoip):
8206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8207 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
8209 o Minor features (memory management):
8210 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8211 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8214 o Minor features (memory usage):
8215 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8216 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8217 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8219 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8220 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8221 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8223 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8224 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8225 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8226 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8228 o Minor features (testing):
8229 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8230 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8232 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8233 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8234 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8236 o Minor features (UI):
8237 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8238 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8239 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8240 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8241 Closes ticket 26703.
8243 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8244 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8245 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8246 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8248 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8249 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8250 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8251 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8252 - Use time_t for all values in
8253 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8254 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8255 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8257 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8258 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8259 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8260 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8261 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8264 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
8265 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8266 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8267 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8268 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8269 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8272 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8273 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8274 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8276 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8277 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8278 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8279 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8280 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8282 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8283 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8284 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8286 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8287 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8288 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8289 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8290 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8293 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8294 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8295 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8298 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8299 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8302 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8303 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8304 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8305 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8306 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8308 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8309 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8310 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8311 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8312 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8313 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8314 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8316 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8317 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8318 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8319 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8320 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8322 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8323 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8324 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8326 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8327 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8328 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8329 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8332 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8333 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8334 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8337 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8338 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8339 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8340 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8341 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8343 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8344 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8345 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8346 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8349 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8350 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8351 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8353 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8354 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8355 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8356 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8357 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8358 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8359 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8360 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8361 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8362 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8364 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
8365 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8366 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8367 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8368 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8369 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8370 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8371 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8373 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8374 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8375 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8376 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8377 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8378 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8379 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8380 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8381 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8382 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8383 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8384 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8385 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8387 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8388 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8389 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8390 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8391 directory within the top-level src directory.
8392 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8393 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8394 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8395 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8396 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8397 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8398 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8399 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8400 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8401 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8402 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8403 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8404 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8405 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8406 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8407 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8408 Closes ticket 21349.
8409 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8410 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8411 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8412 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8413 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8414 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8415 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8417 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8418 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8419 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8422 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8423 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8424 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8425 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8426 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8429 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8430 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8431 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8432 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8433 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8434 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8435 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8436 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8437 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8438 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8439 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8440 Closes ticket 26367.
8443 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8444 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8446 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8447 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8448 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8449 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8451 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8452 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8454 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8455 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8456 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8457 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8459 o Minor features (geoip):
8460 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8461 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8464 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8465 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8466 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8469 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8470 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8471 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8472 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8473 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8474 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8475 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8479 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8480 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8481 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8483 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8484 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8485 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8486 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8488 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8489 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8490 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8491 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8493 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8494 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8495 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8496 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8497 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8499 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8500 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8501 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8504 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8505 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8506 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8507 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8508 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8510 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8511 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8512 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8515 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8516 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8517 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8518 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8520 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8521 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8522 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8524 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8525 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8526 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8529 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8530 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8531 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8532 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8533 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8535 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8536 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8537 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8540 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8541 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8543 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8544 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8545 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8546 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8548 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8549 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8551 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8552 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8553 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8554 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8556 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8557 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8560 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8561 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8562 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8563 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8565 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8566 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8567 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8568 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8570 o Minor features (geoip):
8571 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8572 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8574 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8575 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8576 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8577 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8578 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8579 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8580 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8583 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8584 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8585 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8586 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8587 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8588 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8589 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8592 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8593 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8594 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8595 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8597 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8598 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8599 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8600 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8602 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8603 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8604 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8605 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8606 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8608 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8609 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8610 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8611 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8612 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8614 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8615 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8616 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8619 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8620 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8621 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8622 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8623 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8625 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8626 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8627 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8630 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8631 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8632 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8635 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8636 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8637 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8640 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8641 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8643 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8644 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8645 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8646 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8648 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8649 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8650 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8651 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8653 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8654 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8655 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8657 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8658 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8659 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8660 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8661 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8662 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8663 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8666 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8667 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8668 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8669 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8670 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8672 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8673 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8674 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8675 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8676 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8678 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8679 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8680 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8683 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8684 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8686 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8687 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8688 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8689 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8691 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8692 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8693 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8694 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8696 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8697 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8698 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8700 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8701 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8702 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8703 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8705 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8706 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8709 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8710 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8711 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8712 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8714 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8715 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8716 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8717 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8719 o Minor features (geoip):
8720 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8721 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8724 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8725 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8726 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8727 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8728 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8729 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8732 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8733 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8734 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8735 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8736 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8737 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8738 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8741 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8742 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8743 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8744 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8746 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8747 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8748 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8749 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8751 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8752 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8753 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8754 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8755 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8758 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8759 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8760 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8761 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8763 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8764 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8765 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8768 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8769 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8770 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8771 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8774 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8775 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8776 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8777 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8779 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8780 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8781 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8784 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8785 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8786 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8789 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8790 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8791 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8794 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8795 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8796 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8797 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8799 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8800 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8801 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8804 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8805 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8807 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8808 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8809 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8810 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8811 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8812 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8813 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8815 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8816 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8817 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8818 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8819 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8821 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8822 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8823 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8824 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8826 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8827 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8828 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8830 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8831 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8832 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8833 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8834 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8835 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8836 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8839 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8840 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8841 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8842 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8843 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8845 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8846 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8847 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8848 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8849 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8851 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8852 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8853 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8856 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8857 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8858 compilation and portability fixes.
8860 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8861 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8862 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8863 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8864 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8865 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8866 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8867 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8869 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
8870 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8872 o Minor features (compatibility):
8873 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8874 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8875 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8877 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8878 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8879 Implements ticket 27449.
8880 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8881 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8885 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8886 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8887 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8888 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8889 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8890 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8891 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8895 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
8896 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
8897 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
8898 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
8899 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8900 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8901 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8902 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8903 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8905 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8906 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8907 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8910 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
8911 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8912 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8913 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8914 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8915 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8916 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8919 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
8920 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8921 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8922 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8923 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8925 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8926 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8927 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8928 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8930 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8931 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8932 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8934 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8935 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8936 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8937 Implements ticket 27275.
8938 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8939 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8941 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8942 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8945 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8946 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8947 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8948 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8950 o Minor features (geoip):
8951 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8952 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8954 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
8955 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8956 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8957 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8959 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8960 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
8961 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
8962 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
8963 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8964 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8965 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8966 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8968 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
8969 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8970 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8971 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8974 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8975 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8976 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8977 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8979 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8980 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8981 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8984 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8985 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8986 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8989 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8990 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8992 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8993 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8994 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8995 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8996 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8997 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8998 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9000 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9001 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9002 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9003 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9004 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9006 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9007 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9008 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9009 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9010 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9012 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9013 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9014 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9015 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9016 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9018 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9019 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9020 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9023 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
9024 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
9025 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
9026 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
9027 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
9029 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
9030 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
9031 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
9032 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
9033 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
9034 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9036 o Minor features (compilation):
9037 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9038 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9040 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9041 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9042 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9043 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9044 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9045 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9047 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9048 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9049 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9050 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9052 o Minor features (controller):
9053 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9054 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9055 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9058 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9059 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9062 o Minor features (geoip):
9063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9064 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9066 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9067 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9069 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9070 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
9071 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9072 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9073 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9074 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9075 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9077 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9078 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
9079 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9080 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9081 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9082 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9084 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9085 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9086 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9089 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
9090 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9091 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9093 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9094 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9095 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9098 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9099 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
9100 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9101 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9102 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9103 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9105 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9106 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9107 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9108 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9110 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9111 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9112 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9114 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
9115 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
9116 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
9117 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
9118 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
9119 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
9121 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9122 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9123 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9124 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9125 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9128 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
9129 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9130 bridge relays should upgrade.
9132 o Directory authority changes:
9133 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9134 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9135 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9138 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9139 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9140 bridge relays should upgrade.
9142 o Directory authority changes:
9143 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9144 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9145 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9148 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9149 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9150 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9153 o Directory authority changes:
9154 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9155 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9156 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9158 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9159 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9160 Closes ticket 26343.
9162 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9163 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9164 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9165 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9166 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9168 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9169 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9170 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9172 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9173 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9174 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9175 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9177 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9178 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9179 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9181 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9182 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9183 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9184 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9185 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9186 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9188 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9189 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9190 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9191 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9193 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9194 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9195 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9198 o Minor features (geoip):
9199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9200 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9202 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9203 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9204 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9205 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9206 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9208 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9209 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9210 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9212 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9213 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9214 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9215 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9216 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9217 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9218 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9219 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9222 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9223 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9224 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9225 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9226 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9227 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9229 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9230 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9231 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9232 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9233 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9236 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9237 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9238 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9239 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9241 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9242 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9243 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9246 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9247 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9248 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9250 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9251 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9252 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9253 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9255 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9256 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9257 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9258 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9259 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9260 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9261 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9263 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9264 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9265 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9266 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9269 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9270 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9271 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9273 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9274 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9275 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9277 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9278 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9279 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9280 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9283 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9284 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9285 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9286 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9288 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9289 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9290 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9292 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9293 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9294 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9297 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9298 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9299 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9302 o Directory authority changes:
9303 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9304 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9305 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9307 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9308 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9309 Closes ticket 26343.
9311 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9312 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9313 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9314 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9315 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9317 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9318 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9319 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9320 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9322 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9323 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9324 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9325 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9326 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9327 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9329 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9330 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9331 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9334 o Minor features (geoip):
9335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9336 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9338 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9339 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9340 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9341 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9342 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9344 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9345 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9346 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9348 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9349 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9350 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9351 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9354 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9355 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9356 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9357 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9358 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9359 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9361 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9362 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9363 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9364 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9365 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9367 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9368 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9369 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9372 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9373 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9374 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9376 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9377 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9378 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9379 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9381 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9382 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9383 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9385 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9386 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9387 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9390 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
9391 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
9392 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
9393 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
9394 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
9396 o Minor features (compilation):
9397 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9398 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9401 o Minor features (geoip):
9402 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9403 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9405 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9406 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9408 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9409 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9410 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9411 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9412 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9414 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9415 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
9416 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9417 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9418 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9419 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9421 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9422 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9423 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9426 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
9427 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9428 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
9431 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9432 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9433 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9434 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9435 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9436 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9437 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9441 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9442 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9443 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9445 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9446 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9447 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9448 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9450 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9451 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9452 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9455 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9456 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9457 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9460 o Minor features (geoip):
9461 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9462 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9464 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9465 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9466 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9467 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9469 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9470 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9471 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9472 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9473 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9476 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9477 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9478 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9479 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9480 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9482 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9483 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9484 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9485 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9487 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9488 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9489 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9491 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9492 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9493 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9494 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9497 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9498 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9499 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9500 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9502 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9503 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9504 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9505 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9506 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9507 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9508 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9509 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9513 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
9514 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
9515 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
9517 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9518 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9519 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9520 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9522 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
9523 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9524 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9527 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
9528 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9529 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9530 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9532 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
9533 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9534 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9535 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9537 o Minor features (unit tests):
9538 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9539 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9540 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9544 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9545 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9546 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9547 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
9548 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
9549 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9550 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9551 Closes ticket 26245.
9553 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9554 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9555 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9556 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9557 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9558 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9560 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9561 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9562 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9563 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9566 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9567 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
9568 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9569 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
9570 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
9571 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
9572 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
9573 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
9574 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9575 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
9576 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
9577 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
9578 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
9579 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9582 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9583 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9584 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9586 o Directory authority changes:
9587 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9588 Closes ticket 26343.
9590 o Minor features (geoip):
9591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9592 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9594 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9595 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9596 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9597 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9598 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9599 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9601 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9602 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9603 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9605 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9606 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9607 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9608 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9609 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9611 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9612 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9613 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9615 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9616 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9617 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9618 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9619 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9620 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9623 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
9624 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
9625 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
9627 o Directory authority changes:
9628 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9629 Closes ticket 26343.
9631 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
9632 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9633 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9634 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9635 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9637 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9638 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9639 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9640 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9642 o Minor features (geoip):
9643 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9644 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9646 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
9647 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9648 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9649 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9650 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9651 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9654 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9655 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9656 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
9657 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9658 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9659 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9660 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9662 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9663 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
9664 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
9665 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
9668 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9669 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9670 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9671 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9672 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9674 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
9675 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9676 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9678 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9679 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
9680 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9682 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9683 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9684 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9685 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9689 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9690 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9691 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9693 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9694 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9695 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9696 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9697 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9698 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9700 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
9701 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9703 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9704 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9705 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9706 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9707 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9709 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9710 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9711 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9712 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9713 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9715 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9716 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9717 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9718 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9720 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9721 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9722 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9723 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9725 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9726 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9727 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9729 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9730 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9731 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9734 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9735 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9736 Closes ticket 26006.
9738 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9739 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9740 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9741 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9742 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9743 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9745 o Minor features (geoip):
9746 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9747 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9749 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9750 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9751 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9754 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9755 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9756 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9757 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9758 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9760 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9761 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9762 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9763 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9764 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9767 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9768 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9769 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9771 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9772 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9773 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9774 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9775 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9776 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9777 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9779 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9780 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9781 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9783 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9784 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9785 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9788 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
9789 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
9790 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
9791 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
9792 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
9793 other small features and bugfixes.
9795 o New system requirements:
9796 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9797 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9798 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9799 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9801 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
9802 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9803 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9804 To disable the module, the configure option
9805 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9806 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9808 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9809 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9810 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9811 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9812 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9813 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9814 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9815 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9816 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9817 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9818 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
9820 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9821 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9822 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9823 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9824 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9825 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9826 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9827 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9828 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9829 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9830 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9831 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9832 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9833 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9834 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9835 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9836 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9837 Tor's uptime (26009).
9839 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
9840 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9841 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9842 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9843 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9845 o Major bugfixes (crash):
9846 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9847 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9848 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9850 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9851 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9852 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9853 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9855 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
9856 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9857 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9859 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
9860 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9861 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9862 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
9863 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
9864 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
9865 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
9866 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
9867 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
9868 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
9869 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
9870 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
9871 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
9872 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9874 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
9875 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9876 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9879 o Minor features (accounting):
9880 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9881 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9882 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9883 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9885 o Minor features (code quality):
9886 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9887 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9888 Closes ticket 25024.
9890 o Minor features (compatibility):
9891 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9892 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9893 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9894 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9895 Closes ticket 26006.
9897 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9898 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9899 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9900 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9901 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9902 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9904 o Minor features (configuration):
9905 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9906 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9907 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9908 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9909 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9911 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9912 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9913 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9914 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9915 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9916 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9918 o Minor features (control port):
9919 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9920 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9921 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9922 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9923 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9924 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9925 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9926 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9927 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9928 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9930 o Minor features (directory authority):
9931 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9932 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9933 Closes ticket 23909.
9935 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9936 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9937 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9938 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9940 o Minor features (entry guards):
9941 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9942 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9944 o Minor features (geoip):
9945 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9946 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9948 o Minor features (performance):
9949 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9950 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9951 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9952 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9954 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9955 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9957 o Minor features (testing):
9958 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9959 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9961 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9962 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9963 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9964 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9965 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9966 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9968 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9969 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9970 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9971 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9972 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9974 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9975 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9976 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9977 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9978 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9979 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9981 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9982 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9983 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9984 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9986 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
9987 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9988 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9989 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9990 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9993 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9994 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9995 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9998 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9999 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
10000 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10001 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
10002 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
10004 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
10005 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10006 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10007 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10008 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10010 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10011 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10012 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10013 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10014 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10016 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
10017 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
10018 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
10019 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
10020 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10022 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10023 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10024 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10025 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10026 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10027 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10030 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10031 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10032 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10033 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10034 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10037 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10038 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10039 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10040 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10041 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10042 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10043 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10045 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10046 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10047 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10049 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
10050 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10051 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10052 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10053 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10054 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10055 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10057 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10058 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10059 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10060 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10061 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10062 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10064 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10065 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10066 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10069 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10070 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10071 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10072 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10074 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10075 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10076 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10077 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10078 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10079 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10080 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10082 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
10083 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10084 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10086 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10087 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10088 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10089 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10092 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10093 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10094 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10095 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10096 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10097 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10098 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10100 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10101 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10102 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10103 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10104 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10105 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10106 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10108 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10109 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10110 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10111 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10112 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10114 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10115 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10116 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10119 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10120 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10121 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10122 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10123 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10124 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10126 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10127 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10128 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10129 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10130 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10131 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10132 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10133 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10135 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10136 confusing we renamed some functions and
10137 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10138 router_should_check_reachability() and
10139 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10140 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10141 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10142 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10143 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10145 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10146 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10148 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10149 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10150 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10151 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10152 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10153 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10154 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10155 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10156 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10157 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10158 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10159 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10160 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10161 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10162 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10163 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10164 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10165 Closes ticket 25766.
10166 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10167 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10168 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10169 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10170 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10171 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10172 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10173 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10174 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10175 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10176 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10177 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10178 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10179 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10181 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10182 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10183 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10184 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10185 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10186 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10187 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10188 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10189 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10191 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10192 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10193 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10194 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10196 o Deprecated features:
10197 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10198 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10199 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10200 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10201 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10202 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10205 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10206 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10208 o Removed features:
10209 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10210 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10211 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10212 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10213 24378 and proposal 290.
10214 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10215 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10216 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10217 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10218 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10219 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10220 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10221 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10222 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10223 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10224 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10225 their local router. Closes 25409.
10226 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10227 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10228 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10229 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10230 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10231 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10232 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10233 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10234 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10235 Closes ticket 25268.
10238 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
10239 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
10240 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
10242 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
10243 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
10244 be nearly identical to this one.
10246 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
10247 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
10248 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
10249 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
10250 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
10251 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10253 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10254 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10255 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10256 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10257 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10258 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10259 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10261 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
10262 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10263 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10265 o Minor features (config options):
10266 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10267 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10268 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10271 o Minor features (geoip):
10272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10273 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
10275 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10276 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
10277 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
10278 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
10279 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
10280 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10282 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10283 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10284 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10285 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10287 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
10288 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
10289 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
10290 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10291 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
10292 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
10293 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10295 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10296 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10297 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10298 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10299 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10300 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
10301 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10303 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10304 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10305 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10306 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10307 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10309 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10310 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
10311 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
10313 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
10314 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
10315 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
10317 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10318 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10319 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10321 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10322 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10323 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10327 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
10328 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
10329 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
10330 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
10332 o New system requirements:
10333 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10334 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10336 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
10337 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10338 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10339 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10340 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10342 o Minor features (geoip):
10343 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10344 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
10346 o Minor features (log messages):
10347 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10348 information about memory usage from the different compression
10349 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10351 o Minor features (sandbox):
10352 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10353 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10354 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10356 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10357 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10358 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10359 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10361 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10362 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10363 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10365 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10366 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10367 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10368 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10370 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
10371 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10372 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10373 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10375 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10376 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10377 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10378 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10380 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10381 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10382 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10384 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10385 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
10386 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
10387 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
10388 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
10389 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10391 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10392 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10393 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10394 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10396 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
10397 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
10398 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
10399 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
10401 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
10402 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
10403 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
10404 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
10407 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
10408 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
10409 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
10410 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
10411 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10413 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10414 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10415 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10419 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10421 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10422 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10425 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10426 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10429 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10430 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10432 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10433 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10435 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10438 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10439 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10440 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10442 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10443 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10444 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10445 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10448 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10449 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10450 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10451 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10454 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10455 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10456 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10457 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10458 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10459 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10460 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10461 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10462 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10463 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10464 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10465 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10466 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10468 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10469 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10470 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10472 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10473 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10474 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10475 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10476 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10477 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10478 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10480 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10481 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10482 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10484 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10485 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10486 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10487 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10488 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10489 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10490 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10492 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10493 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10494 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10495 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10497 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10498 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10499 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10500 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10502 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10503 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10504 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10505 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10506 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10507 Closes ticket 24978.
10509 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10510 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10511 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10512 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10513 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10514 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10515 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10516 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10517 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10519 o Minor features (geoip):
10520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10523 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10524 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10525 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10526 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10527 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10529 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10530 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10531 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10532 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10533 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10535 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10536 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10537 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10538 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10539 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10542 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10543 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10544 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10545 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10546 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10547 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10548 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10549 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10550 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10551 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10552 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10555 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10556 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10557 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10559 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10560 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10561 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10564 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10565 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10566 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10567 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10568 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10569 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10570 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10572 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10573 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10574 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10575 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10576 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10577 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10578 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10579 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10580 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10583 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10584 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10585 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10586 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10587 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10588 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10590 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10591 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10592 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10593 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10595 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10596 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10597 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10598 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10599 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10602 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10603 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10604 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10605 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10606 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10607 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10609 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10610 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10611 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10612 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10613 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10614 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10615 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10616 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10617 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10618 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10619 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10620 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10622 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10623 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10624 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10625 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10627 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10628 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10629 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10630 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10632 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10633 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10634 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10635 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10638 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10639 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10640 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10641 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10642 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10644 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10645 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10647 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10648 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10650 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10651 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10652 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10655 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10656 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10657 later Tor releases.
10659 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10660 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10662 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10663 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10665 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10668 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10669 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10670 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10672 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10673 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10674 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10675 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10678 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10679 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10680 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10681 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10682 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10683 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10684 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10685 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10686 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10687 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10688 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10689 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10690 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10692 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10693 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10694 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10695 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10696 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10697 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10698 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10699 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10700 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10702 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10703 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10704 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10705 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10706 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10707 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10708 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10710 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10711 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10712 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10713 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10715 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10716 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10717 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10718 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10719 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10720 Closes ticket 24978.
10722 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10723 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10724 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10725 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10727 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10728 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10729 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10730 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10731 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10732 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10733 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10734 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10735 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10737 o Minor features (geoip):
10738 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10741 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10742 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10743 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10745 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10746 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10747 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10748 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10749 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10751 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10752 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10753 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10754 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10755 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10758 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10759 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10760 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10761 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10765 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10766 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10768 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10769 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10770 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10773 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10774 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10775 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10776 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10777 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10778 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10779 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10781 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10782 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10783 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10784 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10785 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10788 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10789 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10790 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10791 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10792 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10793 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10795 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10796 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10797 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10798 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10800 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10801 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10802 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10803 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10804 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10805 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10806 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10807 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10808 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10809 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10810 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10811 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10813 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10814 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10815 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10816 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10819 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10820 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10821 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10822 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10823 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10825 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10826 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10828 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10829 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10832 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10833 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10834 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10837 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10838 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10840 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10841 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10842 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10843 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10844 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10845 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10848 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10849 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10851 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10854 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10855 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10856 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10857 the DoS mitigations.)
10859 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10860 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10861 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10862 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10865 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10866 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10867 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10868 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10870 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10871 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10872 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10873 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10874 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10875 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10876 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10877 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10878 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10879 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10880 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10881 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10882 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10884 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10885 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10886 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10887 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10888 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10889 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10890 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10891 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10892 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10893 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10894 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10896 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10897 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10898 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10900 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10901 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10902 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10903 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10904 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10905 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10906 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10908 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10909 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10910 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10911 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10913 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10914 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10915 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10916 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10918 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10919 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10920 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10921 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10922 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10923 Closes ticket 24978.
10925 o Minor features (geoip):
10926 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10929 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10930 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10931 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10934 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10935 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10936 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10937 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10938 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10940 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10941 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10942 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10943 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10944 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10945 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10946 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10948 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10949 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10950 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10951 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10952 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10954 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10955 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10956 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10957 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10959 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10960 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10961 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10962 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10963 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10965 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10966 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10967 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10968 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10970 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10971 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10972 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10973 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10975 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10976 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10977 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10978 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10980 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10981 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10983 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10984 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10986 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10987 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10988 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10990 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10991 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10992 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10993 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10994 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10996 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10997 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10998 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11000 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11001 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11002 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11006 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
11007 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
11008 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11009 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11011 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
11012 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
11013 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
11014 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
11015 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
11016 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11018 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11021 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
11022 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11023 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11024 the DoS mitigations.)
11026 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
11027 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11028 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11029 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11032 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11033 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11034 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11035 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11036 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11037 Closes ticket 24978.
11039 o Minor features (logging):
11040 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
11041 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
11043 o Minor features (testing):
11044 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
11047 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
11048 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11049 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11050 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11051 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11052 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11053 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11055 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
11056 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
11057 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
11058 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11059 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
11060 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
11063 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11064 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11065 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
11066 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
11068 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11069 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11070 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11071 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11072 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11075 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
11076 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11078 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11079 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11081 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
11082 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
11083 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11084 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
11086 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11087 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11088 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11091 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
11092 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
11093 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
11094 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
11095 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
11096 it to older supported release series.
11098 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11099 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11100 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11101 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11102 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11103 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11104 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11105 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11106 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11107 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11108 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11109 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11110 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11112 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
11113 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
11114 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
11115 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
11116 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
11117 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
11118 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
11119 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11121 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
11122 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11123 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11125 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
11126 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11127 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11128 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11130 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11131 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11132 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11133 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11135 o Minor features (directory authority):
11136 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
11137 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
11139 o Minor features (geoip):
11140 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11143 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
11144 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11145 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
11148 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11149 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11150 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11151 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11152 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11154 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11155 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11156 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11157 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11158 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11160 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
11161 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11162 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11163 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11165 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11166 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11167 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11168 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11169 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11171 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11172 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11173 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11174 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11176 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11177 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11178 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11179 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11180 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11181 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11182 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11184 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11185 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11186 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11187 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11188 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11189 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11190 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11191 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11193 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11194 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11195 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11196 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11197 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11198 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11199 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11201 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11202 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11203 would call the Rust implementation of
11204 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11205 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11206 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11207 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11208 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11210 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11211 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11212 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
11215 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11216 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11217 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11218 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11219 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11220 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11222 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11223 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11224 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11225 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11226 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11228 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11229 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11231 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11232 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11233 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11236 o Documentation (man page):
11237 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11238 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11242 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
11243 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
11244 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
11245 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
11246 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
11247 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
11250 o Major features (embedding):
11251 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
11252 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
11253 Closes ticket 23684.
11254 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
11255 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
11256 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
11257 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
11258 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
11259 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
11261 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
11262 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
11263 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
11264 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
11265 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
11266 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
11267 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
11268 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
11269 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
11270 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
11271 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
11274 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
11275 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
11276 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
11277 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
11278 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
11279 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
11280 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
11282 o Major features (onion services):
11283 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
11284 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
11285 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
11286 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
11287 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
11290 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
11291 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
11292 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
11293 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
11294 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
11295 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
11296 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
11297 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
11299 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
11300 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
11301 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
11302 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
11303 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
11305 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
11306 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
11307 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
11308 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
11309 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
11310 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
11311 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11313 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11314 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11315 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11316 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11317 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11318 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11319 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11320 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11321 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11322 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11323 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11325 o Major bugfixes (relays):
11326 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11327 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11328 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11329 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11330 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11331 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11333 o Minor feature (IPv6):
11334 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
11335 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
11336 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
11337 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
11338 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
11339 Implements ticket 23827.
11341 o Minor features (cleanup):
11342 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
11343 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
11345 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11346 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
11347 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
11348 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
11349 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
11350 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
11351 once. Part of ticket 24337.
11352 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
11353 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
11354 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
11356 o Minor features (embedding):
11357 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
11358 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
11359 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
11360 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
11361 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
11362 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
11363 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
11364 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
11365 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
11366 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
11367 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
11368 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
11369 Closes ticket 23848.
11370 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
11371 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
11372 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
11374 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11375 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
11376 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
11377 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
11378 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
11379 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
11380 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
11381 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
11384 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
11385 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
11386 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
11387 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
11388 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
11389 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
11390 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
11392 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
11393 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
11394 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
11395 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
11396 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
11397 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
11398 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
11399 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
11400 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
11401 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
11402 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
11403 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
11405 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
11406 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
11407 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
11409 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
11410 Implements ticket 24791.
11412 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
11413 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
11414 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
11415 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
11416 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
11417 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
11419 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11420 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
11421 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
11424 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
11425 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
11426 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
11427 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
11428 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
11430 o Minor features (log messages):
11431 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
11432 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
11433 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
11434 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
11436 o Minor features (logging, android):
11437 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
11440 o Minor features (performance):
11441 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
11442 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
11443 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
11444 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
11446 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
11447 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11448 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
11449 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
11450 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11451 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
11452 Implements ticket 24374.
11454 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
11455 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
11456 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
11457 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
11458 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
11460 o Minor features (performance, windows):
11461 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
11462 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
11463 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
11466 o Major features (relay):
11467 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
11468 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
11469 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
11470 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
11471 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11473 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
11474 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
11475 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
11476 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
11477 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
11478 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
11479 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
11480 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11481 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11483 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
11484 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11485 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11486 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11488 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11489 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11490 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11491 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11492 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11493 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11494 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11495 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11496 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11497 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11498 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11499 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11502 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11503 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11504 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11505 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11508 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11509 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11510 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11513 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11514 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11515 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11517 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11518 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11519 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11520 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11521 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11523 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11524 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11525 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11526 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11528 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11529 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11530 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11531 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11532 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11533 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11535 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11536 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11537 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11538 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11541 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11542 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11543 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11544 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11545 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11548 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11549 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11550 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11551 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11553 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
11554 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11555 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11556 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11558 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11559 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11560 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11561 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11562 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11563 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11564 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11565 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11566 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11567 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11568 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11569 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11572 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11573 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11574 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11575 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11577 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11578 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11580 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11581 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11582 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11583 "aruna1234" and teor.
11584 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11585 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11586 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11587 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11589 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11590 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11591 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11592 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11593 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11594 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11595 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11596 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11597 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11598 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11600 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11601 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11604 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11605 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11607 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11608 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11609 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11610 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11611 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11612 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11615 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11616 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11617 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11618 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11619 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11621 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11622 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11623 adding very little except for unit test.
11625 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11626 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11627 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11628 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11630 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11631 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11632 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11635 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11636 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11638 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11639 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11640 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11641 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11642 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11643 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11645 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11646 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11647 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11648 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11649 with the 0.2.9 series.
11651 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
11652 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11654 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11655 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11656 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11657 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11658 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11659 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11660 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11661 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11662 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11664 o Minor features (geoip):
11665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11668 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11669 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11670 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11671 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11672 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11676 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
11677 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11679 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11680 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11681 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11682 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11686 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
11687 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
11688 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
11689 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
11690 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
11691 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
11692 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
11694 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
11695 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
11696 will be nearly identical to this.
11698 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
11699 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
11700 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
11701 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
11702 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
11703 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
11704 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11706 o Minor features (geoip):
11707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11710 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
11711 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
11712 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
11713 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11715 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11716 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11717 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11718 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11719 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11722 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11723 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
11724 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
11725 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
11726 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
11727 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11730 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
11731 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11732 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11734 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
11735 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
11736 be nearly identical to this.
11738 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11739 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11740 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11741 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11742 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11743 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11744 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11746 o Minor features (logging):
11747 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11750 o Minor features (portability):
11751 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11752 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11755 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11756 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11757 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11758 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11759 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11760 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11761 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11762 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11763 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11764 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11765 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11766 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11767 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11769 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11770 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11771 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11773 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11774 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11775 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11776 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11777 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11778 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11779 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11782 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11783 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
11784 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
11785 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
11786 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
11787 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
11788 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11790 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11791 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
11792 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
11793 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11794 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
11795 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
11796 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
11797 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11798 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
11799 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
11800 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11803 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
11804 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
11805 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
11806 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
11809 o Major bugfixes (security):
11810 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11811 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11812 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11813 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11814 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11815 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11816 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11817 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11818 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11819 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11821 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11822 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11823 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11824 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11825 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11826 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11827 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11830 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11831 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11832 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11833 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11834 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11836 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11837 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11838 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11839 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11840 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11841 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11842 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11843 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11844 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11846 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11847 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11848 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11849 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11851 o Minor features (directory authority):
11852 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11855 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11856 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11857 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11858 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11861 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11862 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11863 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11864 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11866 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11867 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11868 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11869 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11870 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11871 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11872 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11873 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11874 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11875 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11876 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11878 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11879 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11880 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11881 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11882 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11883 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11884 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11887 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11888 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11889 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11890 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11891 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11893 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11894 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11895 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11896 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11897 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11898 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11899 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11900 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11901 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11903 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11904 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11905 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11906 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11907 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11908 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11911 o Minor features (bridge):
11912 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11913 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11914 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11915 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11918 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11919 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11922 o Minor features (geoip):
11923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11926 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11927 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11928 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11929 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11930 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11933 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11934 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11936 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11937 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11938 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11939 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11940 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11941 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11943 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11944 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11945 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11948 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11949 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11950 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11951 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11952 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11955 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11956 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11957 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11958 to another of the releases coming out today.
11960 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11961 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11962 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11964 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11965 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11966 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11967 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11968 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11969 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11970 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11971 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11972 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11973 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11974 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11976 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11977 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11978 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11979 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11980 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11981 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11982 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11985 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11986 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11987 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11988 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11989 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11991 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11992 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11993 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11994 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11995 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11996 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11997 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11998 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11999 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12001 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12002 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12003 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12004 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12005 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12006 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12009 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12010 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12011 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12012 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12013 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12014 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12016 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12017 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12018 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12019 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12020 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12023 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12024 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12027 o Minor features (geoip):
12028 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12031 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12032 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12033 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12034 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12035 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12037 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12038 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12039 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12041 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12042 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12043 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12044 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12045 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12046 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12048 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12049 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12050 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12051 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12052 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12054 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12055 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12056 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12059 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12060 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12061 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12062 to another of the releases coming out today.
12064 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12065 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12066 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12067 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12068 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12069 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12072 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12073 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12074 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12075 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12076 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12077 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12078 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12079 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12080 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12081 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12082 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12084 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12085 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12086 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12087 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12088 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12089 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12090 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12093 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12094 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12095 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12096 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12097 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12099 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12100 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12101 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12102 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12103 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12104 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12106 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12107 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12108 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12109 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12110 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12113 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12114 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12117 o Minor features (geoip):
12118 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12121 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12122 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12123 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12124 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12125 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12126 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12128 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12129 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12130 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12131 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12132 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12134 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12135 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12136 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12138 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12139 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12140 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12141 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12142 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12143 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12145 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12146 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12147 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12148 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12149 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12152 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12153 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12156 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12157 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12158 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12159 to another of the releases coming out today.
12161 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12162 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12163 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12165 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12166 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12167 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12168 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12169 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12170 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12171 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12172 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12173 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12174 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12175 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12176 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12177 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12178 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12179 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12182 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12183 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12184 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12185 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12186 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12188 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12189 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12190 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12191 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12192 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12195 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12196 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12197 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12198 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12199 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12202 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12203 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12206 o Minor features (geoip):
12207 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12210 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12211 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12212 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12215 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12216 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12217 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12218 to another of the releases coming out today.
12220 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12221 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12222 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12224 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12225 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12226 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12227 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12228 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12229 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12230 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12231 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12232 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12233 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12234 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12235 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12236 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12237 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12238 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12241 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12242 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12243 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12244 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12245 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12246 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12248 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12249 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12250 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12251 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12252 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12255 o Minor features (geoip):
12256 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12260 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
12261 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12262 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
12263 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
12264 since the 0.3.0.x series.
12266 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
12267 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
12270 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12271 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12272 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12273 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12274 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12275 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12276 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12277 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12278 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12279 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12280 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12283 o Minor features (directory authority):
12284 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12285 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12286 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12287 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12289 o Minor features (geoip):
12290 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12293 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12294 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12295 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12297 o Minor features (logging):
12298 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12299 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12301 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12302 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12305 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12306 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12307 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12308 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12309 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
12310 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
12311 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12313 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12314 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12315 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12318 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12319 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12320 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12321 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12323 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12324 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12325 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12326 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12327 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12328 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12329 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12330 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12331 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12334 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12335 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
12336 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12337 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12338 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12339 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12340 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12342 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12343 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12344 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12345 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12346 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12347 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12349 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12350 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12351 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12352 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12353 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12354 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12355 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12357 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
12358 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
12359 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12361 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12362 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
12363 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
12364 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12365 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12366 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12367 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12368 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12371 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12372 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12373 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12376 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
12377 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
12378 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
12379 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
12382 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12383 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12384 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12385 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12386 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12387 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12390 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
12391 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
12392 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
12393 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
12394 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12396 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
12397 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
12398 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
12399 Closes ticket 23753.
12401 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
12402 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12403 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12404 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12405 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12407 o Minor features (testing):
12408 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12409 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12411 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12412 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12413 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12414 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12415 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12417 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
12418 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
12419 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
12420 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
12421 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
12424 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
12425 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
12426 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
12427 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
12428 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12430 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
12431 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
12432 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
12433 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12435 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12436 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
12437 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
12439 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
12440 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12441 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
12443 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12444 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
12445 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
12446 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12447 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
12448 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12450 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12451 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12452 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12453 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12454 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12455 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12456 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12457 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12458 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12459 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12460 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12461 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12463 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12464 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12465 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12466 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12467 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12469 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12470 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12471 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12472 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12473 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12474 Closes ticket 24109.
12477 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
12478 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
12479 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
12480 directory authority, Bastet.
12482 o Directory authority changes:
12483 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12484 Closes ticket 23910.
12485 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12486 Closes ticket 23592.
12488 o Minor features (bridge):
12489 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12490 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12491 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12492 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12493 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12494 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12495 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12497 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
12498 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12499 Resolves ticket 23670.
12501 o Minor features (geoip):
12502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12505 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12506 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12507 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12508 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12510 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12511 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12512 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12514 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12515 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12516 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12517 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12518 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12519 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12521 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
12522 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12523 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12524 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
12525 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
12526 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12528 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12529 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
12530 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
12531 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
12533 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
12534 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
12535 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12537 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
12538 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
12539 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12540 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12541 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12543 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12544 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12545 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12547 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12548 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
12549 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
12552 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12553 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
12554 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12555 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12556 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12557 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
12558 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
12559 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
12561 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
12562 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
12563 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12564 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
12565 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
12568 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
12569 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
12570 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
12571 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
12572 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
12576 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12577 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12578 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12580 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12581 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12582 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12584 o Directory authority changes:
12585 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12586 Closes ticket 23910.
12587 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12588 Closes ticket 23592.
12590 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12591 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12592 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12593 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12594 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12596 o Minor features (geoip):
12597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12600 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12601 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12602 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12603 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12604 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12605 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12606 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12607 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12608 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12610 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12611 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12612 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12613 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12614 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12615 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12616 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12617 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12618 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12621 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12622 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12623 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12624 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12626 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12627 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12628 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12630 o Directory authority changes:
12631 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12632 Closes ticket 23910.
12633 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12634 Closes ticket 23592.
12636 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12637 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12638 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12639 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12641 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12642 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12643 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12644 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12645 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12647 o Minor features (geoip):
12648 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12652 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12653 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12654 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12655 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12657 o Directory authority changes:
12658 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12659 Closes ticket 23910.
12660 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12661 Closes ticket 23592.
12663 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12664 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12665 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12666 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12668 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12669 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12670 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12671 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12672 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12674 o Minor features (geoip):
12675 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12678 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12679 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12680 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12681 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12682 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12683 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12684 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12685 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12688 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12689 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12690 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12692 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12693 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12694 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12695 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12696 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12697 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12698 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12701 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12702 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12703 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12704 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12706 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12707 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12708 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12710 o Directory authority changes:
12711 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12712 Closes ticket 23910.
12713 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12714 Closes ticket 23592.
12716 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12717 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12718 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12719 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12721 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12722 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12723 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12724 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12725 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12727 o Minor features (geoip):
12728 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12731 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12732 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12733 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12734 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12735 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12736 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12737 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12738 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12741 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12742 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12743 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12744 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12746 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12747 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12748 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12750 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12751 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12752 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12753 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12754 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12755 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12756 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12759 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12760 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12761 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12762 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12763 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12765 o Directory authority changes:
12766 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12767 Closes ticket 23910.
12768 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12769 Closes ticket 23592.
12771 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12772 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12773 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12774 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12776 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12777 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12778 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12779 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12780 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12782 o Minor features (geoip):
12783 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12786 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12787 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12788 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12789 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12791 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12792 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12793 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12796 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12797 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12798 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12800 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12801 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12802 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12803 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12805 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12806 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12807 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12809 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12810 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12811 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12815 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
12816 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
12817 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
12818 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
12819 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
12820 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
12822 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
12823 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
12824 include better testing and logging.
12826 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
12829 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12830 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12831 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12832 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12834 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12835 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
12836 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
12837 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
12838 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
12839 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
12840 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12842 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12843 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12844 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12845 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12846 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12847 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12848 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12849 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12850 Closes ticket 23643.
12852 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12853 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12854 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12855 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12856 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12858 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
12859 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12860 the circuit identifier(s).
12861 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12862 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12864 o Minor features (logging):
12865 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12866 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12867 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12868 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12869 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12871 o Minor features (relay):
12872 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12873 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12874 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12875 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12877 o Minor features (robustness):
12878 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12879 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12881 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
12882 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12883 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12884 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12885 related to ticket 23080.
12887 o Minor features (testing):
12888 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12889 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12892 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12893 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12894 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12896 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
12897 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
12900 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12901 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12902 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12903 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12904 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12905 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12906 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12907 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12908 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12910 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12911 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12912 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12915 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12916 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12917 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12918 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12920 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
12921 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
12922 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
12923 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
12924 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12925 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
12926 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
12927 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
12930 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
12931 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12932 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12933 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12935 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12936 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12937 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12938 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12939 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12940 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12942 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
12943 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
12944 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
12945 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12946 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
12947 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
12948 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12949 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
12950 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12951 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
12952 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
12954 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
12955 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
12956 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
12957 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12958 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
12959 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12961 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12962 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12963 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12965 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12966 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12968 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
12969 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
12970 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12972 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12973 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12974 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12977 o Deprecated features:
12978 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12979 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12980 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12983 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
12984 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12985 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12986 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12987 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12988 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12989 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12990 Closes ticket 18736.
12993 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
12994 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12995 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
12996 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
12997 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
12998 features and bugfixes here.
13000 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
13002 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
13003 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
13004 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
13005 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
13006 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
13007 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
13008 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
13009 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
13010 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
13011 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
13012 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
13013 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
13015 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
13016 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
13017 more information, see the design paper at
13018 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
13019 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
13020 Closes ticket 12541.
13022 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
13023 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
13024 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
13025 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
13026 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
13027 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
13030 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
13031 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
13033 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
13036 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
13039 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
13041 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
13043 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
13045 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
13046 they are 56 characters long, as in
13047 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
13049 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
13050 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
13051 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
13052 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
13053 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
13056 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
13057 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
13058 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
13059 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
13060 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
13061 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
13064 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
13065 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
13066 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
13067 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
13069 o Minor features (bug detection):
13070 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
13071 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
13072 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
13074 o Minor features (client):
13075 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
13076 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
13077 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
13078 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
13079 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
13080 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
13081 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
13082 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
13083 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
13084 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
13086 o Minor features (command line):
13087 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
13088 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
13089 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
13091 o Minor features (control port):
13092 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
13093 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
13094 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
13096 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
13097 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
13099 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
13100 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
13101 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
13102 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
13103 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
13104 Closes ticket 23237.
13105 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
13106 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13108 o Minor features (development support):
13109 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
13110 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
13111 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
13112 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
13113 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
13114 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
13116 o Minor features (ed25519):
13117 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
13118 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
13119 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
13121 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
13122 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
13123 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
13125 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
13126 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
13127 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
13128 another program, regardless of the settings of
13129 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
13130 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
13131 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
13133 o Minor features (logging):
13134 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
13135 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
13136 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
13138 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
13139 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
13141 o Minor features (portability):
13142 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
13143 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
13144 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
13145 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
13147 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13148 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
13149 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
13150 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
13151 results. Closes ticket 22731.
13153 o Minor features (startup, safety):
13154 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
13155 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
13158 o Minor features (static analysis):
13159 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
13160 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
13163 o Minor features (testing):
13164 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
13165 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
13166 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
13167 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
13168 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
13170 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
13171 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
13172 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
13173 Coverity as CID 1415728.
13175 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
13176 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
13177 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
13178 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
13179 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
13180 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
13181 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
13182 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13184 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13185 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
13186 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
13187 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
13188 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13189 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
13190 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
13191 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13193 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13194 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13195 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13197 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
13198 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
13199 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
13200 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13202 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
13203 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
13204 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
13205 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
13206 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
13207 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
13209 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
13210 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
13213 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
13214 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
13215 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
13216 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13218 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
13219 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
13220 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
13221 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
13222 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
13223 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
13224 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
13227 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
13228 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
13229 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
13230 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13232 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
13233 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
13234 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13236 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13237 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
13238 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
13239 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13240 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
13241 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
13243 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
13244 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
13245 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
13247 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
13248 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
13249 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
13251 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
13252 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
13253 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
13254 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
13256 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13257 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
13258 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13260 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13261 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
13262 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
13263 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
13264 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13265 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13266 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13267 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13269 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13270 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
13271 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
13272 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13273 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
13274 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
13275 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13277 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
13278 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
13279 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
13280 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13282 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13283 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
13284 function from the general code to handle channel state
13285 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
13286 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
13287 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
13288 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
13289 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
13290 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
13291 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
13292 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
13294 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
13295 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
13297 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
13298 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
13299 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
13300 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
13301 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13302 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
13303 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
13304 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
13305 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
13306 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
13307 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
13308 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
13310 o Deprecated features:
13311 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
13312 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
13313 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
13317 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
13318 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
13319 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
13320 Closes ticket 15645.
13321 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
13322 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
13323 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
13324 file. Closes ticket 21148.
13326 o Removed features:
13327 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
13328 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
13329 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
13330 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
13331 Closes ticket 21031.
13332 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
13333 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
13336 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13337 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13340 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13341 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13342 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13343 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13345 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13346 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13347 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13348 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13350 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13351 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13352 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13353 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13354 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13360 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13361 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13362 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13365 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13366 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13367 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13368 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13369 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13370 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13371 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13372 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13373 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13375 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13376 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13377 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13378 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13379 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13380 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13381 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13382 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13383 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13386 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13387 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13390 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13391 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13392 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13393 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13395 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13396 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13397 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13398 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13399 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13400 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13401 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13403 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13404 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13405 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13406 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13408 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13409 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13410 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13412 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13413 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13414 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13415 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13417 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13418 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13419 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13420 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13421 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13423 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13424 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13425 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13426 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13428 o Minor features (geoip):
13429 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13432 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13433 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13434 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13435 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13438 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13439 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13440 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13441 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13442 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13443 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13444 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13447 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13448 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13450 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13451 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13452 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13455 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13456 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13457 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13458 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13459 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13461 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13462 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13463 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13464 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13465 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13466 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13468 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13469 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13470 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13471 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13472 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13473 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13474 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13475 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13476 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13478 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13479 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13480 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13481 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13483 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13484 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13485 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13487 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13488 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13489 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13490 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13491 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13493 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13494 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13495 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13498 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13499 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13500 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13501 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13502 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13504 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13505 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13506 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13507 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13508 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13509 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13510 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13511 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13512 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13515 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13516 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13519 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13520 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13521 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13522 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13524 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13525 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13526 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13527 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13530 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13533 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13534 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13535 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13537 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13538 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13539 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13540 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13541 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13543 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13544 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13545 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13546 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13548 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13549 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13550 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13552 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13553 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13554 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13555 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13558 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13559 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13561 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13562 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13563 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13564 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13565 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13566 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13567 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13569 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13570 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13571 disabled. For more information, see
13572 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13574 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13575 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13576 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13577 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13578 with the 0.2.9 series.
13580 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
13581 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13583 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13584 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13585 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13586 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
13587 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13589 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13590 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13591 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13592 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13595 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13596 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13597 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13598 attempt for bug 23105.
13600 o Minor features (geoip):
13601 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13604 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13605 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13606 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13608 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13609 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13610 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13611 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13612 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13614 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13615 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13616 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13617 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13619 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13620 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
13621 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
13625 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
13626 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
13627 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
13628 Windows directory caches.
13630 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
13631 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
13632 will be nearly identical to it.
13634 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
13635 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
13636 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
13637 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
13638 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
13639 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13641 o Minor features (directory authority):
13642 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13643 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13644 Closes ticket 22348.
13646 o Minor features (geoip):
13647 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13650 o Minor features (testing):
13651 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13654 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13655 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
13656 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13658 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13659 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13660 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13661 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13662 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13663 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13664 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13665 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13666 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
13667 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13669 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13670 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13671 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13673 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13674 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13675 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13676 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13678 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13679 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
13680 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
13681 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
13682 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13684 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13685 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13686 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13687 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13688 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13689 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13691 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
13692 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
13693 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13694 with the clang static analyzer.
13696 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13697 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13698 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13699 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
13700 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
13703 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13704 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13705 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13706 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13707 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13708 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13709 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13712 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13713 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13714 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13715 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13717 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13718 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13719 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13720 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13721 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13722 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13723 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13724 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13725 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13727 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13728 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13729 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13730 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13732 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13733 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13734 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13735 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13736 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13738 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13739 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13742 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13743 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13744 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13745 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13748 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13749 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13750 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13751 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13752 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13753 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13754 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13757 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13758 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13759 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13762 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13763 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13764 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13765 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13766 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13767 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13769 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13770 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13771 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13772 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13774 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13775 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13776 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13778 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13779 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13780 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13783 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
13784 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
13785 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
13786 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
13787 next version will be a release candidate.
13789 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
13790 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
13791 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
13792 one of those versions should upgrade.
13794 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13795 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13796 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13797 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13798 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13799 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13800 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13801 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13802 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13804 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13805 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13806 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13807 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13808 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13810 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
13811 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
13812 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
13813 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
13814 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
13815 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13817 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13818 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13819 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13821 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13822 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13823 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13824 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13825 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13828 o Minor features (geoip):
13829 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13832 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13833 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13834 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13835 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13836 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13837 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13840 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
13841 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
13842 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
13843 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
13844 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
13846 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
13847 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
13848 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
13849 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
13850 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13852 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13853 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13854 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13855 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13856 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13857 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
13858 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
13859 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13860 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13861 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13862 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13865 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13866 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13867 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13868 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13869 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13870 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13872 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13873 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13874 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13875 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13876 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13877 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13878 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13879 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13882 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13883 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13884 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13887 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13888 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13889 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13890 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13892 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13893 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13894 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13896 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13897 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13898 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13899 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13901 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13902 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
13903 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
13904 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
13905 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13906 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13907 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13910 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
13911 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13912 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13913 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13914 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
13917 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
13918 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
13921 o New dependencies:
13922 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13923 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
13924 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
13925 close ticket 22623.)
13927 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13928 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13929 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13930 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13931 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13932 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13934 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
13935 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
13936 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
13937 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13939 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
13940 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
13941 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
13942 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
13943 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13945 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13946 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13947 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13948 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13950 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
13951 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13952 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13953 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13955 o Minor features (geoip):
13956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13959 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13960 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
13961 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
13963 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
13964 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13965 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
13966 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
13967 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
13968 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
13970 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
13971 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
13973 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13974 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13975 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13976 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13977 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13979 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13980 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13981 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13982 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13983 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13984 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13985 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13986 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13987 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13988 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13989 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13990 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13992 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13993 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13994 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13995 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13996 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13997 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
13998 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
13999 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
14000 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14002 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14003 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
14004 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
14005 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14006 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
14007 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
14008 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
14009 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
14010 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
14011 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
14012 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14013 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
14014 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
14015 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
14016 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
14017 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14019 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14020 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14021 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14022 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14023 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14024 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14025 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14029 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14031 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14032 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14034 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14035 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14036 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14040 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14041 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14042 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14043 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14044 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14047 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14050 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14051 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14052 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14053 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14054 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14055 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14057 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14058 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14059 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14060 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14062 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14063 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14064 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14065 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14067 o Minor features (geoip):
14068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14071 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14072 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14073 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14074 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14075 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14077 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14078 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14079 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14080 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14081 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14083 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14084 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14085 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14086 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14087 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14088 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14089 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14090 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14091 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14094 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
14095 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14096 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14097 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14098 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14100 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14101 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14102 bugfixes described below.
14104 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14105 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14106 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14107 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14108 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14109 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14110 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14113 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
14114 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14115 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14116 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14117 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14118 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14119 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14122 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
14123 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14124 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14125 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14126 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14127 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14128 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14129 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14130 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14131 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14132 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14133 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14134 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14137 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
14138 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
14139 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
14141 o Minor features (code style):
14142 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14143 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14144 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14146 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14147 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
14148 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
14149 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
14150 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
14152 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14153 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14154 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14156 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
14157 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
14158 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14160 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
14161 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14162 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14163 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14164 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14165 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14166 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14168 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
14169 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
14170 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
14171 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
14172 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14174 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14175 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14176 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14180 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14183 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14184 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14185 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14186 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14187 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14189 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14190 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14191 bugfixes described below.
14193 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14194 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14195 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14196 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14197 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14198 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14199 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14200 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14203 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14204 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14205 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14206 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14207 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14208 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14209 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14212 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14213 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14214 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14215 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14216 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14217 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14218 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14219 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14220 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14221 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14222 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14223 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14224 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14227 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14228 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14229 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14232 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14233 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14234 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14235 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14236 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14238 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14239 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14240 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14242 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14243 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14244 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14246 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14247 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14248 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14249 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14250 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14251 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14252 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14254 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14256 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14257 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14258 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14261 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14262 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14263 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14264 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14265 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14266 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14268 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14269 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14270 bugfixes described below.
14272 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14273 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14274 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14275 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14276 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14279 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14280 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14281 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14282 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14283 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14284 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14285 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14288 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14289 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14290 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14291 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14292 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14294 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14295 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14296 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14297 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14298 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14299 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14300 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14302 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14303 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14304 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14305 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14306 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14308 o Minor features (geoip):
14309 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14312 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14313 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14314 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14315 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14317 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14318 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14319 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14321 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14322 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14323 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14324 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14325 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14328 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14329 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14330 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14331 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14332 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14334 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14335 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14336 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14337 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14338 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14339 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14341 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14342 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14343 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14344 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14347 o Minor features (geoip):
14348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14351 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14352 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14353 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14354 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14355 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14357 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14358 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14359 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14361 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14362 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14363 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14364 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14365 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14366 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14368 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14369 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14370 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14371 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14374 o Minor features (geoip):
14375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14378 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14379 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14380 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14383 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14384 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14385 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14386 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14387 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14388 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14390 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14391 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14392 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14393 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14396 o Minor features (geoip):
14397 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14400 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14401 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14402 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14404 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14405 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14406 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14407 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14408 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14409 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14411 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14412 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14413 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14414 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14417 o Minor features (geoip):
14418 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14421 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14422 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14423 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14425 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14426 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14427 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14428 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14429 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14430 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14432 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14433 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14434 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14435 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14438 o Minor features (geoip):
14439 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14442 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14443 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14444 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14447 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
14448 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
14449 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
14450 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
14452 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
14453 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
14454 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
14455 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
14456 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14458 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14459 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
14460 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
14463 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
14464 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14465 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14466 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14469 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
14470 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
14471 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
14472 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
14473 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
14476 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
14477 security, correctness, and performance.
14479 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
14481 o Major features (directory protocol):
14482 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
14483 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
14484 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
14485 now request these documents when available. When both client and
14486 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
14487 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
14488 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
14489 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
14490 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
14491 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
14492 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
14493 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
14494 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
14495 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
14496 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
14497 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
14498 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
14500 o Major features (experimental):
14501 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
14502 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
14503 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
14504 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
14505 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
14506 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
14507 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
14509 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
14510 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
14511 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
14512 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
14513 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
14514 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
14517 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
14518 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
14519 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
14520 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
14521 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
14522 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
14523 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
14524 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
14525 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
14526 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
14527 multiples of 10000.
14529 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
14530 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
14531 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
14532 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
14533 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
14534 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
14535 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
14536 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
14537 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14538 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
14539 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
14540 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
14541 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
14542 Otherwise it is at info.
14544 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14545 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14546 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14547 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14549 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
14550 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14551 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14552 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14554 o Minor features (security, windows):
14555 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14556 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14557 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14558 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14559 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14561 o Minor features (config options):
14562 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
14563 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
14564 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
14565 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
14566 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
14567 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
14568 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
14569 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
14571 o Minor features (controller):
14572 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
14573 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
14575 o Minor features (defaults):
14576 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
14577 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
14578 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
14579 can. Closes ticket 21407.
14580 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
14581 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
14582 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
14583 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
14584 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
14585 Closes ticket 21641.
14587 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
14588 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
14589 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
14590 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14591 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14592 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14593 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14595 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
14596 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
14597 introduction points than specified in
14598 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
14599 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
14600 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
14601 21594; closes ticket 21622.
14602 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
14603 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
14604 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
14605 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
14607 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14608 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
14609 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
14610 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
14611 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
14612 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
14613 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
14614 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
14615 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
14616 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
14618 o Minor features (logging):
14619 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
14620 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
14621 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
14622 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
14625 o Minor features (performance):
14626 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
14627 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
14629 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
14630 speed some controller functions.
14632 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14633 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
14634 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
14635 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
14637 o Minor features (safety):
14638 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
14639 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
14640 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
14643 o Minor features (testing):
14644 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
14645 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
14646 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
14647 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
14648 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
14649 on. Closes ticket 21439.
14650 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
14651 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
14652 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
14653 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
14654 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
14655 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
14656 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
14657 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
14658 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
14659 21507. Partially implements 21470.
14661 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
14662 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14663 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14664 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14666 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14667 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
14668 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
14669 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
14672 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14673 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14674 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14676 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
14677 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
14678 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
14679 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
14680 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
14681 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
14682 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14683 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
14684 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
14685 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
14686 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
14687 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
14688 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
14689 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
14691 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14692 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
14693 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14694 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
14695 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
14696 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
14697 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
14698 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14700 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14701 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14702 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14703 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14704 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
14705 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
14706 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
14708 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14709 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14710 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14711 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14712 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14714 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14715 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14716 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14717 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14718 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14719 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14720 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14721 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14722 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14723 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14724 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14726 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14727 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14728 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14729 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14730 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14731 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14732 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14734 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14735 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14736 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14738 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
14739 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14740 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14741 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14742 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14744 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14745 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14746 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14747 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14748 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14749 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14750 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14751 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14752 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14753 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14755 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14756 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14757 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14758 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14759 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14761 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14762 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14763 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14765 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14766 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14767 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14768 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14769 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14770 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14771 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14772 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14773 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14774 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14775 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14776 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14778 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14779 Resolves ticket 22213.
14780 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14781 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14782 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14783 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14784 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14785 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14786 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14787 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14790 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14791 Closes ticket 21873.
14792 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14793 Closes ticket 21151.
14794 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14795 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14797 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14798 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14799 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14800 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14802 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14803 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14804 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14805 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14806 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14807 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14808 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14809 default behavior is now unavailable.
14810 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14811 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14812 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14813 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14814 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14815 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14816 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14818 o Removed features (tools):
14819 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14820 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14821 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14822 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14823 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14826 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14827 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14828 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14829 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14830 clients are not affected.
14832 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14833 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14834 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14835 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14836 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14837 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14843 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14844 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14845 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14846 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14847 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14848 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14849 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14851 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14852 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14853 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14854 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14855 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14859 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14860 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14862 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14863 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14864 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14865 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14866 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14867 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14870 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14871 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14873 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14874 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14875 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14876 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14877 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14879 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
14880 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14882 o Minor features (geoip):
14883 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14886 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
14887 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14888 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14889 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14891 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14892 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14893 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14894 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14897 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
14898 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14899 0.3.0 release series.
14901 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
14902 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
14903 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
14906 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14907 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14908 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14909 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14911 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14912 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
14913 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
14914 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14915 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
14917 o Minor features (geoip):
14918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14921 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
14922 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
14923 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
14924 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
14927 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14928 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14929 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14930 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14931 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14932 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14933 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14934 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14936 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14937 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
14938 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14941 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14942 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14945 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14946 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
14947 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
14948 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
14949 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14952 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14953 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14954 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14958 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14959 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14960 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14961 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14962 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14965 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14966 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14967 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14969 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14970 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14971 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14972 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14973 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14974 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14975 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14977 o Minor features (geoip):
14978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14982 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14983 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14984 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14985 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14988 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14989 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14990 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14992 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14993 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14995 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14996 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14997 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14999 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15000 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15001 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15004 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15005 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15006 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15007 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15008 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15009 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15010 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15011 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15012 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15014 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15015 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15016 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15017 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15018 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15019 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15020 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15021 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15022 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15023 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15024 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15025 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15026 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15028 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15029 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15030 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15031 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15032 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15034 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15035 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15036 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15038 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15039 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15040 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15041 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15042 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15043 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15044 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15047 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15048 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15049 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15050 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15051 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15052 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15053 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15055 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15056 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15057 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15058 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15061 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15062 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15063 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15064 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15066 o Minor features (geoip):
15067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15071 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15072 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15073 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15074 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15077 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15078 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15079 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15081 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15082 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15084 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15085 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15086 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15088 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15089 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15090 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15093 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15094 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15095 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15096 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15097 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15098 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15099 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15100 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15101 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15103 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15104 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15105 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15106 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15107 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15108 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15109 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15110 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15111 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15113 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15114 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15115 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15116 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15117 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15119 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15120 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15121 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15122 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15123 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15126 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15127 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15128 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15129 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15130 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15132 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15133 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15134 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15136 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15137 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15138 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15139 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15140 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15141 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15144 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15145 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15146 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15147 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15148 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15149 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15150 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15153 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15154 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15155 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15156 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15157 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15158 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15159 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15161 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15162 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15163 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15164 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15167 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15168 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15169 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15170 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15172 o Minor features (geoip):
15173 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15176 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15177 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15178 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15181 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15182 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15183 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15184 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15187 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15188 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15189 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15191 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15192 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15194 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15195 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15196 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15198 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15199 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15200 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15203 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15204 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15205 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15206 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15207 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15208 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15209 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15210 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15211 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15213 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15214 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15215 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15216 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15217 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15218 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15219 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15220 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15221 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15223 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15224 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15225 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15226 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15227 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15229 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15230 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15231 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15232 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15233 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15236 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15237 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15238 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15239 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15240 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15242 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15243 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15244 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15246 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15247 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15248 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15249 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15250 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15251 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15254 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15255 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15256 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15257 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15258 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15259 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15260 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15263 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15264 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15265 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15266 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15267 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15268 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15269 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15271 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15272 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15273 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15274 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15277 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15278 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15279 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15280 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15282 o Minor features (geoip):
15283 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15286 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15287 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15288 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15290 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15291 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15292 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15293 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15294 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15295 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15297 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15298 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15299 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15303 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15304 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15305 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15306 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15309 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15310 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15311 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15313 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15314 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15316 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15317 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15318 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15320 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15321 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15322 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15325 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15326 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15327 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15328 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15329 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15330 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15331 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15332 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15333 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15335 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15336 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15337 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15338 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15339 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15340 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15341 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15342 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15343 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15345 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15346 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15347 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15348 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15349 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15352 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15353 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15354 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15355 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15356 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15358 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15359 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15360 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15362 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15363 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15364 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15365 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15366 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15367 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15370 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15371 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15372 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15373 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15374 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15375 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15376 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15379 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15380 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15381 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15382 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15383 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15384 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15385 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15387 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15388 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15389 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15390 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15393 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15394 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15395 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15396 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15398 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15399 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15400 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15401 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15403 o Minor features (geoip):
15404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15408 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15409 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15412 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15413 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15417 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
15418 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
15419 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
15420 keep them from coming back.
15422 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
15423 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
15424 will be nearly identical to it.
15426 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
15427 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
15428 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
15429 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
15430 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
15431 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15433 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
15434 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
15435 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15437 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
15438 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
15439 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
15440 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
15441 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
15442 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
15443 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
15444 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
15445 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
15446 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15447 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15448 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15449 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15450 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15451 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15453 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
15454 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
15455 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
15457 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15458 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15459 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15461 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15462 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15463 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15464 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
15465 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
15466 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
15467 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
15469 o Minor features (geoip):
15470 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15473 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
15474 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
15475 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
15478 o Minor features (testing):
15479 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
15480 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
15481 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
15483 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
15484 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
15485 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
15487 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15488 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15489 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15490 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
15491 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
15492 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15494 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15495 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
15496 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
15497 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15498 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
15499 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
15500 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15503 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
15504 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
15505 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
15506 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15507 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
15508 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
15509 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15511 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15512 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
15513 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
15514 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
15515 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
15516 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15518 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15519 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15520 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
15522 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
15523 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15524 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15525 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15526 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15529 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15532 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15533 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15534 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15535 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15537 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15538 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15539 least January of 2020.
15541 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15542 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15543 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15544 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15547 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15548 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15549 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15550 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15551 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15552 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15553 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15555 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15556 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15557 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15558 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15559 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15560 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15561 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15563 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15564 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15565 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15567 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15568 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15569 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15571 o Minor features (geoip):
15572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15575 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15576 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15577 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15579 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15580 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15582 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15583 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15584 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15586 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15587 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15588 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15589 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15590 Patch by "junglefowl".
15593 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
15594 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
15595 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
15596 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
15597 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
15598 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
15600 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
15601 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
15602 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
15605 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
15606 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15607 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15608 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15610 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
15611 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
15612 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
15613 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
15614 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15616 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15617 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
15618 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
15619 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
15620 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15622 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
15623 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15624 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15625 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15626 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15627 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15628 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15630 o Minor feature (client):
15631 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
15632 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
15634 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
15635 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
15636 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
15637 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
15639 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
15640 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
15641 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
15642 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
15643 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
15645 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
15646 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
15647 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
15648 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
15649 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
15650 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
15651 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
15652 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
15653 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
15654 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
15656 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
15657 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15658 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15660 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15661 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15663 o Minor features (relay):
15664 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
15665 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
15666 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
15667 Written by Michael Sonntag.
15669 o Minor bugfix (logging):
15670 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
15671 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
15672 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
15673 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
15676 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15677 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
15678 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
15679 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15681 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
15682 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
15683 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
15685 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
15686 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15687 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
15688 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
15689 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15690 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
15691 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
15693 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
15694 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
15695 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
15696 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
15697 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
15698 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
15699 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
15702 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15703 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
15704 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15706 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15707 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15708 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15709 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15710 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15711 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15712 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15713 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15715 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15716 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15717 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15719 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15720 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15721 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15722 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15724 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
15725 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
15726 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
15727 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15729 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15730 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15731 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15732 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15733 Patch by "junglefowl".
15735 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15736 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15737 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15741 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
15742 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15743 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15744 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15745 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15746 version should upgrade.
15748 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
15749 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
15750 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
15751 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
15752 the set of fallback directories, and more.
15754 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
15755 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15756 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
15757 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
15758 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
15759 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
15762 o Major features (security):
15763 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15764 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15765 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15766 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15767 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15768 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15770 o Major features (directory authority, security):
15771 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
15772 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
15773 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
15775 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
15776 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
15777 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
15778 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
15779 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
15782 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
15783 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15784 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15785 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15786 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15787 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15788 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15789 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15790 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15791 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15792 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15794 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
15795 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15796 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15798 o Minor features (controller):
15799 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
15800 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
15802 o Minor features (entry guards):
15803 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
15804 break regression tests.
15805 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
15806 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
15808 o Minor features (fallback directories):
15809 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
15811 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
15812 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
15813 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
15814 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
15815 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
15816 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
15817 Closes ticket 20539.
15818 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
15820 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
15821 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
15822 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
15823 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
15824 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
15826 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
15827 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
15828 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
15829 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
15830 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
15831 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
15832 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
15833 Closes ticket 20822.
15834 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
15835 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
15837 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
15838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15841 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
15842 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
15843 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
15844 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
15846 o Minor features (linting):
15847 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
15848 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
15850 o Minor features (logging):
15851 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
15852 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
15854 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
15855 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
15856 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
15857 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
15858 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
15859 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
15861 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
15862 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
15863 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
15864 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
15866 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15867 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
15868 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
15871 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
15872 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
15873 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
15874 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15876 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15877 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
15878 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
15879 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
15880 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15882 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15883 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
15884 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
15887 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15888 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15889 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15890 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15891 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15893 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15894 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15895 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15897 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15898 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15899 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15900 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15901 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15902 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15903 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15904 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15905 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15907 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
15908 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
15909 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
15910 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15912 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15913 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
15914 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
15915 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15916 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15917 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15919 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15920 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15921 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15922 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15923 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15924 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15925 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15926 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15928 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15929 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
15930 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15932 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15933 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15934 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15935 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15937 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15938 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15941 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15942 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15943 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15944 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15946 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15947 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15948 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15950 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15951 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15952 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15953 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15954 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15956 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15957 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15958 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15960 o Documentation (formatting):
15961 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15962 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15964 o Documentation (man page):
15965 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15966 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15969 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15970 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15971 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15972 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15973 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15974 version should upgrade.
15976 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15977 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15979 o Major bugfixes (security):
15980 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15981 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15982 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15983 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15984 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15985 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15987 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15988 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15989 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15990 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15991 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15992 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15993 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15994 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15995 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15996 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15997 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15999 o Minor features (geoip):
16000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16003 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16004 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
16005 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
16006 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
16008 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
16009 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16012 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
16013 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
16014 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
16015 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
16016 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
16017 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
16018 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
16019 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
16021 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
16023 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
16024 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
16025 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
16026 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
16027 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
16030 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
16031 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
16032 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
16033 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
16034 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
16035 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
16036 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
16037 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
16040 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
16041 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
16042 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
16043 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
16044 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
16046 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
16047 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
16048 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
16049 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
16050 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
16051 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
16052 15056; part of proposal 220.
16053 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
16054 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
16055 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
16056 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
16057 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
16059 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
16060 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
16061 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
16062 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
16063 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16065 o Minor features (controller):
16066 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
16067 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
16070 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
16071 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
16072 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
16075 o Minor features (directory authority):
16076 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
16077 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
16078 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
16079 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
16080 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
16082 o Minor features (directory cache):
16083 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
16084 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
16087 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
16088 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
16089 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
16090 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
16092 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
16093 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
16094 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
16095 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
16097 o Minor features (infrastructure):
16098 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
16099 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
16101 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16102 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
16103 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
16104 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
16106 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16107 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
16108 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16109 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
16110 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
16111 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
16113 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
16114 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
16115 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
16116 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
16117 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16119 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
16120 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
16121 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
16122 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
16123 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16125 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
16126 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
16127 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
16128 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
16129 on all recent tor versions.
16130 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
16131 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
16132 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
16133 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16135 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
16136 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
16137 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16139 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16140 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
16141 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
16142 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
16145 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
16146 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
16147 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
16150 o Minor bugfixes (util):
16151 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
16152 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
16153 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
16154 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
16156 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
16157 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
16158 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
16159 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
16161 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16162 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
16163 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
16164 Closes ticket 19858.
16165 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
16166 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
16167 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
16168 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
16169 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
16170 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
16171 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
16172 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
16173 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
16174 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
16175 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
16176 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
16177 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
16178 redundant with the similar structures used in the
16179 channel abstraction.
16180 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
16181 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
16182 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
16183 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
16184 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
16185 replaced with code automatically generated by the
16189 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
16190 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16191 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
16192 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
16194 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
16195 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
16197 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
16198 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
16199 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
16200 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
16201 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
16204 o Removed features:
16205 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
16206 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
16207 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
16209 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
16210 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
16211 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
16214 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
16215 from "overcaffeinated".
16216 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
16217 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
16218 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
16219 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
16220 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
16224 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
16225 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
16226 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
16227 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
16228 become available for their systems.
16230 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
16233 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
16234 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
16236 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
16237 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16238 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16239 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16240 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16241 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16242 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16243 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16244 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16246 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
16247 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16248 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16249 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16250 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16252 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
16253 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16257 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
16258 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
16260 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
16261 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
16262 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
16263 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
16264 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
16265 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
16266 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
16267 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
16269 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
16271 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
16272 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
16273 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
16274 become available for their systems.
16276 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
16277 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16279 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
16280 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16281 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16282 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16283 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16284 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16285 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16286 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16287 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16289 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16290 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16291 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16292 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16293 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16296 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
16297 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
16298 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
16301 o Minor features (geoip):
16302 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16305 o Minor bugfix (build):
16306 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16307 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16308 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16310 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16311 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
16312 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
16313 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
16315 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
16316 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
16317 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
16319 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16320 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16321 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16324 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16325 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16326 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16327 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16328 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16329 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16331 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16332 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16333 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16334 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16336 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16337 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
16338 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
16340 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16341 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
16342 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
16343 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
16344 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
16345 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
16346 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16347 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
16348 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
16349 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
16352 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16353 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16354 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16355 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16358 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16359 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16360 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16361 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16362 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16363 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16366 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16367 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16368 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16371 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16372 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16373 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16374 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16376 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16377 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16378 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16379 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16382 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16383 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16384 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16385 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16388 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16389 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16390 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16393 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16394 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16395 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16397 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16398 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16399 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16401 o Minor features (geoip):
16402 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16405 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
16406 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
16407 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
16408 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
16409 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
16411 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
16412 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
16413 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
16414 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
16415 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
16416 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16418 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16419 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16420 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16422 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16423 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
16424 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
16425 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
16426 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
16427 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
16429 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16430 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16431 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16433 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16434 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16436 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
16437 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
16438 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
16439 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
16440 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
16441 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
16443 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16444 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16445 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16449 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16450 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16453 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
16454 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
16455 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
16456 everyone to test this release.
16458 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
16459 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16460 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16461 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16464 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
16465 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16466 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16467 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16470 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
16471 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
16472 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
16473 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
16474 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16475 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
16476 download, stop waiting for certificates.
16477 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
16478 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
16479 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
16481 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
16482 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
16483 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
16484 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16485 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
16486 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16487 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
16488 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
16489 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16490 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
16491 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
16492 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
16494 o Minor features (geoip):
16495 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16498 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
16499 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
16500 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
16501 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
16502 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
16503 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16505 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
16506 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
16507 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
16508 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16509 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
16510 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16512 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16513 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16514 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16515 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
16518 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16519 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16520 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16521 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16522 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16523 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16524 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16525 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16527 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
16528 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16529 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16531 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16532 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16533 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16534 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16535 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16536 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16537 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16538 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16540 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
16541 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
16542 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
16545 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16546 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16547 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16550 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
16551 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16552 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16553 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16556 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16557 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16558 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16559 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16560 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16563 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16564 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16565 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16566 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16567 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16568 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16569 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16570 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16571 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16573 o Minor features (geoip):
16574 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16578 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
16579 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
16580 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
16581 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
16582 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
16585 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
16586 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
16587 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
16588 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
16589 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
16590 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
16591 be a release candidate.
16593 o Major features (security fixes):
16594 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16595 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16596 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16597 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16598 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16599 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16600 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16601 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16603 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
16604 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
16605 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
16606 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
16607 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
16608 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
16609 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
16610 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
16611 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
16612 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
16613 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
16614 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
16615 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
16616 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
16619 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16620 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16621 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16623 o Minor features (client, directory):
16624 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16625 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16626 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16629 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16630 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16633 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16634 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16635 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16638 o Minor features (geoip):
16639 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16642 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16643 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16644 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16645 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16646 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
16648 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16649 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16650 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16651 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16654 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
16655 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16656 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16657 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16658 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16660 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16661 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16662 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16665 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16666 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16667 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16668 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16670 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16671 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16672 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16673 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16675 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16676 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16677 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16678 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16681 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16682 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16683 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16687 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16688 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
16690 o Required libraries:
16691 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
16692 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
16693 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
16696 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
16697 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
16698 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
16699 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
16700 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
16701 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
16702 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
16703 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
16705 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
16706 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16707 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16708 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16709 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16710 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16712 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
16713 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16714 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16715 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16716 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16719 o Major features (circuit building, security):
16720 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
16721 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
16722 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
16724 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
16725 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
16727 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
16728 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
16729 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
16730 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
16731 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
16732 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
16733 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
16734 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
16735 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
16736 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
16737 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
16739 o Major features (resource management):
16740 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
16741 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
16742 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
16743 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
16744 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
16745 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
16747 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
16748 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
16749 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
16750 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
16752 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16753 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
16754 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
16755 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16757 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16758 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16759 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16760 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16761 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16762 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16764 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16765 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
16766 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16767 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16768 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16770 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16771 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16772 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16773 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16775 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
16776 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16779 o Minor feature (port flags):
16780 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
16781 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16782 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16783 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16784 18693; patch by "teor".
16786 o Minor features (directory authority):
16787 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16788 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16789 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16791 o Minor features (testing):
16792 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16793 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16794 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16795 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16797 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16798 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16799 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16800 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
16801 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16802 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16803 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16804 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16805 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16807 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16808 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16809 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16810 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16812 o Minor features (unit tests):
16813 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16814 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16815 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16816 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16817 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16818 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
16819 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16820 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16822 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16823 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16824 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16825 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16826 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16827 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16828 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16829 assertion as a test failure.
16831 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16832 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16833 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16834 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16835 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16836 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16838 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
16839 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16840 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16841 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16842 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16843 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
16844 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
16845 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
16846 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
16847 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
16848 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16849 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16850 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
16851 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
16852 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
16853 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16855 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16856 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16857 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16858 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16859 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16860 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16861 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16864 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16865 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16866 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16867 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
16868 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16869 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16870 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16873 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16874 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16875 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16876 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16878 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16879 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16880 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16882 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16883 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16884 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16885 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16886 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16887 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16889 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16890 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
16891 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
16892 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
16894 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16895 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16896 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
16898 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16899 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16900 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
16901 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16902 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16903 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16905 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16906 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16907 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16909 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16910 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16911 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16914 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16915 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
16916 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16917 19678. Patch by teor.
16919 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16920 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
16921 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
16922 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
16923 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
16924 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
16926 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16927 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16931 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16932 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16933 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16934 who select public relays as their bridges.
16936 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16937 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16938 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16939 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16940 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16941 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16943 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16944 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16945 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16946 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16947 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16950 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16951 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16952 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16953 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16955 o Minor features (geoip):
16956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16960 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
16961 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
16962 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
16963 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
16964 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16965 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
16967 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
16968 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16969 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16971 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
16972 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16973 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16974 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16975 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16976 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16978 o Major features (user interface):
16979 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16980 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
16981 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
16983 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
16984 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16985 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16986 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16988 o Minor features (config):
16989 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16990 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16992 o Minor features (geoip):
16993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16996 o Minor features (user interface):
16997 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
16998 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
17001 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
17002 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
17003 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
17005 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17006 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
17007 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
17009 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
17010 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
17011 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
17012 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17014 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
17015 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
17016 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
17019 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
17020 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
17021 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
17022 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
17024 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17025 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
17026 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17028 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17029 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
17030 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17032 o Deprecated features:
17033 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
17034 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
17035 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
17036 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
17037 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
17038 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
17039 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
17040 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
17041 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17042 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
17043 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
17044 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
17045 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
17046 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
17047 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
17048 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
17049 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
17050 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
17051 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
17052 and TransListenAddress.
17055 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
17056 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
17059 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
17060 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
17063 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
17064 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
17065 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
17066 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
17067 encouraged to upgrade.
17069 o Directory authority changes:
17070 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17071 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17073 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
17074 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
17075 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
17076 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
17077 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
17078 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17080 o Minor features (geoip):
17081 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17085 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
17086 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
17089 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17090 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
17091 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
17092 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
17095 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
17096 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
17097 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
17098 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
17099 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
17100 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
17101 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
17102 security, correctness, and performance.
17104 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
17106 o New system requirements:
17107 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
17108 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
17109 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
17110 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
17111 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
17112 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
17113 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
17114 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
17116 o Major features (build, hardening):
17117 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
17118 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
17119 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
17120 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
17121 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
17122 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
17123 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
17124 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
17125 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
17127 o Major features (compilation):
17128 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
17129 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
17130 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
17131 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
17133 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
17134 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
17135 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
17137 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
17138 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
17139 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
17140 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
17141 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
17142 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
17143 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
17144 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
17146 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
17147 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
17148 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
17149 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
17150 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
17151 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
17152 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
17154 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
17155 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
17156 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
17157 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
17158 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
17159 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
17160 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17162 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
17163 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
17164 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
17165 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
17166 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
17168 o Minor features (build, hardening):
17169 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
17170 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
17171 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
17172 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
17173 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
17174 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
17175 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
17176 Closes ticket 18895.
17178 o Minor features (code safety):
17179 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
17180 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
17183 o Minor features (controller):
17184 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
17185 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
17186 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
17187 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
17188 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
17189 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
17190 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
17191 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
17193 o Minor features (directory authority):
17194 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
17195 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
17196 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
17197 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
17198 Implements ticket 18624.
17199 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
17200 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
17201 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
17204 o Minor features (hidden service):
17205 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
17206 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
17207 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
17210 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
17211 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
17212 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
17213 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
17214 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
17215 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
17216 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
17217 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
17218 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
17219 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
17220 Closes ticket 18365.
17222 o Minor features (logging):
17223 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
17224 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
17225 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
17226 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
17227 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
17228 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
17229 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
17230 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
17231 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
17232 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
17234 o Minor features (performance):
17235 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
17236 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
17237 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
17238 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
17239 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
17240 Closes ticket 18815.
17242 o Minor features (relay, usability):
17243 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
17244 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
17245 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
17246 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
17249 o Minor features (testing):
17250 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
17251 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17252 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
17253 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
17254 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
17255 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
17256 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
17257 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
17260 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17261 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
17262 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
17263 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
17264 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17266 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17267 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
17268 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
17269 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
17270 patch from "cypherpunks".
17272 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
17273 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
17274 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17276 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17277 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
17278 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
17279 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17281 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17282 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
17283 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
17284 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17285 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
17286 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
17287 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
17288 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17290 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17291 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
17292 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17293 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
17294 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
17295 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
17296 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
17298 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
17299 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
17300 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
17303 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
17304 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
17305 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
17307 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
17308 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
17309 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
17312 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
17313 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
17314 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
17315 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
17318 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17319 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
17320 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
17322 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17323 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
17324 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
17327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17328 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
17329 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17330 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
17331 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
17332 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
17333 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17334 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
17335 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
17338 o Minor bugfixes (time):
17339 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
17340 bugfix on all released tor versions.
17341 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
17342 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
17343 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
17344 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17346 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
17347 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
17348 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
17349 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
17350 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
17352 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
17353 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17355 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17356 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
17358 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
17359 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
17360 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
17361 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
17364 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
17365 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
17367 o Removed features:
17368 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
17369 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
17370 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
17371 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
17372 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
17373 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
17374 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
17377 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
17378 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
17379 command-line options to enable them.
17380 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
17381 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
17384 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
17386 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
17388 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
17389 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
17390 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
17391 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
17392 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
17393 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17395 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
17397 o Minor features (geoip):
17398 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17402 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
17403 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17405 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17406 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
17407 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
17408 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
17410 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17411 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17412 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17413 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17414 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17415 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17416 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17417 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17420 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
17421 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
17422 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
17423 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
17424 against previous versions.
17426 o Directory authority changes:
17427 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17429 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
17430 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
17431 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
17432 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
17434 o Minor features (build):
17435 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17436 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
17437 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
17438 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17439 Patch from intrigeri.
17441 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
17442 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
17443 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
17446 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
17447 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
17448 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
17449 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
17450 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
17453 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17454 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
17455 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
17456 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17457 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
17458 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
17459 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17461 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
17462 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17463 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17464 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17466 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
17467 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
17468 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
17469 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
17470 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
17471 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17473 o Fallback directory list:
17474 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
17475 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
17476 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
17477 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
17478 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
17479 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
17480 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
17481 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
17482 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
17485 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
17486 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
17487 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
17488 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
17491 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
17492 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
17493 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
17494 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17496 o Minor features (build):
17497 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17498 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
17500 o Minor features (geoip):
17501 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17505 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17506 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17508 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17509 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17510 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17511 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17515 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
17516 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
17517 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
17518 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
17519 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
17522 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
17523 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17524 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17525 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17526 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17528 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
17529 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
17530 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
17531 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
17532 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
17533 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
17535 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17536 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
17537 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
17538 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17540 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
17541 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
17542 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
17543 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
17544 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
17545 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
17546 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
17548 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
17549 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
17551 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
17552 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
17553 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
17555 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17556 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
17557 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
17558 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
17559 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
17560 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17563 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
17564 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
17565 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
17568 o Major bugfixes (key management):
17569 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17570 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17571 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17572 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17573 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17574 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17577 o Major bugfixes (testing):
17578 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
17579 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17580 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
17581 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17583 o Minor features (clients):
17584 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
17585 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
17586 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
17588 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
17589 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
17590 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
17591 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
17592 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
17593 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
17594 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
17595 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
17596 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
17597 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
17599 o Minor features (geoip):
17600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17603 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
17604 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
17605 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
17608 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17609 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
17610 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17612 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17613 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
17614 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
17616 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
17617 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
17619 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17620 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17623 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17624 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
17625 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
17626 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
17627 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17628 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
17629 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
17630 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17632 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17633 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17634 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17635 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17636 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17638 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
17639 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
17640 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
17641 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17642 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17643 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
17646 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17647 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17648 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17649 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17650 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17651 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17653 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17654 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17655 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17656 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17657 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
17658 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17659 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
17660 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17662 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17663 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17664 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17665 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17667 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17668 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17669 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17670 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17671 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17672 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17675 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17676 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
17677 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
17679 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17680 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17681 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17683 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17684 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17685 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17687 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17688 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
17689 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
17690 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17691 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17692 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17693 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17695 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17696 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17697 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17698 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17701 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17702 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17703 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17704 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17707 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
17708 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
17709 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
17710 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
17711 directory support should also be much improved.
17713 o New system requirements:
17714 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
17715 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
17716 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
17717 longer runs with, these versions.
17718 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
17719 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
17720 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
17722 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
17723 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
17724 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
17725 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
17726 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
17728 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
17729 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17730 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17731 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17732 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17734 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
17735 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
17736 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
17737 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
17738 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
17740 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
17741 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
17742 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
17743 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17745 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
17746 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
17747 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17748 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
17749 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17751 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
17752 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
17753 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
17754 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
17755 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
17756 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17759 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
17760 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17761 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17763 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
17764 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
17765 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
17766 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
17769 o Major bugfixes (voting):
17770 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
17771 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
17772 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
17773 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
17775 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
17776 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
17777 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
17778 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17779 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
17780 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
17781 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
17782 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
17783 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
17784 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17786 o Minor features (security, win32):
17787 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
17788 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
17791 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
17792 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17793 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17794 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17796 o Minor features (build):
17797 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
17798 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
17799 Steven Chamberlain.
17801 o Minor features (code hardening):
17802 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
17803 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
17804 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
17807 o Minor features (crypto):
17808 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
17809 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
17812 o Minor features (geoip):
17813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17816 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
17817 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
17818 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
17819 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
17820 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
17822 o Minor features (IPv6):
17823 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
17824 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
17825 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
17826 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
17827 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
17828 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
17829 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
17831 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17832 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
17833 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
17834 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
17835 while fixing 18548.
17837 o Minor features (robustness):
17838 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
17839 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
17840 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
17842 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17843 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
17844 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
17845 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
17846 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
17847 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
17848 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
17851 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17852 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17853 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17854 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17855 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17857 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17858 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17859 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17860 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17862 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17863 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
17864 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
17866 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
17867 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
17868 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17869 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
17870 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17871 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17873 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17874 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17875 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17876 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17877 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17879 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17880 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17881 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17882 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17885 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17886 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17887 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17889 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17890 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17891 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17892 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17894 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17895 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17896 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17897 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17898 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17899 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17901 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17902 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17903 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17904 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17906 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
17907 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17908 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17909 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17910 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17912 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17913 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17914 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17915 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17916 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17917 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17918 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17919 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17920 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17923 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17924 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17925 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17926 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17928 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17929 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17930 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17932 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17933 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17934 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17935 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17936 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17937 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17938 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17939 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
17940 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17942 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17943 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17944 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17945 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17946 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17947 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17948 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
17949 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
17950 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
17951 Christian, patch by teor.
17953 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17954 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17955 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17956 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17958 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
17959 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
17960 patch by "cypherpunks".
17961 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17963 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17964 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17966 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17967 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17968 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17969 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17971 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17972 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17973 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17976 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17977 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17978 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17979 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17980 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17981 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17983 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
17984 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17985 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17986 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17988 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17989 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17990 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17991 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17993 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17994 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17995 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17996 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17997 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17998 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17999 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
18000 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
18001 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
18004 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
18005 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
18006 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
18008 o Removed features:
18009 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
18010 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
18011 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
18014 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
18016 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
18017 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
18020 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
18021 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
18022 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
18023 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
18024 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
18026 o Major features (security, Linux):
18027 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
18028 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
18029 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
18030 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
18031 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
18033 o Major features (directory system):
18034 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
18035 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
18036 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
18037 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
18038 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
18039 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
18040 "mikeperry" and "teor".
18041 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
18042 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
18043 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
18044 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
18045 15775. Patch by "teor".
18046 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
18047 "gsathya", and "karsten".
18048 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
18049 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
18050 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
18051 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
18052 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
18055 o Major key updates:
18056 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
18057 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
18060 o Minor features (security, clock):
18061 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
18062 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
18063 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
18064 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
18066 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
18067 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
18068 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
18069 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
18070 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
18071 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18073 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
18074 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
18075 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
18076 Implements ticket 17026.
18077 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
18078 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
18079 Implements feature 17986.
18080 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
18081 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
18082 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
18083 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
18084 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
18085 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
18088 o Minor features (security, RNG):
18089 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
18090 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
18091 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
18092 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
18093 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
18094 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
18095 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
18096 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
18097 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
18098 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
18101 o Minor features (accounting):
18102 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
18103 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
18104 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
18105 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
18107 o Minor features (build):
18108 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
18109 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
18110 patch from "cypherpunks."
18111 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
18112 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
18113 17549, 17921, and 17984.
18115 o Minor features (controller):
18116 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
18117 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
18118 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
18119 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
18120 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
18121 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
18122 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
18123 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
18126 o Minor features (crypto):
18127 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
18129 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
18130 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
18131 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
18132 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
18133 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
18134 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
18135 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
18136 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18138 o Minor features (directory downloads):
18139 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
18140 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
18141 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
18142 17864; patch by "teor".
18143 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
18144 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
18145 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
18147 o Minor features (geoip):
18148 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18151 o Minor features (IPv6):
18152 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
18153 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
18154 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
18155 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
18156 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
18157 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
18158 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
18159 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
18160 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
18161 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
18162 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
18164 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
18165 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18166 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
18167 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
18169 o Minor features (logging):
18170 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
18171 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
18172 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
18173 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
18176 o Minor features (portability):
18177 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
18178 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
18180 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
18181 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
18182 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
18183 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
18184 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
18186 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
18187 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
18188 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
18189 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
18190 Resolves ticket 17951.
18192 o Minor features (replay cache):
18193 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
18194 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
18196 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
18197 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
18198 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
18199 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
18200 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18201 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
18202 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
18203 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
18204 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
18205 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
18206 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18207 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
18208 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
18209 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18211 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
18212 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
18213 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
18214 from "unixninja92".
18216 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18217 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
18218 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
18219 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18220 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
18221 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
18223 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
18226 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18227 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
18228 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
18229 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18230 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
18231 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
18232 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18233 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
18235 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
18236 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
18237 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
18238 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
18239 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
18240 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
18241 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18242 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
18244 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
18245 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18247 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
18248 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
18249 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18251 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18252 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
18253 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
18254 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18256 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18257 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
18258 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18260 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18261 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
18262 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18264 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18265 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
18266 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
18267 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
18268 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
18270 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
18271 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18273 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18274 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
18275 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
18278 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18279 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
18280 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
18281 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
18282 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
18283 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
18285 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
18286 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
18287 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
18288 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
18289 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
18291 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
18292 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
18293 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
18296 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
18297 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
18298 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
18299 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18300 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
18301 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
18302 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
18303 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
18306 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18307 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
18308 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
18309 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
18310 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
18311 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18312 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
18313 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
18314 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
18315 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
18317 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
18318 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18320 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18321 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
18322 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
18323 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
18324 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
18325 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
18326 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
18327 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
18328 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
18329 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
18331 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
18332 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
18333 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
18334 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
18336 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
18337 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
18338 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
18339 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
18340 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
18342 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
18343 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
18346 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
18347 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
18348 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
18349 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
18350 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
18351 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
18352 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
18355 o Removed features:
18356 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
18357 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
18358 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
18359 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
18360 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
18363 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
18364 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
18365 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
18366 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
18367 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18368 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
18369 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
18370 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
18371 portion of ticket 16831.
18372 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
18373 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
18374 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
18376 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
18377 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
18380 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
18381 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
18382 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
18384 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
18385 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
18386 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
18387 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
18388 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
18389 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
18392 o Minor features (geoip):
18393 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18396 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18397 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
18398 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
18399 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
18400 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
18401 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
18403 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18404 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
18405 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
18406 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
18407 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
18408 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
18409 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
18410 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18411 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
18412 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18415 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
18416 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
18417 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
18418 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
18419 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
18420 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
18421 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
18422 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
18423 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
18424 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
18425 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
18426 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
18427 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
18428 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
18429 that would make him proud.
18431 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
18433 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
18434 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
18435 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
18436 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
18437 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
18438 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
18439 of Tor invoke which others.
18441 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
18444 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
18445 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18446 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
18447 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
18448 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
18449 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
18450 release will the the official stable release.
18452 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
18453 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
18454 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
18455 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
18456 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
18459 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
18460 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
18461 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18463 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
18464 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
18465 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
18466 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
18467 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18468 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
18469 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
18471 o Minor features (geoIP):
18472 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18476 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
18477 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
18478 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
18479 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18480 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
18481 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
18483 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18484 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
18485 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
18488 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
18489 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
18490 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
18491 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
18493 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18494 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
18495 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
18496 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
18497 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
18498 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
18499 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
18500 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
18501 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
18502 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
18503 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
18507 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
18508 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
18512 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
18513 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18514 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
18515 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
18516 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
18518 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
18519 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
18520 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
18521 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
18523 o Major features (security, hidden services):
18524 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
18525 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
18526 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
18527 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
18528 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
18529 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
18530 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
18532 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
18533 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
18534 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
18535 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
18536 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
18537 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
18540 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
18541 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
18542 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
18543 available. Implements ticket 16535.
18544 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
18545 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
18548 o Major features (performance testing):
18549 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18550 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18551 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18553 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
18554 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
18555 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
18556 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
18558 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
18559 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
18560 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
18561 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
18562 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
18563 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
18565 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
18566 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
18568 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
18569 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
18570 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18571 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
18572 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18574 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
18575 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
18576 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
18577 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
18578 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
18579 own. Implements feature 15482.
18580 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
18581 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
18583 o Minor features (compilation):
18584 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
18585 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
18586 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
18587 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
18588 which started requiring ECC.
18590 o Minor features (geoip):
18591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18594 o Minor features (hidden services):
18595 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
18596 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
18597 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
18598 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
18599 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
18600 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
18601 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
18602 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
18604 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
18605 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
18606 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
18609 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
18610 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18611 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18612 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18614 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
18615 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
18616 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
18617 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
18618 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
18620 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
18621 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
18622 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
18623 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
18624 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18625 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
18626 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
18627 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
18628 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
18629 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
18630 Related to ticket 16069.
18631 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
18632 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
18633 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
18634 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
18635 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
18636 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18638 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
18639 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
18640 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18641 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
18642 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
18644 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
18645 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
18646 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18648 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
18649 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
18650 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
18651 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18653 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18654 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
18655 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
18656 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
18657 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18659 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18660 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
18661 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
18662 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
18663 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18664 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
18665 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
18666 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
18667 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
18668 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
18669 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
18672 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
18673 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
18674 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18676 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18677 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
18678 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18679 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
18680 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18682 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
18683 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
18684 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
18685 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
18687 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18688 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
18689 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
18691 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
18692 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18693 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
18694 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
18695 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
18696 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18697 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
18698 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18700 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18701 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
18702 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
18703 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
18704 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
18706 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
18707 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
18710 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18711 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
18712 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
18713 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
18714 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
18715 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
18716 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
18717 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
18718 function. Closes ticket 16763.
18719 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
18720 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
18721 suite of other microdesc functions.
18722 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
18723 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
18724 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
18725 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
18726 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
18727 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
18728 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
18729 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
18730 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
18731 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
18733 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
18734 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
18736 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
18739 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
18740 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
18741 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
18742 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
18746 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
18747 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
18748 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
18749 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
18750 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
18751 Closes ticket 13338.
18752 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
18753 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
18754 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
18755 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
18756 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
18757 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
18760 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18761 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18762 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18763 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18764 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18765 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
18766 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
18768 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18769 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18770 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18771 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18772 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
18773 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
18774 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
18775 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
18776 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
18777 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
18778 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18779 network before we begin.
18780 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18781 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18782 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18783 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18784 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18785 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18786 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18787 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18790 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
18791 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
18792 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
18793 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
18794 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
18795 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
18797 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
18798 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
18799 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
18801 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
18802 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
18803 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
18804 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
18805 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
18806 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
18807 Implements part of ticket 12498.
18808 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
18809 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18810 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
18811 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
18812 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18813 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
18814 part of ticket 12498.
18815 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
18816 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
18817 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
18818 key). Closes ticket 13642.
18820 o Major features (Hidden services):
18821 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
18822 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
18823 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
18824 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
18825 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
18827 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
18828 introduction points, which used to change the number of
18829 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
18830 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
18832 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
18833 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
18834 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
18835 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
18836 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
18837 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
18839 o Major features (performance):
18840 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
18841 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
18842 Implements ticket 16467.
18843 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
18844 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
18845 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
18846 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
18848 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
18849 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18850 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
18851 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
18852 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
18853 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
18855 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18856 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18857 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18858 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18859 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18860 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18861 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18862 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18865 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18866 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
18867 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
18868 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
18869 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
18870 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
18871 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
18874 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
18875 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
18876 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
18877 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
18878 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
18879 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
18881 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18882 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18883 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18884 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18885 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18886 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18887 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18888 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18891 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
18892 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18893 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18894 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18895 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
18896 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
18897 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18899 o Minor features (client):
18900 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
18901 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
18902 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
18904 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
18905 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
18906 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
18907 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18908 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
18909 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
18910 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
18913 o Minor features (control protocol):
18914 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
18915 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
18917 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18918 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
18919 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
18920 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
18921 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
18922 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
18924 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
18925 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18926 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18928 o Minor features (hidden services):
18929 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
18930 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
18931 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
18932 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
18935 o Minor features (portability):
18936 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
18937 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
18938 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
18940 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
18941 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18942 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18943 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18945 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18946 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
18947 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
18948 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18950 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
18951 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18952 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18953 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18954 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18955 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18957 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18958 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
18959 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
18960 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18961 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
18962 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
18963 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18965 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18966 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
18967 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18969 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
18970 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18971 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18972 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18974 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
18975 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
18976 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
18977 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
18979 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18980 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18983 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18984 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
18985 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18986 from "cypherpunks".
18988 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
18989 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
18990 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18991 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
18992 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
18993 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18995 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18996 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
18997 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18999 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
19000 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
19001 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
19003 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
19004 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
19005 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19006 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
19007 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19008 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
19009 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
19010 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
19011 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19013 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19014 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
19015 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
19016 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
19017 haven't supported that in ages.
19018 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
19019 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
19020 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
19021 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
19024 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
19025 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
19026 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
19027 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
19028 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
19029 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
19031 o Removed features:
19032 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
19033 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
19034 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
19035 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
19036 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
19037 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
19038 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
19039 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
19040 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
19041 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
19042 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
19043 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
19044 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
19045 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
19046 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
19047 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
19048 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
19051 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
19052 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
19053 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
19054 Closes ticket 15817.
19055 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
19056 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
19058 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
19059 default as a part of "make check".
19060 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
19061 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
19062 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
19063 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
19067 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
19068 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
19069 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
19070 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
19071 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
19072 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
19074 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
19075 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
19076 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
19077 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
19078 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
19079 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
19080 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
19081 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
19084 o Major bugfixes (stability):
19085 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
19086 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
19087 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
19088 by "cypherpunks_backup".
19089 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
19090 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
19091 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
19094 o Minor features (geoip):
19095 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19096 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19098 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
19099 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
19100 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
19101 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
19102 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
19103 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
19105 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19106 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
19107 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
19108 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
19111 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
19112 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
19113 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
19114 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
19115 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
19117 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19118 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
19119 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
19120 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
19121 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19124 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
19125 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
19126 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
19127 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
19128 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
19129 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
19130 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
19132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19133 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
19134 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
19135 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
19137 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19138 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
19139 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
19140 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
19141 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
19142 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
19145 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
19146 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
19147 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
19150 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
19151 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
19152 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
19153 authorities should upgrade.
19155 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
19156 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
19157 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
19158 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
19161 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
19162 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
19163 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
19166 o Minor features (geoip):
19167 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19168 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19172 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
19173 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19174 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19175 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19176 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
19177 the hidden services subsystem.
19179 o New system requirements:
19180 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
19181 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
19184 o Major features (controller):
19185 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
19186 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
19188 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
19189 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
19190 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
19191 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
19192 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
19193 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
19194 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
19196 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19197 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
19198 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
19199 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
19202 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
19203 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
19204 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
19205 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
19206 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
19208 o Minor features (command-line interface):
19209 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
19210 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19211 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
19212 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
19214 o Minor features (controller):
19215 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
19216 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
19217 present. Implements ticket 14840.
19218 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
19219 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
19220 Closes ticket 14845.
19221 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
19222 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
19223 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
19225 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
19226 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
19227 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
19228 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
19230 o Minor features (geoip):
19231 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19232 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19235 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
19236 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
19237 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
19238 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
19239 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
19240 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
19241 Closes ticket 15745.
19243 o Minor features (logging):
19244 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
19245 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
19248 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
19249 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
19250 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
19251 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
19253 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
19254 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
19255 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
19256 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
19257 Resolves ticket 15435.
19259 o Minor features (testing):
19260 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
19261 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
19262 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
19263 files. Closes ticket 15180.
19264 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
19265 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
19266 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
19267 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
19268 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
19269 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
19270 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
19271 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
19272 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
19273 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
19274 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
19275 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
19277 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19278 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
19279 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
19282 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
19283 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
19284 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
19286 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
19287 stderr, not stdout.
19289 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
19290 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
19291 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
19292 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
19293 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
19294 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
19295 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
19296 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19298 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19299 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
19300 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
19302 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
19303 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
19304 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
19307 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19308 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
19309 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
19311 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
19312 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19314 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19315 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
19316 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
19317 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
19320 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
19321 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
19322 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
19323 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
19324 recent enough Clang.
19326 o Minor bugfixes (network):
19327 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
19328 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
19329 unsuitable for public communications.
19331 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19332 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
19333 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
19334 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
19335 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
19336 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
19338 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
19339 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
19340 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
19341 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
19342 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
19343 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
19344 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
19345 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
19347 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19348 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
19349 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
19351 - Set the severity correctly when testing
19352 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
19353 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
19354 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
19355 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
19357 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19358 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
19359 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
19361 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
19362 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
19363 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
19364 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
19365 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
19368 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
19369 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
19371 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
19372 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19373 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
19374 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
19375 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
19378 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
19379 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
19380 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
19381 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
19382 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
19383 Closes ticket 14922.
19385 o Removed features:
19386 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
19387 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
19388 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
19389 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
19390 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
19391 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
19392 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
19393 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
19394 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
19395 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
19396 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
19399 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
19400 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
19401 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
19402 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
19403 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19405 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
19406 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19408 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19409 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19410 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19411 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19412 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19413 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19414 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19416 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19417 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19418 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19419 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19420 Resolves ticket 15515.
19423 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
19424 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
19425 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
19426 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
19427 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19429 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
19430 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19432 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19433 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19434 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19435 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19436 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19437 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19438 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19440 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19441 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19442 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19443 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19444 Resolves ticket 15515.
19447 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
19448 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
19449 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
19450 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
19451 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19453 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
19454 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19456 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19457 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19458 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19459 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19460 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19461 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19462 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19464 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19465 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19466 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19467 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19468 Resolves ticket 15515.
19469 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
19470 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
19471 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
19475 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
19476 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
19478 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
19479 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
19480 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
19481 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
19482 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
19483 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
19484 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
19485 bugs should be addressed.
19487 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19488 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
19489 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
19490 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19492 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
19493 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
19494 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
19496 o Major bugfixes (client):
19497 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
19498 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19501 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19502 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
19503 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
19504 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
19505 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
19506 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19508 o Major bugfixes (portability):
19509 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
19510 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
19513 o Minor features (heartbeat):
19514 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
19515 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
19516 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
19517 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
19519 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19520 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19521 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19524 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19525 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19527 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19528 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19529 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19531 o Directory authority changes:
19532 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19533 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19534 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19535 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19536 closes ticket 14487.
19538 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19539 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19540 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19543 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19544 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19545 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19546 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19547 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19548 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19549 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19550 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19552 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19553 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19554 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19555 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19557 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19558 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19559 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19560 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19562 o Minor features (controller):
19563 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19564 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19565 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19567 o Minor features (geoip):
19568 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19569 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19572 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19573 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19574 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19575 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19576 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19577 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19580 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19581 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19582 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19584 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19585 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19586 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19587 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19588 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19589 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19590 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19591 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19593 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19594 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19595 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19597 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19598 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19599 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19600 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19601 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19605 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19606 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19607 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19610 o Directory authority changes:
19611 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19612 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19613 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19614 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19615 closes ticket 14487.
19617 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19618 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19619 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19620 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19622 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19623 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19624 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19625 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19626 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19627 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19628 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19629 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19631 o Minor features (geoip):
19632 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19633 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19636 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
19637 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
19638 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
19639 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
19640 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
19642 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19643 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19644 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19647 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19648 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19649 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
19650 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19651 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19652 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19653 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19654 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19656 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
19657 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
19658 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
19661 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19662 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
19663 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
19665 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
19666 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19667 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19668 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19669 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19671 o Minor features (controller):
19672 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
19673 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
19674 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
19676 o Minor features (geoip):
19677 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19678 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19681 o Minor features (logs):
19682 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
19685 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
19686 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
19687 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
19688 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19689 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
19690 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
19691 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
19692 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
19693 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
19695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19696 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
19698 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
19701 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19702 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
19703 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
19705 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19706 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19707 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
19708 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19709 from "cypherpunks".
19710 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
19711 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19714 o Directory authority IP change:
19715 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19716 closes ticket 14487.
19719 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19720 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19721 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19725 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
19726 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
19727 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
19728 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
19729 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
19730 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
19732 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
19733 the next version will be a release candidate.
19735 o Deprecated versions:
19736 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
19737 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
19739 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
19740 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
19741 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
19742 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
19743 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
19744 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
19746 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
19747 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
19748 Implements ticket 11485.
19750 o Major features (changed defaults):
19751 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
19752 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
19753 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
19754 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
19755 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
19756 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
19758 o Major features (directory system):
19759 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
19760 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
19761 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
19762 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
19763 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
19764 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
19765 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
19766 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
19767 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
19768 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
19769 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
19770 227. Closes ticket 10395.
19772 o Major features (guards):
19773 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
19774 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
19775 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
19776 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
19777 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
19779 o Major features (performance):
19780 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
19781 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
19782 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
19783 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
19784 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
19785 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
19786 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
19787 Implements ticket 9682.
19789 o Major features (relay):
19790 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
19791 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
19792 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
19794 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19795 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19796 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19797 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19799 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
19800 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
19801 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
19802 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
19803 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
19804 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
19805 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
19807 o Minor features (build):
19808 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
19809 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
19810 Resolves ticket 13037.
19812 o Minor features (controller):
19813 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
19814 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
19816 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
19817 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
19818 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
19819 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19820 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19821 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19823 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
19824 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
19825 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
19826 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
19827 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
19828 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
19829 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
19830 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
19831 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
19832 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
19834 o Minor features (geoip):
19835 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
19836 GeoLite2 Country database.
19838 o Minor features (guard nodes):
19839 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
19840 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
19841 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
19843 o Minor features (hidden service):
19844 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
19845 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
19846 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
19847 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
19848 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
19849 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
19850 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
19851 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
19853 o Minor features (interface):
19854 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
19855 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
19856 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
19858 o Minor features (logging):
19859 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
19860 Resolves ticket 6852.
19861 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
19862 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
19863 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
19865 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
19866 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
19868 o Minor features (stability):
19869 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
19870 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
19873 o Minor features (systemd):
19874 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
19875 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
19877 o Minor features (testing networks):
19878 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
19879 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
19880 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
19881 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
19882 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
19883 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
19885 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
19886 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
19887 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
19888 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
19889 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
19891 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
19892 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
19893 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
19894 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
19895 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
19897 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
19898 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
19899 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
19900 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19901 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
19902 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
19903 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
19904 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19906 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19907 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19908 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19909 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19910 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19911 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19912 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
19913 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
19915 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
19916 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
19917 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
19920 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
19921 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
19922 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
19923 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
19924 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19926 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
19927 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
19928 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
19929 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
19930 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19933 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
19934 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
19935 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
19936 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19937 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
19938 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
19939 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
19940 Addresses ticket 14188.
19941 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19942 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19943 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19944 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
19945 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
19946 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
19947 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
19948 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
19949 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19951 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19952 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
19953 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
19954 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
19955 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
19956 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19957 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
19958 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19960 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19961 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19962 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19963 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19964 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19965 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
19966 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
19967 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19968 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
19969 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19970 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19971 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19972 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19974 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
19975 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
19976 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
19977 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
19978 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
19979 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19980 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
19981 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
19982 state, and key files.
19983 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
19984 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
19987 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19988 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
19989 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
19990 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
19991 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19992 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
19993 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
19994 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19995 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
19996 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
19997 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19999 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20000 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
20001 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20002 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
20004 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
20005 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20007 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
20008 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
20009 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
20010 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
20011 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
20012 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20014 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
20015 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
20016 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
20017 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20018 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
20019 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
20020 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20021 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
20022 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
20023 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20025 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20026 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
20027 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
20029 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
20030 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
20032 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20033 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
20034 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
20035 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
20036 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20038 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
20039 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
20040 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
20041 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
20044 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
20045 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
20046 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
20049 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20050 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
20051 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20053 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
20054 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
20055 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
20056 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
20057 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
20058 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
20059 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
20061 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
20062 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
20065 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
20066 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
20067 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
20069 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
20070 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
20071 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
20074 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20075 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
20076 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
20077 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
20078 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
20079 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
20080 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
20081 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
20082 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
20084 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
20085 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
20087 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
20091 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
20092 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
20093 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
20094 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
20095 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
20096 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
20098 o Downgraded warnings:
20099 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
20100 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
20102 o Removed features:
20103 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
20104 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
20105 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
20106 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
20107 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
20111 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
20112 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20113 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
20114 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
20115 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
20116 (existing behavior).
20117 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
20118 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
20119 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
20120 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
20121 Closes ticket 14107.
20122 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
20123 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20124 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
20125 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
20127 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
20128 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
20129 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20132 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
20133 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
20134 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
20135 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
20136 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
20137 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
20139 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
20140 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
20141 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
20142 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
20144 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
20145 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
20146 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
20147 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
20148 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
20149 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
20151 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
20152 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
20153 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
20154 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
20155 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
20156 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
20157 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
20160 o Major features (hidden services):
20161 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
20162 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
20163 Closes ticket 13667.
20164 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
20165 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
20166 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
20167 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
20168 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
20169 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
20170 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
20171 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
20172 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
20173 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
20174 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
20176 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
20177 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
20178 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
20179 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
20180 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
20181 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
20184 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20185 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
20186 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
20187 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
20188 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
20189 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
20191 o Directory authority changes:
20192 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20193 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20194 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20196 o Major removed features:
20197 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
20198 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
20199 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
20200 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
20202 o Minor features (client):
20203 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
20204 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
20205 Resolves ticket 13315.
20207 o Minor features (controller):
20208 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
20209 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
20212 o Minor features (geoip):
20213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20216 o Minor features (hidden services):
20217 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
20218 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
20219 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
20220 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
20221 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
20222 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
20224 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
20225 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
20226 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
20228 o Minor features (systemd):
20229 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
20230 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
20231 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
20232 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
20234 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
20235 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
20236 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
20237 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
20238 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
20241 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
20242 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
20243 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
20244 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
20245 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
20247 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
20248 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
20249 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
20252 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
20253 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
20254 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
20255 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
20256 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
20258 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
20259 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
20260 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20263 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
20264 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
20265 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
20266 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
20268 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
20269 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
20272 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20273 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
20274 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
20275 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
20276 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
20277 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
20278 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
20279 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
20280 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20281 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
20282 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
20283 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
20284 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
20285 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
20288 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20289 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
20290 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
20291 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
20292 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
20293 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
20295 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20296 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
20297 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
20298 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
20300 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
20301 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20303 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
20304 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
20305 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
20306 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
20309 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
20310 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
20311 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
20312 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
20313 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
20314 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
20316 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
20317 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
20318 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
20319 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
20320 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20321 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
20322 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
20323 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
20324 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
20325 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
20326 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
20327 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
20328 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
20329 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
20330 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
20331 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
20332 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
20333 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
20334 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
20335 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20336 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
20337 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
20338 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
20339 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
20340 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
20341 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
20342 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
20343 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20344 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
20345 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
20346 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
20347 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
20349 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
20350 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
20351 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
20352 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
20353 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20355 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20356 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
20357 with a function instead.
20358 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
20359 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
20360 Closes ticket 13172.
20361 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
20362 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
20363 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
20364 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
20365 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
20366 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
20367 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
20368 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
20369 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
20370 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
20371 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
20372 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
20376 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
20377 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
20378 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
20379 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
20380 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
20381 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
20382 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
20383 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
20384 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
20385 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
20386 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
20387 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
20390 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
20391 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
20392 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
20393 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
20394 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
20395 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
20397 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
20401 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
20402 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
20403 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
20404 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
20405 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
20406 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
20407 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
20408 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
20409 of introducing infinite download loops.
20411 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
20412 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
20413 with 0.2.5.x for now.
20415 o New compiler and system requirements:
20416 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
20417 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
20418 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
20419 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
20421 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
20422 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
20423 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
20424 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
20425 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
20426 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
20427 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
20428 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
20429 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
20431 o Removed platform support:
20432 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
20433 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
20434 Closes ticket 11446.
20436 o Major features (bridges):
20437 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
20438 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
20439 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
20442 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
20443 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
20444 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
20445 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
20448 o Major features (directory system):
20449 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
20450 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
20451 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
20452 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
20454 o Major features (sample torrc):
20455 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
20456 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
20457 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
20458 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
20459 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
20460 generally useful "sample torrc".
20462 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20463 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
20464 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20466 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
20467 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
20468 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
20469 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
20470 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20472 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
20473 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
20474 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
20475 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
20477 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
20478 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
20479 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
20480 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
20481 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
20482 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
20485 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
20486 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
20487 document. Implements feature 10427.
20489 o Minor features (client):
20490 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
20491 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
20492 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
20493 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
20495 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20496 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
20497 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
20498 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
20499 argument more than once.
20500 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
20501 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
20502 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
20503 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
20504 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
20505 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
20507 o Minor features (logging):
20508 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
20509 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
20510 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
20511 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
20512 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
20513 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
20514 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
20515 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
20516 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
20518 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
20519 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
20520 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
20521 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
20523 o Minor features (relay):
20524 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
20525 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
20526 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
20528 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
20529 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
20530 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
20531 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
20533 o Minor features (testing networks):
20534 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
20535 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
20536 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
20537 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
20538 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
20541 o Minor features (validation):
20542 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
20543 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
20544 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
20545 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
20546 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
20547 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
20548 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
20549 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
20551 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
20552 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
20553 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
20554 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20556 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20557 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
20558 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
20559 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20561 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
20562 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
20563 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
20565 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
20566 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
20567 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
20569 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
20570 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20571 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
20572 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
20573 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20574 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
20575 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20577 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20578 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
20579 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
20580 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20581 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
20582 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20583 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
20584 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
20585 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
20587 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
20588 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
20589 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
20590 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
20591 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
20593 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
20594 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
20595 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
20597 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20598 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
20599 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
20600 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
20601 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
20603 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
20604 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
20605 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
20606 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20607 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
20608 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
20609 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20610 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
20611 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
20612 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
20613 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
20616 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
20617 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
20618 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
20619 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
20620 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20622 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20623 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
20624 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20625 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
20626 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
20629 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
20630 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
20631 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20632 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
20633 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
20634 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20636 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20637 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
20638 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
20639 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20641 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
20642 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
20643 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
20644 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20646 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
20647 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
20648 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
20649 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
20652 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
20653 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
20654 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20657 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
20658 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20659 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
20660 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
20661 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
20664 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20665 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
20666 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
20668 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
20669 Resolves ticket 12205.
20670 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
20671 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
20672 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
20673 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
20675 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
20676 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
20677 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
20679 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
20680 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
20682 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
20683 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
20684 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
20685 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
20686 or_options_t structure.
20689 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
20690 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
20691 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
20692 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
20695 o Removed features:
20696 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
20697 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
20698 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
20699 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
20700 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
20701 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
20702 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
20703 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
20704 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
20706 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
20707 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
20709 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
20710 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
20711 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
20712 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
20713 anymore, and ignore it.
20716 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
20717 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
20718 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
20719 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20720 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
20721 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
20722 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
20723 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
20724 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
20725 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
20726 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
20727 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
20729 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
20730 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
20731 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
20733 o Distribution (systemd):
20734 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
20735 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
20736 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
20737 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
20738 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20740 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
20741 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
20743 o Removed features (directory authorities):
20744 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
20745 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
20746 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
20747 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
20748 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
20749 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
20750 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
20751 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
20752 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
20754 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
20755 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
20756 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
20757 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
20760 o Testing (test-network.sh):
20761 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
20762 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
20764 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
20766 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
20767 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
20768 Partially implements ticket 13161.
20771 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
20772 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20774 It adds several new security features, including improved
20775 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
20776 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
20777 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
20778 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
20779 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
20780 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
20781 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
20782 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
20783 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
20784 and features mentioned below.
20786 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
20787 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
20789 o Deprecated versions:
20790 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
20791 attention for some while.
20794 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
20795 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20796 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20797 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20798 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20799 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
20801 o Major security fixes:
20802 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20803 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20804 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20806 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
20807 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20808 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20809 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20812 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
20813 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
20814 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
20815 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20817 o Compilation fixes:
20818 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
20819 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
20820 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
20822 o Downgraded warnings:
20823 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
20824 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
20827 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20828 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20829 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20830 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20831 (which does affect Tor).
20833 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20834 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20835 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20836 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20838 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20839 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20840 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20841 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20844 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
20845 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20846 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20847 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20848 the directory authorities.
20851 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20852 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20853 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20854 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20855 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20856 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20857 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20858 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20859 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20860 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20861 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20862 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20864 o Directory authority changes:
20865 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20868 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20869 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20870 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20871 the directory authorities.
20874 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20875 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20876 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20877 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20878 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20879 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20880 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20881 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20882 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20883 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20884 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20885 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20887 o Directory authority changes:
20888 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20890 o Minor features (geoip):
20891 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20895 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
20896 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
20897 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
20898 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
20899 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
20901 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
20902 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
20903 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
20904 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
20905 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
20906 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
20907 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20908 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
20909 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
20910 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
20911 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
20912 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
20913 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
20914 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20915 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
20916 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
20918 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20919 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
20920 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20921 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20922 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
20923 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
20924 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
20925 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20927 o Minor features (bridge):
20928 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
20929 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
20931 o Minor features (geoip):
20932 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20935 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20936 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
20937 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
20938 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
20939 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
20940 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
20941 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20942 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
20943 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
20944 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
20945 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
20946 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
20947 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
20948 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
20949 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
20951 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
20952 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
20953 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20954 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
20955 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
20957 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20958 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
20959 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20960 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
20961 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
20964 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20965 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
20966 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20967 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
20968 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20969 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
20970 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
20971 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20972 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
20973 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
20974 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
20977 o Distribution (systemd):
20978 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20979 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20980 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20981 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20982 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20983 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20984 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20985 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20986 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20990 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20991 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20993 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20997 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
20998 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
20999 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
21000 us closer to a release candidate.
21002 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
21003 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
21004 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
21005 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
21006 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
21008 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
21009 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
21010 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
21011 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
21012 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
21013 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
21014 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
21015 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
21016 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
21020 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
21021 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
21022 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
21023 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
21024 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
21025 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
21026 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
21027 to build circuits".
21030 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
21031 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
21032 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
21033 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
21034 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
21035 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
21036 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
21037 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21039 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
21041 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
21042 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
21043 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
21044 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
21045 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
21046 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
21047 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
21048 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
21049 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
21050 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21053 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
21054 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
21055 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
21056 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
21058 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
21059 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
21060 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
21063 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
21064 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
21065 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
21066 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
21069 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
21070 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
21071 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
21072 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
21073 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
21074 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
21075 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
21076 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
21077 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
21078 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
21081 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
21082 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
21083 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
21084 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
21085 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
21086 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
21087 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
21088 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
21092 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
21093 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
21094 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
21095 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
21096 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
21097 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
21098 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
21099 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
21100 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21101 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
21102 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
21103 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
21104 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
21107 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21111 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
21112 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
21113 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
21114 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
21115 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
21116 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
21119 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
21120 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
21121 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
21122 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
21123 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
21124 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
21125 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
21126 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
21127 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
21128 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
21129 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
21130 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
21131 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21133 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
21134 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
21135 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
21136 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
21139 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
21140 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
21141 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
21143 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
21144 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
21145 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
21146 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
21147 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
21148 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
21149 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
21150 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
21151 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
21152 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
21153 router's identity is not forgeable.
21155 o Major bugfixes (relay):
21156 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
21157 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
21158 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
21159 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
21160 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
21161 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
21162 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
21163 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
21164 bugfix on every version of Tor.
21166 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
21167 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
21168 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
21169 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
21172 o Minor features (diagnostic):
21173 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
21174 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
21175 help diagnose bug 7164.
21176 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
21177 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
21178 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
21179 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
21180 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
21182 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
21183 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
21184 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
21185 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
21186 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
21187 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
21188 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
21190 o Minor features (security, memory management):
21191 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
21192 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
21193 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
21194 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
21195 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
21196 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
21198 o Minor features (security):
21199 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
21200 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
21201 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
21202 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
21204 o Minor features (build):
21205 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
21206 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
21207 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
21209 o Minor features (other):
21210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21213 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
21214 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
21215 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
21216 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
21217 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21219 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21220 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
21221 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
21222 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
21223 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
21224 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
21225 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
21226 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
21227 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21228 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
21229 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
21230 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
21232 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21233 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
21234 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21235 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
21236 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
21237 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
21238 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
21239 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
21240 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
21241 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
21242 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21243 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
21244 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
21245 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
21246 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
21247 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
21248 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
21249 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
21252 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
21253 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
21254 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
21255 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
21256 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
21257 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
21258 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21260 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
21261 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
21262 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21263 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
21264 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21265 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
21266 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21267 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
21268 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
21270 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
21271 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
21273 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
21274 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
21276 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
21277 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
21278 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
21279 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
21280 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
21281 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21282 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
21283 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
21284 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
21286 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
21287 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
21288 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
21289 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
21290 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
21291 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21292 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
21293 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
21294 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21295 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
21296 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
21297 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21298 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
21299 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
21300 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
21301 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
21302 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
21303 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21305 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21306 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
21307 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
21308 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
21309 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
21310 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21311 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
21312 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
21313 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
21316 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21317 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
21318 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
21319 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
21320 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21322 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21323 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
21324 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
21325 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
21327 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
21328 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
21329 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
21330 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21331 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
21332 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
21333 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
21334 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
21336 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
21337 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
21338 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
21339 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
21342 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
21343 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
21344 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
21345 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
21346 versions. Found by "skruffy".
21347 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
21348 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
21349 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
21352 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
21353 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
21354 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
21355 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
21358 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
21359 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
21360 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
21361 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
21363 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
21364 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
21365 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
21367 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
21368 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
21369 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21371 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21372 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
21373 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21374 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
21375 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
21379 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
21380 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
21381 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
21382 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
21385 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
21386 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
21387 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
21388 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
21390 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
21391 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
21393 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
21394 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
21395 caches don't get confused.
21398 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
21399 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
21400 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
21401 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
21402 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
21405 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
21406 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
21407 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
21408 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
21409 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
21410 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
21414 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
21415 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
21416 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
21417 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
21418 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
21419 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
21420 of RAM, and several others.
21422 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21423 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21424 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21425 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21426 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21428 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
21429 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
21430 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
21431 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
21434 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21435 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21436 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21437 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21438 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21439 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21440 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21441 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21442 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21443 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21444 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21445 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21446 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21447 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21448 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21449 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21450 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21451 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21452 Resolves ticket 11438.
21454 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
21455 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
21456 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
21457 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
21458 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
21459 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21461 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21462 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
21463 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21465 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21466 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
21467 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21469 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21470 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21471 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21472 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21474 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21475 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
21476 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
21478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21479 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
21480 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21483 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
21484 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
21485 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
21486 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
21489 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21490 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
21491 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
21492 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
21494 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21495 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
21496 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
21497 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21499 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21500 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21501 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21505 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
21506 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
21507 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
21508 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
21509 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
21510 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
21511 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
21512 the Linux sandbox code.
21514 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
21515 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
21516 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
21518 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
21519 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21521 o Major features (security):
21522 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
21523 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
21524 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
21525 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
21526 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21527 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21528 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21529 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21531 o Major features (relay performance):
21532 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
21533 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
21534 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
21535 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
21536 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
21537 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
21538 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
21539 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
21540 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
21541 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
21543 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
21544 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
21545 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
21546 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
21547 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
21548 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
21549 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
21551 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
21552 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
21554 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
21555 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21556 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21557 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21558 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21559 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21560 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21561 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21562 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21563 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21564 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21565 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21566 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21567 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21568 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21569 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21570 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21571 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21572 Resolves ticket 11438.
21574 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
21575 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21576 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21577 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21579 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
21580 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
21581 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
21582 10267; patch from "yurivict".
21583 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
21584 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
21585 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
21586 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
21587 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
21588 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
21590 o Minor features (security):
21591 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
21592 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
21593 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
21594 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
21597 o Minor features (log verbosity):
21598 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
21599 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
21600 Resolves ticket 5286.
21601 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
21602 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
21603 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
21604 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
21605 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
21606 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
21607 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
21608 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
21609 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
21611 o Minor features (relay):
21612 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
21613 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
21614 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
21616 o Minor features (controller):
21617 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
21618 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
21620 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
21621 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
21622 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
21624 o Minor features (bridge client):
21625 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
21626 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
21627 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
21629 o Minor features (diagnostic):
21630 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
21631 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
21632 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
21633 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
21634 still referenced by a live node_t object.
21636 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
21637 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
21638 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
21639 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
21641 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
21642 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
21643 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
21644 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
21647 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
21648 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
21649 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21651 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
21652 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
21653 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
21654 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21655 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
21656 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
21657 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21659 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
21660 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
21661 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
21662 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21663 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
21664 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
21665 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21666 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
21667 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
21668 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
21669 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21670 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
21671 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
21674 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
21675 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
21676 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
21677 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
21678 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
21680 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
21681 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
21682 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
21685 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21686 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
21687 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21689 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
21690 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
21691 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21693 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21694 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
21695 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
21696 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21698 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
21699 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
21700 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21701 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
21702 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
21704 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
21705 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
21706 early. Fixes bug 10081.
21708 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
21709 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
21710 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21711 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
21712 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21713 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
21714 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
21715 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
21717 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
21718 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
21719 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
21720 should never have affected anyone in practice.
21722 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21723 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
21724 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21726 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
21727 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
21728 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
21729 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
21730 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
21731 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
21732 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
21733 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
21734 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
21735 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
21736 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
21737 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
21738 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
21739 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
21741 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
21742 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
21743 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
21744 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
21745 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
21746 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
21747 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
21748 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
21752 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
21753 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
21754 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
21755 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21756 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
21757 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21758 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21759 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21761 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
21763 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21764 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
21765 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
21766 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
21767 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
21770 o Deprecated versions:
21771 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
21772 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
21773 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
21774 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
21777 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
21778 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
21779 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
21780 Patch from Dana Koch.
21783 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
21784 Resolves ticket 11070.
21787 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
21788 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
21789 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
21790 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
21791 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
21794 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
21795 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
21797 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
21798 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
21799 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
21800 streams attached to each circuit.
21802 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
21803 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
21804 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
21805 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
21806 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
21807 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
21808 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
21809 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
21810 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
21811 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
21812 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
21813 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
21814 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
21816 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
21817 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
21818 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21820 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21821 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
21822 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
21823 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
21824 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
21825 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
21826 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
21827 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
21828 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
21830 o Minor features (other):
21831 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
21832 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
21833 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
21834 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
21835 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
21836 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
21837 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
21838 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
21839 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21842 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
21843 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21844 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21845 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21846 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21847 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21848 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21849 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21851 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21852 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
21853 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
21854 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
21855 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21856 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
21857 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
21858 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
21860 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
21861 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
21862 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
21863 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
21864 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
21865 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21866 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
21867 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
21868 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21869 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
21870 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
21871 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21873 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
21874 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
21875 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21876 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
21877 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
21878 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
21879 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
21880 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
21881 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21882 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
21883 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
21884 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
21885 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
21886 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
21888 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
21889 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
21891 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
21892 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
21893 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
21894 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
21895 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
21896 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
21897 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21898 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
21899 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
21900 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
21901 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
21902 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21903 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
21904 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
21906 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
21907 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
21908 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
21909 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21912 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
21913 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21914 the rest of bug 10841.
21917 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
21918 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
21919 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
21920 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
21921 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
21922 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
21923 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
21924 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
21925 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
21926 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
21927 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
21928 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21929 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
21930 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
21931 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21933 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21934 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
21935 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
21937 o Test infrastructure:
21938 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
21939 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
21940 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
21941 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21944 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
21945 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
21946 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
21947 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
21949 o Major features (client security):
21950 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21951 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21952 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21953 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21954 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21955 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21958 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21959 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21960 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21961 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21963 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21964 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21965 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
21966 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
21967 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
21970 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21971 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21973 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21974 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21975 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21976 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21977 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
21978 GeoLite2 Country database.
21981 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
21982 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
21983 bugfix on every released Tor.
21984 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21985 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21986 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21987 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21988 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21989 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21990 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21991 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21992 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21993 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21994 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21995 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21996 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21997 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21998 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22000 o Documentation fixes:
22001 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
22002 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22005 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
22006 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
22007 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
22008 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
22009 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
22010 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
22011 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
22012 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
22014 o Major features (client security):
22015 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
22016 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
22017 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
22018 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
22019 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
22020 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
22021 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
22022 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
22023 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
22024 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
22025 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
22026 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
22028 o Major features (bridges):
22029 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
22030 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
22031 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
22032 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
22033 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
22034 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
22035 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
22036 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
22039 o Major features (other):
22040 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
22041 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
22042 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
22043 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
22044 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
22045 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
22046 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
22047 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
22048 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
22049 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
22050 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
22051 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
22054 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
22055 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
22056 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22057 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
22058 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
22059 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
22060 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22062 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
22063 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
22064 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
22065 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
22066 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
22067 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
22068 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
22069 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
22070 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
22072 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
22073 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22074 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
22075 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
22076 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
22077 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22079 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22080 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
22081 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
22082 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
22083 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
22084 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
22087 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
22088 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
22089 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
22090 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
22091 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
22092 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
22093 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
22095 o Minor features (security):
22096 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
22097 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
22100 o Minor features (config options and command line):
22101 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
22102 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
22103 Implements ticket 10060.
22104 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
22105 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
22106 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
22108 o Minor features (controller):
22109 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
22110 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
22111 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
22112 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
22113 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
22116 o Minor features (build):
22117 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
22118 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
22119 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
22120 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
22121 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
22122 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
22123 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
22125 o Minor features (testing):
22126 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
22127 the unit test scripts.
22128 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
22129 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
22130 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
22131 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
22133 o Minor features (log messages):
22134 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
22135 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
22136 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
22137 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
22138 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
22139 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
22140 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
22141 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
22142 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
22143 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22145 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22146 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
22147 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
22148 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
22149 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
22150 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
22151 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
22152 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
22153 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
22154 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22156 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22157 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
22158 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
22159 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
22162 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22163 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
22164 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
22165 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
22166 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22168 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22169 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
22170 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
22171 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
22172 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
22173 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
22174 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
22176 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
22177 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
22178 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
22179 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
22180 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
22181 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
22182 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22183 Reported by "mr-4".
22184 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
22185 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
22186 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
22187 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22189 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
22190 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
22191 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
22192 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
22193 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
22194 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
22195 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
22196 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
22197 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
22198 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
22199 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22201 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22202 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
22203 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
22204 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
22205 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
22206 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
22207 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
22208 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
22209 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
22210 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
22212 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
22213 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
22214 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
22215 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
22218 o Minor bugfixes (build):
22219 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
22220 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
22221 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
22222 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
22223 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
22225 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
22226 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22228 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22229 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
22230 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
22231 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22233 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22234 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
22235 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
22236 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22237 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
22238 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
22239 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
22240 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22241 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
22242 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
22243 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
22244 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
22245 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
22246 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
22248 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
22249 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
22250 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22251 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
22252 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
22253 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
22255 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22256 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
22257 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22258 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
22259 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
22260 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
22261 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
22262 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
22263 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
22264 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22265 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
22266 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22268 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22269 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
22270 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
22271 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
22272 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
22273 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22274 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
22275 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
22276 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22277 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
22278 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
22279 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
22280 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
22281 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
22282 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
22283 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
22286 o Removed code and features:
22287 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
22288 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
22289 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
22290 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
22291 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
22292 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
22294 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
22295 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
22296 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
22297 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
22298 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
22299 part of a fix for bug 10841.
22301 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22302 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
22303 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
22304 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
22305 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
22306 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
22307 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
22308 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
22309 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
22310 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
22311 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
22314 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
22315 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
22316 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
22317 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
22318 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22320 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22321 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
22322 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
22323 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
22324 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
22325 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
22326 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
22329 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
22330 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
22331 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
22334 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
22335 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
22336 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
22337 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
22338 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
22339 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
22340 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
22342 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
22343 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
22346 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
22347 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
22348 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
22349 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
22350 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
22351 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
22352 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
22353 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
22355 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
22356 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22357 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
22358 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
22359 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
22360 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22363 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
22364 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22365 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
22366 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
22367 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
22370 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
22371 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
22372 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
22373 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
22374 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
22375 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
22376 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
22377 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
22379 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
22380 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
22381 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
22382 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
22383 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
22384 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
22385 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
22386 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
22387 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
22388 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
22389 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
22390 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
22391 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
22392 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
22393 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
22394 security, and privacy fixes.
22397 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
22398 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22399 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
22400 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
22403 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22404 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22405 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22406 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22407 them to solve bug 6033.)
22410 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
22411 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
22412 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
22413 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22414 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22415 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22416 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
22417 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
22419 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22420 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22421 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22422 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22424 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
22425 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
22426 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22427 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
22428 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
22429 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
22430 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
22431 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
22432 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
22433 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22434 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
22435 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22437 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
22438 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
22439 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
22440 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
22441 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
22442 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22443 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
22444 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
22445 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22446 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
22447 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
22448 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
22449 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
22450 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
22451 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
22452 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
22455 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22456 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22457 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22458 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22459 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22460 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22461 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22462 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22463 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22464 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22465 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22466 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22467 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
22468 Implements part of proposal 222.
22470 o Minor features (other):
22471 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
22472 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
22473 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
22474 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
22475 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
22476 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
22477 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
22478 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
22479 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22481 o Documentation fixes:
22482 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
22483 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
22484 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
22485 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
22486 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
22487 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
22490 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
22491 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
22492 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
22493 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
22494 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
22495 release of the new branch.
22497 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
22498 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
22499 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
22501 o Major features (security):
22502 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
22503 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
22504 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
22505 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
22506 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
22507 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
22508 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
22509 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
22510 Google Summer of Code.
22511 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22512 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22513 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22514 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22515 them to solve bug 6033.)
22517 o Major features (other):
22518 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
22519 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
22520 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
22521 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
22522 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
22524 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
22525 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
22526 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
22527 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
22528 Implements ticket 8530.
22529 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
22530 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
22533 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
22534 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
22535 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
22536 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
22537 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
22538 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22539 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22540 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22541 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22542 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22543 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22544 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22545 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22548 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
22549 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
22550 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
22551 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
22552 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
22553 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
22554 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
22555 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
22556 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
22557 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
22561 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
22562 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
22563 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
22564 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
22565 invoking the other functions it calls.
22566 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
22567 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
22568 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
22569 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
22571 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22572 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22573 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22574 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22575 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22576 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22577 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22578 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22579 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22580 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22581 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22582 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22583 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
22584 Implements part of proposal 222.
22586 o Minor features (config options):
22587 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
22588 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
22589 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
22590 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
22591 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
22592 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
22593 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
22594 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
22595 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
22596 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
22597 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
22598 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
22599 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
22600 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
22601 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
22602 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
22603 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
22606 o Minor features (build):
22607 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
22608 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
22609 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
22610 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
22611 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
22614 o Minor features (other):
22615 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
22616 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
22617 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
22618 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
22619 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22620 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
22621 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
22622 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
22623 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
22624 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
22625 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
22626 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
22627 Closes ticket 8109.
22628 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22631 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
22632 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
22633 bugfix on every released Tor.
22634 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
22635 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
22636 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22637 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
22638 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
22639 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
22641 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
22642 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
22643 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
22644 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22645 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
22646 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
22647 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
22648 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22650 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
22651 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
22652 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
22653 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
22654 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
22656 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
22657 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22659 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
22660 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
22661 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
22663 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
22664 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
22665 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
22666 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
22667 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22669 o Minor code improvements:
22670 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
22671 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
22673 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
22674 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
22675 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
22676 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
22677 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22679 o Removed features:
22680 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
22681 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
22682 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
22683 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
22685 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22686 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
22687 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
22688 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22689 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
22690 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
22691 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
22692 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
22693 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
22694 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
22695 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22696 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
22697 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
22698 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
22699 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
22700 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
22703 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
22704 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22705 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
22706 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
22707 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
22708 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
22709 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
22712 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
22713 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
22714 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
22715 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
22716 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
22717 Implements ticket 9574.
22720 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
22721 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
22722 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22723 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
22724 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
22725 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
22726 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
22727 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
22728 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22729 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
22730 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
22731 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
22735 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
22736 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
22737 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
22738 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
22740 o Minor fixes (config options):
22741 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
22742 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
22743 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
22744 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
22745 message is logged at notice, not at info.
22746 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
22747 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
22748 or we just won't work.)
22751 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
22752 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
22753 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
22754 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22757 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
22758 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22759 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
22762 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
22763 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
22764 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22765 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
22766 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22767 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
22768 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
22770 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
22771 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22772 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
22773 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
22776 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
22777 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
22778 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22779 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
22780 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
22781 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
22782 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
22783 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
22784 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
22785 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
22786 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22787 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
22788 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22791 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22794 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
22795 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22796 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
22797 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
22800 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
22801 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
22802 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22805 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
22806 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
22807 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
22810 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
22811 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
22812 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22815 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
22816 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
22817 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
22818 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
22819 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
22820 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22822 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
22823 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
22824 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
22825 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
22826 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
22827 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22829 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
22830 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
22831 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22834 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
22835 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
22836 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
22837 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
22838 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
22840 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
22841 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
22842 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
22843 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22844 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
22845 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
22846 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
22848 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
22849 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
22850 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
22852 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
22853 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
22857 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
22858 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
22859 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
22861 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
22862 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
22863 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
22864 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
22865 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
22866 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
22868 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
22869 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
22870 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
22871 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
22872 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
22873 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
22874 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22877 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
22878 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
22879 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
22880 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
22881 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
22882 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
22883 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22884 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
22885 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22886 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
22887 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
22888 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22889 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
22890 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
22892 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
22893 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
22894 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
22895 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
22898 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22899 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
22900 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
22901 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
22902 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
22903 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
22905 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
22906 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
22910 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
22911 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
22912 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
22913 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
22914 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
22915 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
22916 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22918 o Removed documentation:
22919 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
22920 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
22922 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22923 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
22924 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
22925 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
22928 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
22929 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
22930 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
22931 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
22932 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
22933 variety of other issues.
22936 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
22937 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
22938 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
22939 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
22940 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
22941 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22942 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
22943 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
22945 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
22946 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
22947 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
22949 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
22950 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
22951 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
22952 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22953 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
22954 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
22955 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22957 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
22958 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
22959 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
22960 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
22961 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
22962 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
22963 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
22964 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22965 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
22966 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
22967 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
22968 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
22969 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22970 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
22971 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
22972 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
22973 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
22974 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
22975 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
22976 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
22977 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22979 o Major bugfixes (other):
22980 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
22981 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
22982 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
22983 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22986 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
22987 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
22988 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
22989 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
22991 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
22992 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
22994 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22996 o Minor features (build):
22997 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
22998 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
23000 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
23001 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
23003 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
23004 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
23005 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
23008 o Minor bugfixes (build):
23009 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
23010 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23011 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23012 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
23013 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
23014 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23015 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
23016 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
23017 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23018 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
23019 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
23020 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
23021 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
23024 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
23025 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
23026 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
23027 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
23028 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
23029 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
23030 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
23031 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
23032 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
23033 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
23034 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
23035 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
23036 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
23037 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23038 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23040 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23041 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
23042 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23043 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
23044 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
23045 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
23046 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
23047 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23048 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
23049 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
23050 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
23051 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
23052 Should help resolve bug 8235.
23053 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
23054 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
23055 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
23056 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23058 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
23059 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
23060 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
23061 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
23062 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
23063 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
23064 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
23065 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
23068 o Minor bugfixes (config):
23069 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
23070 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
23072 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
23073 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
23074 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23075 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
23076 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
23077 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
23078 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23079 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
23080 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
23081 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23082 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
23083 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
23084 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23085 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
23086 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
23089 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
23090 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
23091 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
23092 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
23093 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
23094 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
23095 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
23096 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
23098 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
23099 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
23100 or at least make it more diagnosable.
23101 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
23102 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
23103 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
23104 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23106 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
23107 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
23108 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
23109 the relaxed timeout log message.
23110 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
23111 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
23112 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
23114 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
23115 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
23116 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23117 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
23118 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23119 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
23120 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
23123 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
23124 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
23125 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
23126 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
23127 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23128 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
23129 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23130 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
23131 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
23132 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
23133 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
23134 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
23135 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23136 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
23137 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
23138 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
23139 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23141 o Documentation fixes:
23142 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
23143 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
23144 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
23145 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
23146 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
23147 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
23148 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
23149 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
23152 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
23153 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
23157 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
23158 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
23159 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
23160 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
23162 o Major features (directory authorities):
23163 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
23164 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
23165 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
23166 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
23167 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
23168 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
23169 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
23170 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
23171 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
23172 Implements ticket 8151.
23174 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23175 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
23176 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
23177 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
23178 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
23180 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23181 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
23182 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
23183 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
23184 whether authentication information is present, causing all
23185 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
23186 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
23188 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
23189 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
23190 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
23191 bugs 1913 and 1992.
23192 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
23193 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
23194 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
23195 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
23196 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
23197 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
23198 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
23199 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
23200 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
23201 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
23202 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
23203 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
23204 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
23205 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
23206 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
23207 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
23208 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
23209 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
23212 o Minor features (portability):
23213 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
23214 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23215 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
23216 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
23217 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
23218 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
23219 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
23220 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23222 o Minor features (other):
23223 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
23224 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
23225 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
23226 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
23227 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
23228 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
23229 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
23230 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
23232 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23234 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23235 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
23236 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
23237 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
23238 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
23239 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23240 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
23241 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
23242 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
23243 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
23245 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
23246 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
23247 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
23248 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23250 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23251 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
23252 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
23253 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
23254 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
23255 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
23256 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
23258 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
23259 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
23260 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
23261 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
23262 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
23264 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
23265 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
23266 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
23267 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
23269 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23270 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
23271 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
23274 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
23275 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
23276 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23277 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
23279 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
23280 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23281 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
23282 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23284 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
23285 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
23286 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
23287 this is CID 718634.
23288 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
23289 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
23290 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
23291 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
23293 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
23294 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
23295 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23296 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
23297 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
23298 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
23299 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23301 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23302 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
23306 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
23307 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
23308 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
23309 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
23310 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
23313 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
23314 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
23315 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
23316 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
23318 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
23319 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
23320 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
23324 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
23325 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
23326 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
23327 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
23328 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
23329 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
23330 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
23331 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
23332 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
23333 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23334 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
23335 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
23336 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
23339 o Major features (relay):
23340 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
23341 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
23342 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
23343 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
23344 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
23345 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
23346 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
23348 o Major features (portability):
23349 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
23350 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
23351 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
23352 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
23353 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23356 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
23357 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
23358 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
23359 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
23360 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
23361 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
23363 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
23364 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
23365 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
23366 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
23367 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
23368 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
23369 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
23370 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
23372 o Minor features (path selection):
23373 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
23374 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
23375 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
23376 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
23377 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
23378 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
23379 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
23380 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
23381 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
23382 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
23383 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
23384 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
23385 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
23386 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
23387 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
23388 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
23389 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
23390 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
23391 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
23393 o Minor features (log messages):
23394 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
23395 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
23396 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
23397 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
23400 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
23401 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
23402 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23403 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
23404 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
23405 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
23406 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
23407 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
23408 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
23409 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23410 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
23411 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23413 o Build improvements:
23414 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
23415 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
23416 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
23417 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
23418 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
23419 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
23420 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
23421 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
23422 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
23423 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
23424 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
23425 than to perform erroneously.
23427 o Removed features:
23428 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
23429 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
23430 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
23432 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
23433 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
23434 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
23437 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23438 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
23440 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
23441 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
23445 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
23446 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
23447 work more robustly.
23450 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
23451 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
23452 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
23456 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
23457 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
23458 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
23459 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
23462 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
23463 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
23464 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
23465 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
23466 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
23467 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
23468 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
23469 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
23470 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
23471 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
23472 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
23473 closes ticket 7199.
23475 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
23476 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
23477 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
23478 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
23479 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
23480 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
23481 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
23482 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
23483 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
23484 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
23485 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
23487 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
23488 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
23489 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
23491 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
23492 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
23493 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
23495 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
23497 o Major features (better link encryption):
23498 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
23499 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
23500 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
23501 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
23502 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
23503 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
23506 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
23507 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
23508 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
23509 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
23510 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
23511 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
23512 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
23514 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
23515 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
23516 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
23517 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
23519 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
23522 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
23523 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
23524 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23527 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
23528 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
23529 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
23530 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
23531 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
23532 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
23533 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
23534 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23535 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23537 o Minor features (testing):
23538 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
23539 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
23540 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
23542 o Minor features (path bias detection):
23543 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
23544 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
23545 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
23546 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
23547 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
23548 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
23549 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
23550 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
23551 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
23552 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
23553 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
23554 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
23555 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
23556 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
23557 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
23558 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
23559 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
23560 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
23561 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
23562 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
23563 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
23564 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
23565 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
23566 detection capability loss.
23568 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23569 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
23570 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
23571 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
23572 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23573 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
23574 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
23575 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
23578 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23579 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
23580 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
23581 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
23582 and the different handshakes it supports.
23583 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
23584 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
23585 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
23586 any encoding is overkill.
23589 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
23590 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
23591 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
23592 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
23593 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
23594 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
23595 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
23596 and fixes a variety of other issues.
23598 o Major features (client resilience):
23599 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
23600 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
23601 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
23602 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
23603 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
23604 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
23605 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
23606 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
23607 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
23608 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
23609 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
23610 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
23611 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
23612 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
23613 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
23615 o Major features (IPv6):
23616 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
23617 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
23618 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
23619 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
23620 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
23621 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
23622 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
23623 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
23625 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
23626 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
23628 o Major features (geoip database):
23629 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
23630 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
23631 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
23632 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
23633 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
23634 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
23635 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
23636 Country database, as modified above.
23638 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
23639 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
23640 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
23641 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
23642 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
23643 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
23644 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
23645 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
23646 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
23647 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
23648 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
23649 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
23650 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
23651 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
23652 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
23653 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
23654 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
23657 o Major bugfixes (other):
23658 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
23659 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
23660 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
23661 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
23662 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
23663 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
23664 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
23665 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
23667 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
23668 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
23671 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
23672 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
23673 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
23674 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
23675 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
23676 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
23677 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
23678 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
23680 o Minor features (IPv6):
23681 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
23682 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
23683 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
23684 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
23685 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
23686 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
23687 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
23688 connect to the wrong addresses.
23689 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
23690 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
23691 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
23692 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
23696 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
23697 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
23698 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
23699 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23700 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
23701 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
23702 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
23704 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
23705 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
23706 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
23709 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
23710 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
23712 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23713 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
23714 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
23715 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
23716 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
23719 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
23720 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
23721 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
23722 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
23723 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
23724 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
23725 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
23726 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
23728 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
23729 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
23730 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
23731 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
23732 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
23733 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
23734 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
23735 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
23736 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
23737 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
23738 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
23741 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23742 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23743 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23744 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23745 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23746 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23747 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23748 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23749 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23750 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23753 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23754 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23758 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
23759 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
23760 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
23761 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
23764 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
23765 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
23767 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23768 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23769 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23770 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23771 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23772 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23773 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23774 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23775 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23776 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23779 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
23781 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
23782 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
23783 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
23784 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
23785 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
23788 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
23789 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
23790 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23791 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23792 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23794 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
23795 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23796 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
23797 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
23798 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
23799 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
23800 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
23802 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
23803 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23804 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
23805 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
23806 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
23807 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23808 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
23809 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23811 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23812 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
23813 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
23814 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
23815 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
23816 present the same extensions.)
23819 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
23820 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
23821 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
23822 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
23823 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
23825 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23826 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23827 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23828 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23830 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23831 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23832 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23833 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23835 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23836 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23837 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23838 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23839 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23840 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23841 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23842 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23843 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23845 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23846 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23847 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23848 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23849 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23852 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
23853 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
23854 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
23856 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23857 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
23859 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
23860 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
23864 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
23865 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
23866 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
23867 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
23870 o Major bugfixes (security):
23871 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23872 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23873 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23875 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23876 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23877 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23878 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23881 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23882 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23883 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23884 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23885 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23886 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23887 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23888 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23891 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23892 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23893 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23894 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23897 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
23898 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23899 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
23900 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
23901 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
23902 scheduling algorithms.
23904 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23905 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23906 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23908 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23909 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23910 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23911 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23912 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23913 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23914 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23915 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23916 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23917 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23918 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23920 o Internal abstraction features:
23921 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
23922 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
23923 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
23924 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
23925 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
23926 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
23927 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
23928 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
23929 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
23930 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
23931 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
23932 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
23933 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
23934 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
23935 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
23936 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
23937 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
23939 o Required libraries:
23940 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
23941 strongly recommended.
23944 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
23945 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
23946 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
23947 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
23948 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
23949 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
23950 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
23951 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
23952 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
23954 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23955 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
23956 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
23957 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23958 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23959 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23960 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23961 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23962 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23963 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23964 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23965 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23966 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23967 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23968 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23971 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
23972 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
23973 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
23974 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
23975 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
23976 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
23977 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
23978 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
23979 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
23980 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
23981 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
23982 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23983 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
23984 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
23985 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23986 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
23987 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
23988 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
23989 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
23991 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
23992 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
23993 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
23994 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
23995 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
23996 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
23997 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
24000 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
24001 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
24002 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
24003 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
24005 o New directory authorities:
24006 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
24007 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
24009 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
24010 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
24011 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
24012 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
24013 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
24014 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
24015 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
24016 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
24017 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
24018 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
24019 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
24022 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
24023 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
24024 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
24026 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24027 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
24028 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
24029 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24030 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
24031 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
24032 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24033 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
24034 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
24036 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24037 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
24038 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
24039 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
24040 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
24041 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
24042 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
24043 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
24044 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
24045 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
24046 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
24047 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
24048 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24049 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
24050 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
24051 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
24052 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
24053 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
24055 o Documentation fixes:
24056 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
24059 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
24060 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
24061 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
24062 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
24065 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24066 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24067 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24070 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
24071 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
24072 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
24073 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
24074 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
24075 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
24076 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
24077 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24079 o Security features:
24080 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
24081 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
24082 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
24083 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
24084 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
24085 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
24086 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
24087 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
24088 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
24092 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
24093 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
24094 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
24097 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
24098 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
24099 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24100 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
24101 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24102 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
24103 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
24104 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
24105 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
24106 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
24107 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24108 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
24109 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
24110 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
24112 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
24113 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24114 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
24115 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
24116 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24118 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
24119 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
24120 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
24121 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24122 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
24123 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
24124 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24125 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
24126 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
24127 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
24128 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
24129 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
24130 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
24131 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24132 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
24133 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
24134 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24135 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
24136 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
24137 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
24139 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24140 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
24141 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
24142 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
24143 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
24144 testable, and a little less fragile too.
24145 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
24146 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24148 o Documentation fixes:
24149 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
24150 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
24154 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
24155 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
24159 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24160 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24161 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24164 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
24165 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
24169 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
24170 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
24174 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24175 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24176 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24177 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
24178 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
24179 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
24180 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
24184 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
24185 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
24186 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
24187 log messages less noisy.
24190 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
24191 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
24195 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
24196 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
24197 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
24198 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
24199 last time we raised it).
24202 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
24203 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
24205 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
24206 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
24207 part of ticket 6736.
24208 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
24209 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
24210 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
24214 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
24215 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
24216 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24217 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
24218 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
24220 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
24221 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24222 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
24223 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
24224 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24225 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
24226 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
24227 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24228 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
24229 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24230 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
24231 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24233 o Removed features:
24234 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
24235 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
24236 bunch of compatibility code.
24238 o Code refactoring:
24239 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
24240 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
24241 the ORPort and the DirPort.
24244 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
24245 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
24246 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
24247 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
24249 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24250 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24251 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
24253 o Major features (bridges):
24254 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
24255 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
24256 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
24259 o Major features (IPv6):
24260 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
24261 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
24262 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
24263 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
24264 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
24265 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
24266 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
24267 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
24268 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
24270 o Major features (build):
24271 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
24272 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
24273 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
24274 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
24275 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
24276 fixes by Jim Meyering.
24277 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
24278 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
24279 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
24281 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
24282 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
24283 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
24284 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
24285 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
24286 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
24287 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
24288 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
24289 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
24290 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
24291 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
24293 o Minor features (streamlining);
24294 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
24295 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
24297 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
24298 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
24299 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
24300 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
24301 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
24302 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24304 o Minor features (controller):
24305 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
24307 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
24308 Implements ticket 4971.
24310 o Minor features (IPv6):
24311 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
24312 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
24313 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
24314 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
24315 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
24317 o Minor features (log messages):
24318 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
24319 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
24320 Resolves ticket 6758.
24321 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
24322 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
24323 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
24324 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24325 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
24326 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
24327 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
24329 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
24330 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
24331 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
24332 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
24333 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
24336 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24337 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
24338 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
24339 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
24340 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
24342 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
24343 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
24344 Implements ticket 5529.
24345 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
24346 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
24347 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
24348 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
24349 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
24350 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
24351 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
24352 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
24353 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
24354 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
24356 o New requirements:
24357 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
24358 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
24359 from a source distribution.)
24362 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
24363 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24364 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
24365 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
24366 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
24367 and cleans up other smaller issues.
24369 o Major bugfixes (security):
24370 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
24371 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
24372 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
24373 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
24374 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
24375 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
24376 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
24377 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
24378 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
24379 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
24380 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
24381 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
24382 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
24383 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
24384 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
24385 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
24389 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
24390 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
24391 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
24392 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24393 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
24394 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
24395 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
24396 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
24397 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
24398 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24401 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
24402 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
24403 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
24404 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
24405 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24406 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
24407 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
24408 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
24409 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
24410 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
24411 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
24413 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
24414 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
24415 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
24417 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
24418 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
24419 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
24420 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
24421 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24422 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
24423 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
24424 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
24425 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24426 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
24427 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24428 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
24429 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
24430 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
24433 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24434 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
24435 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
24436 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
24437 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24438 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
24439 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
24440 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
24441 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
24442 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
24443 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
24444 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
24445 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
24446 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
24447 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24450 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
24451 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
24452 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
24453 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
24454 Resolves ticket 6732.
24457 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
24458 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
24459 attack that could in theory leak path information.
24462 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
24463 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
24464 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24465 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
24466 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
24467 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
24468 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
24469 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
24470 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
24471 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
24472 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
24473 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
24474 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
24475 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24478 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
24479 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24480 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
24481 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
24484 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
24485 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
24486 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24487 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
24488 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
24489 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24490 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
24491 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
24492 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
24493 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
24494 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
24495 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
24496 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
24497 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
24498 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
24499 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
24500 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24503 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
24504 a little more useful.
24505 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
24506 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24507 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
24508 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
24509 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
24510 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
24511 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
24514 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
24515 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24516 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
24517 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24518 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
24519 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
24523 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
24524 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
24525 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
24526 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
24527 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
24530 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
24531 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
24532 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
24535 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
24537 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
24539 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24540 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
24541 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
24542 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
24543 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
24546 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
24547 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24548 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
24549 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
24550 since the beginning of Tor.
24553 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
24554 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
24555 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
24556 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
24557 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
24558 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
24559 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
24560 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24561 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
24562 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24565 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
24566 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
24569 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
24570 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24571 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24572 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24575 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
24576 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24577 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
24578 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
24579 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
24580 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24582 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24583 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
24584 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
24585 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
24586 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
24587 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
24588 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24589 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
24590 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
24591 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
24592 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
24593 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
24594 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
24595 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24596 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
24597 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
24598 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24599 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
24600 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24602 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24603 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
24604 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
24606 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
24607 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24608 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
24609 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
24611 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
24612 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24613 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
24614 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24615 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
24616 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
24617 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24618 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
24619 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24620 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
24621 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24622 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
24623 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
24624 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24625 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
24626 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
24629 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
24630 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
24631 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
24632 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
24633 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
24636 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
24637 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
24638 options. Closes bug 4748.
24641 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
24642 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
24643 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
24644 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
24645 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
24649 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
24650 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
24652 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
24653 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
24654 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
24655 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
24656 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
24657 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
24658 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
24659 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
24660 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
24663 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
24664 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
24665 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
24666 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
24667 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
24668 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
24669 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
24670 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24673 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
24674 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
24675 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
24676 case for flushing marked connections.
24677 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
24678 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24679 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
24680 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
24681 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
24682 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
24683 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24684 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
24685 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24686 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
24687 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
24688 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
24689 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24690 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
24691 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
24692 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
24693 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24694 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
24695 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24696 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
24697 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
24698 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
24699 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24700 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
24701 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
24703 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
24704 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24705 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
24709 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
24710 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
24711 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
24712 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
24713 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
24714 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
24715 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
24716 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
24717 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
24718 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
24719 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
24720 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
24721 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
24722 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
24723 Addresses ticket 5458.
24724 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24726 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24727 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
24728 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
24731 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
24732 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24733 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24737 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24738 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24739 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24740 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24741 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24742 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24743 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24744 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24745 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24746 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24747 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24750 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24751 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24754 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24755 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24758 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
24759 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24760 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24761 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
24762 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24764 o Major bugfixes (general):
24765 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24766 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24767 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24768 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24769 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24770 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24771 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24772 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
24773 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
24775 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
24776 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
24777 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
24778 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
24781 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24782 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
24783 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
24784 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
24785 which introduced predicted ports.
24786 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24787 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24788 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24789 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24790 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
24791 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
24792 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
24793 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
24794 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
24795 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
24796 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24797 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
24798 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
24800 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24801 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
24802 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
24803 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
24804 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
24805 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
24806 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
24807 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
24808 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
24809 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
24810 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
24814 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
24815 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
24816 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
24817 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
24818 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
24819 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
24820 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
24821 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
24822 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
24823 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
24824 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
24825 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
24826 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
24827 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
24829 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
24830 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
24831 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
24832 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
24833 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
24834 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
24835 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
24836 sure. Closes bug 5139.
24837 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
24838 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
24839 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
24840 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
24841 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24842 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24843 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24845 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
24846 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24847 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24848 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24849 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24850 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24851 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24852 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24853 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24854 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24855 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24856 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24857 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24858 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24859 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24860 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24861 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24862 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24863 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24864 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24866 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24867 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
24868 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
24869 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
24870 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
24871 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
24872 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
24873 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
24874 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
24875 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
24876 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
24877 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
24878 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
24880 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
24881 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24882 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
24883 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
24885 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
24886 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
24887 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24888 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
24889 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
24890 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24891 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24892 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24893 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
24894 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
24896 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
24897 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
24898 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
24900 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24901 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
24902 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
24903 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
24904 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
24905 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
24906 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
24907 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
24908 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
24909 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
24910 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
24911 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24912 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
24913 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
24914 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
24915 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24916 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
24917 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
24918 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
24919 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
24921 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
24922 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
24923 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24924 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
24925 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
24926 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
24928 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
24929 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
24930 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
24932 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
24933 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
24934 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24935 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24936 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
24937 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24939 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24940 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
24941 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
24943 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
24944 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
24945 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24946 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
24947 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
24948 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24949 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
24950 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
24951 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24952 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24953 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
24954 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
24955 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
24956 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
24957 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
24958 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
24960 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
24961 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
24962 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24963 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
24964 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
24965 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24966 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
24967 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24968 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
24969 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24970 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
24971 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24972 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
24975 o Documentation fixes:
24976 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
24977 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
24978 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
24979 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
24980 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
24981 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
24984 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
24985 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
24989 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
24990 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
24991 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
24992 and fixes several crash bugs.
24994 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
24995 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
24996 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
24997 those packages and upgrade anyway.
24999 o Directory authority changes:
25000 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
25001 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
25005 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
25006 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
25007 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
25008 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
25009 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
25010 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
25011 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
25012 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
25013 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
25014 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
25015 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
25016 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
25017 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
25018 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
25019 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
25020 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
25021 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
25022 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
25023 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
25024 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
25025 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
25026 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
25027 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
25028 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
25029 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
25030 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
25031 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
25034 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
25035 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25036 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
25037 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
25039 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
25040 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
25042 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
25043 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
25044 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
25045 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
25046 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
25047 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
25048 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
25049 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
25052 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
25053 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
25054 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
25055 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
25056 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
25057 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
25058 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
25059 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
25060 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
25061 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
25062 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
25063 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
25064 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
25065 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
25066 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
25067 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
25068 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
25069 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
25070 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
25071 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
25072 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
25073 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
25074 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
25075 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
25076 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25077 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
25078 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
25079 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
25080 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
25081 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
25082 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
25083 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
25084 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25085 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
25086 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25087 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
25088 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
25089 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
25090 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
25091 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25092 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
25093 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25094 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
25095 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
25096 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
25097 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25099 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
25100 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
25101 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
25102 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
25103 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
25104 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25105 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25106 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
25107 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
25108 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
25109 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25110 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
25111 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25112 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
25113 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
25116 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25117 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25118 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25119 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25121 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25124 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
25125 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
25126 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
25127 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
25128 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
25129 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
25130 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
25133 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
25134 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
25135 the development branch build on Windows again.
25137 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25138 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
25139 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
25140 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
25141 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
25142 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
25143 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
25144 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
25145 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
25146 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
25147 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
25148 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
25149 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25150 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
25151 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
25153 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25154 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
25155 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
25156 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25157 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
25158 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
25159 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
25160 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
25161 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
25162 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
25163 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
25164 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25167 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
25168 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
25169 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
25170 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
25171 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
25172 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
25173 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
25174 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
25175 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
25177 o Removed features:
25178 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
25179 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
25180 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
25181 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
25185 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
25186 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
25187 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
25188 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
25190 o Directory authority changes:
25191 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
25195 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
25196 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25197 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
25198 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
25200 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
25201 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
25202 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
25203 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
25204 documents entirely.
25205 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
25206 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
25207 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25209 o Major features (performance):
25210 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
25211 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
25212 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
25213 much faster than other AES implementations.
25215 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
25216 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
25217 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
25218 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
25219 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
25220 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
25221 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
25222 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
25223 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
25224 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
25225 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25226 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
25227 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
25228 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
25229 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25230 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
25231 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
25232 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25234 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
25235 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
25236 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
25237 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25238 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
25239 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25240 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
25241 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
25242 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
25244 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
25245 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
25246 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25247 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
25248 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
25249 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25252 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
25253 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
25254 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
25255 please let us know about it.
25256 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
25257 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
25258 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
25259 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
25260 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25261 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25262 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
25263 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
25265 o Default torrc changes:
25266 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
25267 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
25269 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
25270 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
25271 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
25274 o Removed features:
25275 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
25276 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
25277 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
25278 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
25280 o Code refactoring:
25281 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
25282 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
25283 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
25284 it would be a bad idea to start.
25287 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
25288 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
25289 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
25290 that get us closer to a release candidate.
25292 o Directory authority changes:
25293 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
25296 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
25297 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
25298 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
25299 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
25300 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
25301 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
25302 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
25303 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
25304 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
25305 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
25306 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
25307 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
25308 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
25309 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
25310 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
25311 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
25313 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
25314 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
25315 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
25316 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
25317 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
25318 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25319 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
25320 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
25321 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25322 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
25323 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
25324 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
25326 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
25327 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
25328 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25329 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
25330 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
25332 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25333 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
25334 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
25335 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
25336 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
25337 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
25338 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
25339 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
25340 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
25341 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
25342 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
25343 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
25344 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25345 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
25346 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25347 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
25348 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
25349 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
25350 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
25351 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
25352 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
25353 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
25356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25357 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
25358 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25359 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
25360 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
25361 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
25362 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
25363 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
25364 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25365 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
25366 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
25367 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
25368 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
25369 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
25370 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
25371 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
25372 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
25375 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
25376 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
25377 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25380 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
25381 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
25382 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
25383 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
25386 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
25387 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
25389 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
25390 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
25391 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
25392 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25393 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
25394 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
25395 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
25396 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25397 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
25398 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
25399 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
25400 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25403 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
25404 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
25405 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
25406 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
25407 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
25408 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
25409 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25412 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
25413 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
25414 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
25415 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25416 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
25417 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
25418 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
25419 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
25420 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
25421 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
25423 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
25424 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
25425 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
25426 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
25427 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25428 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
25429 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
25430 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
25431 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
25434 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25435 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
25436 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
25440 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
25441 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
25442 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
25443 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
25444 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
25445 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
25448 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
25449 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
25450 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
25451 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
25452 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
25453 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
25454 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
25455 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
25457 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
25458 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
25459 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
25460 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
25461 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
25462 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
25463 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
25464 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
25466 o Major security workaround:
25467 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
25468 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
25469 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
25470 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
25471 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
25472 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
25473 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
25474 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
25475 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
25476 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
25477 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
25480 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
25481 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
25482 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
25483 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
25484 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
25485 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
25486 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
25487 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25488 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
25489 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
25490 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
25491 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
25492 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
25494 o Minor features (controller):
25495 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
25496 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
25497 file. Resolves bug 1101.
25498 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
25499 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
25500 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
25501 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
25502 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
25503 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
25505 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
25506 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
25507 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
25508 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
25509 part of ticket 3457.
25510 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
25511 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
25512 circuit-status' control-port command.
25514 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25515 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25516 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25517 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25518 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25520 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
25521 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
25522 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
25523 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
25524 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
25525 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
25526 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
25528 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25529 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25531 o Minor features (other):
25532 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
25533 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
25534 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
25535 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
25536 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
25537 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
25538 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
25539 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
25541 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
25542 them from the other auths.
25543 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
25544 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
25545 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
25546 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
25547 the 0.2.3.x series.
25548 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25550 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25551 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
25552 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
25553 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
25554 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
25555 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
25556 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
25557 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
25558 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
25559 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
25560 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25561 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
25562 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
25563 be disabled using the new
25564 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
25565 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25566 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
25567 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
25568 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
25569 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
25570 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
25571 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
25572 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
25573 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
25574 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
25575 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
25577 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
25578 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
25579 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
25582 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25583 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
25584 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
25586 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
25587 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
25588 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
25589 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
25590 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25591 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
25592 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25594 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
25595 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
25596 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
25597 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
25598 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
25599 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
25600 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
25601 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
25603 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
25604 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
25605 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25606 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
25607 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
25608 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
25609 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
25610 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
25611 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
25614 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25615 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
25616 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
25617 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
25618 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
25619 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
25620 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
25621 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
25622 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25623 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
25624 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
25625 accidentally been reverted.
25626 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
25627 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
25628 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
25629 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
25630 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
25631 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
25632 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25633 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
25634 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
25635 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25636 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
25637 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
25638 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
25639 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
25640 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25641 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
25642 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25643 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
25644 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25647 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
25648 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
25649 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
25650 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
25651 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
25652 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
25653 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
25655 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25656 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
25657 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
25658 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
25659 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
25660 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
25661 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
25663 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
25664 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
25665 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
25666 invalid value, rather than just -1.
25667 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
25668 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
25669 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
25670 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
25671 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
25672 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
25673 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
25677 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
25678 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
25679 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25681 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25682 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25683 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25684 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25685 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25686 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25687 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25688 (which Tor does not do by default).
25690 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25691 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25692 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25693 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25694 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25696 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
25700 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25701 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25702 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25703 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25706 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
25707 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
25708 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
25709 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
25710 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
25711 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
25712 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
25713 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
25714 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
25715 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
25716 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25719 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25722 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
25723 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
25724 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25726 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25727 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25728 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25729 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25730 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25731 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25732 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25733 (which Tor does not do by default).
25735 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25736 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25737 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25738 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25739 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25741 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
25742 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
25743 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
25746 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
25747 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
25748 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
25749 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
25750 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25752 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
25753 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
25756 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25757 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25758 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25759 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25760 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25761 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25762 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25763 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25765 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25766 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25767 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25768 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25769 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25770 close based on processing a cell on it.
25771 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25772 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25773 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25774 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25775 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25776 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25777 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25778 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
25779 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
25780 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
25781 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25782 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25783 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25784 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25785 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
25788 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25789 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25790 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25791 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25792 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25793 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25794 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25796 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25797 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25798 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25799 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25800 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25801 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25802 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25803 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25804 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25805 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25806 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25807 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25808 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25809 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25810 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
25811 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
25812 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
25813 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
25814 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25815 Reported by "troll_un".
25816 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25817 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25818 Reported by "troll_un".
25819 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25820 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25821 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25822 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25825 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25826 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25827 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25828 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25829 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25830 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25831 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25832 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25833 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25834 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25835 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25837 o Packaging changes:
25838 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25839 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25842 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
25843 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25844 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25845 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25846 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25848 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
25849 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
25851 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25852 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25853 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25854 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25855 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25856 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25857 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25858 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25859 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25862 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25865 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
25866 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
25867 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
25868 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
25869 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
25870 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
25871 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
25874 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
25875 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
25876 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
25877 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
25878 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
25879 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
25880 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
25881 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
25882 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
25883 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
25884 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
25885 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
25886 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
25887 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
25888 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
25889 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
25890 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
25891 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
25892 Resolves ticket 4526.
25893 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
25894 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
25895 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
25896 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
25897 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
25898 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
25899 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
25900 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
25901 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
25902 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
25903 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
25904 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
25905 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
25906 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
25907 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
25908 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
25911 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
25912 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
25913 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
25914 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
25915 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
25916 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
25917 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
25918 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
25919 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
25920 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
25922 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
25923 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
25924 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
25925 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
25926 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
25927 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
25928 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
25929 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
25930 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
25932 o Minor features (new/different config options):
25933 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
25934 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
25935 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
25936 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
25937 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
25938 Implements issue 933.
25939 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
25940 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
25941 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
25942 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
25943 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
25944 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
25945 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
25946 appending to the list.
25947 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
25948 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
25949 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
25950 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
25952 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
25953 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
25954 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
25955 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
25956 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
25957 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
25958 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
25959 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
25962 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
25963 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
25964 Resolves ticket 2474.
25965 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
25966 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
25967 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
25968 Required by fix for bug 3460.
25969 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
25970 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
25971 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
25972 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
25973 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
25974 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
25975 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
25976 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
25977 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
25979 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25980 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25981 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25983 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
25985 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
25986 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
25988 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
25989 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
25990 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25991 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25992 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
25993 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
25994 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
25996 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
25997 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
25998 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25999 Reported by "troll_un".
26000 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
26001 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26002 Reported by "troll_un".
26003 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
26004 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
26005 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
26006 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
26008 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
26009 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
26011 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
26012 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
26013 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
26014 with help from wanoskarnet.
26015 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
26016 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26019 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
26020 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
26021 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
26022 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26024 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
26025 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
26026 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
26027 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
26028 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
26029 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
26030 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
26031 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
26034 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
26035 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
26036 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
26037 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
26038 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
26039 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
26040 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
26041 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
26042 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
26045 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
26046 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
26047 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
26048 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
26050 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26051 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26052 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26053 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26054 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
26055 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
26056 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
26057 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
26058 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
26059 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
26060 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
26061 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
26062 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
26063 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
26064 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
26065 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
26066 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
26067 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
26068 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
26069 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
26070 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
26071 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
26072 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
26073 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
26076 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
26077 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
26078 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
26079 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
26080 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
26081 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26082 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
26083 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
26086 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26087 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
26088 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
26089 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
26090 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
26091 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
26092 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
26093 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
26094 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
26095 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
26096 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
26097 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
26098 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
26099 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
26100 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
26102 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
26103 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
26104 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
26105 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
26106 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26107 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
26108 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
26109 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26110 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
26111 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
26112 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
26113 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
26114 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
26115 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26116 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
26117 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
26118 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26120 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26121 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
26122 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
26123 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
26124 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26125 Found by frosty_un.
26126 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
26127 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
26128 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
26130 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
26131 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
26132 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
26134 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
26135 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
26137 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
26138 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26141 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
26142 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
26143 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
26144 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
26145 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
26146 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
26147 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
26148 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
26149 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
26150 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
26151 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
26152 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
26153 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
26154 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
26156 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
26157 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
26158 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26160 o Packaging changes:
26161 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
26162 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
26164 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26165 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
26166 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
26167 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
26168 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
26169 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
26170 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
26171 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
26172 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
26175 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
26177 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
26178 ./src/test/bench binary.
26179 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
26180 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
26183 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
26184 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
26185 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
26189 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
26190 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
26191 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
26192 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
26193 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
26194 close based on processing a cell on it.
26195 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
26196 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
26197 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26198 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
26199 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
26200 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
26201 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
26202 cells were introduced.
26205 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
26206 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
26209 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
26210 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
26211 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
26212 users. Everybody should upgrade.
26214 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
26215 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
26218 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
26219 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
26220 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
26221 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
26222 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
26223 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
26225 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
26226 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26227 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26228 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26229 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26230 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26231 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26232 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26233 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26234 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26235 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26236 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
26237 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
26238 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
26239 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
26240 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
26241 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
26242 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
26245 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26246 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
26247 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
26248 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
26249 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
26250 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
26251 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
26252 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
26253 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
26254 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
26255 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
26256 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
26257 Partly fixes bug 3825.
26258 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
26259 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
26260 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
26261 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
26262 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
26263 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
26264 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
26266 o Major bugfixes (other):
26267 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26268 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26269 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26270 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26271 Found by "frosty_un".
26272 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
26273 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
26274 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
26275 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
26276 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
26277 immensely in tracking this bug down.
26278 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
26279 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
26282 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26283 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
26284 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
26285 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
26286 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
26287 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
26288 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
26289 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
26290 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
26291 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
26292 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
26293 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
26294 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
26295 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26296 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
26297 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
26298 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
26299 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
26300 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
26301 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
26302 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
26304 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26305 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
26306 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
26307 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26308 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
26309 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
26310 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
26311 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
26312 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
26313 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
26314 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
26317 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
26318 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
26319 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
26320 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
26321 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
26322 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
26323 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
26324 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
26325 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
26326 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
26327 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
26328 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
26329 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
26330 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26333 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
26334 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
26335 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
26336 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
26337 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
26338 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
26339 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
26342 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
26343 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
26344 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
26346 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
26347 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
26348 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
26349 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
26350 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
26351 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
26352 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
26353 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
26354 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
26355 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
26356 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
26357 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
26358 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
26360 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
26361 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
26362 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
26363 currently connected to them.
26365 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
26366 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
26367 remain; see for example proposal 188.
26369 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
26370 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26371 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26372 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26373 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26374 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26375 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26376 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26377 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26378 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26379 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26380 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
26381 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
26382 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
26383 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
26384 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
26385 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
26386 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
26389 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
26390 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26391 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26392 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26393 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26394 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26395 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26396 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26397 when bridges were introduced.
26398 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26399 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26400 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26401 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26402 Found by "frosty_un".
26405 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
26406 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
26408 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
26409 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
26410 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
26411 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
26412 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
26413 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
26414 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
26417 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
26418 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
26419 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
26420 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
26421 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
26422 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
26423 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
26424 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
26425 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
26426 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
26427 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
26428 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
26429 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
26430 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
26431 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
26432 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
26433 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
26434 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
26436 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
26437 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
26438 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
26439 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26440 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
26441 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
26442 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
26443 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
26444 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
26445 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
26446 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
26447 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26450 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
26451 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
26452 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
26453 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26456 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
26457 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
26458 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
26459 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
26460 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
26462 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26463 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
26464 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
26465 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
26466 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
26467 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
26468 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
26469 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
26470 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
26471 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26473 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26474 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26475 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26476 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26477 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26478 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26479 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26480 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26481 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26482 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26483 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26484 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26485 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26486 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26487 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26488 Found by "frosty_un".
26489 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
26490 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
26491 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
26492 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
26493 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
26494 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26495 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
26496 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
26497 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
26498 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
26499 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
26500 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
26501 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26502 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26503 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26504 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26505 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26506 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26507 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26509 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26510 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
26511 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
26512 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
26513 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
26514 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
26515 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
26516 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
26518 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26519 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
26520 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26521 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26522 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
26523 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
26524 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
26525 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
26526 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
26527 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
26528 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
26529 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
26531 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
26532 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26533 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
26534 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26535 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
26536 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26537 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26538 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26539 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26541 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26543 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26544 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26545 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26546 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26547 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26548 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26549 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26550 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26552 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
26553 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
26554 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
26555 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
26556 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
26558 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26559 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26560 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26561 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26562 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26565 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
26566 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
26567 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
26568 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
26569 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
26572 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26573 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26574 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26575 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26576 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26577 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26578 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26579 when bridges were introduced.
26582 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
26583 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
26584 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26586 o Major features (networking):
26587 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
26588 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
26589 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
26590 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
26591 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
26595 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
26596 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
26597 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
26599 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
26600 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
26601 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
26602 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
26603 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26605 o Minor features (diagnostics):
26606 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
26607 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
26610 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
26611 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
26612 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
26613 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
26614 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
26615 listed in the network consensus and republish.
26617 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26618 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26619 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26620 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26622 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
26623 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26624 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26625 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26626 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26627 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26628 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26629 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26630 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26631 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26632 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26634 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26635 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26636 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26637 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26638 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26639 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26640 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26641 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26642 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26643 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26645 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26646 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26647 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26648 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26649 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26650 fixes part of bug 2442.
26651 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26652 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26653 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26655 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26656 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26657 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26658 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26659 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26661 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26662 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26663 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26664 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26665 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26668 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
26669 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
26670 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
26674 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
26675 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
26676 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
26677 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
26678 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
26679 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
26680 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
26683 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
26684 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
26685 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
26686 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
26687 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
26688 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
26689 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
26692 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
26693 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
26694 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
26695 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
26696 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
26697 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26698 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
26699 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
26700 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26702 o Code refactoring:
26703 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
26704 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
26707 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
26708 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
26709 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
26710 reachable from Iran again.
26713 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26714 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26715 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26717 o Minor features (security):
26718 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26719 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26720 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26721 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26722 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26723 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26724 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26725 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26726 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26727 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26730 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26731 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26732 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26733 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26734 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26735 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26736 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26737 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26738 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26740 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26741 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26742 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26743 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26744 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26745 raised by bug 3898.
26746 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26747 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26748 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26749 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26750 fixes part of bug 2442.
26751 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26752 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26753 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26755 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26756 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26757 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26758 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26759 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26762 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26763 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26764 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26765 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26766 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26767 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26770 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
26771 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
26772 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
26773 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
26774 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
26775 bufferevent-based networking backend.
26777 o Major features (stream isolation):
26778 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
26779 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
26780 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
26781 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
26782 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
26783 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
26784 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
26785 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
26786 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
26787 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
26788 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
26789 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
26790 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
26791 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
26793 o Major features (other):
26794 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
26795 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
26796 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
26797 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
26798 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
26799 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
26800 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
26801 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
26802 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
26803 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
26804 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
26805 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
26806 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
26808 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26809 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
26811 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
26812 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
26813 Fixes part of bug 3752.
26814 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
26815 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
26816 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
26817 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
26818 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
26819 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
26820 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26821 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
26822 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
26823 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
26824 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26825 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
26826 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
26827 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
26828 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
26829 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
26830 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
26832 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26833 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26834 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26835 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26836 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26837 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26840 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
26841 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
26842 user. Implements ticket 1692.
26843 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
26844 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
26845 best copy data out of a buffer.
26846 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
26847 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
26848 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
26850 o Minor features (build compatibility):
26851 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
26852 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26853 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26855 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26856 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26858 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
26859 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
26860 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26861 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
26862 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
26863 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
26864 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26866 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
26867 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26868 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26869 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26870 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26871 raised by bug 3898.
26872 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
26873 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
26874 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
26877 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26878 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26879 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26880 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26881 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26882 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26883 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26884 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26885 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26886 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26887 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26888 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26889 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26890 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26891 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26892 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26893 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26894 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26895 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26898 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26899 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
26900 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
26904 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
26905 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
26906 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
26907 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
26908 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
26909 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
26912 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
26913 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
26914 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
26915 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
26916 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
26917 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
26918 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
26919 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
26920 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
26921 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
26923 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
26924 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
26925 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
26926 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
26927 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
26928 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
26929 many many other features and bugfixes.
26932 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
26933 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
26934 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
26937 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26938 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26939 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26940 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26941 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26942 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26943 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26944 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26947 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26950 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26951 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26952 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26953 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26954 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26955 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26956 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26957 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26958 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26959 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26960 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26961 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26962 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26963 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26964 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26965 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26966 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26967 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26971 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
26972 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
26973 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
26974 up a variety of recently introduced features.
26977 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
26978 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
26979 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
26980 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
26981 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
26982 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
26983 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
26984 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
26985 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
26986 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
26987 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
26988 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
26989 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
26990 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
26991 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
26992 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
26994 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26995 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
26996 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
26997 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
26998 order. Fixes bug 2798.
26999 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
27000 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
27001 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
27002 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
27003 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
27004 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
27008 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
27009 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
27010 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
27011 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
27013 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
27014 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
27015 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
27016 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
27017 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
27018 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
27019 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
27020 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
27021 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
27022 Implements ticket 3264.
27023 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
27024 implements ticket 3439.
27026 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
27027 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
27028 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
27029 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
27030 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
27031 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
27032 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
27033 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
27034 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
27035 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
27036 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
27037 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
27038 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
27039 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
27040 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
27041 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
27042 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
27043 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
27044 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
27045 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
27046 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
27047 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
27048 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
27049 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
27050 fails. Spotted by coverity.
27051 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
27052 present. Found by coverity.
27053 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
27054 a directory cache that provides them.
27056 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27057 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
27058 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
27059 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
27060 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
27061 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
27063 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
27064 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
27065 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27066 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
27067 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
27068 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27069 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
27070 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
27072 o Code simplification and refactoring:
27073 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
27074 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
27075 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
27076 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
27077 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
27078 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
27080 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
27084 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
27085 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
27086 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
27089 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
27090 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
27091 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
27092 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
27095 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
27096 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
27097 discovered by katmagic.
27098 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
27099 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
27100 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
27101 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27102 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
27103 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
27104 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
27105 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27106 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
27107 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
27108 fixes part of bug 3465.
27109 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
27110 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
27114 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27117 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
27118 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
27119 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
27120 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
27121 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
27124 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
27125 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
27126 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
27127 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
27128 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
27131 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
27132 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
27133 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
27134 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
27135 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
27136 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
27139 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
27140 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
27141 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
27142 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27143 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
27144 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
27145 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
27146 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
27147 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
27148 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
27149 fixes part of bug 3407.
27150 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
27151 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
27152 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
27153 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
27154 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
27155 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
27156 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
27157 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
27158 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
27159 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
27161 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
27162 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
27163 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
27164 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
27167 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27169 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27170 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
27171 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
27173 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
27175 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
27178 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
27179 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
27180 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
27181 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
27182 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
27183 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
27187 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
27188 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
27189 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
27190 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27191 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
27192 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
27193 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
27195 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
27196 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27197 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
27198 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
27199 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
27200 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
27201 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
27202 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
27203 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
27204 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
27205 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
27206 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
27207 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
27208 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
27209 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
27210 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
27211 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
27212 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
27213 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
27217 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
27218 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
27219 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
27220 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
27221 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
27222 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
27223 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
27224 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
27225 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
27229 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
27230 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
27231 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
27233 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
27235 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
27236 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
27237 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
27238 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
27239 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27240 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
27241 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
27242 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
27243 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
27245 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
27246 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
27247 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
27248 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
27249 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
27250 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
27252 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
27253 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
27255 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
27256 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
27257 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
27260 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
27261 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
27262 Resolves ticket 3252.
27263 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
27264 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
27265 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
27266 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
27267 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
27268 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
27271 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
27272 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
27275 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
27276 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
27277 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
27280 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
27281 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27282 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
27283 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
27284 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
27287 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
27288 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27289 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
27290 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
27291 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
27292 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
27293 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
27294 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
27295 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
27299 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
27300 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
27301 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
27302 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
27303 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
27305 o Security/privacy fixes:
27306 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
27307 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
27308 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
27309 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
27310 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
27311 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
27312 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
27313 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
27314 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
27315 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
27316 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
27317 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27318 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
27319 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
27320 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27323 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
27324 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
27325 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
27326 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
27327 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
27328 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
27329 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
27330 part of ticket 3076.
27331 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
27332 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
27333 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
27337 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
27338 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
27339 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
27340 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
27341 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
27342 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
27343 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
27344 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
27346 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
27347 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
27348 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
27349 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
27350 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
27351 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
27352 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
27353 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
27354 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
27355 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
27356 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
27357 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
27358 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27361 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27362 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27363 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27364 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
27365 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
27366 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
27367 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
27369 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
27370 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
27371 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
27372 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
27373 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
27374 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
27375 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
27376 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
27377 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
27378 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
27379 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
27380 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
27381 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
27382 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
27383 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
27384 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
27386 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
27387 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
27389 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
27390 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
27392 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
27393 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
27395 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
27396 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
27397 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27399 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
27400 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27401 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27402 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27403 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27404 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27405 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27406 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27407 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27408 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
27409 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
27411 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
27412 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
27413 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
27414 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
27415 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
27416 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27417 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
27418 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
27419 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
27420 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
27421 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27422 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
27423 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
27426 o Removed features:
27427 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
27428 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
27429 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
27433 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
27434 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
27435 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
27436 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
27437 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
27438 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
27440 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
27441 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
27442 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
27445 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
27446 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
27447 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
27448 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
27449 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
27450 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
27451 zero-copy transports where available.
27452 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
27453 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
27454 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
27455 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
27456 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
27457 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
27458 debug it as it breaks.
27459 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
27460 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
27461 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
27462 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
27463 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
27464 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
27465 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
27466 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
27467 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
27468 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
27469 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
27470 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
27471 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
27472 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
27473 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
27474 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
27475 PortForwarding option.
27476 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
27477 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
27478 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
27479 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
27480 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
27481 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
27482 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
27485 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
27486 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
27487 Implements enhancement 1668.
27488 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
27490 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
27491 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
27492 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
27493 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
27494 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
27495 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
27496 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
27498 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
27499 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
27500 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27501 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27502 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27503 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
27504 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
27506 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
27507 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
27508 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
27509 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
27510 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
27511 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
27512 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
27514 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
27515 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27516 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27517 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27518 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27519 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27520 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27521 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27522 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27523 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
27524 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
27525 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27526 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27527 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27528 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27531 o Minor features (controller):
27532 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
27533 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
27534 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
27535 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
27536 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
27537 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
27538 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
27541 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
27542 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
27543 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
27544 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
27545 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
27546 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
27547 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
27548 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
27550 o Minor packaging issues:
27551 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
27552 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27554 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27555 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
27556 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
27557 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
27558 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
27559 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
27560 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
27561 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
27562 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
27563 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
27564 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
27565 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
27566 our library structure used to force them to link it.
27568 o Removed features:
27569 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
27570 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
27571 are no longer in use as servers.
27573 o Documentation fixes:
27574 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
27575 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
27576 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
27580 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
27581 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
27582 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
27583 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
27584 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
27585 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
27586 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
27587 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
27588 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
27589 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
27592 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
27593 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
27594 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
27595 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
27596 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
27597 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
27598 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
27599 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
27600 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
27601 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27602 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
27603 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
27604 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27605 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
27606 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
27607 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
27609 o Security and stability fixes:
27610 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
27611 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
27612 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
27613 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
27614 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
27615 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
27616 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
27617 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
27618 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
27619 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
27620 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
27621 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27622 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27623 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27624 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27625 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27628 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
27629 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
27630 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
27631 contributions to the network.
27633 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
27634 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
27635 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
27636 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
27637 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
27638 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
27639 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
27640 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
27641 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
27642 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
27643 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
27644 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
27645 connections to directory servers.
27646 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
27647 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
27648 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
27649 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
27650 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
27651 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
27652 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
27653 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
27654 information, or fetch directory information.
27655 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
27656 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
27657 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
27658 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
27659 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
27660 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
27661 unless you really want your Tor to break.
27662 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
27663 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
27664 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
27665 - When StrictNodes is 1:
27666 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
27667 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
27668 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
27669 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
27670 reachability self-tests.
27671 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
27672 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
27673 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
27674 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
27675 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27676 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
27677 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
27679 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
27680 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27681 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
27682 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
27683 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
27684 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27685 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
27686 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
27687 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
27688 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
27689 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
27692 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
27693 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
27694 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
27695 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
27696 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
27697 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27698 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
27699 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27700 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
27701 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
27702 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
27703 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27704 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
27705 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
27706 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27707 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27708 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27710 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
27711 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
27712 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
27713 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
27714 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27715 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
27716 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27717 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
27718 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27719 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
27720 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
27721 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
27722 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
27723 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
27724 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
27725 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27726 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
27727 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
27728 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
27729 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
27732 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
27733 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
27734 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
27735 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
27736 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
27737 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
27738 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
27739 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
27740 Required by fix for bug 3000.
27741 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
27742 by fix for bug 3000.
27743 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
27744 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
27746 o Code simplification and refactoring:
27747 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
27748 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
27749 send a body too). Since only server versions before
27750 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
27751 keep the workaround in place.
27752 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
27753 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
27754 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
27755 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
27756 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
27757 want to do it differently.
27758 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27759 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27760 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27761 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
27762 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
27766 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
27767 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
27768 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
27769 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
27770 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
27773 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
27774 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
27775 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
27776 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
27777 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
27779 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
27780 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
27781 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
27782 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
27783 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
27784 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
27785 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
27786 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
27787 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
27788 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
27789 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
27790 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
27793 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27794 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27795 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27796 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27797 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27798 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27799 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27801 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
27802 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
27803 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
27804 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
27805 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
27806 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
27807 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
27808 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
27809 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
27810 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
27811 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
27812 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
27813 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
27814 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
27815 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
27816 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
27817 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27818 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
27819 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
27820 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
27821 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
27822 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27823 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27826 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
27827 networkstatus vote.
27828 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
27829 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
27830 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
27832 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
27833 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
27834 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
27835 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
27837 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
27838 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
27839 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
27840 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27843 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
27844 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27846 o Documentation changes:
27847 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
27848 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
27850 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
27853 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
27854 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
27855 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
27856 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
27857 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
27858 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
27861 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27862 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27863 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27864 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27865 the rest of bug 1074.
27866 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27867 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27868 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27869 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27870 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27871 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27872 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27873 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27874 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27875 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27876 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27877 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27878 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27879 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27882 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
27883 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
27884 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
27885 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
27886 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
27887 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
27888 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
27889 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
27890 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
27891 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
27892 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
27893 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
27894 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
27895 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
27897 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27898 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27899 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27900 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27901 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27902 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
27904 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
27905 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
27906 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
27907 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
27908 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
27909 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
27910 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
27911 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
27912 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
27913 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27914 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
27915 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
27916 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
27917 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
27918 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
27919 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
27920 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
27921 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
27922 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
27923 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
27924 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
27925 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
27926 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
27927 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27928 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
27929 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
27931 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
27932 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
27933 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
27934 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
27935 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
27936 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
27938 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
27939 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
27940 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
27942 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27943 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
27944 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
27945 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
27946 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
27947 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
27948 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
27949 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
27950 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
27951 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
27952 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
27953 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
27954 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
27958 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
27959 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
27960 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
27961 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
27962 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
27963 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
27964 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
27965 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
27966 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
27967 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
27968 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
27969 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
27971 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27973 o Minor features (log subsystem):
27974 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
27975 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
27976 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
27978 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
27979 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
27981 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
27982 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
27983 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
27986 o Packaging changes:
27987 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27988 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27989 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27992 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
27993 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
27994 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
27995 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27996 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27997 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
28000 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28001 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
28002 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
28003 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
28004 the rest of bug 1074.
28005 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
28006 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28007 Found by "piebeer".
28008 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
28009 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
28010 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
28011 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
28012 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
28013 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
28014 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28017 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
28019 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28022 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
28023 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
28024 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
28025 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
28026 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
28027 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
28028 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
28029 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
28030 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
28031 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
28032 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28034 o Packaging changes:
28035 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
28036 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
28037 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
28038 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
28039 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
28040 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28043 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
28044 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
28045 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
28046 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
28047 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
28048 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
28051 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
28052 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28053 Found by "piebeer".
28054 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
28055 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
28056 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
28057 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
28060 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
28062 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
28063 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
28064 Implements ticket 2432.
28067 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
28068 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
28069 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
28072 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
28073 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
28074 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
28075 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
28076 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
28077 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
28079 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28080 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
28081 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
28082 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
28084 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
28085 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
28086 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
28087 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
28088 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
28089 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
28090 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
28091 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
28093 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28094 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
28095 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
28096 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
28097 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
28098 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
28099 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
28100 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
28101 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
28102 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
28103 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
28104 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
28105 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
28106 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
28109 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28110 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
28111 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
28112 bug reported by doorss.
28113 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
28114 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
28115 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28116 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
28117 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
28119 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
28120 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
28121 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
28122 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
28123 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
28125 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
28126 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28127 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
28129 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
28130 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
28131 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
28132 Automake 1.7 or later.
28133 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
28134 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
28135 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
28136 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
28138 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28139 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
28140 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
28143 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28144 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
28145 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
28146 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
28148 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28149 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
28150 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
28151 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
28152 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
28153 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
28154 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
28155 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
28156 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
28158 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
28159 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
28160 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
28163 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28164 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
28165 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
28166 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
28167 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
28168 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
28169 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
28170 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
28171 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
28172 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
28173 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
28174 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
28175 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
28177 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28178 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
28182 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
28183 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
28184 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
28185 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
28186 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
28188 o Major bugfixes (security):
28189 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
28190 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
28191 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
28193 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
28194 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
28195 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
28196 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
28197 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
28198 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
28199 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
28200 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
28202 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28203 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
28204 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
28205 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
28206 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
28207 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
28208 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
28209 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
28210 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
28211 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
28212 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
28213 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
28214 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
28215 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
28218 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28219 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
28220 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
28221 bug reported by doorss.
28222 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
28223 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
28224 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28225 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
28226 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
28228 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
28229 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
28230 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
28231 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
28232 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
28233 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
28234 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
28235 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
28236 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
28239 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28240 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
28243 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
28244 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
28245 Automake 1.7 or later.
28248 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
28249 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
28250 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
28251 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
28252 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
28255 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
28256 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
28257 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
28258 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
28259 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
28260 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
28261 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
28262 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
28263 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
28264 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
28265 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
28267 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
28268 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
28269 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
28270 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
28272 o Directory authority changes:
28273 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
28276 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
28277 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
28278 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
28279 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
28280 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
28281 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
28282 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
28283 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
28284 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
28287 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28288 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
28289 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
28290 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
28291 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
28292 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
28293 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
28294 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
28295 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
28296 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
28300 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
28301 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
28302 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
28303 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
28307 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
28308 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
28309 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
28310 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
28312 o Directory authority changes:
28313 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
28316 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28319 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
28320 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
28321 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
28322 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
28323 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
28326 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
28327 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
28328 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
28329 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
28330 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28331 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
28332 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
28333 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
28334 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
28335 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28336 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
28337 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28338 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
28339 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
28340 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
28341 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
28342 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
28343 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28344 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28345 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28346 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28347 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28348 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28351 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
28352 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
28353 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
28354 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
28356 o New directory authorities:
28357 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
28361 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
28362 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
28363 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
28365 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
28366 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28367 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
28368 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
28369 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
28370 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
28372 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
28373 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
28374 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
28377 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
28378 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
28379 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
28380 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
28381 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
28382 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
28383 Patch from mingw-san.
28386 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
28387 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
28388 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
28389 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
28390 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
28391 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
28394 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
28395 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
28396 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
28399 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
28400 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
28401 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
28402 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
28403 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28406 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
28407 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
28408 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
28409 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
28410 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
28411 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
28412 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
28413 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
28414 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
28417 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
28418 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
28419 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
28420 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
28421 to a stable release.
28424 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
28425 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
28426 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
28427 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28428 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
28429 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
28430 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
28431 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
28432 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28433 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
28434 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28435 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
28436 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
28437 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
28438 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
28439 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
28440 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
28441 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
28442 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
28443 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
28444 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
28445 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
28446 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
28447 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
28448 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
28449 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
28450 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
28451 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
28452 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
28453 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
28454 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
28457 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28458 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
28459 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
28460 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
28461 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
28462 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
28463 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
28464 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
28465 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
28466 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
28467 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
28468 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
28469 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
28470 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28471 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
28472 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
28473 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
28475 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
28476 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28477 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
28478 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
28479 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
28481 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
28482 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
28483 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
28484 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
28487 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
28488 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
28489 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
28490 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
28491 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
28492 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
28493 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
28494 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28496 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28497 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
28498 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
28499 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
28500 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
28501 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
28502 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
28503 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
28504 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
28505 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
28506 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
28507 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
28508 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
28509 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
28510 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
28513 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
28514 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
28515 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
28516 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
28517 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
28518 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
28519 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
28520 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
28521 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
28524 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
28525 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
28526 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
28527 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
28528 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
28530 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
28531 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
28532 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
28533 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
28534 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
28535 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
28536 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28537 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
28538 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
28539 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28540 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28541 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28542 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28543 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28545 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28546 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
28548 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
28549 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28550 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
28551 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
28552 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
28553 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
28554 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
28555 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
28556 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28557 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
28558 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
28559 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
28560 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
28561 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
28562 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
28563 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
28564 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
28565 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28567 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
28568 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
28569 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
28570 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
28571 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
28572 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
28573 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
28574 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
28575 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
28576 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
28577 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
28578 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
28579 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
28581 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
28582 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
28583 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
28584 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28587 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
28588 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
28589 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
28590 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
28591 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
28592 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
28593 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
28594 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
28595 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
28596 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
28597 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
28598 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
28599 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
28600 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
28601 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
28602 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
28603 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
28604 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
28605 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
28608 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28609 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
28610 based on the time during which we were active and not in
28611 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
28612 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
28613 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
28614 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
28615 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28617 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28618 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
28619 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
28620 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
28621 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
28622 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
28623 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
28624 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
28625 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
28626 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
28629 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
28630 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
28631 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
28632 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
28634 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
28635 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
28636 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
28637 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
28638 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
28639 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
28640 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
28641 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
28642 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
28643 the longest-lived bug prize.
28644 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
28645 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
28646 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
28647 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
28648 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
28649 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
28651 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
28652 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
28653 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
28654 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
28655 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
28656 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
28660 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28661 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
28662 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
28663 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
28664 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
28665 got suppressed since the last warning.
28666 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
28667 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
28668 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
28669 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
28670 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
28671 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
28672 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
28673 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
28674 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
28675 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
28676 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
28677 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
28678 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
28679 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
28680 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
28681 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
28682 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
28683 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
28684 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
28686 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
28687 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
28688 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
28690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28691 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
28692 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
28693 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
28694 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
28695 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
28696 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
28697 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
28698 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
28699 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
28700 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
28701 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
28702 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
28703 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
28704 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
28706 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
28707 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
28708 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
28709 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
28710 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
28711 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28712 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
28714 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
28715 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
28716 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
28717 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
28718 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
28721 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28722 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
28723 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
28724 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
28725 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
28726 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
28727 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
28728 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
28729 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
28730 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
28731 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28732 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
28733 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
28734 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
28735 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
28736 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
28737 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
28738 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
28741 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
28744 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
28745 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
28746 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
28747 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
28748 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
28752 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
28753 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
28754 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
28755 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
28756 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
28757 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
28758 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
28759 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
28760 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
28761 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
28762 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
28763 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
28764 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
28765 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
28766 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
28767 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
28768 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
28771 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
28772 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
28773 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
28774 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
28775 they first get the Guard flag.
28776 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
28780 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28781 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
28782 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
28783 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
28784 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
28785 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
28786 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
28787 Patch from mingw-san.
28788 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
28789 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
28791 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
28792 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
28793 Implements enhancement 1790.
28795 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28796 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
28797 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
28798 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
28799 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
28800 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
28801 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
28802 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
28803 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
28804 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
28805 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
28806 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
28807 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28808 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
28809 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
28810 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
28811 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
28812 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
28813 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
28814 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
28816 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
28817 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
28818 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
28819 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
28820 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
28821 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
28822 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
28823 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
28824 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
28825 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
28826 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
28827 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
28828 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
28830 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
28831 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
28832 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
28833 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
28834 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
28835 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28837 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28838 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
28839 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
28840 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
28841 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28842 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
28843 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
28844 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28845 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
28846 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
28847 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
28848 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
28850 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
28851 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
28852 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
28853 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
28854 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
28855 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
28856 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
28858 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
28860 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
28861 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
28862 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
28863 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
28864 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
28865 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
28867 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28868 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
28869 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
28870 structures and defines in or.h for now.
28871 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
28872 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
28873 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
28874 statistics code to be more easily tested.
28875 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
28876 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
28877 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
28880 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
28881 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
28882 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
28883 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
28884 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
28885 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
28889 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
28890 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
28891 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
28892 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
28893 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
28894 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
28895 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
28896 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
28897 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
28898 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
28899 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
28900 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
28901 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
28903 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
28904 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
28905 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
28906 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
28907 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
28908 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
28909 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
28910 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
28911 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
28912 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
28913 can be controlled by the consensus.
28916 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
28917 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
28918 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
28919 more accurate data for many African countries.
28920 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
28921 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
28922 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28923 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
28924 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
28925 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
28926 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
28927 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
28928 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
28929 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28930 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
28931 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
28933 o New directory authorities:
28934 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
28938 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
28939 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
28940 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
28941 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
28942 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
28943 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
28944 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
28945 what should go in a patch.
28946 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
28947 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
28948 over our stored history.
28949 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
28950 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
28951 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
28952 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
28953 file. Fixes bug 1296.
28954 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
28955 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
28956 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
28960 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28962 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
28963 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
28964 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
28965 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
28966 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
28967 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
28968 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
28969 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
28970 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
28971 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
28972 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
28973 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28974 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
28975 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
28976 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
28977 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
28978 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
28979 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
28980 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
28981 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
28982 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
28983 two-hop circuits are actually created.
28984 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
28985 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28986 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
28987 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28990 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
28991 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28992 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28993 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28994 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28996 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
28997 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
29000 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
29001 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
29002 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
29003 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
29004 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
29005 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
29006 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
29007 their directory fetches over TLS).
29008 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
29009 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
29010 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
29011 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
29012 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
29013 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
29014 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
29015 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
29018 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
29019 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
29023 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
29024 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29025 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
29026 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
29027 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
29028 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
29029 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29032 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
29033 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
29034 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
29035 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
29036 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
29039 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
29040 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
29041 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
29042 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
29043 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
29044 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
29045 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
29046 their directory fetches over TLS).
29049 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
29050 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
29052 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
29053 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
29054 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
29055 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
29056 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
29057 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
29058 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
29059 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
29060 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
29061 hour of their uptime.
29064 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
29065 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
29066 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
29070 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
29071 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
29072 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
29073 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
29074 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
29075 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
29077 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
29078 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
29079 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
29081 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
29082 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
29086 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
29087 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
29088 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
29092 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
29093 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
29094 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
29097 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
29098 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
29099 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
29100 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
29101 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
29102 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
29103 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
29104 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
29105 about the option without breaking older ones.
29106 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
29107 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
29108 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
29109 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
29112 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
29113 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
29114 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
29115 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
29117 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
29118 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
29119 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
29122 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
29123 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
29125 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
29126 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
29127 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
29128 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
29129 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
29130 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
29131 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29132 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
29133 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
29134 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
29135 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
29138 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
29139 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29140 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
29141 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
29142 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
29143 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
29144 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29147 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
29148 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
29149 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
29150 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
29151 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
29152 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
29155 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
29156 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
29157 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
29158 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
29160 o Major features (performance):
29161 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
29162 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
29163 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
29164 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
29165 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
29166 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
29167 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
29169 o Minor features (performance):
29170 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
29171 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
29172 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
29173 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
29174 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
29178 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
29179 speeds up the build considerably.
29181 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29182 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
29183 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29184 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
29185 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29186 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
29187 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
29188 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29190 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
29191 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
29192 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
29194 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
29195 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
29196 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
29197 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
29199 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29200 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
29201 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
29202 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
29203 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
29204 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
29207 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
29208 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
29209 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
29211 o Directory authority changes:
29212 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
29213 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
29214 service directory authority) from the list.
29217 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
29218 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
29219 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
29220 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
29221 libraries in a security patch.
29222 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
29223 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
29224 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
29225 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
29227 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
29228 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
29229 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
29230 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
29231 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
29232 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
29233 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
29236 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
29237 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
29238 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
29239 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
29240 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
29241 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
29242 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
29243 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
29244 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
29245 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
29246 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
29247 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
29248 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
29250 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
29251 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
29252 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
29253 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
29254 control-spec.txt said they were.
29255 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
29256 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
29257 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
29258 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
29259 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29261 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29262 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
29263 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
29264 produce nicer HTML.
29265 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
29266 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
29267 iPhone SDK versions.
29268 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
29269 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
29270 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
29271 projects directory in svn.
29272 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
29273 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
29274 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
29275 high latency links.
29278 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
29279 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
29280 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
29282 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
29283 to the circuit build timeout.
29284 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
29285 arguments we do not recognize.
29286 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
29287 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
29288 open() without checking it.
29291 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
29292 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
29293 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
29294 several minor potential security bugs.
29297 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
29298 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
29299 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
29300 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
29301 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
29302 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
29303 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
29306 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
29307 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
29309 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
29310 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
29311 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
29312 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
29316 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
29317 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
29321 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
29322 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
29323 customized patches to run/build.
29326 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
29327 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
29328 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
29331 o Major bugfixes (performance):
29332 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
29333 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
29334 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
29335 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
29336 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
29337 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
29338 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
29341 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
29342 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
29343 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
29344 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
29345 libraries in a security patch.
29346 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
29347 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
29348 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
29349 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
29352 o Directory authority changes:
29353 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
29354 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
29355 service directory authority) from the list.
29358 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
29359 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
29362 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
29363 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
29364 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
29365 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
29366 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
29369 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
29370 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
29371 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
29375 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
29376 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
29377 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
29378 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
29379 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29382 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
29383 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
29384 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
29388 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
29389 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
29390 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
29391 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
29392 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
29394 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
29395 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
29397 o Directory authority changes:
29398 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29401 o Major features (performance):
29402 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
29403 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
29404 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
29405 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
29406 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
29407 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
29408 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
29409 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
29410 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
29411 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
29412 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
29413 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
29414 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
29416 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
29417 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
29418 but never per-conn write limits.
29419 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
29420 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
29421 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
29422 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
29424 o Major features (relay selection options):
29425 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
29426 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
29427 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
29428 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
29429 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
29430 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
29431 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
29433 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
29434 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
29436 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
29437 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
29438 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
29439 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
29440 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
29441 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
29442 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
29443 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
29444 the network changes.
29447 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29448 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29449 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29452 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
29453 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
29454 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
29455 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
29456 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
29457 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
29458 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
29459 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
29460 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
29461 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
29462 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
29463 generated while acting as a relay.
29464 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
29465 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
29466 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
29467 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
29468 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
29469 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
29471 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
29472 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
29473 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29474 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
29475 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
29476 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
29479 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
29480 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
29481 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
29483 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
29484 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
29485 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
29487 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
29488 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
29490 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
29491 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
29492 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
29494 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
29495 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
29498 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29499 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
29500 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
29501 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
29502 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
29503 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
29504 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
29505 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
29506 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
29508 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
29511 o Removed features:
29512 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
29513 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
29514 hidden service usage.
29517 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
29518 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
29519 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
29520 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
29521 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
29523 o Directory authority changes:
29524 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29528 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29529 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29530 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29533 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
29534 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
29535 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
29536 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
29537 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
29540 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29541 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29542 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
29543 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
29544 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
29545 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
29546 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
29549 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29550 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29551 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29552 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29553 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
29554 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
29556 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
29557 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
29560 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
29561 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
29562 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
29563 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
29564 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
29565 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
29568 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
29569 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
29570 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
29572 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
29573 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
29574 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
29575 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
29576 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
29577 download consensus + microdescriptors".
29578 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
29579 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
29580 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
29581 hash algorithm in the future.
29582 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
29583 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
29584 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
29585 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
29586 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
29587 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
29588 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
29589 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
29590 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
29593 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29594 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29595 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
29596 won't work unless we say we are.
29599 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
29600 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
29601 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
29602 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
29603 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
29604 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
29605 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29606 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29607 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29608 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29609 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
29610 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
29611 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
29612 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
29613 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
29614 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
29615 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
29616 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
29617 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
29618 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
29619 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
29620 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
29623 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
29624 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
29625 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
29626 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29628 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
29629 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
29631 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
29632 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
29633 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
29634 in the Vidalia Settings window.
29637 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29638 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29639 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29640 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29641 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29643 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29644 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29646 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
29647 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
29648 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
29651 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29652 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29653 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29655 o New directory authorities:
29656 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29658 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29661 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
29662 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29664 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29665 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29666 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29667 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29668 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29669 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29670 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29671 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29672 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29673 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29674 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29675 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29676 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29677 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29678 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29679 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29680 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29682 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29683 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29684 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
29686 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29687 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29691 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29692 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29693 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29694 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29695 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29698 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
29699 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29702 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29704 o Directory authorities:
29705 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
29709 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
29710 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
29711 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
29712 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
29713 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
29716 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
29717 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
29718 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
29719 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
29721 o New directory authorities:
29722 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29725 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
29726 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
29727 SSL handshake issues.
29728 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
29729 during the TLS handshake.
29730 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
29731 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
29732 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
29733 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
29734 none of which are very big.
29737 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
29739 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
29740 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29741 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
29742 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
29743 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29744 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
29745 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
29746 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29749 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29750 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
29751 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
29752 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
29753 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
29756 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
29757 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29760 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
29761 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
29764 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
29765 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
29766 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29769 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
29770 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
29771 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
29772 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
29773 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
29774 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
29777 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
29778 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
29779 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
29780 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
29781 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
29782 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
29783 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
29784 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
29785 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
29786 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
29787 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
29788 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
29789 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
29790 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
29791 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
29792 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29793 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29794 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29797 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29798 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29802 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29803 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29804 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29805 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
29806 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
29807 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
29808 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29809 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29810 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29811 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29812 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29813 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29814 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29815 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29816 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29817 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29818 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29819 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29820 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29821 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29822 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29824 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29825 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29826 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
29827 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29828 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29829 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29831 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
29832 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
29833 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
29836 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29837 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29838 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29839 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29840 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29841 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
29844 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
29845 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
29846 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
29847 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
29848 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
29851 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
29852 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
29853 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
29856 o New directory authorities:
29857 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29861 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
29862 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
29863 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
29864 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
29865 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
29868 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29869 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29870 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29871 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29872 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29875 o New options for gathering stats safely:
29876 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
29877 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
29878 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
29879 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
29880 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
29881 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
29882 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
29883 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29884 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
29886 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
29887 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
29888 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29889 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
29891 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
29892 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
29893 their extra-info documents.
29896 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
29897 source files Tor was built with.
29898 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
29899 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
29900 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
29901 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
29902 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
29903 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
29905 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
29906 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
29907 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
29908 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
29909 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
29911 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
29912 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
29915 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
29916 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
29917 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
29918 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
29919 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29921 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
29922 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
29924 o Deprecated and removed features:
29925 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
29926 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
29927 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
29928 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
29929 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
29930 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
29931 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
29932 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
29934 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
29935 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
29936 via application-level web tricks.
29938 o Packaging changes:
29939 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
29940 installer bundles. See
29941 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
29942 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
29943 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
29944 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
29945 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
29946 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
29947 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29948 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
29949 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29950 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
29951 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
29952 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
29955 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
29956 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
29957 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
29960 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
29961 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
29962 part of patch provided by "optimist".
29965 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
29966 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
29967 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
29968 and confuse fewer users.
29971 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
29972 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
29973 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
29974 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
29975 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
29976 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
29977 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
29980 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
29981 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
29982 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
29983 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
29984 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
29985 other features and bug fixes.
29988 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
29991 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
29992 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
29993 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
29994 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
29995 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
29998 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
29999 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
30000 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
30001 failure message (oops).
30004 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
30005 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
30006 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
30007 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
30011 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
30012 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
30013 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
30014 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
30015 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
30016 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
30017 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30018 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
30019 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
30020 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
30021 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
30022 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
30023 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
30024 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
30025 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
30028 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
30029 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
30030 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
30031 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
30032 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
30033 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
30034 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
30035 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
30036 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
30037 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
30038 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
30039 Workaround for bug 1024.
30040 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
30044 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
30045 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
30046 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
30049 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
30051 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
30052 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
30053 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
30054 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
30055 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30058 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
30059 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
30060 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
30061 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
30062 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
30063 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
30064 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
30065 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
30066 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
30067 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
30070 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
30071 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
30072 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
30073 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
30074 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
30075 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
30076 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
30077 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
30080 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
30081 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
30082 a bunch of minor bugs.
30085 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
30086 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
30087 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30089 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
30090 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
30091 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
30092 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
30094 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
30098 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
30099 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
30100 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
30102 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30103 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
30105 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
30106 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
30108 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
30109 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
30110 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
30111 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
30112 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
30113 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
30114 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
30115 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
30117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30118 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
30119 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
30121 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
30122 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
30123 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
30124 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
30125 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
30129 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
30130 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
30131 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
30132 of more minor bugs.
30134 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30135 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
30136 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
30137 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
30139 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30140 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
30141 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
30142 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30143 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
30144 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
30145 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
30146 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
30147 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
30148 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
30149 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
30150 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30151 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
30152 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
30153 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
30154 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
30155 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
30157 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
30158 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
30159 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
30160 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30162 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30163 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
30164 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
30167 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
30168 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
30169 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
30170 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
30171 addresses to fall out of the directory.
30174 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
30175 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
30176 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
30177 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
30179 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
30180 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
30181 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
30182 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
30183 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
30184 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
30185 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
30186 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
30187 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
30188 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
30189 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
30190 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
30191 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
30192 patch by Sebastian.
30193 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
30194 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
30197 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
30198 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
30199 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
30200 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
30201 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
30202 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
30204 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
30205 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
30206 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
30207 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
30208 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
30210 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
30213 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
30214 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
30216 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
30217 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
30218 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30219 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30220 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
30221 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
30223 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
30224 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30225 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
30226 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
30227 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
30228 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30229 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
30230 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
30231 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
30232 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
30233 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
30234 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
30238 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
30239 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
30240 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
30243 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
30244 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
30245 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30247 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
30248 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
30249 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
30250 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
30251 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
30252 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
30253 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
30254 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
30255 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
30256 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
30257 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
30258 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30259 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
30260 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
30261 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
30262 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
30263 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
30264 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
30265 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
30266 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
30267 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
30268 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
30269 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
30270 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
30271 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
30272 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
30274 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
30275 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
30276 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
30277 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
30278 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
30279 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
30280 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
30281 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
30282 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
30283 of 0. Suggested by lark.
30285 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30286 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
30287 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
30288 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
30289 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
30292 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
30294 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
30295 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
30296 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
30297 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
30300 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
30301 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
30302 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
30303 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
30304 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
30306 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
30307 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
30308 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
30309 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
30312 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
30313 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30314 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
30315 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
30316 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
30317 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
30318 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
30319 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
30322 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
30323 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
30324 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
30325 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
30328 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
30329 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
30330 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
30331 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
30332 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
30333 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
30336 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
30337 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30338 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
30339 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
30340 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
30341 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30344 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
30345 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
30346 reported by Matt Edman.
30347 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
30349 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
30350 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
30351 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
30352 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
30354 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
30355 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30356 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
30357 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30358 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
30359 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
30360 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
30361 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
30362 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
30363 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
30364 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
30365 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
30366 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
30367 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30368 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
30369 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30370 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
30371 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
30372 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30375 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
30376 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
30377 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
30378 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
30381 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
30382 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
30383 the letter of C99's alias rules.
30386 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
30387 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
30388 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
30389 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
30391 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
30392 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
30393 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
30396 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30397 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30400 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
30401 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
30402 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
30403 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
30404 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
30405 reported by "wood".
30406 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
30407 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
30408 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
30409 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
30410 identify a connection.
30411 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30412 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30413 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30414 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30415 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30416 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30417 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30418 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30419 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30420 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30422 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30423 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
30424 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
30425 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
30426 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
30427 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
30428 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30431 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
30432 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
30434 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
30435 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
30436 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
30437 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
30438 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
30439 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
30440 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30441 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
30443 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
30444 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
30445 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
30446 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30447 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
30448 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
30449 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
30450 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
30451 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
30452 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
30453 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
30454 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
30455 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
30456 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
30457 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30458 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
30459 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
30460 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30461 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
30462 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
30463 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
30464 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
30465 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
30466 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
30467 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
30468 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
30469 840. Patch from rovv.
30470 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
30471 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
30472 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
30474 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
30475 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
30476 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
30477 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
30478 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
30479 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
30480 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
30482 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30483 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
30484 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
30487 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
30488 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
30490 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
30491 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
30492 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
30493 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
30494 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
30495 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
30496 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
30497 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
30498 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
30500 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
30502 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30503 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
30507 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
30508 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
30509 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
30510 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
30511 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
30512 have had some time to upgrade.)
30515 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30516 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30519 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
30520 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
30521 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
30522 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
30523 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30526 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
30527 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
30529 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
30530 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30531 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
30532 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
30533 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
30534 entirely. Patch from coderman.
30537 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
30538 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
30539 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
30540 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
30541 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
30542 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30543 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
30547 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
30548 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
30549 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
30550 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
30551 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
30552 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
30553 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
30556 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30557 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
30558 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
30559 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
30560 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
30562 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30563 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30564 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30565 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30566 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30567 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30568 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30569 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30570 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30571 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30575 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
30576 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
30577 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
30579 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
30580 without support for deprecated functions.
30581 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
30583 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30584 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
30585 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
30586 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
30587 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30588 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
30589 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
30590 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
30591 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
30592 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
30593 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
30594 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
30595 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
30596 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
30597 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
30598 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
30599 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
30600 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
30601 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
30602 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
30603 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
30604 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
30605 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
30607 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30608 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
30609 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
30610 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
30611 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
30612 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
30614 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
30615 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
30616 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
30617 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
30618 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
30620 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
30621 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
30622 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
30624 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
30625 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
30628 o Deprecated and removed features:
30629 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
30630 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
30631 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
30634 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30635 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
30636 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
30637 with log.h on Android.
30638 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
30639 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
30642 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
30643 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
30645 o New directory authorities:
30646 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
30650 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
30651 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
30652 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
30653 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
30654 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
30655 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30658 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
30659 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
30660 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
30661 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
30662 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
30663 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
30664 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
30665 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
30666 reported by "wood".
30667 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
30668 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
30669 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
30670 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30673 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
30674 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
30676 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
30677 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
30678 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
30679 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
30680 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
30681 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
30682 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
30683 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
30684 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
30685 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30686 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
30687 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30688 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
30689 Implements proposal 148.
30690 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
30691 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
30692 system to do it for us.
30693 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
30694 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
30695 this fix will be slightly helpful.
30696 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
30697 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
30698 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
30699 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
30700 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
30701 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
30702 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
30703 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
30704 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
30707 o Minor features (controller):
30708 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
30709 been fetched and validated.
30710 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
30711 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
30712 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
30713 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
30714 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
30715 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
30718 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
30719 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30720 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
30721 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
30722 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
30724 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
30725 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
30726 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30727 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
30728 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
30729 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30730 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
30731 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
30732 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
30734 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30735 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
30736 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
30737 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
30738 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
30739 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
30740 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
30741 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
30743 o Deprecated and removed features:
30744 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
30746 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
30747 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
30748 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
30750 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30751 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
30752 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
30754 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
30755 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
30756 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
30757 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
30758 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
30759 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
30762 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
30763 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
30764 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
30765 fixes a variety of other issues.
30768 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
30769 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
30770 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
30771 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
30774 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
30775 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
30776 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
30777 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30780 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30781 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30782 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
30786 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
30788 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
30789 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
30790 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30791 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
30792 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
30793 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
30794 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30796 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
30797 rest, and don't automatically fail.
30798 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
30799 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30800 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
30801 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
30803 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
30804 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
30805 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
30806 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
30807 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
30808 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
30809 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
30810 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
30811 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
30812 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
30814 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
30818 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
30819 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
30820 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
30822 o Minor features (controller):
30823 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
30827 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
30828 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30829 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30830 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30831 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30832 variety of other issues.
30835 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30836 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30837 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30838 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30839 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30840 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30841 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
30842 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30843 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30844 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30845 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30846 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30849 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30850 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30852 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30853 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30854 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30855 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30856 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30857 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30858 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30859 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30860 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30861 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
30862 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
30863 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
30864 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
30865 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
30866 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30870 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
30871 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30872 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30873 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30874 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30875 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30876 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30877 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30878 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30879 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30880 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30881 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30882 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30883 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30884 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
30885 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30886 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30887 list. It has been gone for many months.
30888 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30889 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
30890 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30893 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30894 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
30895 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
30898 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
30899 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30900 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30901 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30902 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
30903 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30904 variety of other issues.
30907 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30908 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30909 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30910 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30911 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30912 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30913 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30914 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30915 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30916 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30917 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30918 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
30919 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
30920 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
30923 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
30924 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
30925 Suggested by Lucky Green.
30926 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
30927 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
30928 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
30929 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
30930 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
30931 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
30933 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
30934 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
30936 o Hidden service performance improvements:
30937 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
30938 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
30939 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
30940 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
30941 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
30942 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
30943 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
30944 faster after restart.
30947 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
30948 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
30949 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
30950 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
30951 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
30952 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
30953 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
30954 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
30955 840. Patch from rovv.
30956 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
30957 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
30958 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
30959 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
30960 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
30961 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
30962 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
30963 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
30964 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
30966 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
30967 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
30968 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
30969 have already been marked for close.
30970 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
30971 introduction points.
30972 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
30973 memory performance during directory parsing.
30974 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
30975 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
30976 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
30977 because of a pending download.
30980 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
30981 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
30982 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
30983 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30986 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
30987 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
30988 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
30989 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
30990 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
30991 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
30992 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
30993 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
30994 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
30995 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
30996 lookups more reliable.
30997 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
30998 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
30999 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
31000 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
31001 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
31002 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
31003 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
31006 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
31007 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
31008 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31009 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
31010 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
31011 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
31012 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
31013 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
31014 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
31015 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
31016 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
31018 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
31019 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
31020 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
31021 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
31022 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
31023 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31024 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
31025 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
31026 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31029 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
31030 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
31031 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
31032 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
31033 locked down these days.
31034 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
31035 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
31036 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
31037 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
31038 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
31040 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
31041 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
31042 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
31043 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
31044 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
31045 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
31046 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
31047 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
31048 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
31049 people find host:port too confusing.
31050 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
31051 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
31052 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
31055 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31057 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
31058 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
31059 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
31060 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
31061 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
31063 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
31064 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
31065 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
31066 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
31067 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
31068 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
31069 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
31070 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
31071 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
31072 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
31073 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
31074 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
31076 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
31077 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
31078 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
31079 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
31080 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
31081 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
31082 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31083 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
31084 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
31086 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
31087 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
31088 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
31089 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
31090 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
31091 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31092 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
31093 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
31094 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
31095 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
31096 bug 820, reported by seeess.
31097 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
31098 list. It has been gone for many months.
31100 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31101 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
31102 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
31103 actual mistakes we're making here.
31104 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
31105 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
31106 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
31107 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
31110 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
31111 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
31112 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
31113 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31116 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
31117 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
31118 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
31119 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
31120 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
31121 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
31123 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
31124 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
31125 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
31126 pointed out by rovv.
31129 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
31130 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31131 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
31132 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31133 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
31134 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
31135 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
31136 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
31137 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
31138 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31139 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
31140 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
31141 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
31142 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31143 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
31144 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
31145 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
31146 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
31147 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
31148 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
31149 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
31152 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
31153 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
31154 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
31155 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
31156 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
31157 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
31158 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31161 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
31163 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
31164 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
31165 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
31166 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
31167 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
31168 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
31169 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
31171 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
31172 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
31173 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
31174 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
31175 known descriptor before building circuits.
31177 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
31178 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
31179 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
31180 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
31181 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
31182 identify a connection.
31183 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
31184 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
31185 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
31187 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
31188 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
31189 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
31190 pointed out by rovv.
31193 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
31194 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31195 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
31196 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
31197 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
31198 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31199 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
31200 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31201 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
31202 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
31203 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
31204 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
31205 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
31206 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
31207 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31210 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
31211 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
31212 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
31213 answer sections match.
31214 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
31215 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
31218 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
31219 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31222 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
31223 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
31224 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
31226 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
31227 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
31228 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31231 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
31232 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
31233 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
31234 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
31237 o Removed features:
31238 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
31239 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
31242 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
31243 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
31244 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
31245 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
31246 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
31247 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
31249 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
31250 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
31251 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
31254 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
31255 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
31256 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
31257 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
31258 be sent using an "early" cell.
31261 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
31262 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
31263 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
31264 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
31265 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
31266 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
31267 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
31270 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
31271 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
31272 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
31273 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
31274 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
31275 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
31276 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
31277 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
31278 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
31279 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
31280 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
31281 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
31282 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
31283 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
31284 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
31285 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
31288 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
31289 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
31290 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
31291 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
31292 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
31293 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
31294 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
31295 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
31296 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
31298 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
31299 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
31300 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
31301 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
31302 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
31305 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31306 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
31307 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
31308 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
31310 o Removed features:
31311 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
31312 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
31316 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
31318 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
31319 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
31320 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
31323 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
31324 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
31325 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31328 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
31329 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
31330 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
31331 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
31332 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31333 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
31334 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
31335 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
31336 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31337 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
31338 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
31339 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
31340 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
31341 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
31342 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
31343 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
31344 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
31345 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
31346 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
31347 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
31348 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
31349 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
31350 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
31353 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
31354 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
31356 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
31357 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
31358 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
31359 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
31360 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
31361 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
31362 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
31364 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
31365 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
31366 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
31367 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
31368 found by Geoff Goodell.
31371 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
31372 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
31373 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
31374 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
31375 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
31376 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
31379 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
31380 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
31381 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
31384 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
31385 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
31386 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
31387 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
31388 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31389 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
31390 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
31391 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
31392 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31393 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
31394 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
31395 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
31396 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
31397 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
31400 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
31401 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
31402 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
31404 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
31405 fingerprints with or without space.
31406 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
31407 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
31408 partway through and wants to catch up.
31409 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
31410 state to start out in.
31413 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
31414 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
31415 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31416 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
31417 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
31420 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
31421 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
31422 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
31423 some of the connection attempts fail.
31424 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
31425 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
31426 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
31427 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
31428 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
31429 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
31431 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
31432 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
31433 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
31436 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
31437 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
31438 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
31439 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
31440 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
31441 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
31442 and adds a variety of smaller features.
31445 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
31446 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
31447 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
31448 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
31450 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
31451 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
31452 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
31453 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
31455 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
31456 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
31457 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
31458 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
31459 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
31460 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
31461 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
31464 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
31465 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
31466 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
31467 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
31468 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
31470 o Memory fixes and improvements:
31471 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
31472 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
31473 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
31474 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
31475 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
31476 on a typical directory cache.
31477 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
31478 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
31479 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
31480 and may reduce fragmentation.
31481 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
31482 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
31483 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
31485 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
31486 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
31487 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
31489 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
31490 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
31494 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
31495 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
31496 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
31497 done that for a long time.
31498 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
31499 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
31500 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
31501 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
31504 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
31505 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
31506 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
31507 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
31508 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
31509 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
31511 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
31512 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
31513 output to messages of warning and error severity.
31514 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
31515 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
31516 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
31517 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
31518 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
31519 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
31520 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
31521 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
31522 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
31523 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
31524 directory requests we should expect to see.
31525 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
31527 - Lots of new unit tests.
31528 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
31529 two parallel lists in lockstep.
31532 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
31533 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
31534 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31537 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
31538 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
31539 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
31540 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
31541 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
31542 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
31543 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
31546 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
31547 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
31548 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
31552 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
31553 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
31554 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
31557 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
31558 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
31559 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
31561 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
31562 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
31564 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
31565 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
31566 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
31567 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
31568 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31569 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
31570 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
31572 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
31573 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
31574 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
31575 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
31576 - Fix compile on Windows.
31579 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
31580 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
31581 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
31582 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
31583 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
31584 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
31585 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
31588 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
31589 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
31592 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
31593 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
31594 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
31595 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
31597 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
31598 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
31599 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
31602 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
31603 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
31604 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
31605 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
31609 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
31610 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
31611 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
31612 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
31614 o Major security fixes:
31615 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
31616 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
31617 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
31618 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
31619 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
31622 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
31623 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31626 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
31627 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
31630 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
31631 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
31634 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
31635 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
31636 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
31639 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
31640 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31643 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
31644 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
31645 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
31646 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
31647 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
31649 o New directory authorities:
31650 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
31651 it has been down for months.
31652 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
31656 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
31657 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
31659 o Minor features (security):
31660 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
31661 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
31662 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
31665 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31666 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
31667 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
31668 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
31669 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
31670 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
31671 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
31672 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
31673 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31675 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
31676 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
31677 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31678 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
31679 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31680 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
31681 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31682 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
31683 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
31685 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31686 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
31687 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
31688 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
31689 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
31690 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
31691 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
31692 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
31693 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
31694 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
31695 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31696 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
31697 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
31698 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
31699 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
31700 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
31701 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
31702 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
31703 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
31706 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
31707 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31708 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
31709 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
31712 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
31713 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
31714 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
31715 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
31718 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
31719 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31720 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
31721 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
31722 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
31725 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
31726 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
31727 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
31728 certain censored countries by default again.
31731 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
31732 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31733 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
31734 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
31735 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31736 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
31737 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
31738 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
31740 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31741 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
31742 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
31743 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
31744 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
31745 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
31746 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
31747 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
31748 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
31749 a directory. Fix from lodger.
31751 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31752 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
31753 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
31754 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
31755 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
31756 RelayBandwidth* values.
31757 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
31758 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
31759 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
31760 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
31761 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
31762 get_interface_address6().
31763 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
31764 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
31765 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
31767 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
31768 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
31769 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
31770 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31771 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
31772 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
31773 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31774 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
31775 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
31776 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31779 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
31780 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
31781 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
31784 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
31785 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31786 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
31787 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
31788 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
31791 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
31792 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
31793 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
31794 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
31795 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
31796 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
31797 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
31798 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
31799 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
31802 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
31803 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
31804 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
31805 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31808 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
31809 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31810 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
31811 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
31812 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
31813 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
31814 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
31817 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
31818 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
31819 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
31820 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
31821 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
31822 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
31823 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
31825 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
31826 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
31827 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
31828 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
31829 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
31832 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
31833 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
31834 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31835 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
31836 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
31837 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
31838 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31839 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
31840 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
31841 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
31842 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
31843 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
31844 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
31845 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
31846 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
31847 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31848 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
31849 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31850 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31851 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
31852 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
31853 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
31854 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
31855 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
31856 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
31857 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
31859 o Minor features (performance):
31860 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
31862 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
31863 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
31864 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
31865 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
31866 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
31867 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
31868 non-system include paths.
31869 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
31870 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
31873 o Minor features (other):
31874 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
31876 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
31877 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
31878 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
31881 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
31882 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
31883 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
31884 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
31886 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
31887 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
31888 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
31889 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
31890 Should fix bug 537.
31891 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
31892 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
31893 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31894 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
31895 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31897 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31898 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
31899 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
31900 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
31901 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
31902 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
31903 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
31904 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
31905 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
31906 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
31907 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
31908 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
31909 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
31910 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
31911 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
31912 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31913 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
31914 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
31915 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
31916 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
31917 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
31918 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
31919 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
31920 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
31921 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
31924 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31925 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
31926 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
31930 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
31931 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
31932 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
31933 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
31934 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
31937 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
31938 Tor's x509 certificates.
31941 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
31942 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
31943 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31944 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
31945 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
31946 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31948 o Minor features (security):
31949 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
31950 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
31952 o Minor features (directory authority):
31953 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
31954 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
31955 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
31956 bandwidthburst values.
31958 o Minor features (controller):
31959 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
31960 processes from running us out of memory.
31962 o Minor features (misc):
31963 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
31964 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
31965 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
31966 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
31968 o Deprecated features (controller):
31969 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
31970 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
31971 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
31974 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
31975 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
31977 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
31978 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
31979 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31980 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
31981 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
31982 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31983 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
31984 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
31986 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
31987 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31988 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
31989 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31990 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
31991 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
31992 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
31993 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
31995 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
31996 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
31997 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
31998 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
31999 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32000 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
32001 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32002 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
32003 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32004 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
32005 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
32006 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32008 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32009 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
32011 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
32012 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
32013 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
32014 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
32015 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
32016 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
32019 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
32020 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
32021 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
32022 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
32023 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
32025 o New directory authorities:
32026 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
32030 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
32031 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
32032 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
32033 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
32034 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
32035 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
32036 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
32037 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
32041 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
32042 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
32043 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
32044 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
32045 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
32046 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
32047 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
32048 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
32049 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
32050 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
32053 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
32054 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
32055 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
32056 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
32060 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
32061 the request isn't encrypted.
32062 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
32063 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
32064 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
32065 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
32066 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
32069 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
32070 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
32073 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
32076 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
32077 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
32078 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
32080 o New directory authorities:
32081 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
32084 o Major performance improvements:
32085 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
32086 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
32087 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
32088 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
32089 memory fragmentation.
32092 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
32093 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
32094 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
32095 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
32096 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
32097 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
32098 bodies when they receive them.
32099 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
32100 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
32101 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
32103 o Minor performance improvements:
32104 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
32105 of them were actually distinct.
32106 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
32107 interested in a given message.
32110 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
32111 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
32112 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
32113 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
32114 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
32115 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
32116 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
32117 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
32118 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
32119 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
32120 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
32122 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
32123 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
32124 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
32125 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
32126 this country" and "1 person from this country".
32127 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
32128 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
32129 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
32130 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
32131 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
32133 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
32134 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
32135 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
32137 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
32138 but client versions are not.
32139 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
32140 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
32142 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
32143 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
32144 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
32145 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
32146 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
32148 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
32149 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
32150 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
32153 o Minor features (controller):
32154 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
32155 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
32156 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
32157 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
32159 o Minor features (directory authorities):
32160 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
32161 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
32162 running a test network on a single host.
32163 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
32164 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
32166 o Minor features (bridges):
32167 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
32168 unencrypted connections.
32170 o Minor features (other):
32171 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
32172 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
32173 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
32174 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
32177 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
32178 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
32179 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
32180 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32183 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
32184 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
32185 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
32186 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
32187 on network address.
32190 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32191 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
32192 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
32193 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
32194 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
32195 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
32196 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
32197 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
32198 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
32199 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
32200 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
32201 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
32204 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
32205 rebuild our server descriptor.
32206 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
32207 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
32208 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
32209 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
32210 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
32211 nonstandard integer types.
32212 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
32213 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
32214 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
32215 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
32216 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
32218 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
32219 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
32220 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
32221 when they receive them.
32222 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
32223 This includes some 64-bit systems.
32224 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
32225 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
32226 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
32227 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
32228 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
32229 router_get_by_hexdigest().
32230 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
32231 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
32235 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
32236 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
32237 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32240 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
32241 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
32242 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
32243 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
32244 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
32245 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
32246 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
32247 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32250 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
32251 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
32252 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
32253 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
32255 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
32256 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
32259 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
32260 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
32263 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
32265 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
32266 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
32268 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
32269 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
32270 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
32271 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32272 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
32273 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
32274 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
32275 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32276 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
32277 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
32281 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
32282 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
32283 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
32286 - Make the unit tests build again.
32287 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
32288 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
32289 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
32290 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
32291 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
32292 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32293 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
32294 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
32295 the next one as a duplicate.
32298 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
32299 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
32300 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
32301 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
32304 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
32305 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
32306 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
32309 o New directory authorities:
32310 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
32314 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
32315 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
32316 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
32317 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
32318 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
32319 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
32320 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
32322 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
32323 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
32325 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
32326 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
32327 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
32328 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
32329 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
32330 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
32332 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
32333 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
32334 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32335 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
32336 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
32337 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32340 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
32341 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
32342 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
32343 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
32344 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
32345 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
32346 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
32347 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
32348 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
32349 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
32350 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
32351 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
32352 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
32353 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
32354 where Tor is blocked.
32355 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
32356 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
32357 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
32358 to a file periodically.
32359 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
32360 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
32361 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
32365 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
32366 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
32367 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
32368 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
32369 in the relevant networkstatus document.
32370 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
32371 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
32372 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32373 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
32374 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
32375 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
32376 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
32377 by Karsten Loesing.
32378 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
32379 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
32380 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
32381 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
32382 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
32383 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32384 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
32385 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
32386 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
32387 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32388 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
32389 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
32390 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
32391 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32392 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
32393 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
32394 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
32395 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
32396 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
32397 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32398 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32399 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
32400 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32401 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
32402 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
32403 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32404 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
32405 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32408 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
32409 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
32410 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
32411 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
32412 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
32413 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
32414 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
32415 even if your DirPort isn't on.
32416 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
32417 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
32418 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
32420 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
32421 multiple controller passwords.
32422 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
32423 router based on the router's purpose.
32424 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
32425 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
32426 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
32427 the approved-routers file.
32430 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
32431 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
32432 well as a few minor bugs.
32435 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
32436 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
32437 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
32439 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32440 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
32441 rebuild our server descriptor.
32443 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32444 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
32445 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
32446 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
32447 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
32448 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
32449 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
32450 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
32451 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
32452 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
32454 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
32455 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
32456 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
32457 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
32458 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
32459 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
32460 then be flexible about families.
32463 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
32464 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
32465 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
32469 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
32470 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
32471 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
32472 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
32473 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
32476 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
32477 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
32478 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
32479 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
32480 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32483 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
32484 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
32486 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
32487 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
32488 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
32489 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
32490 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
32491 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
32492 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32494 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
32495 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
32496 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
32497 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
32500 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
32501 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
32504 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
32505 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
32506 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32509 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
32510 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
32511 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
32512 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
32513 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
32514 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
32515 addresses many more minor issues.
32517 o New directory authorities:
32518 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
32521 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
32522 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
32523 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
32524 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
32526 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
32527 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
32528 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
32529 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
32530 and are reaching it.
32531 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
32532 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
32533 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
32534 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
32535 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
32536 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
32539 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
32540 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
32542 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
32543 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
32544 no longer work for clients.
32545 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32546 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
32548 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
32549 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
32550 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
32551 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
32552 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
32553 enough directory information to build a circuit.
32554 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
32555 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
32556 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
32557 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
32558 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
32559 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
32561 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
32562 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
32563 requests for all of them.
32564 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
32566 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
32567 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
32568 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
32570 o New requirements:
32571 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
32572 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
32576 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
32577 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
32578 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
32579 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
32580 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
32581 networkstatuses that we already have.
32582 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
32583 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
32584 we start knowing some directory caches.
32585 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
32586 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
32587 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
32588 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
32589 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
32590 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
32591 Good in combination with --hash-password.
32592 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
32593 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
32595 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
32596 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
32597 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
32599 o Minor features (bridges):
32600 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
32601 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
32602 back to trying the bridge directly.
32603 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
32604 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
32606 o Minor features (controller):
32607 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
32608 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
32609 report the value as a "minimum skew."
32612 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
32613 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
32617 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
32618 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
32619 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
32620 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
32621 reported by tup and ioerror.
32622 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
32623 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
32625 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
32626 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32628 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32629 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
32630 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
32632 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
32633 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32634 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
32635 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32636 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
32637 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32638 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
32640 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
32641 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
32642 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32644 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
32645 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
32646 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
32647 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
32648 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
32651 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
32652 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
32653 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
32654 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
32655 lists for a few hours each day.
32657 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32658 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32659 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32660 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
32661 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
32662 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32663 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32664 rend_process_relay_cell().
32666 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32667 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32668 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32669 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32670 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32671 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32672 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
32673 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
32675 o Major bugfixes (other):
32676 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
32677 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
32678 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
32679 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32680 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32681 circuit cannibalization).
32682 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32683 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32684 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32685 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32686 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32687 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
32690 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32691 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
32693 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32694 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
32695 absent. Resolves bug 467.
32696 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
32697 a way to trigger this remotely.)
32698 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32699 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32700 were reporting the dir port.)
32701 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32702 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
32703 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32704 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32705 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32707 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32708 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32709 the onion key from getting rotated.
32710 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32711 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32712 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32713 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
32714 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32715 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32716 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32717 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
32718 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
32721 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
32722 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
32723 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
32724 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
32725 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
32726 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
32728 o Major features (directory system):
32729 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
32730 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
32731 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
32732 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
32733 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
32734 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
32735 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
32736 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
32737 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
32738 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
32739 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
32740 Partially implements proposal 122.
32741 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
32742 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
32745 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
32746 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
32747 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
32748 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
32750 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32751 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32752 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32753 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32754 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32755 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32756 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
32757 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
32758 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32760 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
32761 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
32763 - Allow certificates to include an address.
32764 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
32765 and download operations.
32766 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
32767 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
32768 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
32769 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
32770 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
32771 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
32773 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
32774 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
32777 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
32778 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
32779 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
32780 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
32782 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
32783 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
32784 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
32786 o Minor features (performance):
32787 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
32788 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
32789 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
32790 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
32791 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
32792 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
32793 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
32796 o Minor features (compilation):
32797 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
32798 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
32800 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32801 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
32802 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
32803 stick around indefinitely.
32804 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
32806 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
32807 v3 directory authority.
32808 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
32809 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
32811 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
32812 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
32813 "moria on moria:9031."
32814 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
32815 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
32816 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
32817 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
32818 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
32819 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
32820 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
32821 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
32823 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32824 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
32825 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
32826 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
32827 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
32828 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
32829 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
32830 downloads than for other types.
32832 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
32833 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
32835 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
32836 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
32837 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32839 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32840 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32841 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32842 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
32843 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
32844 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
32845 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
32846 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
32848 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32849 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
32850 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
32851 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
32852 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32853 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
32854 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
32855 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32856 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
32857 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
32858 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
32860 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
32861 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
32864 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32865 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
32866 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
32867 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
32868 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
32869 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
32870 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
32871 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
32872 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
32873 so that they all take the same named flags.
32876 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
32877 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
32878 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
32881 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
32882 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
32883 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
32884 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
32885 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
32886 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
32888 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
32889 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
32890 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
32891 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
32892 annotations along with descriptors.
32893 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
32894 source, and its purpose.
32895 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
32897 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
32898 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
32899 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
32900 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
32903 o Major features (directory authorities):
32904 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
32906 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
32907 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
32908 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
32909 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
32910 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
32911 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
32913 o Major features (v3 directory system):
32914 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
32915 and download the descriptors listed in them.
32916 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
32917 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
32918 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
32920 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32921 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32922 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32923 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
32926 o Major bugfixes (performance):
32927 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
32928 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
32929 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
32930 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
32932 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
32933 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
32934 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
32935 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
32936 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
32937 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32939 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
32940 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
32942 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
32943 certificate is requested.
32944 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
32945 certificate requests.
32947 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
32948 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
32949 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
32950 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
32953 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32954 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32955 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32956 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32958 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
32959 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
32961 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
32962 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
32963 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32964 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
32965 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
32966 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
32967 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
32968 downloads more sensible.
32969 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
32970 another when serving certificates.
32972 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32973 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
32974 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
32975 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
32977 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
32978 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32979 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
32981 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32982 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32984 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
32985 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32986 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32987 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
32988 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32990 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
32991 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
32992 WARN-severity events.
32993 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32994 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
32995 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32997 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
32998 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
32999 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
33001 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
33002 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
33003 circuit cannibalization).
33005 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33006 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
33007 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
33008 new module, networkstatus.c.
33009 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
33010 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
33011 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
33012 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
33013 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
33014 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
33015 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
33016 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
33017 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
33019 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
33021 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
33022 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
33025 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
33026 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
33027 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
33028 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
33030 o New directory authorities:
33031 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
33032 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
33034 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33035 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
33036 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33038 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
33039 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
33040 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
33041 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
33042 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
33043 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
33044 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
33045 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
33046 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
33047 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
33048 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33050 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33051 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
33052 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
33053 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
33054 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
33055 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
33056 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
33057 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
33058 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
33060 o Minor features (security):
33061 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
33062 address maps to an internal address space.
33063 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
33064 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
33066 o Minor features (guard nodes):
33067 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
33068 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
33069 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
33070 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
33072 o Minor features (speed):
33073 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
33074 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
33075 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
33076 on big-endian hosts.)
33078 o Minor features (controller):
33079 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
33080 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
33081 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
33082 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
33085 o Removed features:
33086 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
33087 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
33088 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
33089 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
33090 implementation of proposal 104.
33091 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
33092 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
33093 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
33094 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
33095 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
33096 patch from Karsten Loesing.
33097 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
33098 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
33101 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
33102 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
33103 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33104 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
33105 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33106 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
33107 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33108 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
33109 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
33110 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33111 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
33112 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
33113 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
33114 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33115 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
33116 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
33117 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
33118 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33119 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
33120 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
33122 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33123 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
33124 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
33126 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
33127 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
33128 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
33129 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
33132 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
33133 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
33134 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
33135 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
33136 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
33139 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
33140 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
33143 o Major bugfixes (security):
33144 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
33145 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
33146 become more of a headache than it's worth.
33148 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
33149 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
33150 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
33152 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
33153 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
33154 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
33155 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
33156 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
33157 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
33159 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
33160 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
33161 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
33162 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
33163 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
33165 o Minor features (controller):
33166 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
33167 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
33168 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
33169 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
33171 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33172 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
33173 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
33174 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
33175 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
33176 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
33177 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
33178 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
33180 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33181 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
33182 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
33183 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
33184 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
33185 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
33186 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
33187 if we ran off the end of the list.
33188 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
33189 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
33190 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
33191 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
33192 every time we change any piece of our config.
33193 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
33194 encourage people using them to stop.
33195 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
33197 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
33198 servers to choose a circuit.
33199 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
33200 unparseable piece of it.
33203 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
33204 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
33205 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
33206 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
33209 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
33210 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
33211 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
33212 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
33213 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
33215 o New directory authorities:
33216 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
33219 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
33220 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
33221 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
33222 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
33224 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
33225 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
33226 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
33228 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
33229 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
33230 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
33231 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
33232 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
33233 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
33235 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
33236 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
33237 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33240 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
33241 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
33242 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
33243 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
33247 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
33248 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
33249 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
33250 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
33252 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
33253 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
33255 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
33256 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
33257 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
33258 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
33259 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
33260 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
33261 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33262 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
33263 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33264 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
33267 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
33268 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
33269 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
33270 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
33271 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
33272 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
33274 o Removed features:
33275 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
33276 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
33277 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
33278 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
33281 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
33282 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
33283 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
33284 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
33285 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
33288 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
33289 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
33290 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
33291 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
33292 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
33293 reported by lodger.
33295 o Minor features (directory servers):
33296 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
33297 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
33299 o Minor features (directory voting):
33300 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
33303 o Minor features (security):
33304 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
33305 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
33306 encourage people using them to stop.
33308 o Minor features (controller):
33309 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
33310 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
33311 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
33312 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
33313 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
33314 cookie authentication file, and config option
33315 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
33317 o Minor features (unit testing):
33318 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
33319 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
33320 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
33321 logging for the unit tests.
33323 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33324 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
33325 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
33326 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
33327 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
33328 every time we change any piece of our config.
33329 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
33330 the future. Fixes bug 434.
33331 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
33333 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
33334 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
33335 the onion key from getting rotated.
33336 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
33337 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
33338 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
33341 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33342 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
33343 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
33345 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
33346 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
33347 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
33348 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
33351 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
33352 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
33353 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
33354 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
33355 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
33356 TorK, etc. Or worse.
33358 o Major security fixes:
33359 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
33360 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
33363 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
33364 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
33365 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
33366 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
33368 o Major security fixes:
33369 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
33370 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
33372 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33373 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
33376 o Minor features (performance):
33377 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
33378 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
33379 performance-intensive.
33380 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
33381 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
33382 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
33383 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
33384 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
33385 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
33389 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
33390 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
33391 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
33392 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
33396 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
33397 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
33398 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
33399 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
33400 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
33402 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
33403 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
33404 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
33405 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
33407 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
33408 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
33409 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
33410 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
33411 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
33413 o Major features (experimental):
33414 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
33415 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
33416 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
33417 handling before it's ready for use.
33420 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
33421 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
33422 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
33423 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33424 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
33425 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
33427 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
33428 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
33429 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
33430 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
33431 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
33433 o Major bugfixes (directory):
33434 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
33435 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33437 o Minor features (controller):
33438 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
33439 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33440 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
33441 from Robert Hogan.)
33442 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
33443 from Robert Hogan.)
33444 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
33445 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
33447 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
33448 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
33449 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
33450 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
33451 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33452 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
33453 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
33456 o Minor features (misc):
33457 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
33459 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
33460 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
33461 the authority identity key.
33462 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
33464 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
33465 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
33466 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
33469 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
33470 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
33471 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
33472 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
33473 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
33474 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
33475 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
33476 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33478 o Performance improvements:
33479 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
33481 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
33482 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
33485 o Deprecated and removed features:
33486 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
33487 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
33488 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
33489 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
33491 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33492 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
33493 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33494 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
33495 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
33496 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33497 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
33498 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
33499 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
33502 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33503 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
33504 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33505 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
33506 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
33508 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
33509 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
33512 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33513 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
33514 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
33515 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
33516 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
33517 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
33518 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
33519 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
33520 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
33523 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
33524 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
33525 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
33526 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
33528 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33529 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
33531 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33532 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
33533 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
33534 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
33535 routerlist while inserting a new router.
33536 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
33537 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
33539 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
33540 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
33541 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
33543 o Major bugfixes (security):
33544 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
33546 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
33547 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
33548 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
33549 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
33550 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
33551 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
33552 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
33553 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
33554 guard list unless we need to.
33556 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
33557 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
33558 don't get overused as guards.
33560 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33561 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
33562 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
33563 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
33564 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
33566 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33567 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
33568 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
33571 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33572 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33573 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
33574 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
33575 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
33576 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
33577 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
33578 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
33581 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
33582 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
33583 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
33584 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
33586 o Minor features (directory):
33587 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
33588 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
33589 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
33590 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
33592 o Minor build issues:
33593 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
33594 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
33595 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
33596 in the tarball, not as "x".
33599 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
33600 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
33601 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
33602 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
33603 forward on a lot of fronts.
33605 o Major features, server usability:
33606 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
33607 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
33608 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
33609 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
33611 o Major features, client usability:
33612 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
33613 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
33614 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
33615 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
33616 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
33617 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
33618 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
33619 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
33621 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
33622 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
33623 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
33624 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
33625 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
33626 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
33628 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
33629 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
33630 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
33632 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
33633 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
33634 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
33635 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
33636 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
33638 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
33639 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
33640 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
33641 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
33643 o Major features, other:
33644 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
33645 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
33646 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
33647 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
33648 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
33651 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
33652 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
33653 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
33656 o Minor fixes (resource management):
33657 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
33658 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
33659 our allocated connection limit.
33660 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
33661 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
33662 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
33663 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
33664 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
33666 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
33667 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
33668 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
33670 o Minor features (build):
33671 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
33672 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
33673 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
33674 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
33676 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
33677 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
33678 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
33679 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
33680 Use this version consistently in log messages.
33682 o Minor features (logging):
33683 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
33684 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
33685 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
33686 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
33687 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
33690 o Minor features (directory system):
33691 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
33692 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
33693 not to serve V2 directory information.
33694 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
33695 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
33696 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
33698 o Minor features (controller):
33699 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
33700 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
33702 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
33703 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
33704 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
33705 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
33706 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
33707 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
33709 o Minor features (hidden services):
33710 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
33711 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
33712 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
33713 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
33715 o Minor features (other):
33717 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
33718 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
33719 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
33720 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
33721 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
33722 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
33723 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
33724 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
33725 longer a completely silly thing to do.
33726 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
33727 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
33728 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
33729 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
33731 o Removed features:
33732 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
33733 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
33734 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
33735 back an error and close the connection.
33736 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
33737 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
33740 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
33741 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
33742 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
33743 makes the log messages nicer.
33744 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
33745 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33746 partial results on small file reads.
33748 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33749 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
33750 more often than they are allowed to appear.
33751 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
33752 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
33754 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
33755 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
33756 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
33757 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
33759 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33760 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
33761 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
33762 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
33763 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
33764 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
33765 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
33766 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33767 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
33768 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
33769 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
33771 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
33772 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
33773 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
33775 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33776 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
33777 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
33778 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
33780 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33781 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
33782 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
33784 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
33785 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
33788 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33789 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
33790 implicit in other procedure arguments.
33791 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
33792 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
33793 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
33794 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
33795 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
33796 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
33797 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
33798 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
33799 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
33802 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
33803 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
33804 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
33805 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
33807 o Directory authority changes:
33808 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
33809 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
33810 or use hidden services.
33812 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33813 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
33814 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
33815 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
33816 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
33817 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
33818 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
33819 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
33820 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
33823 o Major bugfixes (security):
33824 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
33825 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
33826 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
33828 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
33829 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
33830 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
33831 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
33832 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
33833 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
33834 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
33835 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
33836 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
33837 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
33840 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
33841 purpose=controller.
33842 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
33843 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
33845 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
33846 having a hard time downloading.
33847 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33848 partial results on small file reads.
33849 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
33850 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
33851 the gaps in the store get very large.
33854 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
33855 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
33857 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
33858 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
33861 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
33862 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
33863 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
33864 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
33865 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
33866 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
33868 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
33869 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
33870 free speech on the Internet.
33873 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
33874 get one we don't recognize.
33875 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33876 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
33879 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
33881 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
33882 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
33883 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
33884 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
33887 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
33888 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
33891 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
33892 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
33893 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
33894 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
33895 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
33896 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
33897 ask for GUARDS too.
33900 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
33901 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33902 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
33903 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
33904 on Win98 and friends again.
33906 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33907 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
33908 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
33911 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
33912 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33913 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
33914 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
33915 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
33916 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
33917 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
33918 and maybe also bug 397.)
33920 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33921 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
33922 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
33924 o Minor bugfixes (server):
33925 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
33928 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
33929 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
33930 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
33931 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
33932 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
33934 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33935 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
33936 load on authorities.
33938 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33939 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
33940 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
33941 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
33943 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
33945 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
33946 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
33947 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
33948 the last of bug 326.)
33949 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
33950 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
33954 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
33955 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33956 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
33957 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
33958 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
33959 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
33960 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
33962 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
33963 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
33965 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33966 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
33967 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
33969 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
33970 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
33971 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
33973 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33974 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
33975 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
33976 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
33978 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
33979 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
33981 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
33982 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
33983 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
33986 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33987 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
33988 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
33989 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
33990 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
33991 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
33992 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
33993 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
33994 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
33995 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
33996 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
33997 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
33998 other than file-not-found.
33999 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
34000 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
34001 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
34002 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
34003 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
34004 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
34005 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
34006 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
34007 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
34008 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
34009 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
34010 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
34011 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
34012 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
34013 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
34015 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
34017 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
34018 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
34020 o Minor features (controller):
34021 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
34022 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
34023 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
34025 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
34026 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34027 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
34028 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
34029 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
34030 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
34031 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
34032 connected or resolved cell.
34034 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34035 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
34036 some profiles, but not others.)
34037 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
34038 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
34039 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
34042 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
34044 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
34045 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
34046 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
34047 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
34048 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
34049 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
34050 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
34051 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
34052 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
34053 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
34054 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
34055 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
34056 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
34057 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
34058 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
34060 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
34063 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
34064 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
34065 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
34066 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
34067 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
34068 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
34069 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
34071 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
34072 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
34073 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
34074 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
34075 buckets go absurdly negative.
34076 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
34077 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
34080 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
34081 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
34082 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
34083 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
34084 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
34085 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
34086 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
34087 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
34090 o Major bugfixes (other):
34091 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
34092 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
34093 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
34094 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
34096 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
34098 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
34099 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
34101 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
34102 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
34103 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
34104 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
34105 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
34106 to wait for 0.2.0.)
34108 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
34109 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
34110 possible memory-stomping bugs.
34111 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
34112 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
34114 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
34115 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
34116 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
34117 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
34118 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
34119 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
34121 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34122 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
34123 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
34124 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
34126 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
34127 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
34128 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
34129 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
34130 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
34131 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
34132 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
34133 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
34134 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
34135 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
34136 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
34137 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
34138 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
34140 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
34141 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
34142 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
34143 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
34144 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
34145 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
34146 to the resulting address.
34149 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
34150 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
34151 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
34152 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
34155 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
34156 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
34158 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
34159 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
34160 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
34161 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
34162 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
34163 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
34164 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
34165 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
34166 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
34167 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
34168 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
34169 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
34170 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
34171 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
34172 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
34173 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
34174 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
34177 o Minor features (controller):
34178 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
34179 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
34180 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
34181 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
34182 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
34183 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
34184 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
34188 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
34190 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
34191 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
34192 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
34193 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
34194 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
34195 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
34198 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
34199 weren't planning to resolve.
34200 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
34201 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
34202 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
34203 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
34204 the controller from learning about current events.
34206 o Minor features (more controller status events):
34207 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
34208 learn when our address changes.
34209 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
34210 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
34211 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
34212 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
34214 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
34215 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
34216 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
34217 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
34218 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
34219 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
34220 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
34221 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
34222 are accepted by a directory.
34223 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
34224 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
34225 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
34226 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
34227 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
34229 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
34230 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
34231 about changes to DNS server status.
34233 o Minor features (directory):
34234 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
34235 too much load to the exit nodes.
34238 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
34240 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
34241 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
34242 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
34243 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
34244 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
34246 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
34247 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
34248 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
34250 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
34251 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
34252 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
34253 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
34254 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
34255 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
34256 config options if you like.
34258 o Minor features (config and docs):
34259 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
34260 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
34261 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
34262 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
34263 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
34265 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
34266 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
34267 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
34268 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
34269 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
34271 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
34272 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
34273 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
34274 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
34275 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
34276 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
34277 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
34278 documentation: "make check-docs".
34279 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
34280 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
34282 o Minor features (DNS):
34283 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
34284 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
34285 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
34286 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
34287 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
34288 our tests for DNS hijacking.
34290 o Minor features (directory):
34291 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
34292 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
34293 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
34294 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
34295 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
34296 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
34297 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
34298 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
34299 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
34300 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
34301 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
34302 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
34303 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
34304 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
34305 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
34306 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
34307 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
34308 for the thing we're trying to download.
34309 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
34310 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
34311 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
34313 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
34314 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
34315 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
34318 o Minor features (controller):
34319 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
34320 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
34322 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
34323 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
34324 entry guard status as it changes.
34326 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
34327 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
34328 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
34329 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
34330 to set log options.
34331 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
34332 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
34333 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
34334 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
34337 o Major bugfixes (security):
34338 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
34339 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
34340 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
34341 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
34343 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
34344 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
34345 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
34346 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
34347 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
34349 o Major bugfixes (other):
34350 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
34351 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
34352 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
34353 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
34355 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
34356 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
34357 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
34358 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
34359 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
34360 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
34364 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
34365 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
34366 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
34367 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
34368 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
34370 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
34371 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
34373 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
34374 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
34375 family lists conveniently.
34376 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
34377 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
34378 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
34380 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
34381 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
34383 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
34384 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
34385 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
34386 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
34387 if their identity keys are as expected.
34388 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
34389 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
34390 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
34392 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34393 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
34394 reported by Mike Perry.
34395 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
34396 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
34397 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
34398 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
34401 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
34402 o Security bugfixes:
34403 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
34404 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
34405 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
34406 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
34410 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
34411 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
34412 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
34415 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
34417 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
34418 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
34419 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
34422 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
34423 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
34424 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
34425 watching for STREAM events.
34426 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
34427 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
34428 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
34429 operations, for profiling.
34432 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
34433 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
34434 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
34435 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
34436 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
34437 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
34439 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
34443 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
34444 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
34445 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
34446 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
34447 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
34449 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
34450 correctly in the Windows installer.
34451 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
34452 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
34453 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
34454 MIPSpro C compiler.
34455 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
34456 when we're running as a client.
34459 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
34461 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
34462 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
34463 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
34464 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
34465 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
34466 its circuits on demand.
34467 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
34468 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
34469 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
34470 connections more stable on average.
34471 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
34472 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34473 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
34475 o Security bugfixes:
34476 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34477 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34480 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
34482 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
34483 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
34484 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
34485 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34486 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
34487 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
34488 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
34489 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
34492 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
34494 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
34495 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
34496 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
34497 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
34498 routers for even longer.
34499 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
34500 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
34501 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
34502 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
34503 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
34504 caching HTTP proxies.
34505 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
34508 o Minor features, controller:
34509 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
34510 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
34511 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
34512 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
34514 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
34515 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
34516 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
34517 working much like those for circuit events.
34518 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
34519 about the current status of a router.
34520 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
34521 a router's status has changed.
34522 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
34523 can tell which events and features are supported.
34524 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
34525 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
34527 o Security bugfixes:
34528 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34529 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34532 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
34533 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
34534 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
34535 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
34536 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34537 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
34538 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
34539 long nicknames where appropriate.
34540 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
34541 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
34542 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
34543 chews through many circuits before giving up.
34544 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
34545 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
34546 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
34547 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
34548 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
34549 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
34551 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
34552 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
34553 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
34555 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
34556 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
34557 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
34558 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
34559 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
34560 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
34561 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
34562 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
34563 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
34564 (reported by fookoowa).
34565 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
34566 and reported by some Centos users.
34567 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
34568 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
34569 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
34570 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
34571 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
34572 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
34573 before we check for libevent.
34576 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
34578 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
34579 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
34580 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
34581 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
34582 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
34583 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
34584 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
34585 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
34586 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
34587 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
34588 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
34589 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
34590 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
34591 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
34592 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
34593 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
34594 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
34595 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
34596 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
34597 lets you turn it off.
34598 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
34599 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
34600 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
34601 us into the directory more quickly.
34603 o New/improved config options:
34604 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
34605 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
34606 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
34607 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
34608 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
34609 all the machines on the same subnet.
34610 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
34611 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
34612 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
34613 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
34614 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
34615 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
34616 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
34617 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
34618 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
34619 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
34621 o Minor features, controller:
34622 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
34623 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
34624 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
34625 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
34626 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
34627 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
34628 for more information.
34629 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
34630 best guess to the user.
34631 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
34632 descriptor has changed.
34633 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
34635 o Minor features, other:
34636 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
34637 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
34638 useful to the network.
34639 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
34640 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
34641 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
34642 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
34643 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
34644 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
34645 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
34646 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
34647 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
34648 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
34649 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
34650 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
34651 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
34652 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
34653 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
34655 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
34656 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
34657 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
34658 could return an unnamed server instead.
34659 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
34660 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
34661 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
34662 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
34663 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
34664 a more attractive target for compromise.)
34665 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
34666 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
34667 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
34669 o Major bugfixes, other:
34670 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
34671 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
34672 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
34673 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
34674 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34675 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34676 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
34677 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
34678 its circuits on demand.
34679 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
34680 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
34681 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34682 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
34684 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
34685 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34686 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34687 we don't recognize.
34688 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
34690 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
34691 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
34692 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
34693 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
34694 "extendcircuit" request.
34695 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34696 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34697 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
34699 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
34700 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
34701 instead of "X resolved to X".
34702 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
34703 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
34704 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
34705 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
34706 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
34707 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
34708 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
34709 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
34710 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
34712 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
34713 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
34714 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
34715 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
34716 result more than once.
34717 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
34718 non-versioning dirservers.
34719 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
34720 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
34722 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
34723 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
34724 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
34725 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
34726 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
34727 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
34728 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
34729 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
34730 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
34732 o Packaging, features:
34733 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
34734 now universal binaries.
34735 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
34736 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
34737 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
34739 o Packaging, bugfixes:
34740 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
34741 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
34742 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
34743 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
34745 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
34746 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
34747 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
34750 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
34751 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
34752 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
34756 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
34758 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34759 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34760 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
34761 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
34762 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
34763 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
34764 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
34765 it can't resolve its hostname.
34768 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34769 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
34770 "extendcircuit" request.
34771 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34772 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34773 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34774 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34776 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
34777 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
34778 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
34780 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
34781 methods: these are known to be buggy.
34782 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34783 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34784 we don't recognize.
34787 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
34789 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
34790 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
34791 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
34792 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
34793 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
34794 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
34795 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
34796 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
34797 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
34798 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
34799 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
34800 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
34801 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
34802 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
34803 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
34804 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
34805 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
34806 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
34807 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
34808 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
34809 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
34810 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
34811 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
34812 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
34815 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
34816 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
34817 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
34818 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
34819 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
34820 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
34821 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
34822 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
34823 recommendation system saner.)
34824 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
34826 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
34827 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
34828 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
34829 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
34830 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
34831 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
34832 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
34833 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
34834 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
34835 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
34836 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
34837 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
34838 your ORPort is set.
34839 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
34840 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
34841 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
34842 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
34843 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
34844 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
34845 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
34846 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
34847 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
34848 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
34849 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
34850 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
34852 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
34853 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
34854 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
34855 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
34856 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
34857 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
34860 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
34861 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
34862 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
34863 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
34864 our DirPort now, etc.
34865 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34866 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
34867 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
34868 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
34869 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
34870 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34871 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34873 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
34874 whether the config options are bad or good.
34875 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
34876 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
34877 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
34878 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
34879 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
34880 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
34881 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
34882 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
34885 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
34886 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
34887 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
34888 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
34889 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
34890 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
34891 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
34892 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
34893 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
34894 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
34895 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
34896 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
34897 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
34898 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
34899 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
34900 of it), is not therefore "up".
34901 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
34902 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
34903 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
34904 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
34905 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
34906 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
34909 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
34911 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
34912 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
34913 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
34914 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
34915 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
34916 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
34917 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
34918 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
34919 test reachability, so you won't publish.
34922 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
34923 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
34924 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
34925 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
34926 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
34928 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
34929 own server descriptor yet.
34932 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
34934 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
34935 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
34936 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
34937 make sure to test via one of these.
34938 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
34939 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
34940 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
34941 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
34942 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
34944 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
34945 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
34946 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
34949 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
34950 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
34951 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
34952 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
34953 directory authority.
34954 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
34955 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
34956 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
34957 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
34960 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
34961 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
34962 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
34964 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
34965 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
34966 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
34967 current guards when picking a new guard.
34968 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
34969 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
34970 when we had more than one pending.
34971 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
34972 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
34973 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
34974 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
34975 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
34976 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
34977 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
34978 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
34979 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
34980 debug the reachability problems better.
34982 o Log / documentation fixes:
34983 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
34984 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
34985 about protocol violations by others.
34986 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
34987 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
34988 about what happened to our old torrc.
34991 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
34993 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
34995 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
34996 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
34997 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
34998 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
35001 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
35003 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
35004 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
35005 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
35006 old ORPort and receive connections.
35007 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
35009 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
35010 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
35011 and network-statuses.
35012 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
35013 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
35014 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
35015 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
35017 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
35020 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
35021 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
35022 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
35025 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
35027 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
35028 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
35029 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
35030 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
35031 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
35034 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
35035 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
35037 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
35038 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
35039 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
35040 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
35041 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
35042 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
35043 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
35044 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
35045 rather than not sending anything back at all.
35046 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
35047 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
35048 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
35049 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
35050 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
35051 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
35052 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
35053 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
35054 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
35055 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
35056 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
35057 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
35058 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
35059 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
35060 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
35061 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
35062 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
35063 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
35064 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
35065 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
35066 default ulimit -n is 1024.
35069 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
35070 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
35071 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
35072 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
35075 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
35077 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
35078 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
35079 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
35080 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
35081 entry guards running these flawed versions.
35082 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
35083 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
35084 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
35085 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
35086 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
35089 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
35090 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
35092 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
35093 and it is confusing some users.
35094 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
35095 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
35096 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
35097 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
35098 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
35101 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
35103 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
35104 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
35105 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
35106 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
35107 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
35108 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
35109 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
35110 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
35111 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
35112 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
35113 dirport is set for now.
35115 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
35116 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
35117 unattached before we fail it?
35118 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
35119 at least this many seconds ago.
35120 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
35121 at least this many seconds ago.
35124 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
35125 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
35126 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
35127 or resolve-wait stream.
35128 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
35129 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
35130 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
35131 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
35132 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
35133 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
35134 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
35135 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
35137 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
35138 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
35139 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
35140 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
35141 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
35142 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
35143 given as hex digests.
35144 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
35145 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
35146 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
35147 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
35148 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
35149 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
35150 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
35151 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
35154 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35155 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
35156 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
35157 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
35158 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
35159 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
35160 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
35161 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
35162 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
35163 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
35164 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
35167 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
35168 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
35169 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
35170 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
35171 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
35172 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
35173 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
35176 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
35177 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
35178 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
35179 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
35180 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
35181 misreading their logs.
35182 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
35183 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
35184 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
35185 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
35186 valid router descriptors.
35187 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
35188 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
35189 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
35190 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
35191 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
35192 silently resetting it to its default.
35193 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
35195 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
35198 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
35199 use clean circuits.
35200 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
35201 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
35202 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
35203 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
35204 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
35206 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
35207 because older Tors do not understand it.
35208 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
35212 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
35213 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35214 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
35215 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
35216 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
35217 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
35218 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
35219 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
35220 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
35221 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
35222 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
35224 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
35225 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
35226 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
35227 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
35229 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
35230 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
35233 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
35234 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
35235 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
35236 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
35237 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
35238 without getting overloaded.
35239 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
35241 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
35242 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
35243 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
35244 be forward-compatible.
35245 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
35246 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
35247 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
35248 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
35250 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
35251 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
35252 and OR conns to port 443.
35253 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
35254 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
35256 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
35257 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
35258 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
35259 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
35260 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
35261 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
35262 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
35265 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
35266 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35267 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
35268 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
35270 o Other important bugfixes:
35271 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
35272 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
35273 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
35274 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
35276 o Backported features:
35277 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
35278 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
35279 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
35280 without getting overloaded.
35281 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
35282 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
35283 503's whenever they feel busy.
35284 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
35285 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
35286 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
35287 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
35288 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
35291 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
35292 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
35293 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
35294 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
35295 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
35296 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
35297 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
35298 know if the crashes continue.
35299 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
35300 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
35301 seg faults in at least some cases.)
35302 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
35303 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
35304 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
35307 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
35308 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
35309 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
35310 try to be a bit more fair.
35311 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
35312 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
35313 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
35314 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
35315 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
35316 bug that let it go negative.
35317 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
35318 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
35319 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
35320 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
35321 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
35322 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
35323 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
35324 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
35325 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
35326 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
35327 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
35330 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
35332 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
35333 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
35334 service descriptors.
35337 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
35338 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
35339 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
35340 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
35342 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
35343 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
35344 versions *are* still recommended.
35345 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
35346 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
35347 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
35348 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
35349 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
35350 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
35351 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
35352 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
35354 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
35355 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
35356 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
35357 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
35358 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
35359 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
35360 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
35361 on it. Not used by clients yet.
35362 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
35363 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
35364 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
35365 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
35366 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
35367 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
35368 established a circuit.
35369 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
35370 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
35371 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
35372 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
35375 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
35376 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35377 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
35378 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
35379 quickly enough. Oops.
35380 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
35382 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35383 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
35386 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
35387 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
35388 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
35389 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
35390 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
35391 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
35392 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
35393 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
35394 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
35395 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
35396 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
35397 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
35398 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
35399 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
35400 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
35401 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
35402 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
35405 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
35406 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
35407 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
35408 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
35409 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
35410 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
35411 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
35412 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
35413 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
35414 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
35415 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
35416 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
35417 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
35418 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
35419 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
35420 connections more reliable.
35423 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
35424 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
35425 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
35426 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
35427 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
35428 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
35429 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
35430 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
35431 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
35432 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
35433 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
35434 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
35435 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
35436 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
35440 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
35441 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
35442 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
35443 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
35444 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
35445 need to be uint64_t's.
35446 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
35447 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
35448 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
35450 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
35452 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
35453 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
35454 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
35455 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
35456 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
35457 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
35458 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
35460 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
35461 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
35462 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
35463 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
35464 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
35465 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
35466 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
35467 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
35468 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
35469 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
35470 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
35471 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
35472 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
35475 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
35476 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
35477 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
35478 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
35479 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
35480 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
35481 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
35483 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
35484 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
35485 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
35486 can answer v2 directory requests too.
35487 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
35488 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
35489 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
35490 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
35492 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
35493 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
35494 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
35495 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
35496 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
35497 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
35498 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
35499 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
35500 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
35501 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
35502 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
35503 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
35504 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
35505 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
35506 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
35508 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
35509 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
35512 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
35513 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35514 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35515 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35516 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35517 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
35518 too -- so detect and avoid this.
35519 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
35521 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
35522 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35523 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35524 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
35525 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
35526 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35527 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35528 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
35529 rendezvous circuits.
35530 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
35532 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35533 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
35534 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
35535 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
35536 advertising it because of hibernation.
35537 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
35538 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35539 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35540 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35541 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35542 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35543 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
35544 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
35545 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
35546 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
35547 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
35548 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
35549 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
35550 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
35553 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
35554 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35555 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35556 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35557 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35558 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
35559 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
35560 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35561 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35562 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35563 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35564 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35565 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35566 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35567 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
35568 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
35569 connections once a week.
35570 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35571 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35572 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
35573 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
35574 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
35575 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
35577 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
35578 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
35579 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
35581 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35582 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
35583 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
35584 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
35585 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
35586 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
35587 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
35588 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
35589 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
35590 firewall options forbid.
35591 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
35592 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
35593 can only proxy to certain destinations.
35594 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
35595 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
35596 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
35597 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
35598 aids some statistical attacks.
35599 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
35600 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
35601 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
35602 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
35604 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35605 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
35606 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
35607 server descriptor sometimes.
35608 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
35609 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
35610 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
35611 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
35612 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
35613 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
35614 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
35615 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
35617 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
35618 case the controller wants to change that too.
35619 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
35620 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
35621 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
35622 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
35624 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
35625 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
35626 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
35628 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
35629 descriptors that they know they will reject.
35631 o Features and updates:
35632 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
35633 significantly faster.
35634 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
35635 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
35636 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
35637 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
35638 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
35639 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
35640 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
35641 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
35642 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
35643 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
35644 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
35645 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
35646 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
35647 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
35648 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
35649 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
35650 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
35651 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
35652 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
35653 as authoritative dirserver.
35654 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
35655 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
35656 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
35659 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
35660 o Usability improvements:
35661 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
35662 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
35664 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
35665 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
35666 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
35668 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
35669 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
35670 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
35671 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
35672 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
35673 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
35674 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
35675 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
35676 memory leaks better.
35677 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
35678 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
35679 their operators to pay close attention.
35680 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
35681 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
35683 o Performance improvements:
35684 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
35685 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
35686 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
35687 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
35688 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
35689 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
35690 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
35691 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
35692 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
35693 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
35694 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
35695 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
35696 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
35697 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
35698 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
35699 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
35700 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
35702 o Security improvements:
35703 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
35704 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
35705 fingerprint of server.
35706 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
35707 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
35708 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
35710 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35711 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
35712 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
35713 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
35714 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
35715 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
35716 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
35717 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
35718 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
35719 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
35720 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
35721 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
35722 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
35723 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
35724 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
35725 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
35726 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
35727 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
35728 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
35729 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
35730 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
35732 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
35733 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
35734 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
35736 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
35737 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
35739 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
35740 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
35741 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
35742 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
35743 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
35744 of the controller protocol.
35745 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
35746 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
35747 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
35750 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
35751 o New features (major):
35752 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
35753 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
35754 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
35755 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
35756 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
35757 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
35758 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
35759 we're using a default DirPort.
35760 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
35762 o New features (minor):
35763 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
35764 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
35765 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
35766 mirrors still cache and serve it).
35767 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
35768 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
35769 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
35770 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
35771 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
35772 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
35773 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
35774 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
35775 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
35776 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
35777 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
35778 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
35779 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
35780 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
35781 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
35783 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
35784 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
35785 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
35786 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
35787 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
35788 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
35789 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
35790 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
35792 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
35793 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
35794 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
35795 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
35796 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
35797 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
35798 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
35799 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
35800 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
35801 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
35803 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
35804 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35805 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35806 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35807 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35809 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35810 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
35811 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
35813 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
35814 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
35816 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
35817 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
35818 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
35819 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
35820 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
35821 don't warn twice about the same name.
35822 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
35823 if we've not heard of the server.
35824 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
35825 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
35828 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
35829 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35830 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
35831 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35832 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35833 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35834 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35835 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
35836 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
35837 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35838 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35839 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
35840 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
35841 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
35842 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
35845 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
35846 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
35847 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
35848 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
35849 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
35851 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
35852 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
35853 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
35854 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
35855 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
35856 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
35860 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
35861 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
35862 nickname) is reachable by you.
35863 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
35866 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35867 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
35868 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
35869 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
35870 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
35871 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
35872 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
35873 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
35874 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
35875 we fail to connect).
35876 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
35877 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
35878 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
35879 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
35881 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
35882 it was self-testing that told us so.
35885 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
35886 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
35887 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35888 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35889 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
35890 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
35891 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
35892 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
35893 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
35894 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
35895 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
35896 exit policy using him for any exits.
35897 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
35900 o New controller features/fixes:
35901 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
35902 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
35903 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
35904 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
35905 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
35906 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
35907 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
35908 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
35909 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
35911 o Start on the new directory design:
35912 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
35913 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
35915 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
35916 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
35917 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
35918 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
35920 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
35921 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
35922 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
35923 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
35924 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
35925 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
35926 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
35927 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
35930 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
35931 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
35932 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
35933 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
35934 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
35935 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
35936 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
35937 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
35938 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
35939 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
35941 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
35942 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
35943 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
35944 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
35945 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
35946 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
35947 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
35948 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
35949 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
35951 o Config option changes:
35952 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
35953 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
35954 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
35955 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35956 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35957 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
35959 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35960 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
35961 people have started using them for spam too.
35962 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
35963 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
35964 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
35965 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
35966 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
35967 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
35968 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
35969 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
35970 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
35971 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
35972 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
35973 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
35974 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
35975 services faster on the service end.
35976 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
35977 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
35978 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
35979 it a fair shake next time we try.
35980 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
35981 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
35982 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
35983 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
35984 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
35985 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
35986 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
35987 able to discover them.
35988 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
35989 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
35990 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
35991 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
35992 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
35993 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
35994 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
35995 testing for reachability.
35996 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
35997 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
35999 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
36001 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
36002 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
36005 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
36006 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
36008 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36009 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
36010 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
36011 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
36014 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
36015 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36016 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
36018 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
36019 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
36022 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
36023 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
36026 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
36027 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
36028 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
36029 options, getinfo keys.
36032 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
36033 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36034 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
36035 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
36036 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
36037 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
36038 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
36040 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
36041 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
36045 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
36046 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
36047 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
36049 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
36051 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
36052 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
36053 circuit events and we go offline.
36054 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
36055 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
36056 you don't have enough intro points already.
36058 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
36059 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
36060 many bytes we've used in this time period.
36061 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
36062 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
36063 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
36064 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
36065 enabled by default yet.
36067 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
36068 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
36069 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
36070 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
36071 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
36074 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
36075 o New directory servers:
36076 - tor26 has changed IP address.
36078 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36079 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
36080 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
36081 pthreads libraries.
36082 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
36083 claims its dirport is 0.
36084 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
36085 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
36089 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
36090 o New directory servers:
36091 - tor26 has changed IP address.
36093 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
36094 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
36096 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
36097 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
36098 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
36099 ports that have changed.
36100 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
36102 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
36103 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
36104 Windows-style errno back.
36105 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
36107 want to make it an NT service.
36108 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
36109 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
36110 name, give the full name in our response.
36111 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
36112 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
36113 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
36114 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
36115 pthreads libraries.
36117 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36118 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
36122 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
36123 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
36124 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
36125 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
36126 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
36129 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
36130 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36131 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
36132 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
36133 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
36134 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
36135 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
36136 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
36139 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
36141 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
36142 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
36143 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
36144 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
36145 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
36146 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
36148 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
36149 temporarily unreachable.
36150 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
36154 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
36155 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
36156 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
36157 our protocol works.
36158 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
36162 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
36163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
36164 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
36165 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
36166 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
36170 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
36171 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
36172 libevent before 1.1a.
36175 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
36177 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
36178 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
36179 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
36180 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
36181 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
36183 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
36184 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
36185 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
36186 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
36187 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
36188 of CPU time plus memory.
36189 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
36190 normal web requests.
36191 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
36192 tor_lookup_hostname().
36193 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
36194 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
36195 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
36196 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
36197 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
36198 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
36200 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
36201 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
36202 HttpProxyAuthenticator
36203 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
36204 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
36205 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
36207 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
36208 the user asks you to.
36209 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
36210 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
36211 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
36212 their descriptors are being rejected.
36213 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
36217 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
36219 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
36220 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
36221 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
36223 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
36225 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
36227 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
36228 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
36229 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
36230 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
36231 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
36232 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
36233 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
36234 keys) from the exit server's process.
36235 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
36236 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
36237 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
36238 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
36239 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
36240 point at your Tor server.
36241 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
36242 you're not sending a socks reply back.
36245 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
36246 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
36247 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
36248 to make it easier to write controllers.
36251 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
36253 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
36254 installing on Tiger.
36255 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
36256 complain during installation.
36257 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
36258 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
36259 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
36260 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
36261 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
36262 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
36264 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
36265 something more reasonable when first installing.
36266 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
36269 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
36271 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
36272 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
36274 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
36275 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
36276 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
36277 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
36278 when using the default exit policy.
36279 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
36280 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
36281 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
36282 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
36283 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
36284 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
36285 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
36286 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
36287 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
36288 we fetched a new directory.
36289 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
36290 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
36293 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
36294 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
36295 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
36296 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
36297 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
36298 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
36299 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
36300 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
36302 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
36303 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
36304 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
36305 save memory on systems that need to fork.
36306 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
36307 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
36308 is valid without actually launching Tor.
36309 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
36310 rather than just rejecting it.
36313 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
36315 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
36316 we didn't like its cert.
36318 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
36319 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
36320 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
36321 on patch from Adam Langley.
36322 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
36323 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
36324 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
36325 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
36327 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
36328 directory every time you regenerate it.
36329 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
36330 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
36333 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
36334 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36335 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
36336 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
36337 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
36340 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
36342 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
36343 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
36344 TLS errors better in other situations too.
36345 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
36346 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
36347 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
36348 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
36349 and don't log when you are.
36350 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
36351 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
36353 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
36354 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
36355 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
36356 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
36357 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
36360 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
36361 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
36362 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
36363 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
36364 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
36365 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
36366 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
36367 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
36368 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
36369 nickname+key are allowed.
36370 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
36371 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
36372 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
36373 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
36374 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
36375 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
36376 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
36377 have quite wrong clocks).
36378 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
36379 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
36380 - Efficiency improvements:
36381 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
36382 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
36383 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
36384 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
36385 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
36386 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
36387 lowercase and be done with it.
36388 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
36389 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
36390 to abandon partially built circuits.
36391 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
36392 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
36394 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
36396 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
36397 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
36398 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
36399 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
36401 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
36402 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
36404 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
36405 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
36406 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
36407 obeying the exit policy internally.
36408 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
36409 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
36411 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
36412 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
36413 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
36414 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
36416 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
36417 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
36418 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
36419 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
36420 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
36422 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
36423 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
36424 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
36425 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
36426 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
36427 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
36428 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
36429 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
36430 descriptors we just dropped.
36431 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
36432 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
36433 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
36434 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
36435 artificially capped at 500kB.
36438 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
36439 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36440 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
36441 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
36442 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
36443 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
36444 busy for more than 100 seconds.
36447 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
36448 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
36449 - Fixes on reachability detection:
36450 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
36451 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
36452 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
36453 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
36454 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
36455 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
36456 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
36457 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
36458 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
36459 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
36460 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
36461 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
36462 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
36463 server not already connected to them.
36464 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
36465 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
36466 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
36468 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
36470 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
36471 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
36472 are in a different state than they actually are.
36473 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
36474 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
36475 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
36477 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
36478 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
36479 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
36481 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
36482 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
36483 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
36484 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
36485 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
36486 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
36487 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
36489 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
36490 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
36491 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
36492 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
36495 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
36496 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36497 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
36498 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
36499 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
36500 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
36501 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
36502 creating actual system users.
36503 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
36504 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
36508 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
36510 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
36511 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
36512 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
36513 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
36514 hidden services better.
36515 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
36517 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
36518 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
36519 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
36520 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
36521 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
36522 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
36523 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
36524 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
36525 patch by Matt Edman).
36526 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
36527 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
36528 required exit node for certain sites.
36529 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
36530 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
36531 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
36532 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
36533 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
36534 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
36535 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
36536 rather than just "success" or "failure".
36537 - A more sane version numbering system. See
36538 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
36539 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
36540 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
36542 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
36543 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
36544 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
36545 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
36546 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
36547 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
36548 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
36550 o Robustness/stability fixes:
36551 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
36552 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
36553 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
36555 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
36556 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
36557 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
36559 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
36560 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
36561 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
36563 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
36564 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
36565 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
36566 that will want high uptime circuits.
36567 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
36568 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
36569 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
36570 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
36571 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
36572 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
36573 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
36574 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
36575 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
36576 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
36577 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
36578 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
36579 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
36580 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
36581 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
36582 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
36583 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
36584 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
36585 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
36586 when we try to launch one.
36587 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
36588 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
36589 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
36590 "ShutdownWaitLength".
36591 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
36592 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
36593 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
36594 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
36595 and to take errno into account where possible.
36598 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
36599 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
36600 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
36601 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
36602 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
36603 file more reasonable.
36604 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
36605 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
36606 addresses -- it won't.
36607 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
36608 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
36609 for google.com" problem.
36610 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
36611 so it's not just "unknown platform".
36612 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
36613 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
36614 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
36615 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
36617 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
36618 they could use instead.
36619 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
36620 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
36621 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
36622 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
36623 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
36624 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
36625 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
36626 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
36627 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
36629 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
36633 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
36634 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
36636 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
36637 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
36638 private-IP addresses.
36639 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
36640 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
36642 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
36643 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
36644 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
36645 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
36646 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
36647 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
36648 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
36650 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
36651 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
36652 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
36653 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
36654 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
36655 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
36656 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
36657 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
36659 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
36661 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
36662 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
36663 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
36664 whether the server is hibernating.
36667 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
36668 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
36669 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
36670 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
36671 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
36672 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
36673 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
36674 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
36675 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
36676 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
36677 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
36678 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
36679 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
36680 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
36681 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
36683 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
36684 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
36685 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
36686 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
36687 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
36688 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
36689 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
36690 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
36691 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
36692 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
36693 existing torrc files.
36694 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
36697 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
36698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36699 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
36700 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
36701 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
36702 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
36703 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
36704 the win32 SYSTEM account.
36705 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
36706 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
36707 file descriptors available.
36708 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
36709 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
36710 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
36713 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
36714 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36715 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
36716 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
36718 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
36719 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
36720 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
36721 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
36722 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
36724 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
36725 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
36726 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
36727 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
36728 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
36729 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
36730 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
36731 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
36732 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
36733 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
36734 800kB/s of capacity.
36735 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
36738 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
36739 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36740 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
36741 need as much processor time.
36742 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
36743 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
36744 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
36745 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
36746 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
36747 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
36748 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
36749 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
36750 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
36751 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
36752 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
36753 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
36755 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
36756 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
36757 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
36758 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
36759 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
36760 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
36761 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
36764 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
36765 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
36766 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
36768 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
36769 style address, then we'd crash.
36770 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
36771 a dirserver is broken.
36772 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
36774 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
36775 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
36776 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
36778 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
36779 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
36780 name out of the warning/assert messages.
36781 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
36782 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
36783 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
36785 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
36786 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
36787 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
36789 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
36791 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
36792 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
36793 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
36794 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
36795 values at once couldn't work.
36796 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
36797 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
36798 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
36799 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
36800 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
36801 they can handle any number of routers.
36802 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
36803 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
36804 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
36805 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
36806 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
36807 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
36808 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
36809 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
36810 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
36813 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
36814 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36815 - Make hibernation actually work.
36816 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
36817 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
36818 don't use the stream status code.
36821 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
36823 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
36824 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
36826 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
36829 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
36830 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
36831 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
36832 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
36833 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
36834 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
36835 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
36836 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
36837 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
36838 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
36840 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36841 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
36842 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
36843 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
36844 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
36845 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
36846 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
36847 - Make unit tests work on win32.
36850 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
36851 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36852 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
36854 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
36855 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
36856 than just chopping them off.
36857 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
36859 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36860 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
36861 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
36862 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
36863 right after sending the begin cell.
36864 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
36865 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
36866 exit nodes too. Oops.
36869 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
36870 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
36871 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
36872 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
36873 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
36874 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
36875 the user knows which one it's talking about.
36876 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
36877 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
36878 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
36881 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
36882 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36883 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
36884 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
36886 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
36888 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36889 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
36890 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
36892 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
36893 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
36894 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
36895 Clip rather than rejecting.
36896 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
36897 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
36900 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
36901 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
36902 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
36903 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
36905 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
36908 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
36909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36910 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
36911 win32 socket errors better.
36913 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36914 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
36917 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
36918 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36919 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
36920 so we don't see those messages days later.
36922 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36923 - Make tor-resolve work again.
36924 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
36925 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
36928 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
36929 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36930 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
36931 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
36933 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
36934 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
36935 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
36938 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
36939 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36940 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
36941 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
36942 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
36943 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
36944 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
36945 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
36946 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
36948 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
36949 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
36950 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
36951 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
36953 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
36954 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
36957 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
36958 hibernation properties by
36959 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
36960 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
36961 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
36962 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
36963 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
36964 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
36965 get back to normal.)
36966 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
36968 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
36969 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
36970 to fill the last cell completely.
36971 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
36974 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
36975 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36976 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
36977 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
36978 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
36979 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
36980 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
36981 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
36982 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
36983 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
36984 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
36986 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
36987 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
36988 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
36989 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
36990 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
36991 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
36992 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
36993 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
36995 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
36996 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
36997 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
36998 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
36999 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
37000 have it on start-up.
37003 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
37004 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
37005 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
37006 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
37007 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
37008 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
37009 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
37010 configuration to torrc.
37011 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
37012 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
37013 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
37014 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
37015 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
37017 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
37018 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
37019 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
37020 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
37021 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
37022 log more informatively.
37023 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
37024 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
37025 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
37026 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
37027 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
37028 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
37029 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
37030 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
37031 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
37032 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
37033 from each other, to hinder linkability.
37036 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
37037 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
37038 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
37039 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
37040 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
37041 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
37042 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
37044 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
37045 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
37046 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
37047 they ran out of file descriptors.
37048 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
37049 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
37050 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
37051 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
37052 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
37053 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
37054 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
37056 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
37059 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
37060 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
37061 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
37062 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
37063 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
37064 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
37065 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
37066 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
37067 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
37068 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
37069 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
37070 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
37071 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
37072 with the control port.
37073 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
37074 use in authenticating to the control interface.
37075 - New log format in config:
37076 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
37077 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
37080 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
37081 from their dirserver.
37082 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
37084 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
37085 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
37086 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
37087 them act more like real nodes.
37088 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
37089 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
37091 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
37092 nickname to its identity key.
37093 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
37094 not on the command line.
37095 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
37096 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
37097 1024) file descriptors.
37099 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
37100 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
37102 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
37103 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
37104 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
37107 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
37108 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
37109 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
37110 exit policy, not reject *:*.
37111 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
37112 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
37113 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
37114 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
37115 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
37116 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
37117 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
37120 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
37121 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
37122 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
37123 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
37124 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
37125 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
37126 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
37129 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
37130 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37131 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
37132 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
37133 the ones we find in directories.)
37134 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
37136 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
37137 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
37139 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
37140 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
37141 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
37143 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
37144 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
37145 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
37146 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
37148 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
37149 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
37150 any more exit policy lines.
37153 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
37154 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
37155 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
37156 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
37157 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
37158 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
37159 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
37160 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
37161 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
37162 will be able to get a directory.
37163 - Http proxy support
37164 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
37165 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
37166 be routed through this host.
37167 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
37168 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
37169 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
37170 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
37173 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
37175 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
37176 clients/servers with an open dirport.
37177 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
37178 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
37179 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
37180 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
37181 intermittent connections.
37182 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
37183 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
37185 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
37186 in reporting stats locally.
37187 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
37188 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
37189 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
37192 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
37194 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
37195 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
37198 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
37200 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
37201 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
37202 if you don't want it open.
37203 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
37204 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
37205 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
37206 intermittent connections.
37207 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
37209 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
37210 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
37211 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
37212 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
37213 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
37214 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
37215 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
37216 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
37217 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
37218 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
37219 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
37220 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
37221 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
37222 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
37223 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
37224 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
37227 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
37228 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
37229 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
37230 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
37231 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
37233 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
37235 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
37236 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
37237 specified in HTTP 1.0.
37238 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
37239 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
37240 than once per minute.
37241 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
37242 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
37245 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
37246 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
37249 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
37250 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
37251 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
37252 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
37255 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
37256 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
37258 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
37259 don't put it into the client dns cache.
37260 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
37261 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
37262 until we get our next directory.
37264 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
37265 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
37266 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
37267 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
37268 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
37269 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
37270 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
37271 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
37272 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
37273 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
37274 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
37276 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
37278 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
37279 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
37281 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
37282 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
37283 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
37285 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
37287 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
37288 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
37289 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
37290 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
37291 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
37292 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
37293 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
37294 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
37297 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
37298 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
37299 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
37300 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
37303 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
37304 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
37305 ask them to resolve the host "".
37308 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
37309 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
37310 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
37311 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
37312 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
37313 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
37314 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
37315 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
37316 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
37317 clients don't use this yet.)
37318 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
37319 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
37320 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
37321 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
37322 for pointing out this bug.)
37323 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
37324 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
37325 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
37326 kazaa, gnutella ports.
37327 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
37329 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
37330 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
37331 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
37332 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
37333 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
37334 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
37335 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
37336 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
37337 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
37338 wolf unpredictably.
37339 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
37340 that's still handshaking.
37341 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
37342 you'll choose it for your path.
37343 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
37344 end relay cell, etc.
37345 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
37346 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
37347 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
37350 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
37351 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
37353 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
37354 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
37355 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
37356 list to decide who's running or verified.
37357 - Bugfixes and features:
37358 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
37359 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
37360 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
37361 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
37362 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
37363 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
37365 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
37366 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
37367 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
37368 know you might want to get it verified.
37369 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
37372 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
37374 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
37375 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
37376 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
37377 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
37379 o Protocol changes:
37380 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
37381 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
37382 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
37383 hadn't heard of before.
37386 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
37387 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
37388 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
37389 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
37390 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
37391 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
37392 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
37393 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
37394 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
37395 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
37396 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
37397 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
37398 - Directory caching.
37399 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
37400 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
37401 directory they've pulled down.
37402 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
37403 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
37404 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
37405 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
37406 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
37407 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
37408 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
37410 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
37411 This isn't used yet.
37412 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
37413 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
37414 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
37415 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
37416 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
37417 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
37418 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
37419 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
37420 - File and name management:
37421 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
37422 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
37424 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
37425 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
37426 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
37427 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
37428 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
37429 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
37430 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
37432 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
37433 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
37434 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
37435 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
37436 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
37438 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
37439 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
37440 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
37441 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
37442 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
37443 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
37444 - New docs in the tarball:
37446 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
37449 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
37450 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
37451 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
37454 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
37455 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
37456 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
37459 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
37460 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
37463 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
37464 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
37465 - Make it build on Win32 again.
37466 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
37467 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
37471 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
37473 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
37474 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
37475 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
37476 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
37477 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
37478 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
37479 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
37480 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
37481 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
37482 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
37485 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
37488 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
37489 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
37490 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
37491 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
37493 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
37494 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
37495 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
37497 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
37498 hidden service per 15-minute period.
37499 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
37500 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
37501 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
37502 o Fixes for security bugs:
37503 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
37504 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
37505 a trusted dirserver.
37507 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
37508 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
37509 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
37510 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
37511 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
37512 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
37513 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
37514 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
37515 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
37516 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
37518 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
37519 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
37520 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
37521 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
37523 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
37524 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
37525 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
37526 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
37527 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
37528 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
37529 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
37530 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
37531 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
37532 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
37533 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
37534 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
37535 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
37538 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
37539 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
37540 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
37541 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37544 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
37545 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
37546 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
37547 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
37548 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
37549 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37550 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
37554 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
37555 [version bump only]
37558 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
37559 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
37560 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
37561 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
37562 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
37564 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
37567 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
37568 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
37569 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
37570 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
37571 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
37572 o Better debugging for tls errors
37573 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
37574 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
37575 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
37576 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
37577 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
37578 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
37579 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
37580 o win32's close can't close a socket.
37583 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
37584 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
37585 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
37586 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
37587 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
37588 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
37589 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
37590 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
37591 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
37592 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
37593 just close the circ.
37594 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
37595 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
37596 (this was quite rare).
37599 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
37600 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
37601 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
37602 if you decrypted them correctly.
37603 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
37604 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
37605 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
37608 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
37609 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
37610 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
37611 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
37612 a second one and it works.
37613 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
37614 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
37615 alice would just have to wait to time out.
37616 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
37617 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
37618 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
37619 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
37620 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
37621 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
37622 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
37623 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
37624 i'd still like to find the bug though.
37625 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
37627 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
37631 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
37632 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
37633 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
37634 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
37635 he retries a couple of times
37636 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
37637 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
37638 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
37639 too long (they were sticking around forever).
37640 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
37644 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
37645 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
37646 - make hup work again
37647 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
37648 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
37649 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
37650 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
37651 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
37652 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
37654 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
37655 o changes from 0.0.5:
37656 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
37657 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
37658 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
37659 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
37660 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
37662 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
37663 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
37664 in-memory directories too
37667 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
37668 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
37671 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
37673 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
37674 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
37675 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
37676 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
37679 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
37680 [version bump only]
37683 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
37684 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
37686 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
37687 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
37688 but that aren't warnings
37691 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
37692 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
37693 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
37694 the dns farm to do it.
37695 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
37696 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
37698 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
37699 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
37700 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
37703 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
37704 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
37705 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
37706 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
37707 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
37708 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
37709 expect it to have a nickname.
37710 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
37711 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
37714 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
37715 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
37719 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
37720 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
37721 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
37722 - include missing header fcntl.h
37723 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
37724 - deal with hardware word alignment
37725 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
37726 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
37727 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
37728 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
37729 by kill -USR1 currently.
37730 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
37731 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
37732 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
37735 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
37736 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
37737 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
37740 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
37742 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
37743 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
37744 - And fix a few endian issues.
37747 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
37749 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
37750 try that circuit again: try a new one.
37751 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
37752 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
37753 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
37754 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
37755 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
37756 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
37758 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
37759 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
37760 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
37762 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
37764 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
37765 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
37766 side isn't reading right then.
37767 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
37768 RecommendedVersions
37769 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
37770 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
37771 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
37774 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
37776 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
37777 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
37780 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
37784 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
37786 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
37787 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
37788 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
37789 connection is finished.
37790 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
37791 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
37792 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
37793 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
37794 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
37795 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
37796 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
37797 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
37798 rather than warn and continue.
37799 - Make --version work
37800 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
37803 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
37805 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
37806 knows it's working.
37807 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
37808 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
37810 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
37811 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
37812 so you can collect coredumps there.
37814 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
37815 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
37816 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
37817 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
37818 dns cache actually gets populated.
37819 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
37820 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
37821 end cell down it first.
37822 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
37823 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
37826 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
37828 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
37829 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
37831 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
37832 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
37833 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
37834 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
37835 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
37836 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
37838 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
37840 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
37841 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
37842 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
37843 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
37844 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
37845 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
37847 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
37848 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
37851 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
37853 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
37854 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
37855 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
37856 tor. It even has a man page.
37857 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
37858 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
37859 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
37860 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
37862 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
37864 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
37867 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
37869 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
37870 it, apt-getters. :)
37871 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
37872 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
37873 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
37874 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
37875 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
37876 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
37877 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
37878 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
37879 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
37880 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
37881 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
37883 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
37884 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
37887 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
37889 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
37890 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
37893 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
37895 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
37896 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
37897 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
37898 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
37899 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
37900 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
37901 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
37902 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
37903 logfile so you know it's working.
37904 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
37905 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
37908 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
37910 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
37911 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
37912 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
37915 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
37917 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
37918 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
37919 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
37922 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
37923 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
37924 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
37926 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
37927 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
37929 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
37930 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
37931 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
37933 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
37934 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
37938 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
37940 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
37941 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
37942 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
37945 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
37946 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
37947 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
37948 - Add port ranges to exit policies
37949 - Add a conservative default exit policy
37950 - Warn if you're running tor as root
37951 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
37952 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
37953 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
37954 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
37956 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
37959 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
37960 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37961 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
37962 really screw things up.
37963 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
37965 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
37966 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
37968 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
37969 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
37970 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
37971 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
37972 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
37973 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
37976 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
37979 - Change default loglevel to warn.
37980 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
37981 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
37983 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
37986 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
37987 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37988 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
37989 - to get ownership/permissions right
37990 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
37991 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
37992 pull down a directory again
37993 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
37994 causing server crashes
37995 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
37996 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
37997 - exit if bind() fails
37998 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
37999 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
38000 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
38001 - fix minor bias in PRNG
38002 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
38005 - Wrote the design document (woo)
38007 o Circuit building and exit policies:
38008 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
38010 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
38011 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
38012 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
38013 exists, rather than failing
38014 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
38015 which AP connections are standing by
38016 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
38017 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
38018 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
38020 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
38021 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
38024 - APPort is now called SocksPort
38025 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
38027 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
38028 hardcoded (for dirservers)
38029 - Reloads config on HUP
38030 - Usage info on -h or --help
38031 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
38034 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
38035 o General stability:
38036 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
38037 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
38038 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
38039 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
38040 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
38041 to take down the network when I approve a new router
38042 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
38045 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
38046 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
38048 o Autoconf improvements:
38049 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
38050 - Make install now works
38051 - create var/lib/tor on make install
38052 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
38053 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
38055 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
38056 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
38057 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
38058 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup