1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
6 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
7 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
8 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
9 DoS attacks harder to perform.
11 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
12 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
13 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
14 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
15 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
18 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
19 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
20 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
21 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
24 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
25 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
26 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
27 this. Closes ticket 40227.
29 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
30 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
31 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
32 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
33 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
35 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
36 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
37 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
38 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
39 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
40 weasel for diagnosing this.
42 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
43 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
44 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
45 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
46 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
47 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
48 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
50 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
51 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
52 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
53 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
55 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
56 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
57 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
58 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
60 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
61 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
62 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
63 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
64 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
65 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
66 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
68 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
69 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
72 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
73 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
74 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
75 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
76 DoS attacks harder to perform.
78 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
79 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
81 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
82 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
83 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
84 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
85 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
88 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
89 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
90 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
91 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
92 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
94 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
95 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
96 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
97 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
100 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
101 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
102 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
103 this. Closes ticket 40227.
105 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
106 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
107 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
108 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
109 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
111 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
112 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
113 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
114 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
115 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
116 weasel for diagnosing this.
118 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
119 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
120 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
121 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
122 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
123 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
124 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
127 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
128 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
130 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
131 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
132 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
133 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
135 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
136 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
137 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
138 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
140 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
141 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
142 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
143 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
144 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
145 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
146 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
148 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
149 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
152 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
153 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
154 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
155 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
156 DoS attacks harder to perform.
158 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
159 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
160 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
161 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
162 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
165 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
166 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
167 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
168 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
169 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
171 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
172 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
173 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
174 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
177 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
178 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
179 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
180 this. Closes ticket 40227.
182 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
183 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
184 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
185 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
186 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
188 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
189 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
190 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
191 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
192 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
193 weasel for diagnosing this.
195 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
196 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
197 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
198 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
199 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
200 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
201 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
203 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
204 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
205 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
207 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
208 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
209 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
210 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
212 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
213 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
214 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
215 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
217 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
218 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
219 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
220 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
222 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
223 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
226 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
227 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
228 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
229 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
230 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
231 intended for a different relay.
233 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
234 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
235 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
236 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
237 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
238 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
239 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
241 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
242 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
243 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
244 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
245 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
246 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
247 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
248 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
249 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
250 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
251 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
253 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
254 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
255 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
256 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
259 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
260 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
261 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
263 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
264 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
265 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
267 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
268 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
269 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
270 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
271 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
272 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
274 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
275 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
276 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
278 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
279 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
280 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
283 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
284 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
285 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
286 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
289 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
290 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
291 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
292 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
293 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
295 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
296 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
297 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
300 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
301 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
302 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
303 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
305 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
306 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
307 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
308 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
309 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
310 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
311 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
313 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
314 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
315 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
316 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
317 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
320 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
321 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
322 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
323 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
324 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
325 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
327 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
328 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
329 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
330 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
333 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
334 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
335 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
336 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
338 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
339 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
340 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
342 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
343 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
344 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
346 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
347 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
348 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
349 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
350 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
352 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
353 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
354 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
356 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
357 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
358 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
359 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
360 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
361 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
362 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
364 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
365 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
366 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
369 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
370 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
371 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
372 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
373 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
374 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
377 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
378 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
379 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
380 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
382 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
383 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
384 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
385 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
387 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
388 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
389 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
391 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
392 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
395 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
396 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
397 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
398 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
399 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
400 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
401 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
404 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
405 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
406 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
407 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
408 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
410 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
411 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
412 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
413 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
415 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
416 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
417 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
418 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
419 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
420 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
421 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
423 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
424 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
425 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
426 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
427 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
430 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
431 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
432 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
433 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
434 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
435 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
437 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
438 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
439 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
440 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
442 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
443 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
444 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
445 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
448 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
449 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
450 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
451 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
453 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
454 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
455 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
457 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
458 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
459 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
461 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
462 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
463 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
464 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
465 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
467 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
468 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
469 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
471 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
472 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
473 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
474 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
475 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
476 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
477 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
479 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
480 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
481 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
484 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
485 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
486 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
487 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
488 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
489 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
492 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
493 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
494 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
495 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
497 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
498 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
499 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
500 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
502 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
503 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
504 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
506 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
507 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
510 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
511 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
512 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
513 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
514 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
515 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
516 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
518 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
519 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
520 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
521 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
522 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
524 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
525 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
526 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
528 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
529 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
531 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
532 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
533 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
534 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
535 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
536 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
537 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
538 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
539 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
540 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
542 o Major features (fallback directory list):
543 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
544 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
545 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
547 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
548 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
549 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
550 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
551 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
552 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
553 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
555 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
557 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
558 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
559 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
560 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
562 o Major features (v3 onion services):
563 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
564 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
567 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
568 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
569 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
570 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
571 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
574 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
575 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
576 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
577 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
578 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
579 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
581 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
582 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
583 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
584 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
585 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
587 o Minor features (security):
588 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
589 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
590 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
591 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
592 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
594 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
595 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
596 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
597 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
598 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
601 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
602 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
603 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
604 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
605 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
606 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
607 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
609 o Minor features (code safety):
610 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
611 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
612 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
613 Resolves issue 33788.
615 o Minor features (continuous integration):
616 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
617 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
618 Resolves ticket 32143.
620 o Minor features (control port):
621 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
622 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
623 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
624 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
625 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
626 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
627 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
629 o Minor features (defense in depth):
630 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
631 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
633 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
634 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
635 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
636 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
637 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
638 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
640 o Minor features (developer tooling):
641 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
642 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
643 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
644 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
645 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
646 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
647 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
649 o Minor features (directory authority):
650 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
651 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
652 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
653 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
654 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
656 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
657 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
658 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
659 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
661 o Minor features (directory):
662 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
663 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
664 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
667 o Minor features (entry guards):
668 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
671 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
672 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
673 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
675 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
676 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
679 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
680 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
681 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
682 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
683 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
684 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
685 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
687 o Minor features (logging):
688 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
689 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
691 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
692 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
693 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
694 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
697 o Minor features (onion service v3):
698 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
699 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
701 o Minor features (python scripts):
702 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
703 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
704 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
705 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
707 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
708 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
709 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
710 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
711 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
712 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
713 up from ticket 33316.
714 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
715 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
716 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
718 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
719 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
720 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
721 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
723 o Minor features (windows):
724 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
725 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
727 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
728 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
729 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
730 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
732 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
733 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
734 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
735 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
736 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
738 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
739 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
740 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
741 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
742 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
743 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
745 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
746 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
747 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
748 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
750 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
751 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
752 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
753 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
754 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
756 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
757 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
758 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
760 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
761 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
762 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
763 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
764 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
765 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
766 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
767 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
768 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
769 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
771 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
772 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
773 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
774 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
775 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
777 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
778 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
779 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
780 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
783 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
784 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
785 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
786 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
787 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
788 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
789 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
791 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
792 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
793 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
795 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
796 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
797 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
799 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
800 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
801 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
804 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
805 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
808 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
809 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
810 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
813 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
814 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
815 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
816 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
817 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
818 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
819 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
821 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
822 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
823 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
824 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
826 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
827 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
828 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
829 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
830 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
833 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
834 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
835 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
836 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
837 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
838 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
841 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
842 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
843 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
846 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
847 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
848 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
849 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
851 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
852 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
853 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
854 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
855 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
858 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
859 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
860 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
862 o Code simplification and refactoring:
863 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
864 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
865 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
866 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
867 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
868 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
869 isolated in subsystems of their own.
870 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
871 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
872 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
873 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
875 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
876 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
877 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
878 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
880 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
881 code. Closes ticket 33014.
882 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
883 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
886 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
887 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
888 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
889 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
890 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
891 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
894 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
895 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
896 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
897 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
898 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
899 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
900 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
901 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
902 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
903 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
904 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
905 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
906 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
909 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
910 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
911 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
912 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
913 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
914 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
915 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
916 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
918 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
919 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
921 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
922 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
923 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
924 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
925 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
926 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
927 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
928 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
929 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
930 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
931 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
932 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
934 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
935 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
938 o Documentation (manual page):
939 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
940 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
941 Google Season of Docs.
942 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
943 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
944 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
945 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
946 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
947 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
948 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
952 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
953 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
954 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
956 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
957 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
958 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
959 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
960 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
961 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
962 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
965 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
966 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
967 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
968 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
971 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
972 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
973 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
974 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
975 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
976 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
978 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
979 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
980 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
981 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
982 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
983 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
985 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
986 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
987 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
989 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
990 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
991 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
992 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
995 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
996 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
997 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
998 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1001 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1002 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1003 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1004 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1005 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1007 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1008 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1009 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1011 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1012 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1013 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1014 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1015 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1018 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1019 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1020 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1021 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1022 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1023 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1025 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1026 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1027 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1028 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1030 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1031 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1032 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1033 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1036 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1037 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1038 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1039 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1040 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1041 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1042 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1043 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1047 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1048 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1049 several that affect usability and portability.
1051 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1052 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1053 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1054 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1055 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1056 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1057 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1060 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1061 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1062 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1063 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1066 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1067 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1068 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1069 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1070 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1071 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1073 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1074 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1075 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1076 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1077 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1079 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1080 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1081 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1082 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1084 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1085 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1086 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1087 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1088 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1089 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1091 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1092 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1093 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1095 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1096 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1097 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1098 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1101 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1102 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1103 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1104 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1107 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1108 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1109 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1110 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1111 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1112 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1115 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1116 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1117 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1119 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1120 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1121 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1122 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1124 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1125 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1126 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1127 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1128 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1131 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1132 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1133 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1134 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1135 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1136 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1139 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1140 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1141 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1142 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1144 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1145 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1146 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1147 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1149 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1150 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1151 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1152 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1154 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1155 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1156 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1157 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1160 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1161 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1162 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1163 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1164 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1165 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1166 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1167 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1171 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1172 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1173 some affecting usability.
1175 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1176 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1177 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1178 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1179 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1180 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1181 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1184 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1185 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1186 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1187 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1190 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1191 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1192 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1194 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1195 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1196 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1197 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1200 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1201 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1202 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1204 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1205 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1206 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1207 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1209 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1210 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1211 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1212 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1214 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1215 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1216 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1219 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1220 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1221 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1222 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1224 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1225 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1226 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1228 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1229 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1230 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1231 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1233 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1234 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1238 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1239 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1240 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1241 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1242 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1243 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1246 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1247 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1248 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1249 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1250 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1252 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1253 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1254 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1257 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
1258 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1260 o New system requirements:
1261 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1262 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1263 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1265 o Major features (build system):
1266 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1267 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1268 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1269 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1270 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1272 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1273 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1274 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1275 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1276 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1278 o Major features (onion services):
1279 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
1280 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
1281 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
1282 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
1283 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
1284 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
1285 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
1287 o Major features (proxy):
1288 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
1289 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
1290 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
1291 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
1292 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
1293 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1295 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
1296 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1297 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1298 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1299 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1300 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1301 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1302 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1303 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1305 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
1306 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1307 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1308 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1309 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1311 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1312 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1313 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1314 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1315 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1317 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
1318 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1319 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1320 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1321 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1322 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1324 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1325 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
1326 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
1327 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1329 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1330 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
1331 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
1332 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
1333 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
1334 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1336 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
1337 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
1338 message. Closes ticket 31371.
1340 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
1341 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1342 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1343 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1344 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1346 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1347 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
1348 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
1349 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
1351 o Minor features (configuration validation):
1352 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
1353 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
1354 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
1355 Closes ticket 31241.
1357 o Minor features (configuration):
1358 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
1359 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
1361 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
1362 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
1363 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
1364 Implements ticket 32404.
1366 o Minor features (configure, build system):
1367 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
1368 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
1370 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1371 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
1372 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
1373 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1374 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1375 Closes ticket 33075.
1377 o Minor features (controller):
1378 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
1379 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
1380 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
1382 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1383 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1384 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1385 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1387 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1388 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
1389 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
1392 o Minor features (developer tools):
1393 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
1394 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
1395 Closes ticket 32772.
1396 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
1397 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
1398 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
1399 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
1400 target. Closes ticket 31919.
1401 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
1402 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
1403 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
1405 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
1406 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
1407 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
1408 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
1410 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1411 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1412 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1413 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1415 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1416 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1417 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
1418 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1420 o Minor features (Doxygen):
1421 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
1422 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
1423 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
1425 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
1426 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
1427 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
1428 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
1429 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
1430 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
1431 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
1432 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
1434 o Minor features (git scripts):
1435 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
1436 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
1437 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
1438 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
1439 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
1440 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
1441 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
1442 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
1443 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
1444 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
1445 Closes ticket 32216.
1446 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
1447 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
1448 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
1449 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
1451 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
1452 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
1453 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
1454 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
1455 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
1456 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
1458 o Minor features (portability, android):
1459 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
1460 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
1461 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1463 o Minor features (relay modularity):
1464 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
1465 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
1466 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1467 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1468 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
1469 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
1470 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1471 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
1472 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
1474 o Minor features (release tools):
1475 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
1476 Closes ticket 32704.
1478 o Minor features (testing):
1479 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1480 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1481 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1482 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1483 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1484 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
1485 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
1486 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
1487 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
1488 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
1489 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
1491 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
1492 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
1493 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1495 o Minor features (usability):
1496 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
1497 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
1498 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
1500 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
1501 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1502 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1503 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1506 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1507 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1508 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1510 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1511 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
1512 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1514 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
1515 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1516 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1517 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1518 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1519 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1522 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
1523 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
1524 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
1525 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1526 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
1527 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1528 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
1529 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
1530 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
1531 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
1532 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
1533 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
1534 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
1535 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1536 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
1537 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
1538 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
1539 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1541 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1542 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
1545 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1546 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1547 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1548 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1550 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1551 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
1552 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
1555 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
1556 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
1557 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
1560 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
1561 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
1562 Closes ticket 32213.
1563 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1564 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
1565 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1567 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1568 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1569 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1570 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1571 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1574 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1575 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
1577 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
1578 Closes ticket 32216.
1580 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
1581 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1582 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1583 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1584 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1585 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1587 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1588 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
1589 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1590 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1591 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1592 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1593 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
1594 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
1596 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1597 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1598 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1599 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1601 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1602 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1603 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1604 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1606 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
1607 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
1608 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
1609 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1610 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
1611 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
1612 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
1613 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
1616 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1617 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1618 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1619 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1621 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
1622 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
1623 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
1624 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1625 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1626 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1627 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1629 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
1630 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
1631 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
1632 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
1633 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1636 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
1637 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
1638 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
1641 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
1642 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
1643 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
1644 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
1645 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1647 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1648 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
1649 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
1650 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1652 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
1653 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1654 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1655 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1657 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
1658 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
1659 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1661 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1662 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
1663 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
1664 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
1666 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
1667 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1668 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
1669 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
1670 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
1671 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
1672 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1674 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
1675 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
1676 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
1677 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
1678 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
1680 o Deprecated features:
1681 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
1682 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
1683 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
1687 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
1688 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
1689 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
1690 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
1691 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
1692 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
1693 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
1694 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
1696 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
1697 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
1700 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
1701 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
1702 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
1703 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
1704 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
1705 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
1707 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
1708 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
1709 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
1710 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
1711 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
1714 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
1715 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
1716 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
1717 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
1718 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
1720 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
1721 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
1723 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
1724 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
1725 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
1726 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
1727 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
1730 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
1731 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
1732 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
1734 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
1735 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
1736 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
1737 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
1738 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
1739 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
1740 Solves part of ticket 32339.
1741 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
1742 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
1743 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
1744 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
1745 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
1746 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
1747 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
1748 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
1749 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
1750 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
1752 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
1753 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
1755 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
1756 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
1757 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
1759 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
1760 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
1761 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
1762 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
1763 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
1764 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
1766 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
1767 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
1768 Closes ticket 32163.
1769 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
1771 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
1773 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
1774 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
1775 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
1777 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1778 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
1779 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
1780 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
1781 Closes ticket 32304.
1782 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
1783 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
1784 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
1785 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
1786 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
1789 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
1790 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1792 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1795 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
1796 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
1797 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
1798 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1799 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
1800 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
1801 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
1802 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1804 o Documentation (manpage):
1805 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
1806 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
1807 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1808 Google Season of Docs.
1809 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
1810 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
1811 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
1812 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
1813 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1814 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1816 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1818 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
1819 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
1820 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
1822 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
1823 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
1824 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1826 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
1827 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1828 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1829 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1830 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1831 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1832 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1833 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1836 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
1837 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
1840 o Testing (Travis CI):
1841 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1842 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1843 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1845 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1846 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1847 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1848 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1849 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1852 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
1853 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1854 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1855 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
1856 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
1857 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
1858 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
1859 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
1860 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
1861 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
1862 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
1863 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1865 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1866 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1867 as soon as packages are available.
1869 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1870 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1871 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1872 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1873 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1874 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1875 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1876 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1877 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1879 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1880 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1881 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1882 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1883 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1885 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1886 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1887 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1888 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1889 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1891 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1892 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1893 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1894 Closes ticket 33075.
1896 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1897 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1898 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1901 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1902 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1903 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1904 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1907 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1908 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1909 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1910 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1913 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1914 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1915 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1916 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1918 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1919 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1920 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1921 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1923 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1924 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1925 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1926 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1927 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1930 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
1931 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
1932 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
1933 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
1934 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
1935 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
1936 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
1937 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
1938 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
1939 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
1940 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
1941 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1943 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1944 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1945 as soon as packages are available.
1947 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1948 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1949 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1950 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1951 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1952 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1953 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1954 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1955 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1957 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1958 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1959 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1960 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1961 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1963 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1964 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1965 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1967 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1968 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1969 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1970 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1971 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1974 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1975 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1976 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1977 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1980 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1981 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1982 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1983 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1985 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1986 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1987 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1988 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1990 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1991 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1992 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1993 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1994 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1997 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
1998 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
1999 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2000 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2001 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2002 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2003 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2004 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2005 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2006 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2007 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2010 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2011 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2012 as soon as packages are available.
2014 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2015 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2016 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2017 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2018 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2019 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2020 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2021 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2022 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2024 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2025 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2026 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2027 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2028 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2029 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2030 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2031 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2034 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2035 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2036 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2037 Closes ticket 33075.
2039 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2040 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2041 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2043 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2044 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2045 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2046 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2047 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2049 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2050 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2051 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2052 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2053 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2056 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2057 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2058 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2059 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2062 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2063 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2064 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2065 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2067 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2068 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2069 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2070 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2071 Closes ticket 32629.
2072 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2073 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2074 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2076 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2077 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2079 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2080 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2081 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2082 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2084 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2085 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2086 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2087 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2090 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2091 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2092 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2093 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2094 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2095 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2097 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2098 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2099 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2100 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2101 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2102 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2103 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2104 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2106 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2107 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2108 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2111 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2112 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2113 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2116 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2117 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2118 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2120 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2121 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2122 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2123 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2124 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2125 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2128 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2129 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2130 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2132 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2133 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2134 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2135 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2136 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2137 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2138 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2139 Closes ticket 32629.
2141 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2142 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2145 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2146 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2147 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2148 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2149 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2150 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2152 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2153 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2154 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2155 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2156 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2157 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2158 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2159 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2161 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2162 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2163 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2165 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2166 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2167 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2168 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2169 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2171 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2172 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2173 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2175 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2176 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2177 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2178 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2179 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2180 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2181 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2182 Closes ticket 32629.
2184 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2185 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2188 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
2189 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
2190 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
2191 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
2192 bugs present in previous series.
2194 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2195 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2196 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2197 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2199 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
2200 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2202 o Major features (directory authorities):
2203 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2204 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2205 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2207 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2208 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2209 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2210 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2211 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2212 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2215 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2216 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2217 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2218 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2219 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2220 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2223 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2224 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2225 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2226 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2227 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2228 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2229 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2230 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2231 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2233 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2234 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2235 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2236 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2238 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2239 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2240 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2241 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2242 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2243 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2244 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2245 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2247 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2248 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2249 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2250 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2251 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2253 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2254 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2255 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2256 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2257 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2260 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2261 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2262 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2263 Closes ticket 29669.
2265 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2266 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2267 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2268 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2269 Closes ticket 31779.
2271 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2272 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2273 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2274 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2275 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2276 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2277 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2278 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2279 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2280 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2281 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2282 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2283 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2284 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2285 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2287 o Minor features (build system):
2288 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2289 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2290 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2291 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2292 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2294 o Minor features (compilation):
2295 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2296 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2297 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2299 o Minor features (configuration):
2300 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2301 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2302 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2303 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2305 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2306 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2307 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2308 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2309 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2310 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2311 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2313 o Minor features (debugging):
2314 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2315 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2316 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2317 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2319 o Minor features (geoip):
2320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2321 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2323 o Minor features (git hooks):
2324 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2325 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2326 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2327 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2328 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2330 o Minor features (git scripts):
2331 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2332 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2333 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2334 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2335 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2336 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2337 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2338 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2339 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2340 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2341 Closes ticket 31314.
2342 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2343 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2344 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2345 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2346 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2347 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2348 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2349 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2350 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2352 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2353 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2354 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2357 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2358 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2359 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2361 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2362 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2363 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2364 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2365 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2366 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2367 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2369 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2370 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2371 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2373 o Minor features (onion service):
2374 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2375 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2376 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2377 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2379 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2380 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2381 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2384 o Minor features (stem tests):
2385 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2386 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2389 o Minor features (testing):
2390 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2391 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2392 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2393 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2394 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2395 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2396 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2397 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2398 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2399 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2400 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2401 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2402 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2403 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2404 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2406 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2407 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2408 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2409 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2411 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2412 Closes ticket 31859.
2413 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2414 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2416 o Minor features (token bucket):
2417 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2418 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2420 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2421 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2422 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2424 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2425 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2426 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2427 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2428 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2429 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2430 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2431 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2434 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2435 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2436 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2437 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2439 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2440 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2441 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2442 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2443 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2444 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2445 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2447 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2448 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2449 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2450 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2451 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2452 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
2455 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2456 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2457 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2458 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2459 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2461 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2462 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2463 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2465 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2466 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2467 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2468 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2469 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2471 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2472 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2473 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2475 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2476 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2477 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2478 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2480 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2481 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2482 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2483 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2486 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2487 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2488 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2490 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2491 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2492 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2493 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2494 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2495 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2496 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2497 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2498 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2499 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2501 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
2502 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2503 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2504 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2505 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2507 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2508 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2509 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2512 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2513 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2514 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2516 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2517 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2518 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2519 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2520 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2521 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2522 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2523 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2524 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2525 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2526 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2527 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2530 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2531 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2532 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2533 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2536 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2537 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2538 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2539 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2541 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2542 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2543 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2544 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2545 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2546 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2547 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2548 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2549 Closes ticket 31678.
2551 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2552 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2553 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2554 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2555 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2557 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2558 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2559 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2560 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2561 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2562 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2563 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2564 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2565 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2568 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2569 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2570 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2571 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2572 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2573 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2574 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2575 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2576 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2577 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2578 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2579 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2580 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2582 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2583 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2584 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2586 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2587 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2588 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2589 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2591 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2592 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2593 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2594 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2595 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2598 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2599 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2600 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2603 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2604 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2605 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2608 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2609 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2610 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2612 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2613 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2614 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2615 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2616 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2617 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2619 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2620 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2621 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2622 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2625 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2626 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2627 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2628 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2629 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2632 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2633 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2634 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2635 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2636 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2638 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2639 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2640 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2641 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2643 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2644 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2645 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2647 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2648 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2649 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2651 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2652 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2653 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2654 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2656 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2657 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2658 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2659 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2660 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2663 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2664 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2665 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2667 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2668 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2669 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2670 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2671 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2673 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2674 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2675 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2676 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2677 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2680 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2681 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2682 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2684 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2685 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2686 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2687 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2688 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2689 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2692 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2693 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2694 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2696 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2697 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2698 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2701 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2702 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2703 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2704 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2705 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2706 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2708 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2709 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2710 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2711 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2712 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2714 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2715 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2716 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2717 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2718 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2719 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2720 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2721 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2722 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2723 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2725 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2726 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2727 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2728 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2729 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2730 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2731 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2733 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2737 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2738 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2739 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2740 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2741 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2742 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2743 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2744 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2746 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2747 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2748 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2749 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2750 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2751 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2752 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2753 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2754 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2755 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2756 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2757 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2758 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2761 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2762 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2763 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2764 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2765 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2766 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2768 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2772 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
2773 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
2774 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2775 Closes ticket 32500.
2776 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2777 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2778 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2779 Closes ticket 30967.
2781 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2782 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2783 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2784 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2785 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2786 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2787 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2788 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2789 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2790 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2791 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2792 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2793 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2794 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2795 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2796 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2798 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2799 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2800 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2801 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2802 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2803 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2804 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2805 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2806 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2807 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2809 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2810 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2811 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2813 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2814 Closes ticket 30806.
2815 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2816 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2819 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2820 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2821 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2823 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2824 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2825 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2827 o Testing (continuous integration):
2828 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2829 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2830 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2831 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2832 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2833 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2834 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2835 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2836 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2839 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
2840 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2841 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
2842 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2844 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2845 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2846 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2847 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2849 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2850 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2851 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2852 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2854 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2855 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2856 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2857 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2858 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2859 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2860 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2861 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2863 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2864 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2865 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2866 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2867 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2869 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2870 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2871 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2872 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2873 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2876 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2877 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2878 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2879 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2881 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2882 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2883 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2885 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2886 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2887 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2889 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2890 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2891 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2892 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2893 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2894 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2896 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2897 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2898 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2899 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2901 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2902 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2903 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2904 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2905 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2906 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2907 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2908 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2909 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2910 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2913 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2914 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2915 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2916 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2917 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2918 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2919 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2920 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2921 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2923 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2924 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2925 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2926 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2928 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2929 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2930 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2931 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2932 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2935 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2936 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2937 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2939 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2940 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2941 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2943 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2944 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2945 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2947 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2948 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2949 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2950 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2952 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2953 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2954 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2955 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2956 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2959 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2960 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2962 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2963 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2964 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2967 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2968 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2969 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2971 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2972 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2973 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2974 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2976 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2977 Closes ticket 31859.
2978 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2979 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2981 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2982 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2983 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2984 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2985 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2986 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2987 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2988 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2989 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2990 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2992 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2993 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2994 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2995 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2996 Closes ticket 32500.
2999 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3000 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3001 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3002 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3003 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3005 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3006 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3007 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3008 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3010 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3011 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3014 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3015 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3016 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3017 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3018 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3019 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3020 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3021 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3022 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3023 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3024 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3026 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3027 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3028 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3029 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3030 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3031 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3033 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3034 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3035 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3036 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3037 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3040 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3041 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3042 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3043 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3044 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3046 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3047 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3048 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3049 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3052 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3053 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3054 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3055 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3056 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3057 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3058 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3059 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3061 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3062 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3063 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3064 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3065 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3067 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3068 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3069 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3070 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3071 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3074 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3075 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3076 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3078 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3079 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3080 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3083 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3084 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3085 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3087 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3088 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3089 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3090 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3092 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3093 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3094 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3095 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3096 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3098 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3100 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3102 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3103 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3104 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3107 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3108 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3109 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3111 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3112 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3113 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3115 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3116 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3117 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3119 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3120 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3121 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3124 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3125 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3126 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3127 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3128 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3129 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3131 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3132 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3133 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3134 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3135 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3137 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3138 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3139 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3143 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3144 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3147 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3148 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3149 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3152 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3153 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3154 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3157 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3158 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3159 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3161 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3162 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3163 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3164 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3166 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3167 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3168 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3169 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3170 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3171 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3172 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3174 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3175 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3176 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3177 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3179 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3180 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3181 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3182 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3184 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3185 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3186 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3189 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3190 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3191 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3192 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3193 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3194 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3195 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3197 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3198 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3199 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3200 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3203 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3204 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3205 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3206 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3207 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3209 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3210 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3211 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3212 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3213 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3215 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3216 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3217 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3220 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3221 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3222 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3223 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3224 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3226 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3227 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3228 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3229 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3231 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3232 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3233 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3234 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3235 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3238 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3239 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3240 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3243 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3244 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3245 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3246 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3249 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3250 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3251 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3253 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3254 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3255 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3256 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3258 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3259 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3260 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3261 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3264 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3265 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3266 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3267 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3268 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3269 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3272 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3273 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3274 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3276 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3277 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3278 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3281 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3282 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3283 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3285 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3286 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3287 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3289 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3290 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3291 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3292 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3293 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3295 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3296 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3297 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3300 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3301 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3302 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3303 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3304 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3305 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3306 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3307 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3308 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3309 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3311 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3312 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3313 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3314 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3316 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3317 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3318 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3319 Resolves issue 29702.
3321 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3322 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3324 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3325 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3326 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3327 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3330 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3331 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3332 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3333 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3335 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3336 Closes ticket 31859.
3337 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3338 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3340 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3341 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3342 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3343 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3344 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3345 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3346 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3347 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3348 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3349 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3351 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3352 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3353 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3354 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3355 Closes ticket 32500.
3358 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3359 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3360 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3363 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3364 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3367 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3368 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3369 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3370 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3371 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3372 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3373 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3374 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3375 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3376 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3377 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3379 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3380 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3381 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3382 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3383 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3384 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3386 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3387 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3388 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3389 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3390 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3391 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3393 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3394 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3395 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3396 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3397 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3400 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3401 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3402 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3403 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3404 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3406 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3407 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3408 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3409 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3412 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3413 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3414 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3415 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3416 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3418 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3419 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3420 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3421 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3422 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3425 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3426 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3427 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3428 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3429 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3430 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3431 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3432 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3434 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3435 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3436 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3437 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3438 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3441 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3442 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3443 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3445 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3446 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3447 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3450 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3451 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3452 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3453 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3455 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3456 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3457 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3460 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3461 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3462 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3464 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3465 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3466 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3467 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3469 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3470 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3471 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3472 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3473 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3475 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3476 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3477 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3479 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3480 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3481 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3482 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3484 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3485 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3486 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3489 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3490 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3491 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3492 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3493 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3494 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3495 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3496 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3497 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3498 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3499 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3500 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3501 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3504 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3505 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3506 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3507 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3508 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3510 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3511 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3512 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3514 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3515 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3516 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3518 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3519 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3520 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3522 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3523 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3524 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3527 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3528 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3529 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3532 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3533 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3534 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3535 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3536 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3538 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3539 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3540 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3541 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3542 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3544 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3545 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3546 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3549 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3550 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3551 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3554 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3555 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3557 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3558 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3559 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3560 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3563 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3564 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3565 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3567 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3568 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3569 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3570 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3572 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3573 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3574 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3575 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3577 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3578 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3579 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3580 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3581 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3582 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3583 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3586 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3587 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3588 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3590 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3591 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3592 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3593 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3595 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3596 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3597 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3600 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3601 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3602 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3603 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3604 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3605 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3606 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3608 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3609 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3610 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3611 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3614 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3615 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3616 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3617 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3618 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3620 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3621 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3622 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3624 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3625 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3626 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3627 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3628 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3629 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3630 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3631 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3632 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3633 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3634 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3636 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3637 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3638 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3639 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3640 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3642 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3643 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3644 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3647 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3648 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3649 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3650 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3651 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3653 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3654 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3655 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3656 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3658 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3659 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3660 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3661 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3662 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3665 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3666 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3667 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3670 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3671 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3672 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3673 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3676 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3677 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3678 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3680 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3681 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3682 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3684 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3685 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3686 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3687 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3689 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3690 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3691 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3692 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3695 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3696 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3697 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3698 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3699 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3700 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3703 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3704 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3705 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3706 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3708 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3709 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3710 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3712 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3713 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3714 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3716 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3717 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3718 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3719 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3720 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3721 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3722 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3724 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3725 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3726 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3729 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3730 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3731 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3732 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3733 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3734 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3735 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3736 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3738 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3739 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3740 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3741 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3742 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3743 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3746 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3747 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3748 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3749 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3750 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3752 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
3753 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3754 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3755 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3756 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3757 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3758 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3759 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3761 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3762 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3763 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3766 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3767 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3768 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3769 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3770 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3771 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3772 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3773 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3774 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3775 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3778 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3779 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3780 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3781 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3782 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3784 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3785 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3786 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3787 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3789 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3790 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3791 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3792 Resolves issue 29702.
3794 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3795 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3797 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3798 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3799 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3800 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3803 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3804 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3805 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3806 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3808 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3809 Closes ticket 31859.
3810 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3811 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3813 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3814 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3815 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3816 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3817 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3818 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3819 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3820 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3821 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3822 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3824 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3825 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3826 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3827 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3828 Closes ticket 32500.
3831 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
3832 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3833 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
3834 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
3837 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3838 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3839 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3840 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3841 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3842 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3843 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3844 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3845 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3847 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3848 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3849 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3852 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3853 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3854 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3856 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3857 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3858 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3859 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3860 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3862 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3863 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3864 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3866 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3867 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3868 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
3869 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3871 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3872 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3873 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3874 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3877 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3878 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3879 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3880 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3881 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3883 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3884 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3885 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3888 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3889 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3890 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3892 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3893 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3894 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3895 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3896 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3897 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3899 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3900 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3901 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3902 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3903 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3904 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3905 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3906 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3907 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3908 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3910 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3911 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3912 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3913 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3916 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
3917 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
3918 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
3919 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
3920 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
3921 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
3922 bugfixes on earlier versions.
3924 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
3925 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
3926 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3927 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3929 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
3930 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3932 o Directory authority changes:
3933 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3936 o Major features (circuit padding):
3937 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3938 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3939 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3940 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3941 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3942 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3943 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3944 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3945 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3947 o Major features (code organization):
3948 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3949 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3950 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3951 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3954 o Major features (controller protocol):
3955 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3956 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3957 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3958 Closes ticket 30091.
3960 o Major features (flow control):
3961 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3962 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3963 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3964 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3965 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3966 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3967 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3969 o Major features (performance):
3970 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3971 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3972 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3974 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3975 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3976 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3977 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3978 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3979 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3980 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3981 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3982 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3984 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3985 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3986 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3987 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3988 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3989 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3990 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3991 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3992 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3993 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3994 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3996 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3997 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3998 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4000 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4001 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4002 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4003 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4004 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4006 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
4007 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4008 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4009 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4010 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4013 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4014 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4015 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4016 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4017 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4019 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4020 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4021 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4022 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4025 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
4026 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
4027 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
4028 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
4029 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
4030 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
4033 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4034 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
4035 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
4036 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4038 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4039 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
4041 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
4042 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
4043 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
4044 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
4045 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4046 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
4047 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
4049 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
4050 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4051 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4053 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4054 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4055 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4056 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
4057 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
4059 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4060 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4062 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4064 o Minor features (controller):
4065 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
4066 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
4067 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4069 o Minor features (debugging):
4070 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
4071 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
4072 can use format strings to include information for trouble
4073 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
4075 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4076 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
4077 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
4078 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
4079 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
4080 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
4081 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
4082 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
4083 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
4084 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
4086 o Minor features (developer tools):
4087 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
4088 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
4089 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
4090 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
4091 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
4093 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
4094 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
4096 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
4097 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
4099 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4100 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4101 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4102 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4103 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4105 o Minor features (geoip):
4106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4107 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
4108 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4109 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
4111 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
4112 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
4113 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
4115 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
4116 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
4117 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
4118 addresses. Implements 26992.
4120 o Minor features (logging):
4121 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
4122 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
4123 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
4124 Closes ticket 30686.
4126 o Minor features (maintenance):
4127 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
4128 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
4129 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
4131 o Minor features (modularity):
4132 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
4133 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
4135 o Minor features (performance):
4136 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
4137 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
4138 Closes ticket 28837.
4140 o Minor features (testing):
4141 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
4142 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
4143 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
4144 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
4146 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
4147 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
4148 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
4149 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
4150 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
4151 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
4152 Implements ticket 29732.
4153 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
4154 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
4156 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
4157 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
4160 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
4161 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
4162 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
4163 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4164 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4166 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
4167 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
4168 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
4169 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4171 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
4172 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4173 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4175 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4176 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
4177 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4178 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
4179 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
4180 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
4181 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4182 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
4183 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
4184 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4185 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
4186 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4187 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4188 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
4189 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4190 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
4191 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
4192 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4194 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4195 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4196 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4197 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4198 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4200 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4201 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4202 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4203 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4204 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4205 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4207 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4208 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4209 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
4212 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4213 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4214 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4216 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
4217 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4218 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4219 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4221 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4222 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4223 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4224 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4226 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4227 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4228 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4229 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4230 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4231 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4232 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4234 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4235 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4236 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4237 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4238 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4240 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4241 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4242 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4243 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4245 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4246 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4247 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4250 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4251 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4252 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4253 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4254 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4255 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4257 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4258 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4259 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4261 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4262 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4263 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4264 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4265 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4266 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4268 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4269 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4271 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4272 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4273 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4274 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4275 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4276 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4277 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
4280 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4281 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4282 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4284 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
4285 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
4288 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
4289 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4290 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4291 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4294 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4295 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4296 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4297 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
4298 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
4299 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
4300 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
4302 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
4303 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
4304 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4305 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
4306 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
4307 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
4308 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4310 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
4311 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
4312 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
4313 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
4314 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
4315 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4317 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
4318 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4319 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4320 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4323 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4324 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
4325 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
4326 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
4327 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4329 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4330 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
4331 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4333 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4334 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4335 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4336 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4337 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4338 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4341 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
4342 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
4343 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
4346 o Minor bugfixes (python):
4347 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
4348 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
4349 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4351 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4352 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
4353 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
4354 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
4355 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4357 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
4358 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
4359 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
4360 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
4362 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4363 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
4364 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
4365 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
4366 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4368 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4369 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
4370 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
4371 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4372 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
4373 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4374 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
4375 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4376 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
4377 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
4378 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
4379 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
4380 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4382 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
4383 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
4384 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
4385 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
4386 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4388 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4389 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
4390 port. Implements ticket 30007.
4391 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
4392 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
4393 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
4394 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
4395 string to directory connection with or without compression.
4396 Resolves issue 28816.
4397 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
4398 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
4399 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
4400 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
4401 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
4402 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
4403 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
4404 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
4405 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
4406 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
4407 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
4408 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
4409 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
4410 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
4411 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
4412 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
4413 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4414 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
4415 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4416 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
4417 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
4418 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
4419 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
4420 Closes ticket 29894.
4421 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
4422 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
4423 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
4424 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
4427 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
4428 Closes ticket 30630.
4429 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
4430 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
4434 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
4435 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
4436 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
4437 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
4441 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4442 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4443 Resolves issue 29702.
4445 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4446 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
4447 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
4448 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
4449 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
4450 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
4451 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
4452 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
4453 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
4454 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
4455 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
4458 o Testing (chutney):
4459 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
4460 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
4461 Closes ticket 27251.
4463 o Testing (continuous integration):
4464 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
4465 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4466 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
4467 Closes ticket 30694.
4470 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
4471 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
4472 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
4473 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
4474 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
4475 long-term maintainability.
4477 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
4478 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
4479 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4480 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4482 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
4483 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4485 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4486 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4487 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4488 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4489 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4490 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4492 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4493 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4495 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4496 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4499 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4500 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4501 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4502 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4503 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4504 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4505 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4506 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4507 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4510 o Major features (circuit padding):
4511 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4512 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4513 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4514 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4515 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4516 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4517 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4518 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4521 o Major features (refactoring):
4522 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4523 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4524 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4525 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4528 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4529 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4530 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4531 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4532 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4533 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4534 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4535 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4537 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4538 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4539 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4540 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4541 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4543 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
4544 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4545 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4546 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4547 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4548 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4550 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
4551 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
4552 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
4553 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
4554 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
4555 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
4556 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4558 o Minor features (address selection):
4559 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4560 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4561 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4562 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4563 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4564 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4565 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4567 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
4568 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4569 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4570 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4571 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4573 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
4574 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
4575 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
4578 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4579 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4580 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4581 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4582 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4585 o Minor features (compilation):
4586 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4587 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4588 Patches from "Mangix".
4590 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4591 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4592 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4594 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4596 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4597 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4598 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4600 o Minor features (controller):
4601 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4602 Implements ticket 28843.
4604 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4605 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
4606 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
4607 release. Closes ticket 27761.
4608 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
4609 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
4610 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
4612 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4613 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4614 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4616 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4617 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
4618 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
4621 o Minor features (directory authority):
4622 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
4623 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
4624 Closes ticket 26698.
4625 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4626 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4627 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4628 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4631 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4632 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4633 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4634 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4635 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4636 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4637 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4639 o Minor features (dormant mode):
4640 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
4641 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
4642 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
4643 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
4644 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
4645 background. Closes ticket 29357.
4647 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4648 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4649 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4651 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4652 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4653 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4654 Closes ticket 28518.
4656 o Minor features (geoip):
4657 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4658 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
4660 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4661 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4662 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4663 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4665 o Minor features (IPv6):
4666 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4667 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4668 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4669 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4670 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4671 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4672 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4673 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4674 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4675 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4677 o Minor features (log messages):
4678 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4679 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4682 o Minor features (memory usage):
4683 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4684 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4685 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4686 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4687 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4689 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
4690 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4691 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4692 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4694 o Minor features (parsing):
4695 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4696 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4697 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4699 o Minor features (performance):
4700 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4701 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4702 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4703 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4705 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4706 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4707 Closes ticket 28852.
4708 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4709 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4710 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4711 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4712 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4713 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4715 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4716 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4717 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4718 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4719 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4721 o Minor features (process management):
4722 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4723 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4724 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4725 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4726 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4728 o Minor features (relay):
4729 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4730 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4731 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4733 o Minor features (required protocols):
4734 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4735 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4736 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4737 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4738 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4739 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4740 297; closes ticket 27735.
4742 o Minor features (testing):
4743 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4745 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4746 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4747 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
4748 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
4751 o Minor bugfixes (security):
4752 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4753 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4754 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4755 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4756 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4757 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4758 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4759 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4761 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4762 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4763 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4764 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4766 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
4767 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4768 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4769 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4770 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4772 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4773 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4774 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4776 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
4777 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4778 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4779 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4781 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4782 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4783 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4786 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4787 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4788 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4789 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4790 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4793 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4794 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
4795 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4796 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4797 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4798 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4799 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4800 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4802 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4803 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4804 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4806 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4807 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4808 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4809 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4811 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4812 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4813 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4814 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4815 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4818 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4819 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4820 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4822 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4823 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4824 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4825 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4826 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4827 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4828 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4830 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4831 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4832 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4833 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4836 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4837 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
4838 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4840 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4841 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4842 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4843 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4844 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4845 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4846 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4847 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4848 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4849 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4850 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4851 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4852 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4853 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4854 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4855 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4856 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4857 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4858 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4859 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4860 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4861 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4864 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4865 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4866 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4867 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4868 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4870 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4871 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4872 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4873 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4874 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4876 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4877 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4878 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4879 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4881 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4882 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4883 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4884 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4885 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4886 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4888 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4889 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4890 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4892 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4893 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4894 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4896 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4897 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4898 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4899 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4901 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4902 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4903 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4904 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4906 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4907 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4908 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4909 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4910 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4912 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4913 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4914 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4917 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
4918 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
4919 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4920 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4923 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4924 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
4925 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
4926 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4928 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
4929 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4930 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4931 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4932 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4933 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4934 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4936 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4937 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4938 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4941 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4942 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4943 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4944 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4945 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4946 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4948 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4949 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4950 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4951 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4952 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4953 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4954 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4955 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
4956 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4957 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4958 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4959 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4960 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4961 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4962 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4963 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4964 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4965 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4966 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4968 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4969 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4970 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4971 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4972 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
4973 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
4975 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
4976 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4977 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4978 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4979 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4980 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4981 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4982 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4984 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
4985 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
4986 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4988 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4989 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4990 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4991 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4992 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4994 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
4995 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4996 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4997 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4998 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4999 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5001 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5002 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5003 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5004 Resolves issue 28816.
5005 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5006 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5007 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
5008 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
5009 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
5011 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
5012 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
5013 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
5014 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
5015 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
5016 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
5017 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
5018 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
5022 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5023 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5024 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
5025 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
5026 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
5027 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
5028 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
5029 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
5030 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
5032 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
5035 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
5036 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
5037 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
5038 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
5039 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
5040 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
5041 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
5042 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
5045 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
5047 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
5048 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
5050 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
5051 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
5052 code from client and service into one function. Closes
5055 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5056 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
5058 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
5059 Resolves ticket 28006.
5060 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
5061 Resolves ticket 28012.
5062 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
5063 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
5064 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
5065 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
5069 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5070 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5071 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5074 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5075 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5076 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5078 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5079 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5080 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5081 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5082 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5083 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5084 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5085 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5087 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5088 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5089 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5090 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5091 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5093 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5094 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5095 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5096 Patches from "Mangix".
5098 o Minor features (geoip):
5099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5100 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5102 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5103 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5106 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5107 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5108 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5109 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5110 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5111 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5113 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5114 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5115 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5116 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5119 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5120 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5121 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5122 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5124 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5125 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5126 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5129 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5130 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5131 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5132 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5134 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5135 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5136 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5137 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5139 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5140 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5141 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5142 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5143 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5144 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5146 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5147 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5148 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5149 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5150 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5152 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5153 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5154 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5155 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5156 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5158 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5159 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5160 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5162 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5163 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5164 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5166 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5167 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5168 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5169 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5171 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5172 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5173 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5175 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5176 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5177 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5178 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5179 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5182 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5183 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5184 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5185 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5186 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5189 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5190 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5191 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5192 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5193 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5195 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5196 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5197 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5198 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5199 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5200 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5201 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5202 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5204 o Minor features (geoip):
5205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5206 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5208 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5209 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5210 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5211 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5213 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5214 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5215 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5216 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5217 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5220 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5221 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5222 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5223 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5225 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5226 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5227 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5228 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5230 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5231 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5232 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5233 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5234 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5235 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5236 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5237 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5239 o Minor features (geoip):
5240 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5241 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5244 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5245 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5246 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5249 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5250 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5251 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5252 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5255 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
5256 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5257 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
5258 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
5259 to this version, or to a later series.
5261 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
5262 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
5263 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
5264 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
5265 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
5266 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5268 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5269 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5270 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5271 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5272 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5275 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5276 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5277 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5278 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5280 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5281 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5282 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5283 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5284 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5285 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5286 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5287 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5289 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5290 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5291 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5292 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5294 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5295 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5296 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5297 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5298 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5300 o Minor features (geoip):
5301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5302 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5304 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5305 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5306 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5307 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5308 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5309 Closes ticket 28973.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5312 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5313 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5314 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5316 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5317 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5318 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5321 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5322 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5323 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5325 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5326 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5327 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5328 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5330 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5331 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5332 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5333 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5335 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5336 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5337 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5338 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5339 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5340 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5343 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5344 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5345 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5348 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5349 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5350 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5351 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5352 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5355 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5356 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5357 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5358 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5360 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5361 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5362 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5363 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5364 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5365 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5367 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5368 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
5369 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
5372 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5373 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5374 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5376 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5377 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5378 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5381 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5382 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5385 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5386 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5387 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5388 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5389 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5390 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5391 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5392 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5394 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5395 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5396 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5397 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5399 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5400 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5401 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5402 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5403 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5404 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5405 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5406 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5407 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5408 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5410 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5411 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5412 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5413 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5414 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5415 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5417 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5418 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5419 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5420 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5421 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5423 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5424 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5425 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5428 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
5429 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5430 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
5431 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
5434 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
5435 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
5436 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
5439 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5440 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5441 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5442 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5443 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5446 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5447 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5448 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5449 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5450 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5451 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5452 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5454 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5455 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5456 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5459 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5460 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5461 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5462 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5463 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5466 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5467 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5468 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5469 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5470 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5472 o Minor features (geoip):
5473 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5474 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
5476 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5477 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5478 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5479 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5480 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5481 Closes ticket 28973.
5483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5484 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5485 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5486 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5488 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5489 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5490 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5491 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5492 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5495 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5496 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5497 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5498 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5500 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5501 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5502 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5504 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5505 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5506 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5507 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5509 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5510 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5511 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5512 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5513 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5514 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5517 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5518 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5519 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5521 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5522 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5523 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5524 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5525 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5527 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5528 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5529 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5530 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5531 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5532 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5534 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5535 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5536 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5537 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5539 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5540 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5541 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5544 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
5545 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5546 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
5547 affecting directory caches.
5549 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
5550 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
5551 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
5552 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
5553 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
5554 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
5555 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
5556 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
5558 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
5559 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
5560 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
5561 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
5562 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
5563 so it will recognize them.
5565 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
5566 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
5567 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
5568 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
5569 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
5570 with the latest stable release.)
5572 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
5573 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5575 o Major features (bootstrap):
5576 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5577 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5578 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5579 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5581 o Major features (new code layout):
5582 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5583 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5584 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5585 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5586 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5587 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5588 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5590 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5591 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5592 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5594 o Major features (onion services v3):
5595 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5596 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5597 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5598 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5599 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5600 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5601 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5602 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5603 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5604 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5605 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5606 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5607 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5608 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5609 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5610 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5611 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5612 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5614 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5615 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5616 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5617 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5618 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5619 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5621 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5622 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5623 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5624 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5625 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5626 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5627 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5629 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5630 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5631 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5632 (if present), and restart Tor.
5634 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5635 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5636 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5637 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5638 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5639 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5640 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5641 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5643 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5644 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5645 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5647 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
5648 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
5649 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
5650 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
5651 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
5652 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5654 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5655 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5656 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5657 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5660 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
5661 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
5662 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
5663 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
5664 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5666 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
5667 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5668 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5669 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5670 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5672 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5673 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
5674 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
5675 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
5676 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
5677 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
5679 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
5680 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5681 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5682 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5683 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5686 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5687 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5688 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5689 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5690 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5691 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5693 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5694 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5695 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5696 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5697 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5699 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5700 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5701 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5702 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5703 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5704 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5706 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5707 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5708 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5709 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5711 o Minor features (admin tools):
5712 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5713 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5716 o Minor features (build):
5717 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5718 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5719 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5720 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5722 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5723 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5724 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5725 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5726 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5728 o Minor features (code layout):
5729 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5730 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5731 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5732 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5735 o Minor features (compilation):
5736 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
5737 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
5738 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5739 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5740 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5741 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5744 o Minor features (config):
5745 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5748 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5749 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
5751 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
5752 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
5753 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5754 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5755 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5756 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5757 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5759 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5760 Implements ticket 27252.
5761 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5762 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5763 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5764 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5765 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5766 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5767 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5768 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5769 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5771 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
5772 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5773 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5775 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
5776 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
5778 o Minor features (controller):
5779 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5780 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5781 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5782 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5783 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5784 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5785 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5786 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5788 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5789 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5790 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5791 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5793 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5794 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5795 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5796 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5798 o Minor features (development):
5799 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5800 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5802 o Minor features (directory authority):
5803 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5804 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5805 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5806 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5808 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5809 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5812 o Minor features (embedding API):
5813 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5814 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5815 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5816 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5817 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5818 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5821 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5822 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5823 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5824 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5825 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5827 o Minor features (geoip):
5828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5829 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5831 o Minor features (memory management):
5832 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5833 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5836 o Minor features (memory usage):
5837 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5838 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5839 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5841 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
5842 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5843 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5844 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5845 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5846 Closes ticket 28973.
5848 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5849 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5850 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5852 o Minor features (performance):
5853 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
5854 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
5855 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
5856 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
5857 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
5858 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
5859 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
5860 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
5861 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
5862 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
5864 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5865 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5866 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5867 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5869 o Minor features (testing):
5870 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5871 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5873 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5874 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5875 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5877 o Minor features (UI):
5878 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5879 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5880 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5881 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5882 Closes ticket 26703.
5884 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5885 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5886 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5887 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5888 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5890 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5891 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5892 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5893 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5894 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5897 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5898 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5899 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5900 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5902 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5903 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5904 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5905 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5906 - Use time_t for all values in
5907 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5908 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5909 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5911 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5912 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5913 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5914 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5915 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5918 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
5919 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5920 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5921 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5922 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5923 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5926 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5927 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5928 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5931 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5932 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5935 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5936 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5937 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5938 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5940 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5941 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
5942 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
5945 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5946 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5947 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5948 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5949 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5951 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
5952 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5953 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5954 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5955 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5958 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5959 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5960 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5961 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5962 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5963 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5964 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5965 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5966 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5967 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5968 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5969 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5970 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5972 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5973 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5974 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5976 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5977 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5978 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5979 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5980 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5983 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5984 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
5985 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
5986 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
5987 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5989 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5990 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5991 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5993 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5994 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5995 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5996 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5997 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5998 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6001 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6002 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6003 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6006 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6007 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
6008 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
6009 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
6010 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6012 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6013 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
6014 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
6017 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6018 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
6019 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
6021 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
6022 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
6023 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
6024 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6025 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
6026 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6028 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
6029 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
6030 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
6031 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
6032 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6034 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6035 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6036 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6037 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
6038 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6040 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
6041 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6042 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6044 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
6045 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
6046 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
6047 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
6050 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6051 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6052 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6053 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6054 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6055 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6056 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
6057 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
6058 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
6060 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
6061 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
6063 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6064 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6065 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6066 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6067 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6068 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6069 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6070 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6071 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6072 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6073 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6075 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
6076 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
6077 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
6078 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6080 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
6081 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
6082 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
6083 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
6084 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
6086 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
6087 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
6088 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
6089 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
6091 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
6092 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6093 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6096 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
6097 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
6099 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6100 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6101 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6102 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6103 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6104 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6105 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6106 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6107 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6108 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6110 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
6111 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
6112 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
6113 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
6114 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6116 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6117 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6118 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6119 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6121 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6122 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
6123 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
6124 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
6125 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
6126 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6127 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6128 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
6129 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
6130 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6133 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6134 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6135 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6136 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6137 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6138 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6139 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6140 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6142 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
6143 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
6144 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6145 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
6146 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6147 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6148 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6149 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6150 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6151 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6152 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
6153 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
6154 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6155 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
6156 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6158 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6159 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6160 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6161 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6162 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6163 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6164 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6165 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6167 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6168 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6169 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6170 reported by Keifer Bly.
6172 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6173 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6174 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6176 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
6177 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
6178 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
6179 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
6180 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
6181 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
6182 Closes ticket 27814.
6183 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
6184 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
6185 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
6186 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
6187 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
6188 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
6189 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
6190 Closes ticket 27799.
6191 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
6192 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
6193 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
6194 directory within the top-level src directory.
6195 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
6196 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
6197 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
6198 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
6199 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
6200 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
6201 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
6202 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
6203 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
6204 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
6205 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
6206 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
6207 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
6208 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
6209 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
6210 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
6211 Closes ticket 21349.
6212 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
6213 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
6214 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
6215 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
6216 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
6217 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
6218 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
6220 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6221 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6222 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6225 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6226 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6227 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6228 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6229 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6230 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6231 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6232 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6233 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6236 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6237 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6238 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6239 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6240 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6241 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6242 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6243 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6244 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6245 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6246 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6247 Closes ticket 26367.
6250 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6251 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6253 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6254 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6255 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6256 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6257 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6258 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6259 Closes ticket 19566.
6261 o Documentation (onion services):
6262 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6263 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6264 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6265 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6266 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6267 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6268 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6269 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6272 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6273 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6274 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6275 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6276 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6278 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6279 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6280 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6282 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6283 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6284 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6285 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6286 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6288 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6289 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6290 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6291 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6292 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6295 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6296 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6297 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6298 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6300 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6301 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6302 Implements ticket 27252.
6303 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6304 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6305 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6306 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6307 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6308 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6309 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6311 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6312 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6313 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6314 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6316 o Minor features (geoip):
6317 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6318 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6320 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6321 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6322 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6323 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6324 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6326 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6327 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6328 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6329 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6330 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6333 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6334 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6335 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6338 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6339 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6340 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6341 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6342 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6344 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6345 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6346 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6348 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6349 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6350 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6352 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6353 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6354 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6355 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6357 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6358 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6359 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6361 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6362 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6363 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6366 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6367 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6368 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6370 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6371 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6372 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6375 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6376 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6377 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6378 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6379 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6381 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6382 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6383 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6384 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6385 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6386 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6388 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6389 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6390 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6393 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6394 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6395 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6396 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6397 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6398 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6399 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6400 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6402 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6403 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6404 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6405 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6407 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6408 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6409 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6410 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6411 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6413 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6414 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6415 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6416 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6417 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6418 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6420 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6421 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6422 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6423 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6424 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6425 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6427 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6428 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6429 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6430 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6433 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6434 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6435 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6436 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6437 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6440 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
6441 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
6443 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6444 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6445 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6446 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6448 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6449 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6451 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6452 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6453 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6454 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6456 o Minor features (geoip):
6457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6458 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6461 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6462 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6463 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6465 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6466 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6467 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6468 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6469 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6470 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6471 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6472 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6476 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6477 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6478 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6480 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6481 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6482 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6483 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6485 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6486 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6487 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6488 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6490 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6491 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6492 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6493 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6494 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6496 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6497 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6498 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6501 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6502 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6503 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6504 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6505 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6507 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6508 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6509 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6512 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6513 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6514 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6515 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6517 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6518 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6519 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6521 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6522 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6523 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6526 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6527 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6528 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6529 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6530 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6532 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6533 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6534 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6537 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
6538 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6540 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6541 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6542 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6543 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6545 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6546 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6548 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6549 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6550 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6551 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6553 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6554 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6557 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6558 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6559 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6560 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6562 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6563 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6564 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6565 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6567 o Minor features (geoip):
6568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6569 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6572 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6573 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6574 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6575 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6576 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6577 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6580 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6581 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6582 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6583 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6584 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6585 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6586 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6590 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6591 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6592 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6594 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6595 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6596 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6597 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6599 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6600 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6601 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6602 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6603 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6606 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6607 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6608 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6609 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6612 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6613 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6616 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6617 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6618 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6619 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6620 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6622 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6623 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6624 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6627 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6628 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6629 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6632 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6633 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6634 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6637 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6638 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6640 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6641 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6642 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6643 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6645 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6646 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6647 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6648 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6651 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6652 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6654 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6655 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6656 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6657 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6658 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6659 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6660 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6663 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6664 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
6665 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
6666 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
6667 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6669 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6670 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6671 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6672 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6673 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6675 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6676 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6677 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6680 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6681 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6683 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6684 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6685 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6686 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6688 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6689 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6690 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6691 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6693 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6694 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6695 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6697 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6698 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6699 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6700 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6702 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6703 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6706 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6707 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6708 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6709 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6711 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6712 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6713 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6714 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6716 o Minor features (geoip):
6717 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6718 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6721 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6722 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6723 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6724 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6725 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6726 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6728 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6729 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6730 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6731 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6732 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6733 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6734 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6735 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6738 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6739 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6740 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6741 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6743 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6744 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6745 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6746 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6748 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6749 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6750 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6751 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6752 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6754 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6755 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6756 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6757 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6758 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6760 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6761 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6762 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6765 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6766 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6767 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6768 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6770 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6771 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6772 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6773 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6774 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6776 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6777 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6778 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6781 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6782 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6783 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6786 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6787 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6788 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6791 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6792 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6793 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6794 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6797 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6798 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6801 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6802 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6804 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6805 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6806 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6807 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6808 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6809 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6810 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6812 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6813 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6814 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6815 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6816 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6819 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6820 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6821 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6823 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6824 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6825 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6827 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6828 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6829 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6830 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6831 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6832 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6833 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6836 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6837 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6838 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6839 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6840 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6843 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6844 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6845 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6846 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6848 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6849 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6850 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6853 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6854 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6855 compilation and portability fixes.
6857 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6858 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6859 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6860 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6861 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6862 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6863 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6864 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6866 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
6867 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6869 o New system requirements:
6870 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
6871 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
6872 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
6873 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
6875 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
6876 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
6877 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
6878 To disable the module, the configure option
6879 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
6880 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
6882 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
6883 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
6884 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
6885 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
6886 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
6887 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
6888 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
6889 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
6890 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
6891 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
6892 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
6894 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
6895 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
6896 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
6897 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
6898 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
6899 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
6900 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
6901 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
6902 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
6903 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
6904 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
6905 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
6906 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
6907 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
6908 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
6909 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
6910 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
6911 Tor's uptime (26009).
6913 o Minor features (accounting):
6914 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
6915 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
6916 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
6917 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
6919 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6920 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6921 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6922 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6924 o Minor features (code quality):
6925 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
6926 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
6927 Closes ticket 25024.
6929 o Minor features (compatibility):
6930 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6931 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6932 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6933 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
6934 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
6935 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
6937 o Minor features (compilation):
6938 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6939 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6940 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6941 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6942 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6943 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6944 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6945 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6948 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
6949 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
6950 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
6951 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
6952 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
6953 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
6955 o Minor features (configuration):
6956 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
6957 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
6958 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
6959 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
6960 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
6962 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6963 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6964 Implements ticket 27449.
6965 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6966 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6968 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6969 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6971 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6972 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6973 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6974 Implements ticket 27275.
6975 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6976 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6977 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
6978 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
6979 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
6981 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6982 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6985 o Minor features (control port):
6986 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
6987 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
6988 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
6989 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6990 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
6991 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
6992 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
6993 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
6994 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
6995 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
6997 o Minor features (controller):
6998 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6999 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7000 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7002 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7003 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7004 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7005 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7006 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7007 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7008 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7010 o Minor features (directory authority):
7011 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7012 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7013 Closes ticket 23909.
7015 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7016 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7017 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7018 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7020 o Minor features (entry guards):
7021 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7022 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7024 o Minor features (geoip):
7025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7026 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7028 o Minor features (performance):
7029 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7030 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7031 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7032 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7034 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7035 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7037 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7038 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7040 o Minor features (testing):
7041 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7042 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7044 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7045 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7046 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7047 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7048 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7049 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7051 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7052 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7053 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7054 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7055 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7057 o Minor features (unit tests):
7058 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7059 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7060 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7063 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7064 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7065 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7066 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7067 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7068 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7070 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7071 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7072 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7073 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7075 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7076 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7077 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7078 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7079 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7081 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7082 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7083 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7084 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7085 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7086 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7087 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7088 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7090 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7091 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7092 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7093 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7094 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7095 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7096 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7097 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7098 Closes ticket 26245.
7099 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7100 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7101 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
7104 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7105 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7106 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7108 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7109 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7110 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7111 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7112 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7114 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7115 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7116 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7117 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7118 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7119 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
7120 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
7121 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7122 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7123 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7124 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7125 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7128 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7129 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7132 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7133 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7134 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7137 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7138 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7139 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7140 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7141 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7142 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7145 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7146 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7147 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7148 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7149 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7150 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7151 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
7154 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7155 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7156 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7158 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7159 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7160 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7161 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7162 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7164 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7165 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7166 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7169 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7170 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7171 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7173 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7174 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7176 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7177 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7178 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7179 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7180 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7182 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7183 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7184 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7186 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7187 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7188 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7189 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7190 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7193 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7194 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7195 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7196 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7198 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7199 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7200 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7201 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7202 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7203 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7204 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7206 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7207 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7209 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7210 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7211 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7212 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7213 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7215 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7216 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7217 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7218 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7219 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7221 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7222 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7223 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7224 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7227 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7228 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7229 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7232 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7233 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7234 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7235 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7236 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7237 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7238 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7239 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7240 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7241 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7243 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7244 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7245 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7246 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7247 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7248 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7249 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7251 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7252 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7253 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7254 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7255 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7257 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7258 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7259 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7262 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
7263 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
7264 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
7265 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
7266 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7269 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7270 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7271 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7272 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7273 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7274 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7277 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7278 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7279 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7280 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7281 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7283 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7284 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7285 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7286 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7287 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7289 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7290 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7291 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7292 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7293 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7294 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7296 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
7297 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7298 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7300 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7301 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7302 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7303 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7304 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7305 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7306 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7307 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7309 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7310 confusing we renamed some functions and
7311 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7312 router_should_check_reachability() and
7313 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7314 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7315 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7316 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7317 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7319 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7320 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7322 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7323 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7324 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7325 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7326 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7327 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7328 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7329 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7330 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7331 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7332 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7333 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7334 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7335 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7336 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7337 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7338 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7339 Closes ticket 25766.
7340 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7341 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7342 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7343 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7344 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7345 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7346 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7347 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7348 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7349 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7350 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7351 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7352 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7353 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7355 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7356 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7357 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7358 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7359 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7360 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7361 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7362 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7363 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7365 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7366 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7367 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7368 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7370 o Deprecated features:
7371 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7372 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7373 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7374 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7375 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7376 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7379 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7380 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7381 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7382 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7383 24378 and proposal 290.
7384 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7385 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7386 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7387 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7388 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7389 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7390 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7391 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7392 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7393 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7394 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7395 their local router. Closes 25409.
7396 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7397 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7398 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7399 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7400 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7401 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7402 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7403 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7404 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7405 Closes ticket 25268.
7408 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
7409 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7410 bridge relays should upgrade.
7412 o Directory authority changes:
7413 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7414 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7415 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7418 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
7419 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7420 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7423 o Directory authority changes:
7424 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7425 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7426 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7428 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7429 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7430 Closes ticket 26343.
7432 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7433 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7434 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7435 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7436 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7438 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7439 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7440 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7442 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7443 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7444 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7445 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7447 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7448 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7449 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7451 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7452 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7453 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7454 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7455 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7456 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7458 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7459 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7460 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7461 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7463 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7464 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7465 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7468 o Minor features (geoip):
7469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7470 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7472 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7473 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7474 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7475 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7476 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7478 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7479 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7480 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7482 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7483 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7484 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7485 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7486 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7487 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7488 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7489 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7492 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7493 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7494 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7495 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7496 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7497 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7499 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7500 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7501 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7502 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7503 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7506 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7507 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7508 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7509 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7511 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7512 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7513 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7516 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7517 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7518 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7520 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7521 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7522 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7523 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7525 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7526 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7527 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7528 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7529 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7530 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7531 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7533 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7534 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7535 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7536 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7539 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7540 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7541 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7544 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7545 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7547 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7548 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7549 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7550 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7554 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7555 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7556 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7558 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7559 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7560 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7562 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7563 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7564 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7567 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
7568 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7569 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7572 o Directory authority changes:
7573 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7574 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7575 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7577 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7578 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7579 Closes ticket 26343.
7581 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7582 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7583 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7584 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7585 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7587 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7588 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7589 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7590 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7592 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7593 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7594 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7595 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7596 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7597 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7599 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7600 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7601 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7604 o Minor features (geoip):
7605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7606 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7608 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7609 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7610 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7611 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7612 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7614 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7615 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7616 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7618 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7619 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7620 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7621 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7624 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7625 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7626 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7627 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7628 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7629 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7632 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7633 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7634 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7635 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7637 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7638 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7639 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7642 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7643 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7644 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7646 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7647 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7648 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7649 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7651 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7652 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7653 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7655 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7656 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7657 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7660 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
7661 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7662 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
7664 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7665 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7666 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7667 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7669 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7670 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7671 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7674 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7675 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7676 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7679 o Minor features (geoip):
7680 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7681 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7683 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7684 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7685 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7686 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7688 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7689 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7690 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7691 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7692 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7696 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7697 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7698 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7699 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7701 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7702 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
7703 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
7704 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7706 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7707 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7708 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7710 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7711 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7712 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7713 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7716 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7717 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7718 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7719 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7721 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7722 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7723 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7724 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7725 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7726 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7727 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7728 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7732 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
7733 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7734 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
7736 o Directory authority changes:
7737 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7738 Closes ticket 26343.
7740 o Minor features (geoip):
7741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7742 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7744 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7745 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7746 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7747 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7748 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7749 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7752 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7753 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7755 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7756 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7757 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7758 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7759 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7761 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7762 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7763 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7765 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7766 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7767 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7768 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7769 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7770 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7773 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7774 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7775 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7777 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7778 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7779 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7780 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7781 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7782 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7784 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
7785 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7787 o New system requirements:
7788 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7789 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7791 o Major features (embedding):
7792 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
7793 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
7794 Closes ticket 23684.
7795 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
7796 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
7797 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
7798 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
7799 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
7800 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
7802 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
7803 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
7804 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
7805 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
7807 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
7808 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
7809 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
7810 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
7811 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
7813 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
7814 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
7817 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
7818 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
7819 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
7820 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
7821 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
7822 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
7823 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
7825 o Major features (onion services):
7826 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
7827 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
7828 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
7829 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
7830 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
7832 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
7833 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
7834 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
7835 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
7836 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
7837 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7839 o Major features (relay):
7840 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
7841 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
7842 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
7843 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
7844 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7846 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
7847 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
7848 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
7849 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
7850 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
7851 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
7852 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
7853 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
7855 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7856 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7857 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7858 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7859 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7861 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7862 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7863 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7864 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7865 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7867 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7868 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7869 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7870 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7872 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
7873 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
7874 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
7875 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
7876 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
7877 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
7878 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
7879 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7881 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7882 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7883 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7884 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7886 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7887 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7888 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7890 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7891 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7892 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7893 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7894 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7895 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7896 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7898 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7899 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7900 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7901 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7902 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7904 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7905 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7906 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7909 o Minor features (cleanup):
7910 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
7911 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
7913 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7914 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7915 Closes ticket 26006.
7917 o Minor features (config options):
7918 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7919 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7920 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7923 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7924 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7925 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7927 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7928 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7929 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7930 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7931 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7932 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7934 o Minor features (defensive programming):
7935 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
7936 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
7937 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
7938 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
7939 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
7940 once. Part of ticket 24337.
7941 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
7942 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
7943 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
7945 o Minor features (directory authority):
7946 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
7947 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
7949 o Minor features (embedding):
7950 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
7951 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
7952 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
7953 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
7954 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
7955 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
7956 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
7957 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
7958 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
7959 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
7960 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
7961 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
7962 Closes ticket 23848.
7963 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
7964 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
7965 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
7967 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7968 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
7969 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
7970 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
7971 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
7972 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
7973 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
7974 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
7977 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
7978 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
7979 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
7980 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
7981 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
7982 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
7983 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
7985 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
7986 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
7987 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
7988 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
7989 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
7990 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
7991 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
7992 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
7993 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
7994 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
7995 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
7996 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
7998 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
7999 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8000 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8002 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8003 Implements ticket 24791.
8005 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8006 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8007 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8008 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8009 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8010 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8012 o Minor features (geoip):
8013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8014 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8016 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8017 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8018 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8021 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8022 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8023 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8024 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8025 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8027 o Minor features (IPv6):
8028 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8029 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8030 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8031 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8032 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
8035 o Minor features (log messages):
8036 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
8037 information about memory usage from the different compression
8038 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
8039 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8040 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8041 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8042 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8044 o Minor features (logging):
8045 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8046 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8047 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8050 o Minor features (performance):
8051 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8052 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8053 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8054 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8056 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8057 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8058 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8059 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8060 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8061 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8062 Implements ticket 24374.
8064 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8065 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8066 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8067 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8068 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8070 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8071 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8072 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8073 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8076 o Minor features (sandbox):
8077 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8078 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8079 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8081 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8082 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8083 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8084 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8085 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8087 o Minor features (testing):
8088 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8091 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8092 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8093 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8094 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8095 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8096 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8097 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8098 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8099 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8102 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8103 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8104 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8105 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8106 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8107 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8108 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8109 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8112 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8113 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8114 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8115 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
8118 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
8119 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8121 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8122 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8123 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8124 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8125 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8127 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8128 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8129 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8133 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8134 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8135 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8137 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8138 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
8139 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
8140 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8141 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
8142 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
8143 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8145 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8146 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8147 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8148 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8150 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8151 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8152 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8153 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8154 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8156 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8157 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8158 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8159 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8162 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8163 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8164 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8165 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8166 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8168 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8169 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
8170 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
8171 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
8172 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
8175 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
8176 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
8177 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
8178 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
8179 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
8181 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8182 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8183 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8186 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8187 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8188 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8190 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8191 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8192 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8193 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8194 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8196 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8197 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8198 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8199 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8201 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8202 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8203 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8204 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8205 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8206 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8208 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8209 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8210 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8211 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8213 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8214 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8215 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8217 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8218 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8219 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8220 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8222 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8223 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8224 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
8225 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
8228 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8229 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8230 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8231 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8232 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8233 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8236 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
8237 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8238 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8239 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8241 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8242 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8243 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8245 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8246 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
8247 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
8248 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
8249 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
8250 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8252 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8253 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8254 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8255 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8256 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8257 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8258 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8261 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8262 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8263 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8265 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8266 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8267 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8268 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8269 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8271 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8272 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8273 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8274 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8275 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8276 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8278 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8279 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8280 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8281 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8282 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8283 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8284 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8285 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8286 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8287 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8288 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8289 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8291 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8292 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8293 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8296 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8297 would call the Rust implementation of
8298 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8299 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8300 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8301 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8302 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8304 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
8305 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8306 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8307 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8309 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8310 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8311 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8312 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8314 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8315 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8317 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8318 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8319 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8320 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8321 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8322 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8324 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8325 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8326 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8327 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
8328 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
8330 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8332 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8333 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8334 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8336 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8338 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8339 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8340 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8341 "aruna1234" and teor.
8342 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8343 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8344 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8345 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8347 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8348 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8349 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8350 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8351 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8352 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8353 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
8354 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
8355 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
8356 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
8358 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
8359 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
8362 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
8364 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
8365 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
8366 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
8367 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
8369 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
8370 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
8371 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
8372 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
8374 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
8375 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
8376 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
8377 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
8378 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
8380 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
8381 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
8382 adding very little except for unit test.
8384 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
8385 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
8386 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
8387 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
8389 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
8390 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
8391 const. Implements ticket 24489.
8393 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8394 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
8395 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
8397 o Documentation (man page):
8398 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8399 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8402 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
8403 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
8404 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
8408 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
8409 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
8412 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8413 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8415 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8416 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8418 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8421 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8422 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
8423 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8425 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
8426 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
8427 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
8428 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
8431 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8432 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8433 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8434 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8437 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8438 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8439 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8440 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8441 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8442 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8443 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8444 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8445 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8446 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8447 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8448 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8449 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8451 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8452 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8453 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8455 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8456 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8457 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8458 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8459 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8460 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8461 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8463 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8464 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8465 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8467 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8468 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8469 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8470 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8471 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8472 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8473 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8475 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8476 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8477 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8478 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8480 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8481 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8482 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8483 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8485 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8486 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8487 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8488 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8489 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8490 Closes ticket 24978.
8492 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8493 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8494 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8495 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8496 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8497 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8498 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8499 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8500 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8502 o Minor features (geoip):
8503 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8506 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8507 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8508 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8509 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8510 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8512 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8513 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8514 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8515 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8516 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8518 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8519 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8520 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8521 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8522 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8525 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8526 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8527 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8528 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8529 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8530 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8531 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8532 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8533 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8534 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8535 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
8539 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8540 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8542 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8543 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8544 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8547 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8548 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8549 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8550 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8551 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8552 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8553 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8555 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8556 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8557 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8558 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8559 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8560 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8561 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8562 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8563 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8566 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8567 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8568 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8569 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8570 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8571 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8573 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8574 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8575 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8576 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8578 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
8579 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8580 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8581 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8582 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8585 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8586 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8587 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8588 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8589 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8590 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8593 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8594 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8595 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8596 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8597 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8598 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8599 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8600 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8601 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8602 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8603 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8605 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8606 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8607 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8608 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8610 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8611 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8612 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8613 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8615 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8616 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8617 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8618 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8621 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
8622 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8623 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8624 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8625 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8627 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8628 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8630 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8631 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8633 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8634 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8635 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8638 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
8639 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8642 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8643 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8645 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8646 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8648 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8651 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8652 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
8653 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8655 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8656 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8657 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8658 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8661 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8662 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8663 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8664 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8665 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8666 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8667 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8668 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8669 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8670 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8671 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8672 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8673 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8675 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8676 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8677 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8678 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8679 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8680 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8681 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8682 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8683 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8685 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8686 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8687 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8688 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8689 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8690 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8691 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8693 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8694 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8695 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8696 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8698 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8699 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8700 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8701 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8702 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8703 Closes ticket 24978.
8705 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8706 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8707 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8708 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8710 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8711 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8712 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8713 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8714 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8715 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8716 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8717 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8718 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8720 o Minor features (geoip):
8721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8724 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8725 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8726 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8728 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8729 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8730 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8731 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8732 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8734 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8735 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8736 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8737 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8738 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8740 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8741 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8742 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8743 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8744 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8748 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8749 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8751 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8752 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8753 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8756 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8757 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8758 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8759 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8760 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8761 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8762 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8764 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8765 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8766 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8767 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8768 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8771 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8772 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8773 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8774 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8775 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8776 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8778 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8779 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8780 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8781 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8783 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8784 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8785 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8786 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8787 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8788 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8789 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8790 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8791 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8792 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8793 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8794 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8797 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8798 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8799 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8802 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8803 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8804 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8805 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8806 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8808 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8809 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8811 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8812 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8815 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8816 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8817 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8820 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8821 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8823 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8824 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8825 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8826 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8827 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8828 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8831 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8832 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8834 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8837 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8838 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8839 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8840 the DoS mitigations.)
8842 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8843 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8844 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8845 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8848 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8849 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8850 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8851 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8853 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8854 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8855 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8856 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8857 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8858 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8859 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8860 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8861 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8862 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8863 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8864 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8865 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8867 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8868 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8869 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8870 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8871 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8872 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8873 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8874 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8875 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8876 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8877 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8879 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8880 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8881 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8883 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8884 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8885 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8886 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8887 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8888 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8889 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8891 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8892 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8893 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8894 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8896 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8897 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8898 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8899 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8901 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8902 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8903 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8904 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8905 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8906 Closes ticket 24978.
8908 o Minor features (geoip):
8909 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8912 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8913 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8914 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8917 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8918 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8919 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8920 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8921 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8923 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8924 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8925 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8926 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8927 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8928 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8929 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8931 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8932 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8933 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8934 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8935 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8937 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8938 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8939 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8940 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8942 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8943 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8944 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8945 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8946 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8948 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8949 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8950 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8951 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8953 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8954 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8955 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8956 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8958 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8959 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8960 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8961 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8963 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8964 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8966 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8967 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8969 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8970 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8971 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8974 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8975 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8976 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8977 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8979 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8980 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8981 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8983 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8984 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8985 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8989 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
8990 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
8992 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
8993 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
8994 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
8995 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
8996 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
8997 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
8999 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9000 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9001 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9002 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9003 with the 0.2.9 series.
9005 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
9006 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9008 o Directory authority changes:
9009 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9010 Closes ticket 23910.
9011 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9012 Closes ticket 23592.
9013 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9014 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9015 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9016 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9017 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9020 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
9021 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
9022 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
9023 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
9024 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
9025 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
9028 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
9029 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
9031 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
9034 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
9037 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
9039 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
9041 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
9043 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
9044 they are 56 characters long, as in
9045 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
9047 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
9048 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
9049 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
9050 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
9051 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
9054 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
9055 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
9056 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
9057 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
9058 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
9059 options. For more information, see our blog post at
9060 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
9062 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
9063 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
9064 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
9065 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
9066 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
9067 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
9068 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
9069 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
9070 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
9071 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
9072 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
9073 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
9075 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
9076 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
9077 more information, see the design paper at
9078 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
9079 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
9080 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
9081 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
9083 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
9084 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9085 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9086 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9087 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9088 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9089 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9090 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9092 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
9093 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9094 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9095 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9098 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9099 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9100 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9101 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9102 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9103 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9104 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9105 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9106 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9107 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9108 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9109 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9112 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9113 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9114 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9115 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9116 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9117 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9118 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9119 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9120 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9122 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9123 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9124 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9125 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9126 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9127 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9128 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9129 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9130 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9131 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9132 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9135 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9136 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9137 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9138 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9139 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9140 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9141 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9143 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9144 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9145 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9146 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9147 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9148 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9151 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
9152 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9153 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9154 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9156 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
9157 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
9158 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
9159 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
9161 o Minor features (bridge):
9162 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9163 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9164 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9165 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9166 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9167 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9168 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9169 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
9170 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
9171 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
9172 related to ticket 23080.
9174 o Minor features (bug detection):
9175 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
9176 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
9177 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
9179 o Minor features (build, compilation):
9180 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
9181 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
9182 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
9183 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
9184 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
9185 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
9186 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
9187 Closes ticket 23643.
9189 o Minor features (client):
9190 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
9191 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
9192 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
9193 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
9194 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
9195 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
9196 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
9197 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
9198 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
9199 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
9200 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9201 Resolves ticket 23670.
9203 o Minor features (command line):
9204 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
9205 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
9206 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
9208 o Minor features (control port):
9209 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
9210 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
9211 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
9213 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
9214 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
9216 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
9217 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
9218 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
9219 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
9220 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
9221 Closes ticket 23237.
9222 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
9223 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9225 o Minor features (development support):
9226 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
9227 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
9228 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
9229 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
9230 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
9231 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
9233 o Minor features (directory authority):
9234 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9235 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9236 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9237 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9239 o Minor features (ed25519):
9240 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
9241 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
9242 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
9244 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
9245 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
9246 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
9248 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9249 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9250 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9251 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9252 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9253 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9254 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9255 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9256 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9258 o Minor features (geoip):
9259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9262 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
9263 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
9264 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
9265 another program, regardless of the settings of
9266 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
9267 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
9268 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
9270 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9271 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9272 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9274 o Minor features (logging):
9275 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9277 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9278 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9280 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9281 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9282 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
9283 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
9284 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
9285 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
9286 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
9287 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
9288 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
9289 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
9291 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
9292 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
9294 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
9295 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
9296 the circuit identifier(s).
9297 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
9298 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
9300 o Minor features (portability):
9301 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9302 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9304 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
9305 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
9306 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
9307 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
9309 o Minor features (relay):
9310 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
9311 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
9312 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
9313 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
9314 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
9315 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
9316 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
9317 results. Closes ticket 22731.
9319 o Minor features (relay statistics):
9320 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9321 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9322 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9324 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
9325 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9326 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9327 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9328 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9330 o Minor features (robustness):
9331 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
9332 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
9334 o Minor features (startup, safety):
9335 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
9336 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
9339 o Minor features (static analysis):
9340 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
9341 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
9344 o Minor features (testing):
9345 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9346 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9347 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
9348 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
9350 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
9351 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
9352 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
9353 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
9354 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
9356 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9357 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9358 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9359 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9360 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9363 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9364 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
9365 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
9368 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9369 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9370 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9371 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9372 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9373 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9374 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9375 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9376 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9377 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9378 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9379 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9380 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9382 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
9383 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
9384 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
9385 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9387 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
9388 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9389 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9390 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9391 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
9392 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
9393 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
9394 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
9395 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9396 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9397 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9398 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9399 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9400 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9401 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9402 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9403 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9405 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
9406 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
9407 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
9408 Coverity as CID 1415728.
9410 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9411 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9412 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9413 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9415 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
9416 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
9417 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
9418 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
9419 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
9420 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
9421 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
9422 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9424 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9425 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
9426 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
9427 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
9428 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9429 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
9430 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
9431 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
9432 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9433 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9434 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9435 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9436 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9437 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9440 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
9441 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9442 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9445 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
9446 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
9447 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
9448 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9450 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9451 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9452 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9455 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9456 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9457 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9458 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9460 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9461 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9462 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9463 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9464 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9465 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9466 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9467 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9468 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9471 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9472 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9473 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9474 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9475 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9477 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
9478 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
9479 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
9480 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
9481 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
9482 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
9484 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
9485 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
9488 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9489 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
9490 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9491 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
9492 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
9493 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9495 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
9496 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
9497 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
9498 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9500 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
9501 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9502 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9503 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9504 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9505 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9507 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
9508 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
9509 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
9510 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
9511 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
9512 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
9513 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
9516 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
9517 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
9518 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
9519 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9521 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9522 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9523 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9524 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9525 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9526 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
9527 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
9528 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9529 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
9530 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
9532 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
9533 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
9534 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
9536 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
9537 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
9538 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
9540 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
9541 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9542 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
9543 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
9544 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
9545 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
9547 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
9548 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9549 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9550 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9551 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9552 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9554 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
9555 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
9556 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9558 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9559 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9560 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9561 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9562 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9565 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9566 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9567 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9568 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9569 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9570 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9572 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9573 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9574 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9575 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9576 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9577 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9578 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9580 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
9581 only fetch the service descriptor once.
9582 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9583 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9584 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9585 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
9586 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
9587 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
9588 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9590 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9591 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9592 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9593 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9594 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9595 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9596 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9597 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9598 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9599 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9600 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9601 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9603 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9604 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
9605 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9606 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9607 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9608 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9611 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9612 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
9613 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
9614 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
9615 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9616 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9617 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9618 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9619 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9620 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9621 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9622 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9624 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9625 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9626 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9627 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9628 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9629 Closes ticket 24109.
9630 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
9631 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9632 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
9633 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
9635 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9636 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9638 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9639 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9640 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9641 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9642 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9643 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
9644 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
9645 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9646 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
9647 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
9648 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9650 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
9651 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
9652 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
9653 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9655 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9656 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
9657 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
9659 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
9660 function from the general code to handle channel state
9661 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
9662 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
9663 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
9664 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
9665 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
9666 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
9667 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
9668 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
9670 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
9671 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
9673 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
9674 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
9675 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
9676 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
9677 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9678 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
9679 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
9680 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
9681 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
9682 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
9683 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
9684 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
9686 o Deprecated features:
9687 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
9688 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
9689 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
9690 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
9691 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
9692 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
9696 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9697 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9698 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9699 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
9700 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
9701 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
9702 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
9703 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
9704 Closes ticket 18736.
9705 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
9706 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
9707 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
9708 Closes ticket 15645.
9709 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
9710 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
9711 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
9712 file. Closes ticket 21148.
9715 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
9716 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
9717 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
9718 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
9719 Closes ticket 21031.
9720 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
9721 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
9724 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9725 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9726 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9727 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9729 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9730 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9731 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9732 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9733 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9734 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9735 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9736 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9737 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9738 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9739 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9741 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9742 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9743 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9744 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9745 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9746 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9747 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9750 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9751 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9752 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9753 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9754 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9756 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9757 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9758 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9759 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9760 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9761 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9762 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9763 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9764 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9766 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9767 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9768 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9769 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9770 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9771 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9774 o Minor features (bridge):
9775 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9776 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9777 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9778 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9781 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9782 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9785 o Minor features (geoip):
9786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9789 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9790 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9791 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9792 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9793 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9796 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9797 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9799 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9800 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9801 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9802 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9803 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9804 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9806 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9807 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9808 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9811 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9812 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9813 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9814 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9815 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9818 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9819 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9820 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9821 to another of the releases coming out today.
9823 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9824 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9825 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9827 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9828 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9829 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9830 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9831 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9832 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9833 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9834 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9835 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9836 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9837 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9839 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9840 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9841 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9842 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9843 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9844 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9845 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9848 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9849 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9850 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9851 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9852 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9854 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9855 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9856 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9857 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9858 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9859 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9860 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9861 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9862 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9864 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9865 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9866 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9867 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9868 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9869 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9872 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9873 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9874 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9875 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9876 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9877 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9879 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9880 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9881 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9882 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9883 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9886 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9887 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9890 o Minor features (geoip):
9891 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9894 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9895 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9896 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9897 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9898 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9901 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9902 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9904 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9905 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9906 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9907 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9908 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9909 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9911 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9912 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9913 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9914 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9915 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9917 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9918 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9919 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9922 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9923 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9924 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9925 to another of the releases coming out today.
9927 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9928 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9929 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9930 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9931 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9932 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9935 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9936 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9937 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9938 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9939 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9940 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9941 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9942 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9943 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9944 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9945 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9947 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9948 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9949 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9950 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9951 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9952 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9953 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9956 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9957 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9958 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9959 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9960 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9962 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9963 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9964 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9965 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9966 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9967 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9969 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9970 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9971 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9972 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9973 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9976 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9977 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9980 o Minor features (geoip):
9981 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9984 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9985 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9986 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9987 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9988 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9989 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9991 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9992 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9993 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9994 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9995 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9998 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9999 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10001 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10002 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10003 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10004 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10005 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10006 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10008 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10009 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10010 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10011 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10012 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10014 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10015 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10016 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10019 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
10020 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10021 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10022 to another of the releases coming out today.
10024 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10025 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
10026 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10028 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10029 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10030 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10031 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10032 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10033 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10034 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10035 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10036 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10037 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10038 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10039 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10040 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10041 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10042 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10045 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10046 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10047 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10048 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10049 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10051 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10052 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
10053 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
10054 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
10055 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
10058 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10059 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10060 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10061 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10062 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10065 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10066 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10069 o Minor features (geoip):
10070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10073 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10074 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10075 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10078 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
10079 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10080 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10081 to another of the releases coming out today.
10083 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10084 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10085 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10087 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10088 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10089 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10090 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10091 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10092 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10093 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10094 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10095 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10096 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10097 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10098 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10099 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10100 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10101 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10104 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10105 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10106 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10107 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10108 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10109 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10111 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10112 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10113 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10114 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10115 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10118 o Minor features (geoip):
10119 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10123 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10124 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10125 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10127 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10128 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10129 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10131 o Directory authority changes:
10132 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10133 Closes ticket 23910.
10134 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10135 Closes ticket 23592.
10137 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10138 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10139 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10140 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10141 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10143 o Minor features (geoip):
10144 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10147 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10148 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10149 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10150 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10151 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10152 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10153 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10154 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10155 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10157 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10158 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10159 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10160 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10161 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10162 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10163 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10164 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10165 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10168 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10169 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10170 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10171 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10173 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10174 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10175 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10177 o Directory authority changes:
10178 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10179 Closes ticket 23910.
10180 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10181 Closes ticket 23592.
10183 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10184 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10185 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10186 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10188 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10189 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10190 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10191 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10192 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10194 o Minor features (geoip):
10195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10199 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10200 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10201 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10202 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10204 o Directory authority changes:
10205 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10206 Closes ticket 23910.
10207 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10208 Closes ticket 23592.
10210 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10211 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10212 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10213 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10215 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10216 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10217 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10218 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10219 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10221 o Minor features (geoip):
10222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10225 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10226 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10227 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10228 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10229 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10230 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10231 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10232 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10235 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10236 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10237 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10239 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10240 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10241 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10242 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10243 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10244 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10245 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10248 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10249 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10250 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10251 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10253 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10254 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10255 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10257 o Directory authority changes:
10258 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10259 Closes ticket 23910.
10260 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10261 Closes ticket 23592.
10263 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10264 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10265 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10266 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10268 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10269 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10270 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10271 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10272 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10274 o Minor features (geoip):
10275 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10278 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10279 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10280 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10281 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10282 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10283 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10284 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10285 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10288 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10289 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10290 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10291 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10293 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10294 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10295 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10297 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10298 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10299 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10300 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10301 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10302 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10303 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10306 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10307 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10308 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10309 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10310 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10312 o Directory authority changes:
10313 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10314 Closes ticket 23910.
10315 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10316 Closes ticket 23592.
10318 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10319 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10320 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10321 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10323 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10324 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10325 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10326 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10327 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10329 o Minor features (geoip):
10330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10333 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10334 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10335 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10336 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10338 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10339 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10340 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10343 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10344 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10345 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10347 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10348 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10349 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10350 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10352 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10353 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10354 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10356 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10357 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10358 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10362 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10363 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10366 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10367 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10368 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10369 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10371 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10372 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10373 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10374 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10376 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10377 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10378 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10379 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10380 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10383 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10386 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10387 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10388 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10391 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10392 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10393 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10394 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10395 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10396 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10397 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10398 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10399 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10401 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10402 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10403 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10404 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10405 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10406 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10407 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10408 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10409 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10412 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10413 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10416 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10417 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10418 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10419 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10421 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10422 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10423 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10424 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10425 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10426 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10427 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10429 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10430 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10431 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10432 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10434 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10435 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10436 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10438 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10439 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10440 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10441 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10443 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10444 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10445 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10446 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10447 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10449 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10450 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10451 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10452 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10454 o Minor features (geoip):
10455 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10458 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10459 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10460 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10461 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10464 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10465 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10466 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10467 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10468 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10469 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10470 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10473 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10474 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10476 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10477 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10478 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10481 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10482 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10483 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10484 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10485 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10487 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10488 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10489 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10490 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10491 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10492 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10494 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10495 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10496 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10497 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10498 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10499 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10500 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10501 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10502 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10504 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10505 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10506 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10507 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10509 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10510 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10511 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10513 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10514 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10515 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10516 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10517 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10519 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10520 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10521 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10524 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10525 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10526 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10527 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10528 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10530 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10531 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10532 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10533 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10534 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10535 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10536 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10537 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10538 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10541 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
10542 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
10545 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10546 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10547 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10548 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10550 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10551 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10552 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10553 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10559 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10560 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10561 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10563 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10564 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10565 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10566 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10567 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10569 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10570 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10571 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10572 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10574 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10575 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10576 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10578 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10579 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10580 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10581 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10584 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
10585 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10587 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
10588 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
10589 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
10590 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
10591 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
10592 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
10593 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
10595 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
10596 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
10597 disabled. For more information, see
10598 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10600 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10601 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10602 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10603 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10604 with the 0.2.9 series.
10606 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
10607 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10609 o New dependencies:
10610 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
10611 pkg-config tool at build time.
10613 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
10614 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
10615 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
10616 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10617 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
10619 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
10620 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10621 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10622 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10623 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10624 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10625 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10626 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10627 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10629 o Major features (directory protocol):
10630 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
10631 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
10632 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
10633 now request these documents when available. When both client and
10634 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
10635 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
10636 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
10637 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
10638 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
10639 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
10640 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
10641 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
10642 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
10643 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
10644 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
10645 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
10646 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
10648 o Major features (experimental):
10649 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
10650 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
10651 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
10652 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
10653 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
10654 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
10655 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
10657 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
10658 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
10659 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
10660 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
10661 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
10662 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
10665 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
10666 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
10667 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
10668 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
10669 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
10670 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
10671 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
10672 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
10673 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
10674 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
10675 multiples of 10000.
10677 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10678 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
10679 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
10680 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10681 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10682 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10683 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10686 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
10687 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10688 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10689 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10690 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10691 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10693 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
10694 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
10695 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
10696 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
10697 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
10698 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
10699 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
10700 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
10701 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10702 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
10703 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
10704 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
10705 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
10706 Otherwise it is at info.
10708 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10709 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10710 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10711 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10712 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
10713 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
10714 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10716 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
10717 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10718 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10719 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10721 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
10722 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10723 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10724 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10725 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10727 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
10728 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10729 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10730 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10731 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10732 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10733 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10736 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
10737 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
10738 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
10739 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
10740 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
10741 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
10742 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
10743 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10744 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
10745 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
10746 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
10747 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
10748 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
10751 o Minor features (security, windows):
10752 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10753 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10754 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10755 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10756 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10758 o Minor features (bridge authority):
10759 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
10760 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
10762 o Minor features (code style):
10763 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10764 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10765 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10767 o Minor features (config options):
10768 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
10769 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
10770 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
10771 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
10772 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
10773 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
10774 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
10775 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
10777 o Minor features (controller):
10778 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
10779 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
10781 o Minor features (defaults):
10782 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
10783 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
10784 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
10785 can. Closes ticket 21407.
10786 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
10787 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
10788 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
10789 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
10790 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
10791 Closes ticket 21641.
10793 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10794 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
10795 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
10796 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
10799 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10800 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
10801 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
10802 attempt for bug 23105.
10803 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
10804 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
10805 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
10806 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
10807 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
10808 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
10809 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
10811 o Minor features (directory authority):
10812 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
10813 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
10814 Closes ticket 22348.
10816 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
10817 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
10818 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
10819 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
10820 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
10823 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10824 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
10825 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
10826 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10827 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10828 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10829 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10831 o Minor features (geoip):
10832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10835 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
10836 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
10837 introduction points than specified in
10838 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
10839 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
10840 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
10841 21594; closes ticket 21622.
10842 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
10843 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
10844 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
10845 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
10847 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10848 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
10849 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
10850 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
10851 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
10852 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
10853 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
10854 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
10855 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
10856 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
10858 o Minor features (logging):
10859 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
10860 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
10861 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
10862 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
10865 o Minor features (performance):
10866 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
10867 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
10869 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
10870 speed some controller functions.
10872 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10873 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
10874 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
10875 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
10877 o Minor features (relay, performance):
10878 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
10879 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
10880 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
10881 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
10882 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
10885 o Minor features (safety):
10886 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
10887 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
10888 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
10891 o Minor features (testing):
10892 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
10894 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
10895 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
10896 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
10897 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
10898 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
10899 on. Closes ticket 21439.
10900 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
10901 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
10902 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
10903 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
10904 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
10905 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
10906 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
10907 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
10908 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
10909 21507. Partially implements 21470.
10911 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
10912 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10913 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10914 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10916 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10917 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
10918 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
10919 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
10922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
10923 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
10924 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10925 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10926 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10927 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10928 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10929 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10933 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10934 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10936 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10937 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
10938 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
10939 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
10940 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
10941 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10943 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10944 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
10945 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10947 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
10948 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
10949 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
10950 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
10951 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
10952 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
10953 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10954 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
10955 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
10956 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
10957 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
10958 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
10959 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
10960 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
10962 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10963 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10964 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10965 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10966 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10967 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
10968 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10969 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
10970 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
10971 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
10972 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
10973 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10975 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10976 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10977 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10979 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
10980 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10981 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10982 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10983 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10984 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10986 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
10987 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
10988 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
10989 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
10990 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10991 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10992 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10993 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10994 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10995 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10996 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10997 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11000 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11001 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11002 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11003 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11004 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11005 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11006 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11008 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11009 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11010 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11011 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
11012 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
11013 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
11015 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11016 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11017 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11020 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
11021 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
11022 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
11023 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
11024 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
11026 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11027 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
11028 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11029 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
11030 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
11031 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11032 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
11033 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11034 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
11035 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
11036 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11038 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11039 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11040 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11041 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11043 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11044 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11045 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11046 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11047 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11048 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11049 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11050 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11051 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
11052 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
11053 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11054 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
11055 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
11056 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11058 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11059 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11060 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11061 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11062 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11063 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11064 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11066 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11067 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11068 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11069 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11070 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11071 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11072 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11074 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11075 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11076 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11077 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11078 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11079 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11080 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11081 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11082 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11083 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11084 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11085 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11086 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11088 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
11089 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
11090 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
11091 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11093 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11094 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11095 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11097 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11098 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11099 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11100 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11102 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11103 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11104 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11105 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11107 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11108 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
11109 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11110 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11111 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11112 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11113 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11114 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11115 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11117 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11118 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11119 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11120 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11121 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11122 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11123 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11126 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11127 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11128 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11129 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11130 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11131 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11134 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11135 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11136 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
11137 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
11138 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11139 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
11140 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11141 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
11142 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
11143 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
11144 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
11145 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11146 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11147 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11148 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11151 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
11152 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11153 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11154 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11155 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11157 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11158 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11159 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11160 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11161 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11162 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11163 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11165 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
11166 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
11167 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11169 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11170 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
11171 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
11172 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
11173 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
11174 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
11175 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
11176 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
11177 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
11178 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
11179 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
11180 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
11182 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
11183 Resolves ticket 22213.
11184 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
11185 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
11186 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
11187 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
11188 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
11189 types. Closes ticket 21651.
11190 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
11191 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
11194 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11196 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11197 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11199 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11200 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11201 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11203 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11205 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
11206 Closes ticket 21873.
11207 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
11208 Closes ticket 21151.
11209 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
11210 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
11212 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
11213 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11214 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
11215 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
11217 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
11218 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
11219 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11220 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11221 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11222 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11223 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11224 default behavior is now unavailable.
11225 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11226 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11227 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11228 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11229 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11230 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11231 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11233 o Removed features (tools):
11234 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11235 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11236 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11237 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11238 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11241 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11242 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11243 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11244 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11246 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11247 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11248 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11249 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11250 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11251 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11252 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11253 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11254 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11256 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11257 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11258 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11259 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11261 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11262 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11263 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11264 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11265 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11267 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11271 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11272 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11273 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11274 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11276 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11277 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11278 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11279 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11280 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11281 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11282 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11283 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11286 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11287 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11288 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11291 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11292 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11293 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11294 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11295 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11296 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11298 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11299 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11300 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11301 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11303 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11304 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11305 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11307 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11308 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11309 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11312 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11313 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11314 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11315 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11316 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11319 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11322 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11323 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11324 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11325 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11326 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11327 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11329 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11330 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11331 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11332 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11334 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11335 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11336 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11337 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11339 o Minor features (geoip):
11340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11343 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11344 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11345 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11346 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11347 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11349 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11350 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11351 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11352 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11353 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11355 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11356 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11357 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11358 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11359 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11360 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11361 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11362 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11363 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11366 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11367 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11368 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11369 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11370 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11372 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11373 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11374 bugfixes described below.
11376 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11377 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11378 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11379 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11380 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11381 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11382 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11383 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11386 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11387 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11388 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11389 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11390 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11391 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11392 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11395 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11396 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11397 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11398 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11399 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11400 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11401 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11402 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11403 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11404 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11405 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11406 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11407 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11410 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11411 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11412 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11415 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11416 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11417 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11418 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11419 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11421 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11422 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11423 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11425 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11426 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11427 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11429 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11430 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11431 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11432 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11433 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11434 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11435 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11437 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11439 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11440 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11441 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11444 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11445 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11446 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11447 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11448 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11449 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11451 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11452 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11453 bugfixes described below.
11455 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11456 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11457 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11458 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11459 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11462 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11463 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11464 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11465 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11466 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11467 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11468 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11471 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11472 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11473 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11474 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11475 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11477 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11478 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11479 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11480 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11481 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11482 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11483 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11485 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11486 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11487 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11488 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11489 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11491 o Minor features (geoip):
11492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11495 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11496 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11497 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11498 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11500 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11501 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11502 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11504 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11505 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11506 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11507 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11508 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11511 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11512 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11513 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11514 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11515 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11517 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11518 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11519 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11520 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11521 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11522 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11524 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11525 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11526 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11527 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11530 o Minor features (geoip):
11531 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11534 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11535 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11536 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11537 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11538 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11541 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11542 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11544 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11545 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11546 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11547 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11548 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11549 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11551 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11552 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11553 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11554 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11557 o Minor features (geoip):
11558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11561 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11562 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11563 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11566 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11567 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11568 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11569 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11570 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11571 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11573 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11574 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11575 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11576 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11579 o Minor features (geoip):
11580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11583 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11584 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11585 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11587 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11588 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11589 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11590 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11591 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11592 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11594 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11595 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11596 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11597 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11600 o Minor features (geoip):
11601 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11604 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11605 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11606 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11608 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11609 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11610 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11611 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11612 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11613 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11615 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11616 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11617 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11618 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11621 o Minor features (geoip):
11622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11625 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11626 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11627 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11630 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
11631 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
11632 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
11633 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
11634 clients are not affected.
11636 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
11637 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
11638 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
11639 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
11640 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
11641 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11644 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11647 o Minor features (future-proofing):
11648 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
11649 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11650 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11651 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11652 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11653 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11655 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11656 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11657 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11658 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11659 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11663 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
11664 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
11666 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
11667 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
11668 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
11669 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
11670 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
11671 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
11674 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
11675 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
11677 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
11678 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
11679 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
11680 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
11681 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
11683 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
11684 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11686 o Major features (directory authority, security):
11687 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
11688 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
11689 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
11691 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
11692 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
11693 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
11694 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
11695 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
11698 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
11699 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
11700 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
11701 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
11702 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
11703 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
11704 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
11705 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
11708 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
11709 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
11710 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
11711 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
11712 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
11713 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
11714 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
11715 15056; part of proposal 220.
11716 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
11717 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
11718 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
11719 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
11720 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
11721 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
11722 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
11723 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
11724 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
11727 o Major features (security):
11728 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11729 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11730 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11731 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11732 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11733 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11735 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
11736 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
11737 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
11738 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
11739 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
11740 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
11741 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
11742 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
11743 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
11744 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
11745 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11747 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
11748 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11749 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11750 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11752 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11753 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
11754 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
11755 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
11758 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
11759 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11760 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11762 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
11763 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
11764 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
11765 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
11766 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
11767 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
11768 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11770 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
11771 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11772 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11773 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11774 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11775 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11776 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11777 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
11778 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
11779 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
11780 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
11781 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
11782 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
11783 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
11784 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
11786 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
11787 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
11788 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
11789 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
11790 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11792 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
11793 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
11794 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
11795 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
11796 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
11797 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
11798 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11800 o Minor feature (client):
11801 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
11802 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
11804 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
11805 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
11806 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
11807 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
11809 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
11810 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
11811 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
11813 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
11814 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
11815 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
11816 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
11817 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
11819 o Minor features (controller):
11820 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
11821 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
11822 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
11823 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
11826 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
11827 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
11828 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
11829 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
11830 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
11831 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
11832 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
11833 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
11834 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
11835 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
11837 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
11838 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
11839 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
11842 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11843 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
11844 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
11846 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
11847 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
11848 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11850 o Minor features (directory authority):
11851 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
11852 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
11853 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
11854 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
11855 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
11857 o Minor features (directory cache):
11858 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
11859 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
11862 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
11863 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
11864 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
11865 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
11867 o Minor features (entry guards):
11868 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
11869 break regression tests.
11870 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
11871 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
11873 o Minor features (fallback directories):
11874 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
11875 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
11876 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
11877 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
11878 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
11879 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
11880 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
11881 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
11882 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
11883 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
11884 Closes ticket 20539.
11885 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
11886 Closes ticket 20822.
11887 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
11889 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
11890 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
11891 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
11892 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
11893 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
11895 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
11896 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
11897 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
11898 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
11899 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
11902 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
11903 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
11904 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
11905 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
11907 o Minor features (geoip):
11908 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11911 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
11912 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11915 o Minor features (infrastructure):
11916 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
11917 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
11919 o Minor features (linting):
11920 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
11921 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
11923 o Minor features (logging):
11924 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
11925 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
11927 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
11928 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
11929 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
11931 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
11932 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
11934 o Minor features (relay):
11935 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
11936 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
11937 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
11938 Written by Michael Sonntag.
11940 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
11941 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
11942 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
11945 o Minor features (testing):
11946 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
11947 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
11948 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
11950 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
11951 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
11952 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
11953 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
11954 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
11955 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
11956 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11957 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11958 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11960 o Minor bugfix (logging):
11961 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
11962 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
11963 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
11964 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
11967 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
11968 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
11969 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
11970 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
11972 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11973 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
11974 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
11977 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
11978 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
11979 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
11981 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11982 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
11983 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
11984 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11985 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
11986 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
11987 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
11989 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11990 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
11991 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
11993 o Minor bugfixes (config):
11994 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
11995 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
11996 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
11997 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11999 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12000 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
12001 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12002 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
12003 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
12004 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12006 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
12007 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
12008 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
12009 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
12010 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
12011 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
12012 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
12015 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
12016 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
12017 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
12018 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
12019 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12021 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12022 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12023 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12024 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12026 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
12027 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
12028 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
12029 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
12030 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12032 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
12033 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
12034 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
12035 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
12036 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12038 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12039 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12040 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12041 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12042 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12043 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12044 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12047 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
12048 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
12049 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
12050 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
12051 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12052 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
12053 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
12054 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
12055 on all recent tor versions.
12057 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12058 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
12059 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
12061 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
12062 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
12063 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12065 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12066 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
12067 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
12068 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
12069 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12070 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
12071 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12072 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
12073 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12075 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12076 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
12077 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
12078 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
12079 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12080 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
12081 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
12082 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12083 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
12084 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
12085 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
12088 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12089 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12090 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12091 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12092 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12093 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12094 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12095 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12096 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
12097 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
12098 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
12101 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12102 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
12103 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12104 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
12105 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
12106 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
12107 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
12108 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
12110 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
12111 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
12112 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
12115 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12116 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
12117 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12119 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12120 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
12121 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
12122 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
12125 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
12126 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12127 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12128 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12130 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12131 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12133 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12134 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12135 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12137 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
12138 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
12139 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
12140 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
12142 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12143 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12144 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
12145 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
12146 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12147 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12148 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12149 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12151 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
12152 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12153 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12154 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12155 Patch by "junglefowl".
12157 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12158 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
12159 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
12160 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
12161 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12163 o Minor bugfixes (util):
12164 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
12165 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
12166 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
12167 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
12169 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
12170 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
12171 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
12174 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
12175 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
12176 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
12177 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
12179 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12180 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
12181 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
12182 Closes ticket 19858.
12183 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
12184 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
12185 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
12186 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
12187 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
12188 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
12189 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
12190 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
12191 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
12192 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
12193 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12194 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
12195 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
12196 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
12197 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
12198 redundant with the similar structures used in the
12199 channel abstraction.
12200 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
12201 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
12202 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
12203 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12204 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
12205 replaced with code automatically generated by the
12208 o Documentation (formatting):
12209 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
12210 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
12212 o Documentation (man page):
12213 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
12214 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
12217 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
12218 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
12220 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
12221 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
12222 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
12224 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
12225 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
12226 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
12227 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12228 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12229 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
12230 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
12231 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12232 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12233 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12235 o Removed features:
12236 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
12237 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
12238 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
12240 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
12241 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
12242 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
12245 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
12246 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
12247 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
12249 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
12250 from "overcaffeinated".
12251 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
12252 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
12255 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12256 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12257 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12258 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12259 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12262 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12263 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12264 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12266 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12267 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12268 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12269 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12270 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12271 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12272 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12274 o Minor features (geoip):
12275 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12279 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12280 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12281 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12282 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12285 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12286 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12287 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12289 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12290 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12292 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12293 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12294 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12296 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12297 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12298 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12301 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12302 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12303 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12304 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12305 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12306 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12307 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12308 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12309 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12311 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12312 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12313 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12314 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12315 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12316 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12317 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12318 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12319 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12320 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12321 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12322 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12323 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12325 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12326 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12327 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12328 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12329 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12331 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12332 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12333 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12335 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12336 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12337 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12338 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12339 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12340 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12341 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12344 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12345 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12346 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12347 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12348 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12349 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12350 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12352 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12353 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12354 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12355 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12358 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12359 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12360 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12361 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12363 o Minor features (geoip):
12364 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12368 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12369 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12370 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12371 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12374 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12375 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12376 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12378 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12379 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12381 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12382 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12383 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12385 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12386 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12387 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12390 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12391 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12392 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12393 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12394 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12395 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12396 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12397 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12398 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12400 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12401 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12402 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12403 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12404 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12405 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12406 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12407 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12408 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12410 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12411 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12412 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12413 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12414 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12416 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12417 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12418 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12419 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12420 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12423 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12424 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12425 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12426 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12427 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12429 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12430 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12431 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12433 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12434 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12435 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12436 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12437 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12438 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12441 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12442 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12443 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12444 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12445 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12446 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12447 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12450 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12451 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12452 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12453 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12454 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12455 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12456 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12458 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12459 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12460 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12461 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12464 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12465 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12466 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12467 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12469 o Minor features (geoip):
12470 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12473 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12474 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12475 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12478 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12479 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12480 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12481 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12484 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12485 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12486 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12488 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12489 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12491 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12492 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12493 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12495 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12496 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12497 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12500 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12501 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12502 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12503 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12504 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12505 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12506 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12507 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12508 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12510 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12511 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12512 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12513 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12514 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12515 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12516 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12517 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12518 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12520 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12521 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12522 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12523 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12524 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12526 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12527 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12528 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12529 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12530 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12533 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12534 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12535 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12536 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12537 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12539 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12540 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12541 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12543 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12544 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12545 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12546 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12547 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12548 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12551 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12552 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12553 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12554 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12555 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12556 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12557 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12560 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12561 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12562 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12563 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12564 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12565 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12566 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12568 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12569 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12570 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12571 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12574 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12575 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12576 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12577 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12579 o Minor features (geoip):
12580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12583 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12584 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12585 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12587 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12588 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12589 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12590 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12591 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12592 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12594 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12595 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12596 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12600 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12601 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12602 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12603 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12606 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12607 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12608 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12610 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12611 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12613 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12614 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12615 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12617 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12618 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12619 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12622 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12623 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12624 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12625 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12626 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12627 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12628 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12629 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12630 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12632 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12633 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12634 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12635 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12636 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12637 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12638 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12639 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12640 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12642 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12643 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12644 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12645 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12646 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12649 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12650 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12651 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12652 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12653 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12655 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12656 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12657 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12659 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12660 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12661 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12662 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12663 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12664 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12667 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12668 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12669 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12670 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12671 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12672 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12673 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12676 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12677 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12678 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12679 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12680 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12681 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12682 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12684 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12685 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12686 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12687 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12690 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12691 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12692 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12693 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12695 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12696 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12697 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12698 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12700 o Minor features (geoip):
12701 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12705 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12706 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12708 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12709 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12710 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12714 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
12715 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
12716 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
12717 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
12719 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
12720 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
12721 least January of 2020.
12723 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12724 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12725 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12726 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12729 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12730 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12731 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12732 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12733 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12734 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12735 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12737 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12738 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12739 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12740 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12741 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12742 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12743 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12745 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12746 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12747 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12749 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12750 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12751 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12753 o Minor features (geoip):
12754 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12757 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12758 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12759 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12761 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12762 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12764 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12765 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12766 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12768 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12769 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12770 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12771 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12772 Patch by "junglefowl".
12775 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
12776 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
12777 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
12778 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
12779 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
12780 version should upgrade.
12782 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
12783 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
12785 o Major bugfixes (security):
12786 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12787 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12788 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
12789 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12790 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12791 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12793 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
12794 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12795 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12796 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12797 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12798 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12799 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12800 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12801 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12802 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12803 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12805 o Minor features (geoip):
12806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12809 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12810 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12811 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12812 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12814 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12815 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12818 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
12819 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
12820 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12821 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12822 become available for their systems.
12824 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
12827 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
12828 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
12830 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12831 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12832 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12833 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12834 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12835 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12836 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12837 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12838 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12840 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12841 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
12842 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
12843 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
12844 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
12846 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
12847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12851 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
12852 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
12854 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
12855 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
12856 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
12857 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
12858 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
12859 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
12860 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
12861 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
12863 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
12865 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
12866 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12867 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12868 become available for their systems.
12870 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
12871 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12873 o New system requirements:
12874 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
12875 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
12876 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
12877 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
12878 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
12879 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
12880 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
12881 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
12882 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
12883 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
12884 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
12886 o Deprecated features:
12887 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
12888 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
12889 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
12890 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
12891 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
12892 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
12893 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
12894 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
12895 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12896 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
12897 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12898 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12899 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
12900 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
12901 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
12902 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
12903 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
12904 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
12905 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
12906 and TransListenAddress.
12908 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
12909 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12910 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12911 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12912 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12913 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12914 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12915 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12916 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12918 o Major features (build, hardening):
12919 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
12920 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
12921 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
12922 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
12923 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
12924 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
12925 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
12926 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
12927 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
12929 o Major features (circuit building, security):
12930 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
12931 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
12932 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
12934 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
12935 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
12937 o Major features (compilation):
12938 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
12939 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
12940 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
12941 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
12943 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
12944 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
12945 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
12947 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
12948 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
12949 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
12950 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
12951 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
12952 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
12953 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
12954 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
12956 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
12957 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
12958 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
12959 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
12960 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
12961 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
12962 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
12964 o Major features (resource management):
12965 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
12966 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
12967 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
12968 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
12969 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
12970 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
12972 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
12973 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
12974 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
12975 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
12976 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
12977 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
12978 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
12979 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
12980 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
12981 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
12982 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
12984 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
12985 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
12986 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
12987 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
12988 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
12989 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
12990 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
12991 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
12992 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
12993 part of proposal 264.
12995 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
12996 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
12997 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
12998 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
13000 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13001 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
13002 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
13003 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13004 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13005 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13006 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13007 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13008 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13010 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13011 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13012 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13014 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
13015 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
13016 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
13017 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
13018 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
13019 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
13020 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13022 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13023 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
13024 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
13025 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
13026 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
13027 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
13028 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
13029 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
13030 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
13031 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13033 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13034 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13035 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13036 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13037 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13038 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13040 o Minor features (port flags):
13041 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
13042 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
13043 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
13044 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
13045 18693; patch by "teor".
13047 o Minor features (build, hardening):
13048 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
13049 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
13050 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
13051 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
13052 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
13053 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
13054 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
13055 Closes ticket 18895.
13057 o Minor features (client, directory):
13058 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13059 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13060 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13063 o Minor features (code safety):
13064 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
13065 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
13066 patch from "U+039b".
13068 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13069 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13072 o Minor features (config):
13073 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
13074 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
13076 o Minor features (controller):
13077 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
13078 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
13079 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
13080 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
13081 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
13082 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
13083 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
13084 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
13086 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13087 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13088 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13091 o Minor features (directory authority):
13092 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
13093 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
13094 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
13095 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
13096 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
13097 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
13098 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
13099 Implements ticket 18624.
13100 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
13101 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
13102 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
13105 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13106 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13107 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13108 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13109 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13111 o Minor features (hidden service):
13112 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
13113 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
13114 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
13117 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
13118 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
13119 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
13120 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
13121 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
13122 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
13123 Closes ticket 18365.
13124 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
13125 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
13126 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
13127 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
13129 o Minor features (logging):
13130 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
13131 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
13132 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
13133 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
13134 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13135 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
13136 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
13137 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
13138 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
13139 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
13141 o Minor features (performance):
13142 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
13143 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
13144 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
13145 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
13146 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
13147 Closes ticket 18815.
13149 o Minor features (relay, usability):
13150 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
13151 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
13152 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
13153 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
13156 o Minor features (security, TLS):
13157 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
13158 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
13159 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
13160 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
13162 o Minor features (testing):
13163 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
13164 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
13165 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
13166 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
13167 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
13168 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
13169 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
13170 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
13171 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
13172 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
13174 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
13175 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
13176 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
13177 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
13178 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
13179 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
13180 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
13182 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
13183 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
13184 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
13185 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
13186 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
13187 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
13188 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
13189 assertion as a test failure.
13190 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
13192 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
13193 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
13194 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
13195 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
13196 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
13197 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
13198 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
13199 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
13200 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
13202 o Minor features (Tor2web):
13203 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
13204 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
13205 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
13207 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13208 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13209 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13210 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13211 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
13213 o Minor features (user interface):
13214 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
13215 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
13216 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
13217 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
13220 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13221 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13222 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13223 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13226 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13227 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13228 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13229 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13230 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13231 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13233 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13234 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13235 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13236 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13238 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
13239 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13240 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13241 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13242 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13244 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
13245 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13246 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13247 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13248 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13250 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13251 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
13252 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
13253 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
13254 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13256 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
13257 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
13258 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13260 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13261 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13262 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13264 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13265 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13266 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13269 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
13270 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
13271 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13273 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13274 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
13275 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
13277 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
13278 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
13279 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13280 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13281 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13282 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13283 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13284 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13286 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13287 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13288 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
13289 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
13291 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13292 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
13293 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
13294 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13295 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
13296 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
13297 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
13298 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13299 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
13300 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
13302 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
13303 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
13304 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
13305 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13307 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
13308 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
13309 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
13310 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
13313 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
13314 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
13315 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
13316 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
13318 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
13319 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
13322 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13323 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
13324 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
13325 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
13327 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
13328 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
13330 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
13331 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
13332 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13333 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
13334 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
13336 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13337 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13338 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13340 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
13341 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
13342 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
13344 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13345 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
13346 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
13347 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
13348 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
13349 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13351 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13352 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13353 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13355 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
13356 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13357 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
13358 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
13359 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
13360 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
13361 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
13363 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13364 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
13365 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13366 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
13367 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13368 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13369 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13370 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13371 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13372 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13373 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13374 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13375 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13376 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
13377 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
13380 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
13381 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
13382 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
13383 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
13384 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
13385 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13387 o Minor bugfixes (options):
13388 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
13389 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
13391 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
13392 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
13393 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13396 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13397 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
13398 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13399 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
13400 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
13401 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13403 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13404 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
13405 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
13406 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
13407 patch from "cypherpunks".
13408 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
13409 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
13410 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
13411 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13412 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
13413 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
13414 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
13415 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
13416 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13417 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
13418 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
13420 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13421 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13423 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
13424 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
13425 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13426 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
13427 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
13430 o Minor bugfixes (time):
13431 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
13432 bugfix on all released tor versions.
13433 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
13434 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
13435 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
13436 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13438 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
13439 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
13440 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
13441 19678. Patch by teor.
13443 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
13444 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
13445 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
13446 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
13447 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
13449 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
13450 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13452 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13453 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
13455 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
13456 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13457 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
13458 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
13461 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
13462 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
13463 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
13464 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
13465 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13466 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13467 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
13468 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
13469 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
13470 tickets 19287 and 19290.
13471 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
13472 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13473 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
13474 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
13475 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13476 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
13477 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
13478 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
13480 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
13481 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
13482 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
13483 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
13486 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
13487 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
13489 o Removed features:
13490 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
13491 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
13492 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
13493 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
13494 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
13495 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
13496 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
13499 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
13500 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
13501 command-line options to enable them.
13502 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
13503 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
13506 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13507 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13508 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13509 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13512 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13513 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13514 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13515 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13516 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13517 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13520 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13521 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13522 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13525 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13526 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13527 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13528 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13530 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13531 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13532 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13533 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13536 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13537 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13538 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13539 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13542 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13543 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13544 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13547 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13548 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13549 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13551 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13552 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13553 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13555 o Minor features (geoip):
13556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13560 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
13561 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
13562 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
13563 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
13564 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
13567 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13568 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13569 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13570 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13571 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13572 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13573 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13574 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13575 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13577 o Minor features (geoip):
13578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13582 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
13583 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
13584 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
13585 who select public relays as their bridges.
13587 o Major bugfixes (crash):
13588 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
13589 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
13590 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
13591 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
13592 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13594 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
13595 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
13596 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
13597 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
13598 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
13601 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13602 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
13603 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13605 o Minor features (geoip):
13606 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13610 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
13611 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
13612 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
13613 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
13614 encouraged to upgrade.
13616 o Directory authority changes:
13617 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13618 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13620 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
13621 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
13622 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
13623 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
13624 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
13625 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13627 o Minor features (geoip):
13628 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13632 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
13633 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
13636 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13637 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
13638 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
13639 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
13642 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
13644 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
13646 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
13647 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
13648 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
13649 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
13650 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
13651 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13653 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
13655 o New system requirements:
13656 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
13657 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
13658 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
13660 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
13661 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
13662 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
13663 longer runs with, these versions.
13664 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
13665 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
13666 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
13667 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
13668 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
13670 o Directory authority changes:
13671 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13672 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13674 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13676 o Major features (directory system):
13677 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
13678 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
13679 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
13680 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
13681 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
13682 gsathya, and karsten.
13683 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
13684 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
13685 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
13686 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
13687 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
13689 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
13690 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
13691 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
13692 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
13693 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
13694 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
13695 mikeperry and teor.
13697 o Major features (security, Linux):
13698 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
13699 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
13700 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
13701 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
13702 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
13704 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
13705 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
13706 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
13707 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
13708 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
13709 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
13710 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
13712 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
13713 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
13716 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
13717 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13718 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13720 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
13721 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
13722 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
13723 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
13724 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
13726 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
13727 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
13728 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
13729 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13730 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
13731 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
13732 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
13733 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
13734 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
13735 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13737 o Major bugfixes (key management):
13738 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13739 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13740 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13741 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13742 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13743 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13746 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
13747 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13748 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13749 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13750 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13752 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
13753 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
13754 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
13755 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
13756 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
13757 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
13758 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
13759 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
13760 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13762 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
13763 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13764 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13765 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13766 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13768 o Major bugfixes (testing):
13769 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
13770 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13772 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
13773 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
13774 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
13775 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13777 o Minor features (accounting):
13778 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
13779 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
13780 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
13781 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
13783 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
13784 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13785 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13786 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13787 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
13788 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
13789 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
13792 o Minor features (build):
13793 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
13794 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
13795 Steven Chamberlain.
13796 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
13797 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
13798 patch from "cypherpunks".
13799 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
13800 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
13801 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
13802 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
13803 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
13804 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
13805 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13806 Patch from intrigeri.
13808 o Minor features (clients):
13809 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
13810 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
13811 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
13813 o Minor features (controller):
13814 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
13815 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
13816 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
13818 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
13819 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
13820 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
13821 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
13822 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
13824 o Minor features (crypto):
13825 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
13826 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
13828 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
13829 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
13830 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13831 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
13832 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
13834 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
13835 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
13836 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
13837 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
13839 o Minor features (directory downloads):
13840 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
13841 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
13842 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
13843 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
13844 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
13845 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
13846 17864; patch by teor.
13848 o Minor features (geoip):
13849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13852 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
13853 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
13854 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
13855 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
13856 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
13858 o Minor features (IPv6):
13859 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
13860 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
13861 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
13862 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
13863 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
13864 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
13865 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
13866 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
13867 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
13868 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
13869 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
13870 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
13872 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
13873 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
13874 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
13875 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
13876 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
13877 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
13878 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
13879 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
13880 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
13881 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13883 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13884 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
13885 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
13886 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
13887 while fixing 18548.
13889 o Minor features (logging):
13890 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
13891 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
13892 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
13893 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
13896 o Minor features (portability):
13897 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
13898 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
13900 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
13901 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
13902 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
13903 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
13904 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
13906 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
13907 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
13908 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
13909 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
13910 Resolves ticket 17951.
13912 o Minor features (replay cache):
13913 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
13914 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
13916 o Minor features (robustness):
13917 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
13918 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
13919 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
13921 o Minor features (security, clock):
13922 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
13923 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
13924 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
13925 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
13927 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
13928 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
13929 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
13930 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
13931 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
13932 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
13934 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
13935 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13936 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13937 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13939 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
13940 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
13941 Implements ticket 17026.
13942 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
13943 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
13944 Implements feature 17986.
13945 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
13946 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
13947 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
13949 o Minor features (security, RNG):
13950 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
13951 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
13952 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
13953 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
13954 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
13955 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
13956 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
13957 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
13958 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
13959 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
13962 o Minor features (security, win32):
13963 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
13964 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
13967 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13968 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
13969 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
13970 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
13971 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
13972 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
13973 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
13976 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
13977 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
13978 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
13979 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
13980 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13981 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
13982 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
13983 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
13984 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
13985 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
13986 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13987 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
13988 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
13989 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13991 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
13992 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
13993 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
13994 from "unixninja92".
13996 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
13997 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
13998 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14001 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14002 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14003 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14005 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14006 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
14007 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
14008 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14009 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
14010 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
14012 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14013 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14015 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
14016 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
14017 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14018 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14019 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14021 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14022 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14023 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
14024 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
14025 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14026 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
14028 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
14029 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
14030 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
14031 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
14032 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14033 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
14034 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
14035 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14036 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
14037 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14038 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
14040 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
14041 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
14044 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
14045 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
14046 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
14047 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
14048 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14050 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14051 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
14052 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
14053 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
14054 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
14055 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14056 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
14057 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
14059 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
14061 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
14062 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
14063 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
14065 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
14066 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
14067 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14069 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14070 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
14071 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14073 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
14074 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
14075 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
14076 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14078 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14079 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14080 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14081 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14082 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14084 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
14085 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
14086 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
14088 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14089 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14090 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14091 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14092 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14093 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14094 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
14095 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
14096 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
14098 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14099 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14100 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14101 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14104 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
14105 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
14106 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
14107 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
14108 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14110 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14111 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
14112 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
14113 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
14114 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
14115 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
14116 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
14117 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
14119 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
14120 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
14121 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
14122 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
14123 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
14124 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
14125 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
14126 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
14127 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
14130 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
14131 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
14132 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
14133 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14135 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
14136 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
14137 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
14139 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14140 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
14141 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14143 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14144 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14145 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14146 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14147 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14148 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14149 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14150 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14151 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
14152 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
14153 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14154 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
14155 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
14156 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14157 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
14158 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14159 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14160 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14161 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14163 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14164 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
14165 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
14166 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
14167 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
14169 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
14170 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14171 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
14172 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
14173 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
14174 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
14175 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14176 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14177 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14178 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14179 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
14180 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
14183 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
14184 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
14185 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
14186 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
14188 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
14189 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14190 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
14193 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14194 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14195 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14196 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14198 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14199 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14200 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14201 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14202 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14203 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
14206 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
14207 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
14208 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
14209 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
14211 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14212 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
14213 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
14214 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
14215 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
14216 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
14217 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
14218 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
14219 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14221 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
14222 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
14223 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
14224 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
14225 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
14227 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14228 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14229 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14230 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14232 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14233 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
14234 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
14235 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14236 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
14237 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
14238 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
14239 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
14241 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14242 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14244 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14245 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14246 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14249 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14250 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
14251 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
14252 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
14254 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14255 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14256 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14257 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
14258 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
14259 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14260 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
14261 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
14262 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
14263 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
14264 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14265 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14266 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14267 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
14268 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
14269 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14271 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14272 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14273 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14274 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14275 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
14276 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
14277 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
14279 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
14280 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
14281 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
14282 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
14284 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14285 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
14286 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
14288 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
14289 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
14290 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
14291 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
14293 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
14294 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
14295 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
14296 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
14297 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
14298 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
14299 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
14300 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
14301 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
14302 17744. Patch from zerosion.
14303 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
14304 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
14305 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
14306 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
14307 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
14308 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
14309 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
14310 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
14311 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
14312 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
14313 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
14314 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
14318 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
14319 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
14320 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
14321 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
14322 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
14323 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
14324 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
14325 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
14326 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
14327 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
14328 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
14329 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
14331 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
14332 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
14334 o Removed features:
14335 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
14336 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
14337 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
14338 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
14339 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
14340 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
14341 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
14342 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
14345 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
14346 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
14347 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
14348 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
14349 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
14350 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
14351 portion of ticket 16831.
14352 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
14354 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
14355 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14356 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
14357 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
14358 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
14360 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
14361 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
14362 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
14363 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
14366 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
14367 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
14368 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
14370 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14371 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14372 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14373 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14374 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14375 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14378 o Minor features (geoip):
14379 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14382 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14383 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
14384 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
14385 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
14386 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14387 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14389 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14390 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
14391 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
14392 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
14393 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
14394 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
14395 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
14396 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14397 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
14398 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14401 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
14402 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
14403 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
14404 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
14405 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
14406 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
14407 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
14408 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
14409 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
14410 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
14411 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
14412 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
14413 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
14414 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
14415 that would make him proud.
14417 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
14419 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
14420 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
14421 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
14422 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
14423 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
14424 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
14425 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
14427 o New system requirements:
14428 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
14429 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
14431 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
14432 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
14433 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
14434 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
14435 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
14436 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
14437 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
14438 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
14439 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
14440 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
14441 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
14442 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
14443 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
14445 o Major features (controller):
14446 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
14447 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
14449 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
14450 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
14451 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
14452 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
14453 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
14454 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
14455 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14457 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
14458 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
14459 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
14460 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
14461 key). Closes ticket 13642.
14462 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
14463 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
14464 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
14465 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
14466 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
14467 Implements part of ticket 12498.
14468 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
14469 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14470 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
14471 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
14472 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14473 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
14474 part of ticket 12498.
14475 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
14476 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
14478 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
14479 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
14480 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
14481 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
14482 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
14483 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
14484 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
14485 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
14486 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
14489 o Major features (ECC performance):
14490 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
14491 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
14493 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
14494 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
14495 available. Implements ticket 16535.
14496 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
14497 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
14498 Implements ticket 16467.
14499 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
14500 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
14501 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
14502 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
14504 o Major features (Hidden services):
14505 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
14506 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
14507 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
14508 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
14509 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
14510 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
14511 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
14512 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
14513 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
14514 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
14515 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
14516 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
14518 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
14519 introduction points, which used to change the number of
14520 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
14521 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
14523 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
14524 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
14525 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
14526 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
14527 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
14528 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
14530 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
14531 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14532 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
14533 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
14534 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
14535 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
14537 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14538 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
14539 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
14540 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
14541 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
14542 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14543 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
14544 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
14547 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14548 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
14549 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
14550 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
14552 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
14553 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
14554 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
14555 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
14556 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
14557 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
14560 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
14561 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
14562 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14564 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
14565 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
14566 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
14567 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
14568 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
14569 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
14571 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
14572 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14573 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14574 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14575 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14578 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14579 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
14580 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
14581 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
14582 by "cypherpunks_backup".
14583 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
14584 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
14585 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
14588 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
14589 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
14590 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
14591 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
14593 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
14594 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
14595 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
14596 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14597 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
14598 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
14599 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
14602 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
14603 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
14604 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
14605 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
14606 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
14607 own. Implements feature 15482.
14608 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
14609 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
14611 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
14612 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
14613 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
14614 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
14615 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
14617 o Minor features (command-line interface):
14618 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
14619 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14620 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
14621 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
14623 o Minor features (compilation):
14624 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
14625 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
14626 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
14627 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
14628 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
14630 o Minor features (control protocol):
14631 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
14632 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
14634 o Minor features (controller):
14635 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
14636 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
14637 present. Implements ticket 14840.
14638 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
14639 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
14640 Closes ticket 14845.
14641 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
14642 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
14643 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
14645 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14646 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
14647 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
14648 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
14649 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
14650 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
14652 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
14653 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
14654 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
14655 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
14656 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
14657 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
14658 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
14660 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
14661 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14662 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14663 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14665 o Minor features (geoip):
14666 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14669 o Minor features (hidden services):
14670 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
14671 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
14672 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
14673 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
14675 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
14676 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
14677 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
14679 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
14680 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
14681 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
14682 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
14683 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
14684 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
14685 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
14686 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
14688 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
14689 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
14690 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
14691 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
14692 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
14693 Closes ticket 15745.
14695 o Minor features (logging):
14696 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
14697 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
14700 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
14701 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
14702 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
14703 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
14705 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
14706 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
14707 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
14708 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
14709 Resolves ticket 15435.
14711 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
14712 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
14713 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
14714 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14715 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
14716 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
14717 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
14718 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14719 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
14720 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
14721 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
14722 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
14723 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
14724 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
14725 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
14726 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
14727 Related to ticket 16069.
14729 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
14730 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
14731 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
14733 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
14734 stderr, not stdout.
14735 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
14736 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
14737 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
14740 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14741 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
14742 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
14743 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
14744 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
14746 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
14747 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
14748 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
14749 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
14751 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
14752 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
14753 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
14754 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
14755 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
14756 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
14757 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
14758 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14760 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14761 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
14762 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
14763 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14765 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14766 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
14767 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
14769 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
14770 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
14771 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
14773 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
14774 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
14775 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
14776 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14778 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
14779 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14780 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14781 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14782 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14783 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14785 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14786 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14787 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14789 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
14790 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14792 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14793 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
14794 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14795 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
14796 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14797 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
14798 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
14799 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
14801 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
14802 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
14803 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
14804 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
14806 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
14807 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
14808 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
14810 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
14811 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
14812 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
14815 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14816 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
14817 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
14818 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
14819 recent enough Clang.
14821 o Minor bugfixes (network):
14822 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
14823 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
14824 unsuitable for public communications.
14826 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
14827 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
14828 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
14829 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
14831 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14832 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
14833 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14834 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
14835 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
14837 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
14838 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
14840 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14841 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
14842 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
14843 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
14844 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
14846 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
14847 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14848 from "cypherpunks".
14849 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
14850 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
14853 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
14854 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
14855 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
14856 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
14857 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
14859 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14860 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
14861 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
14862 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
14863 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
14864 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
14866 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
14867 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
14868 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
14869 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14871 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
14872 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
14873 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
14874 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
14875 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
14876 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
14877 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
14878 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
14880 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
14881 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
14882 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14884 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14885 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
14886 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
14887 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
14888 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
14889 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
14890 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
14891 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
14892 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
14893 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
14894 function. Closes ticket 16763.
14895 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
14896 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
14898 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
14899 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
14900 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
14901 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
14902 haven't supported that in ages.
14903 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
14904 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
14905 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
14906 suite of other microdesc functions.
14907 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
14908 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
14909 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
14910 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
14911 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
14912 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
14913 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
14914 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
14915 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
14916 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
14917 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
14918 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
14919 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
14920 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
14921 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
14922 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
14924 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
14925 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
14929 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
14930 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
14931 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
14933 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
14934 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14935 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
14936 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
14937 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
14938 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
14939 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
14940 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
14941 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
14942 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
14944 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
14946 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
14947 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
14948 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
14949 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
14950 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
14951 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
14952 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
14953 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
14954 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
14955 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
14956 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
14957 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
14958 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
14960 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
14961 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14964 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
14965 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
14966 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
14967 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
14968 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
14969 Closes ticket 14922.
14970 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
14971 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
14972 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
14973 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
14974 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
14975 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
14976 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
14977 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
14978 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
14979 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
14980 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
14981 Closes ticket 13338.
14983 o Removed features:
14984 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
14985 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
14986 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
14987 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
14988 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
14989 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
14990 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
14991 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
14992 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
14993 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
14994 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
14995 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
14996 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
14997 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
14998 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
15001 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15002 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15003 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15004 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
15005 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
15006 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
15007 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
15008 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
15009 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
15010 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
15011 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
15013 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
15014 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
15015 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
15016 Closes ticket 15817.
15017 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
15018 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
15019 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
15020 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
15021 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
15022 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
15023 network before we begin.
15024 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
15025 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
15026 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
15027 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
15028 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
15029 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
15031 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
15032 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
15034 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
15035 default as a part of "make check".
15036 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
15037 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
15038 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
15039 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
15040 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
15041 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
15042 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
15043 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
15044 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
15045 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
15046 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
15047 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
15048 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
15049 files. Closes ticket 15180.
15050 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
15051 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
15052 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
15053 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
15054 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
15055 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
15056 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
15057 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
15058 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
15059 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
15060 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
15061 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
15062 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15063 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15064 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15065 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
15066 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
15068 - Set the severity correctly when testing
15069 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
15070 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
15071 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
15072 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
15074 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
15075 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
15076 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
15077 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
15078 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
15079 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
15081 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
15082 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15083 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15084 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15085 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15086 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15087 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15088 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15091 o Major bugfixes (stability):
15092 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15093 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15094 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15095 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15096 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15097 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15098 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15101 o Minor features (geoip):
15102 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15103 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15105 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
15106 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15107 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15108 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15109 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15110 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15112 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15113 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15114 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15115 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15118 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
15119 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
15120 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
15121 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
15122 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
15124 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15125 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15126 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
15127 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
15128 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15131 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
15132 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15133 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15134 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15135 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
15136 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
15137 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15140 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15141 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15142 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15144 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15145 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
15146 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
15147 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
15148 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15149 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15152 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15153 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15154 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15157 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
15158 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
15159 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
15160 authorities should upgrade.
15162 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15163 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15164 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15165 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15168 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15169 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15170 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15173 o Minor features (geoip):
15174 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15175 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15179 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
15180 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
15181 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
15182 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
15183 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15185 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
15186 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15188 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15189 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15190 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15191 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15192 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15193 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15194 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15196 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15197 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15198 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15199 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15200 Resolves ticket 15515.
15201 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
15202 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
15203 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
15207 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
15208 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15209 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15210 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15211 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15213 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15214 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15216 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15217 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15218 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15219 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15220 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15221 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15222 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15224 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15225 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15226 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15227 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15228 Resolves ticket 15515.
15231 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
15232 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15233 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15234 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15235 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15237 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15238 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15240 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15241 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15242 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15243 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15244 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15245 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15246 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15248 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15249 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15250 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15251 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15252 Resolves ticket 15515.
15255 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
15256 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
15258 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
15259 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
15260 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
15261 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
15262 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
15263 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
15264 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
15265 bugs should be addressed.
15267 o New compiler and system requirements:
15268 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15269 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15270 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15271 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15273 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15274 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15275 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15276 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15277 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15278 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
15279 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
15280 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
15281 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
15283 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
15284 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
15285 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
15286 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
15287 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
15288 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
15289 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
15291 o Directory authority changes:
15292 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15293 closes ticket 14487.
15294 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15295 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15296 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15298 o Major features (bridges):
15299 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
15300 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
15301 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
15304 o Major features (changed defaults):
15305 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
15306 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
15307 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
15308 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
15309 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
15310 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
15312 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
15313 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
15314 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
15315 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
15318 o Major features (directory system):
15319 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
15320 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
15321 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
15322 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
15323 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
15324 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
15325 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
15326 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
15327 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
15328 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
15329 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
15330 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
15331 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
15332 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
15333 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
15334 227. Closes ticket 10395.
15336 o Major features (guards):
15337 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
15338 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
15339 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
15340 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
15341 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
15343 o Major features (hidden services):
15344 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
15345 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
15346 Closes ticket 13667.
15347 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
15348 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
15349 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
15350 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
15351 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
15352 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
15353 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
15354 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
15355 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
15356 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
15357 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
15359 o Major features (performance):
15360 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
15361 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
15362 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
15363 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
15364 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
15365 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
15366 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
15367 Implements ticket 9682.
15369 o Major features (relay):
15370 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
15371 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
15372 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
15373 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
15374 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
15375 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
15376 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
15377 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
15379 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
15380 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
15381 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
15382 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
15383 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
15384 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
15385 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
15388 o Major features (sample torrc):
15389 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
15390 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
15391 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
15392 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
15393 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
15394 generally useful "sample torrc".
15396 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
15397 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
15398 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
15399 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
15400 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
15401 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
15403 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
15404 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
15405 Implements ticket 11485.
15407 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
15408 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
15409 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
15410 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
15411 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
15412 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
15415 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
15416 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
15417 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
15420 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15421 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
15422 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15424 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
15425 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
15426 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
15427 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
15428 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15430 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
15431 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15432 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15433 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15435 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
15436 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
15437 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
15440 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15441 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
15442 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
15443 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
15444 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
15445 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
15447 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15448 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
15449 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
15450 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
15452 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
15453 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
15454 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
15455 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
15456 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
15457 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
15458 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
15460 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15461 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
15462 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
15463 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
15464 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
15465 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15467 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
15468 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15469 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
15470 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15471 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15472 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15473 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15474 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15476 o Minor features (build):
15477 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
15478 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
15479 Resolves ticket 13037.
15481 o Minor features (client):
15482 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
15483 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
15484 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
15485 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
15487 o Minor features (client):
15488 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
15489 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
15490 Resolves ticket 13315.
15492 o Minor features (controller):
15493 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
15494 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
15496 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
15497 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
15499 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
15500 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
15501 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
15502 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
15503 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15504 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15505 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
15506 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
15507 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
15509 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
15510 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
15511 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
15512 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
15513 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
15514 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
15515 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
15516 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
15517 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
15518 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
15520 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15521 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
15522 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
15523 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
15524 argument more than once.
15525 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
15526 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
15527 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
15528 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
15529 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
15530 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
15532 o Minor features (geoip):
15533 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15534 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15537 o Minor features (guard nodes):
15538 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
15539 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
15540 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
15542 o Minor features (heartbeat):
15543 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
15544 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
15545 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
15546 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
15548 o Minor features (hidden service):
15549 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
15550 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
15551 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
15552 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
15553 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
15554 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
15555 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
15556 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
15557 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
15558 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
15559 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
15560 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
15561 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
15562 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
15564 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
15565 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
15566 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
15568 o Minor features (interface):
15569 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
15570 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
15571 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
15573 o Minor features (logging):
15574 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
15575 Resolves ticket 6852.
15576 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
15577 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
15578 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
15580 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
15581 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
15582 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
15583 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
15584 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
15585 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
15586 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
15587 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
15588 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
15589 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
15590 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
15591 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
15594 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
15595 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
15596 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
15597 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
15599 o Minor features (relay):
15600 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
15601 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
15602 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
15604 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
15605 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
15606 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
15607 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
15608 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
15609 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
15610 document. Implements feature 10427.
15612 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
15613 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
15614 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
15615 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
15617 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
15618 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
15619 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
15620 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
15621 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
15622 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
15624 o Minor features (stability):
15625 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
15626 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
15629 o Minor features (systemd):
15630 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
15631 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
15632 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
15633 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15634 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
15635 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15637 o Minor features (testing networks):
15638 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
15639 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
15640 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
15641 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
15642 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
15644 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
15645 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
15646 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
15647 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
15648 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
15649 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
15651 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
15652 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
15653 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
15654 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
15655 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
15657 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
15658 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
15659 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
15660 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
15661 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
15663 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
15664 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
15665 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
15666 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
15667 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
15670 o Minor features (validation):
15671 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
15672 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
15673 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
15674 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
15675 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
15676 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
15677 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
15678 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
15679 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
15680 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
15681 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
15684 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
15685 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
15686 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
15687 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15689 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15690 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
15691 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
15692 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15694 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
15695 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
15696 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
15698 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
15699 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
15700 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
15702 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
15703 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15704 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
15705 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
15706 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15707 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
15708 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15710 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15711 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
15712 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
15713 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15714 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
15715 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
15716 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
15717 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
15718 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
15720 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15721 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
15722 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
15723 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15724 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
15725 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15726 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
15727 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
15728 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
15730 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
15731 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
15732 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
15733 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15734 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
15735 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15736 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
15737 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
15739 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
15740 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
15741 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
15744 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
15745 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
15746 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
15747 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
15748 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15750 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
15751 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
15752 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
15753 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15754 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
15755 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
15756 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
15757 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15759 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
15760 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
15761 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
15762 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
15763 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15765 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
15766 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
15767 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
15768 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
15769 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
15771 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
15772 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
15773 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15775 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
15776 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
15777 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
15778 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
15779 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
15781 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
15782 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
15783 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
15785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15786 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
15788 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
15789 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
15790 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
15791 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
15793 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
15794 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
15796 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
15797 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
15798 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
15799 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
15800 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
15801 Addresses ticket 14188.
15802 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
15803 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
15804 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
15805 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
15806 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
15807 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
15808 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
15809 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15810 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
15811 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
15812 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
15815 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15816 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
15817 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
15818 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
15819 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
15820 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15822 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15823 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
15824 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
15825 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
15826 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
15828 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15829 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
15830 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
15831 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
15832 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
15833 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
15834 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
15835 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15836 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
15837 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15838 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
15839 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
15840 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15841 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
15842 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
15843 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15845 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15846 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
15847 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
15848 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15849 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
15850 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
15851 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
15852 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
15855 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
15856 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
15857 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
15858 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
15859 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
15860 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15861 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
15862 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
15863 state, and key files.
15864 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
15865 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
15868 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15869 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
15870 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
15871 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
15872 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15873 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
15874 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
15875 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15876 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
15877 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
15878 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
15879 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
15880 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15881 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
15882 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
15883 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
15884 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
15885 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
15888 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15889 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
15890 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
15891 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
15892 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
15893 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
15894 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
15895 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
15896 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
15897 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15899 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15900 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
15901 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15902 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
15903 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
15904 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
15906 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
15907 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15909 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
15910 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
15911 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
15912 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
15913 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15915 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
15916 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
15917 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
15918 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
15919 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
15920 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15922 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15923 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
15924 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
15926 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
15927 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
15928 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15930 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
15931 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
15932 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
15933 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
15934 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
15936 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
15937 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
15938 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
15941 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15942 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
15943 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15944 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
15945 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
15948 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
15949 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
15950 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
15951 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
15954 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
15955 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
15956 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
15959 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15960 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
15961 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15963 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
15964 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
15965 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
15966 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
15967 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
15970 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
15971 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
15972 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15973 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
15974 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
15975 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15977 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
15978 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
15979 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
15980 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
15981 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
15982 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
15984 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
15985 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
15986 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
15987 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
15988 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15989 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
15990 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
15991 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
15992 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
15993 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
15994 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
15995 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
15996 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
15997 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
15998 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
15999 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
16000 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
16001 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
16002 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
16003 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16004 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
16005 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
16006 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
16007 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
16008 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
16009 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
16010 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
16011 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16012 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
16013 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
16014 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
16015 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
16017 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
16018 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
16019 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
16020 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
16021 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16023 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16024 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
16025 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
16026 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
16027 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
16028 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16029 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
16030 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
16031 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16033 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
16034 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
16035 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
16037 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
16038 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
16039 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
16042 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
16043 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
16044 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
16045 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
16048 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
16049 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
16050 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16053 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
16054 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
16056 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
16057 Resolves ticket 12205.
16058 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
16059 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
16060 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
16061 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
16063 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
16064 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
16065 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
16067 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
16068 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
16070 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
16071 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
16072 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
16073 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
16074 or_options_t structure.
16075 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
16076 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
16077 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
16078 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
16079 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
16080 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
16081 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
16082 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
16084 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
16085 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
16087 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
16089 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16090 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16091 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
16092 with a function instead.
16093 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
16094 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
16095 Closes ticket 13172.
16096 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
16097 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
16098 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
16099 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
16100 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
16101 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
16102 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
16103 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
16104 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
16105 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
16106 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
16107 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
16111 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
16112 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
16113 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
16114 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
16116 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
16117 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
16118 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
16119 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16120 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
16121 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16122 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
16123 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
16124 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
16125 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
16126 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
16127 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
16128 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
16129 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
16130 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
16131 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
16132 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
16133 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
16135 o Distribution (systemd):
16136 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
16137 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
16138 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
16139 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
16140 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16142 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
16143 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
16145 o Downgraded warnings:
16146 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
16147 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
16150 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
16151 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
16152 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
16155 o Removed features (directory authorities):
16156 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
16157 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
16158 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
16159 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
16160 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
16161 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
16162 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
16163 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
16164 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
16166 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
16167 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
16168 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
16169 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
16172 o Removed features:
16173 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
16174 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
16175 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
16176 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
16177 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
16179 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
16180 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
16181 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
16182 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
16183 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
16184 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
16185 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
16186 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
16187 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
16189 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
16190 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
16192 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
16193 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
16194 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
16195 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
16196 anymore, and ignore it.
16198 o Removed platform support:
16199 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
16200 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
16201 Closes ticket 11446.
16203 o Testing (test-network.sh):
16204 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
16205 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
16207 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
16209 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
16210 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
16211 Partially implements ticket 13161.
16214 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
16215 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
16216 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
16217 (existing behavior).
16218 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
16219 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
16220 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
16221 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
16222 Closes ticket 14107.
16223 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
16224 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16225 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
16226 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
16228 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
16229 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
16230 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
16231 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
16232 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
16233 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
16235 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
16237 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
16238 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
16239 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
16240 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16241 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
16242 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
16243 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
16244 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
16245 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
16246 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
16247 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
16248 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
16250 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
16251 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
16252 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
16254 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16255 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16257 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16258 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16259 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16261 o Directory authority changes:
16262 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16263 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16264 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16265 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16266 closes ticket 14487.
16268 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16269 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16270 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16273 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16274 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16275 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16276 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16277 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16278 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16279 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16280 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16282 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16283 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16284 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16285 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16287 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16288 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16289 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16290 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16292 o Minor features (controller):
16293 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16294 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16295 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16297 o Minor features (geoip):
16298 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16299 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16302 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16303 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16304 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16305 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16306 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16307 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16309 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16310 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16311 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16312 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16314 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16315 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16316 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16317 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16318 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16319 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16320 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16321 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16323 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16324 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16325 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16327 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16328 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16329 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16330 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16331 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16335 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16336 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16337 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16340 o Directory authority changes:
16341 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16342 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16343 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16344 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16345 closes ticket 14487.
16347 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16348 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16349 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16350 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16352 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16353 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16354 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16355 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16356 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16357 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16358 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16359 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16361 o Minor features (geoip):
16362 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16363 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16366 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
16367 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16369 It adds several new security features, including improved
16370 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
16371 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
16372 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
16373 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
16374 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
16375 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
16376 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
16377 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
16378 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
16379 and features mentioned below.
16381 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
16382 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
16384 o Major features (security):
16385 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
16386 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
16387 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
16388 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
16389 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
16390 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
16391 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
16392 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
16393 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
16394 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
16396 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
16397 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
16398 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
16399 streams attached to each circuit.
16401 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
16402 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
16403 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
16404 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
16405 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
16406 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
16407 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
16408 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
16409 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
16410 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
16411 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
16412 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
16413 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
16415 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
16416 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
16417 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
16418 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
16420 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
16421 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
16422 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
16423 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
16424 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
16425 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
16427 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
16428 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
16429 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
16430 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
16431 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
16432 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
16433 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
16434 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
16437 o Major features (controller):
16438 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
16439 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
16440 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
16441 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
16442 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
16443 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
16445 o Major features (relay performance):
16446 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
16447 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
16448 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
16449 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
16450 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
16451 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
16452 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
16453 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
16454 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
16455 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
16457 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
16458 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
16459 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
16460 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
16461 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
16462 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
16463 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
16464 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
16465 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
16466 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
16468 o Major features (testing networks):
16469 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
16470 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
16471 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
16472 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
16473 Implements ticket 8530.
16475 o Major features (other):
16476 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
16477 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
16478 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
16479 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
16480 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
16481 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
16483 o Deprecated versions:
16484 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
16485 attention for some while.
16487 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
16488 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
16489 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
16491 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
16492 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
16493 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
16494 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
16495 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
16496 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
16497 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
16498 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
16499 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
16500 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
16501 router's identity is not forgeable.
16503 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
16504 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16505 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
16506 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16508 o Major bugfixes (client):
16509 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
16510 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
16511 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
16512 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
16513 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
16514 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
16515 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
16516 to build circuits".
16518 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
16519 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
16520 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
16521 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
16524 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
16525 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16526 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16527 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16528 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16529 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16530 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16532 o Major bugfixes (relay):
16533 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
16534 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16535 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16536 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
16537 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
16538 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
16539 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16540 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
16541 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
16542 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
16543 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16544 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
16545 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
16546 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
16547 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
16548 bugfix on every version of Tor.
16550 o Minor features (security):
16551 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
16552 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
16553 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
16554 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
16556 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
16557 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
16558 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
16559 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
16560 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
16561 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
16562 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
16564 o Minor features (security, memory management):
16565 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
16566 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
16567 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
16568 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
16569 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
16570 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
16572 o Minor features (bridge client):
16573 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
16574 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
16575 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
16577 o Minor features (bridge):
16578 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
16579 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
16581 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16582 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
16583 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
16584 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
16585 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
16586 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
16587 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
16588 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
16589 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
16590 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
16591 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
16592 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
16593 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
16594 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
16595 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
16597 o Minor features (build):
16598 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
16599 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
16600 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
16601 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
16602 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
16603 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
16604 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
16605 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
16606 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
16607 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
16608 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
16609 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
16610 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
16611 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
16612 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
16615 o Minor features (client):
16616 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
16617 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
16618 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
16619 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
16621 o Minor features (config options and command line):
16622 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
16623 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
16624 Implements ticket 10060.
16625 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
16626 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
16627 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
16629 o Minor features (config options):
16630 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
16631 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
16632 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
16633 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
16634 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
16635 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
16636 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
16637 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
16638 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
16639 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
16640 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
16641 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
16642 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
16643 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
16644 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
16645 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
16646 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
16649 o Minor features (controller):
16650 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
16651 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
16653 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
16654 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
16655 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
16656 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
16657 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
16658 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
16659 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
16660 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
16662 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
16663 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
16664 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
16666 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16667 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
16668 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
16669 help diagnose bug 7164.
16670 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
16671 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
16672 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
16673 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
16674 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
16676 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
16677 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
16678 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
16679 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
16680 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
16681 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
16682 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
16683 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
16684 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
16685 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
16686 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
16687 still referenced by a live node_t object.
16688 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
16689 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
16690 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16692 o Minor features (geoip):
16693 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16696 o Minor features (interface):
16697 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
16698 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
16699 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
16700 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
16702 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
16703 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
16704 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
16706 o Minor features (log messages):
16707 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
16708 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
16709 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
16710 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
16711 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
16712 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
16713 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
16714 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
16716 o Minor features (log verbosity):
16717 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
16718 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
16719 Resolves ticket 5286.
16720 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
16721 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
16722 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
16723 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
16724 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
16725 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
16727 o Minor features (performance):
16728 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
16729 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
16730 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
16731 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
16732 Closes ticket 8109.
16734 o Minor features (relay):
16735 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
16736 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
16737 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
16739 o Minor features (testing):
16740 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
16741 the unit test scripts.
16742 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
16743 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
16744 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
16745 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
16747 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
16748 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
16749 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
16750 10267; patch from "yurivict".
16751 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
16752 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
16753 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
16754 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
16755 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
16756 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
16758 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
16759 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
16760 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
16761 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16763 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16764 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
16765 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
16766 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16767 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
16768 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
16769 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
16770 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
16771 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
16772 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
16774 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
16775 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
16776 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
16778 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
16779 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
16780 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
16781 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
16782 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16784 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16785 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
16786 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
16787 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
16788 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16789 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
16790 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
16791 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
16792 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16793 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
16794 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
16795 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
16797 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
16798 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
16799 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
16800 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
16801 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
16802 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16803 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
16804 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
16805 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16806 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
16807 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
16808 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16810 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
16811 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
16812 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
16813 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
16815 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
16816 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
16817 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
16818 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
16821 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
16822 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
16823 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
16824 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16825 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
16826 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
16829 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
16830 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
16831 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
16832 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
16833 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
16835 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
16836 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
16837 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
16840 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16841 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
16842 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
16843 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
16844 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
16845 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
16846 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
16847 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
16848 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
16849 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
16851 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
16852 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
16853 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
16854 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
16855 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
16857 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
16858 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16861 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
16862 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
16863 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
16864 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
16865 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
16866 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
16867 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
16868 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
16869 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16870 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
16871 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
16872 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
16874 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
16875 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
16876 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
16877 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
16878 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
16879 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
16880 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
16881 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
16882 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
16883 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
16884 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
16885 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
16886 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
16888 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
16889 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
16890 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
16892 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
16893 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
16894 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
16895 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
16896 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
16897 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
16899 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
16900 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
16901 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
16902 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16903 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
16904 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
16905 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
16906 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
16907 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
16908 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16910 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16911 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
16912 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16914 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16915 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
16916 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
16917 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
16918 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16920 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16921 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
16922 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
16923 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16924 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
16925 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
16926 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
16927 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16928 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
16929 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
16930 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
16931 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
16932 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
16933 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
16935 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16936 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
16937 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
16938 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
16939 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16940 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
16941 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
16942 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
16943 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
16945 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
16946 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
16947 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
16948 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
16949 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
16950 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
16951 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
16953 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
16954 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
16957 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
16958 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
16959 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
16961 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
16962 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
16963 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
16964 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16965 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
16966 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
16967 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
16968 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
16969 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
16970 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
16971 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
16972 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
16973 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16974 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
16975 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
16976 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
16977 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
16979 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
16980 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
16981 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
16982 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
16983 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
16984 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
16985 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
16986 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
16989 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
16990 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
16991 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
16992 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
16993 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
16994 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
16995 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16996 Reported by "mr-4".
16997 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
16998 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
16999 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
17000 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17002 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17003 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
17004 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
17005 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
17006 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
17007 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
17008 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
17009 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
17010 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17011 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
17012 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
17013 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
17015 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
17016 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
17017 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
17019 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
17020 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
17021 early. Fixes bug 10081.
17023 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17024 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
17025 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
17026 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
17029 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
17030 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
17031 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
17032 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
17035 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
17036 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
17037 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
17038 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
17040 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
17041 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
17042 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17044 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
17045 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
17046 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
17047 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
17048 versions. Found by "skruffy".
17049 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
17050 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
17051 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
17054 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
17055 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
17056 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17057 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
17058 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
17059 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
17060 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
17061 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
17062 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17063 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
17064 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17066 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17067 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
17068 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
17069 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
17070 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
17072 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
17073 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
17074 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
17075 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
17078 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
17079 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
17080 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17081 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
17082 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
17083 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
17084 should never have affected anyone in practice.
17086 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17087 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
17088 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
17089 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
17090 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
17091 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
17092 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
17093 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17094 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17095 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17096 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17097 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17098 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17099 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17100 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17101 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17102 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17103 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17104 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17105 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17106 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17107 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17108 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17109 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17111 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17112 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17113 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17114 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17115 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17116 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
17117 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
17118 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
17119 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
17121 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
17122 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
17125 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
17126 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
17128 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
17130 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
17131 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
17132 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
17133 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
17134 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
17135 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
17137 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
17138 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
17140 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
17141 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
17142 caches don't get confused.
17143 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
17144 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17145 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
17146 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
17147 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
17148 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
17149 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
17150 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
17151 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
17152 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
17153 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
17154 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
17155 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
17156 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
17157 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17158 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
17159 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
17160 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17163 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
17164 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
17165 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
17166 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
17167 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
17169 o Removed code and features:
17170 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
17171 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
17172 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
17173 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
17174 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
17175 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
17177 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
17178 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
17179 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
17180 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
17181 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
17182 part of a fix for bug 10841.
17183 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
17184 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
17185 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
17186 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
17187 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
17188 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
17190 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
17191 Resolves ticket 11070.
17192 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
17193 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
17194 the rest of bug 10841.
17195 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17196 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17197 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17198 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17200 o Test infrastructure:
17201 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
17202 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
17203 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
17204 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
17205 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
17206 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
17207 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
17208 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
17209 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
17210 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
17212 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
17213 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
17214 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
17215 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17216 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
17217 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
17218 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
17219 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
17220 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17221 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17222 invoking the other functions it calls.
17225 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
17226 Patch from Dana Koch.
17227 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17228 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17229 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17230 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17232 o Distribution (systemd):
17233 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
17234 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
17235 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
17236 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
17237 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17238 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
17239 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
17240 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
17241 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
17242 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
17243 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
17244 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
17245 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17249 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17250 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17251 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17252 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17253 (which does affect Tor).
17255 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17256 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17257 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17258 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17260 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17261 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17262 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17263 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17266 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17267 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17268 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17269 the directory authorities.
17272 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17273 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17274 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17275 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17276 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17277 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17278 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17279 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17280 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17281 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17282 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17283 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17285 o Directory authority changes:
17286 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17288 o Minor features (geoip):
17289 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17293 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
17294 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
17295 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
17296 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
17299 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
17300 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
17301 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
17302 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
17303 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
17304 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
17305 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
17306 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
17307 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
17308 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
17311 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
17312 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
17313 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
17314 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
17315 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
17316 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
17317 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
17318 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
17322 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
17323 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
17324 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
17325 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
17326 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
17327 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
17328 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
17329 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
17330 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17331 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
17332 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
17333 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
17334 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
17337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17341 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
17342 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
17343 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
17344 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
17345 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
17346 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
17347 of RAM, and several others.
17349 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17350 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
17351 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
17352 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
17353 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
17355 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
17356 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
17357 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
17358 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
17361 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17362 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
17363 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
17364 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
17365 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
17366 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
17367 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17368 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
17369 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
17370 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
17371 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
17372 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
17373 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
17374 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
17375 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
17376 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
17377 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
17378 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
17379 Resolves ticket 11438.
17381 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
17382 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
17383 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
17384 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
17385 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
17386 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17388 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17389 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
17390 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17392 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17393 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
17394 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17396 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17397 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
17398 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
17399 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17401 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17402 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
17403 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
17405 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17406 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
17407 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17410 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
17411 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
17412 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
17413 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
17416 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17417 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
17418 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
17419 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
17421 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17422 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
17423 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
17424 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
17426 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17427 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
17428 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
17432 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
17433 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
17434 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
17435 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
17437 o Major features (client security):
17438 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
17439 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
17440 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
17441 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
17442 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
17443 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
17446 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
17447 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
17448 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
17449 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17451 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17452 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
17453 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
17454 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
17455 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
17458 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
17459 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
17461 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
17462 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
17463 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
17464 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
17465 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
17466 GeoLite2 Country database.
17469 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
17470 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
17471 bugfix on every released Tor.
17472 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
17473 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
17474 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
17475 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17476 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
17477 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
17478 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
17479 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
17480 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
17481 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17482 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
17483 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
17484 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17485 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
17486 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17488 o Documentation fixes:
17489 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
17490 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17493 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
17494 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
17495 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
17496 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
17497 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
17498 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
17499 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
17501 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
17502 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
17505 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
17506 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
17507 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
17508 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
17509 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
17510 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
17511 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
17512 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
17514 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
17515 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17516 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
17517 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
17518 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
17519 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17522 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
17523 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17524 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
17525 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
17526 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
17529 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
17530 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
17531 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
17532 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
17533 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
17534 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
17535 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
17536 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
17538 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
17539 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
17540 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
17541 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
17542 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
17543 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
17544 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
17545 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
17546 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
17547 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
17548 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
17549 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
17550 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
17551 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
17552 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
17553 security, and privacy fixes.
17555 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
17556 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
17557 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
17558 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
17559 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
17560 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
17561 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
17562 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
17563 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
17564 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
17565 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
17567 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
17568 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
17569 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
17571 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
17573 o Major features (better link encryption):
17574 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
17575 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
17576 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
17577 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
17578 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
17579 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
17582 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
17583 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
17584 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
17585 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
17587 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
17589 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
17590 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
17591 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
17592 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
17593 them to solve bug 6033.)
17595 o Major features (relay performance):
17596 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
17597 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
17598 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
17599 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
17600 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
17601 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
17602 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
17603 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
17604 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
17605 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
17606 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
17607 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
17608 Implements ticket 9574.
17610 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
17611 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
17612 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
17613 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
17614 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
17615 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
17616 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
17617 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
17618 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
17619 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
17620 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
17621 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
17622 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
17623 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
17624 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
17625 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
17627 o Major features (use of guards):
17628 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
17629 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
17630 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
17631 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
17632 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
17633 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
17634 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
17635 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
17636 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
17637 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
17638 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
17639 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
17640 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
17641 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17643 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
17644 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
17645 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
17646 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
17648 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
17649 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
17652 o Major features (geoip database):
17653 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
17654 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
17655 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
17656 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
17657 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
17658 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
17660 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
17662 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17664 o Major features (IPv6):
17665 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
17666 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
17667 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
17668 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
17669 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
17670 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
17671 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
17672 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
17673 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
17674 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
17675 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
17676 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
17677 revised in proposal 208.
17678 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
17679 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
17680 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
17682 o Major features (directory authorities):
17683 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
17684 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
17686 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
17687 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
17688 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
17689 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
17690 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
17691 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
17692 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
17693 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
17694 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
17695 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
17696 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
17698 o Major features (build and portability):
17699 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
17700 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
17701 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
17702 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
17703 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
17704 fixes by Jim Meyering.
17705 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
17706 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
17707 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
17708 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
17709 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
17710 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
17712 o Security features:
17713 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
17714 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
17715 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
17716 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
17717 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
17718 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
17719 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
17720 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
17721 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
17724 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
17725 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
17726 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
17727 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
17728 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
17729 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
17730 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
17731 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
17732 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17733 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
17734 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
17735 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
17736 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
17737 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
17738 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17739 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
17740 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
17741 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17743 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
17744 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
17745 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
17746 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
17748 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
17749 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
17750 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
17752 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
17753 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
17754 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17755 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
17756 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
17757 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17758 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
17759 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
17760 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
17762 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
17763 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17765 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
17766 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
17767 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
17768 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
17769 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
17770 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
17771 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
17772 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
17773 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
17774 last time we raised it).
17775 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
17776 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
17777 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
17779 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17780 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
17781 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
17782 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
17783 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
17784 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
17785 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
17786 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17787 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
17788 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
17789 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
17790 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
17791 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17793 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
17794 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
17795 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
17796 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
17797 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
17798 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
17799 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
17800 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
17801 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17802 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
17803 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
17804 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
17805 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
17807 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
17808 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
17809 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
17810 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
17811 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
17812 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
17813 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
17814 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
17815 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17817 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
17818 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
17819 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
17820 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
17821 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
17822 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
17823 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
17824 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
17825 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
17826 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
17827 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
17828 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
17829 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
17830 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
17831 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
17832 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
17833 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
17836 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
17837 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
17838 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
17839 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17841 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
17842 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
17843 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
17844 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
17846 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
17847 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
17848 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
17849 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
17850 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
17851 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
17854 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
17855 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
17856 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
17857 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
17858 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
17859 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
17860 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17862 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
17863 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
17864 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
17865 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17867 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17868 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
17869 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
17870 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
17871 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17872 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
17873 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
17874 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17876 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
17877 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
17878 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17880 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
17881 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
17882 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17884 o Internal abstraction features:
17885 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
17886 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
17887 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
17888 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
17889 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
17890 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
17891 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
17892 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
17893 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
17894 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
17895 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
17896 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
17897 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
17898 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
17899 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
17900 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
17901 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
17903 o New build requirements:
17904 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
17905 strongly recommended.
17906 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
17907 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
17908 from a source distribution.)
17910 o Minor features (protocol):
17911 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
17912 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
17914 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
17915 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
17916 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
17917 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
17918 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
17919 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
17920 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
17921 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
17922 closes ticket 7199.
17923 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
17924 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
17926 o Minor features (security):
17927 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
17928 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
17929 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
17930 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
17931 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
17932 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
17933 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
17934 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
17935 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
17937 o Minor features (control protocol):
17938 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
17940 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
17941 Implements ticket 4971.
17942 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
17943 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
17944 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
17945 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
17946 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
17948 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
17949 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
17951 o Minor features (path selection):
17952 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
17953 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17954 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17955 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17956 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
17957 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
17958 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
17959 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
17960 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
17961 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
17962 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
17963 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
17964 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
17965 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
17967 o Minor features (hidden services):
17968 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
17969 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
17970 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
17971 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
17972 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
17973 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
17974 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
17975 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
17976 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
17977 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
17978 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
17979 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
17980 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
17982 o Minor features (clients):
17983 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
17984 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
17985 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
17986 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
17987 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
17988 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
17989 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
17990 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
17991 the ORPort and the DirPort.
17993 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
17994 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
17995 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
17996 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
17997 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
17998 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
17999 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
18000 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
18001 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
18002 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
18003 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
18004 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
18005 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
18006 Implements part of proposal 222.
18008 o Minor features (bridges):
18009 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
18010 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
18011 bugs 1913 and 1992.
18012 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18013 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18014 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18015 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18016 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18017 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18018 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18019 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18020 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
18021 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
18022 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
18024 o Minor features (relays):
18025 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18026 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18028 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
18029 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18030 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18031 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18032 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18033 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18034 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18035 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18036 connect to the wrong addresses.
18037 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18038 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18039 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18040 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18043 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
18044 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18045 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18046 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18047 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18048 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18050 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18051 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18052 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18053 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18055 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
18056 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
18057 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
18058 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
18059 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
18060 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
18062 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
18063 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
18064 Implements ticket 8151.
18065 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
18066 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
18067 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
18068 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
18070 o Minor features (path bias detection):
18071 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
18072 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
18073 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
18074 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
18075 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
18076 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
18077 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
18078 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
18079 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
18080 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
18081 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
18082 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
18083 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
18084 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
18085 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
18086 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
18087 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
18088 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
18089 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
18090 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
18091 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
18092 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
18093 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
18094 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
18095 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
18096 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
18097 detection capability loss.
18099 o Minor features (build):
18100 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18101 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18102 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18104 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
18105 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
18106 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18108 o Build improvements (autotools):
18109 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
18110 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
18111 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
18113 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
18114 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
18115 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
18116 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
18118 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
18119 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
18120 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
18121 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
18122 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
18123 than to perform erroneously.
18124 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18126 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
18127 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
18128 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
18130 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
18131 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18132 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
18133 hard-to-track-down errors.
18134 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18135 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18136 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18137 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18138 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18139 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18140 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18141 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18142 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
18143 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
18144 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
18146 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
18147 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
18148 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
18149 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
18150 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
18151 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
18152 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
18153 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
18154 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
18155 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
18157 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
18158 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
18159 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
18160 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
18161 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
18162 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
18163 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
18164 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
18165 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
18166 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
18167 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18168 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18169 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
18171 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
18172 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
18173 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
18174 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
18175 or at least make it more diagnosable.
18176 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
18177 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
18178 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
18179 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
18181 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
18182 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18183 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18184 part of ticket 6736.
18185 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18186 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18187 Resolves ticket 6758.
18188 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18189 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18190 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18191 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18192 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18193 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18194 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18196 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
18197 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
18198 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
18199 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18201 o Minor features (testing):
18202 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
18203 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
18205 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
18206 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
18207 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
18210 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18211 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18213 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
18214 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
18215 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
18216 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18217 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18218 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18219 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18220 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18221 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18222 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
18223 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
18224 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
18225 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
18226 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
18227 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
18228 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
18229 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
18231 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
18232 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
18233 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
18234 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
18235 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
18236 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
18237 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
18238 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
18239 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
18240 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
18241 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
18242 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
18243 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
18244 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
18245 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
18246 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
18247 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
18248 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18249 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
18250 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
18253 o Minor fixes (config options):
18254 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
18255 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
18256 or we just won't work.)
18257 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
18258 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
18259 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18260 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18261 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18262 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18263 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18264 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18265 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
18266 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
18267 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
18268 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18269 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18270 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
18271 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
18272 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18273 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
18274 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
18275 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
18277 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
18278 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
18279 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
18281 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18282 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18283 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18284 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18286 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
18287 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
18288 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
18289 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
18290 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
18291 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18292 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
18293 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
18294 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
18295 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
18296 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18297 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
18298 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
18299 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
18300 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
18301 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
18304 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
18305 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
18306 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
18307 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
18308 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
18309 Should help resolve bug 8235.
18310 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18311 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18312 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18313 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18314 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
18315 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
18316 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
18317 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
18318 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
18319 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
18320 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18322 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18323 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
18324 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
18325 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
18326 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
18327 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
18328 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
18329 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
18331 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18332 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18333 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18334 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18336 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18337 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18338 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18339 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18340 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18342 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
18343 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18344 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18345 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18346 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18347 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18349 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18350 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
18351 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18352 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
18353 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18354 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
18355 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18356 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
18357 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
18359 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18360 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
18361 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
18362 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
18363 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18364 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
18365 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
18366 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
18367 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
18368 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
18369 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
18370 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
18372 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
18373 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
18374 this is CID 718634.
18375 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
18376 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
18377 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
18378 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
18380 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
18381 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
18383 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
18384 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
18385 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
18386 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
18387 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
18388 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
18389 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
18390 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18391 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
18392 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
18393 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
18394 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18395 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
18396 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
18397 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18398 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
18399 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
18400 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
18402 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
18403 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
18404 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
18405 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
18406 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18407 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
18408 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
18409 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
18410 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
18411 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18412 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
18413 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
18414 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
18417 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
18418 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
18419 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
18420 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
18421 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
18423 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
18424 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18425 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
18426 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
18427 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
18428 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18429 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
18430 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
18431 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
18434 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18435 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
18436 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18437 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18439 o Documentation fixes:
18440 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
18441 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
18442 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
18443 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
18444 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
18445 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
18446 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
18448 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
18449 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
18450 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
18451 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
18452 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
18453 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
18454 message is logged at notice, not at info.
18455 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
18456 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
18457 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
18458 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
18459 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
18460 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
18462 o Removed features:
18463 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
18464 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
18465 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
18467 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
18468 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
18469 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
18470 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
18471 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
18472 compatibility code.
18475 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
18476 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
18478 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
18479 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
18481 o Code simplification:
18482 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
18483 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
18484 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
18485 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
18487 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
18488 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
18490 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
18491 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
18492 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
18493 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
18494 present the same extensions.)
18495 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
18497 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
18498 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
18499 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
18500 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
18502 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
18503 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
18504 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
18505 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
18508 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
18510 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
18511 and the different handshakes it supports.
18512 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18513 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18514 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18515 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18517 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18518 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18519 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18520 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18521 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18522 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18523 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18524 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18525 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18526 Implements ticket 5529.
18527 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18528 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18529 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18532 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18533 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
18534 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
18535 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
18536 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
18537 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18538 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
18539 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
18540 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
18541 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
18542 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
18543 any encoding is overkill.
18544 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
18545 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18546 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
18547 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
18548 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
18549 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
18550 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
18551 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
18552 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
18555 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
18556 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
18557 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
18558 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
18559 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
18560 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
18561 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
18562 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
18564 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
18565 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
18566 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18567 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
18568 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
18569 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
18570 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
18571 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
18572 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
18573 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
18574 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
18576 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
18577 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
18578 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
18579 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
18580 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
18581 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
18582 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
18583 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
18584 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
18585 describes microdescriptors.
18587 o Major features (build hardening):
18588 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
18590 o Major features (relay scaling):
18591 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
18592 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
18593 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
18594 much faster than other AES implementations.
18595 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
18596 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
18597 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
18598 Resolves ticket 4526.
18599 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
18600 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
18602 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
18603 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
18604 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
18605 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
18607 o Major features (blocking resistance):
18608 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
18610 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
18611 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
18612 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
18613 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
18614 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
18615 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
18616 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
18617 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
18618 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
18619 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
18620 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
18621 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
18622 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
18623 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
18624 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
18625 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
18626 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
18627 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
18628 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
18630 o Major features (pluggable transports):
18631 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
18632 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
18633 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
18634 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
18636 o Major features (DoS resistance):
18637 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
18638 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
18639 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
18640 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
18641 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
18642 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
18643 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
18644 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
18645 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
18646 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18647 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
18649 o Major features (hidden services):
18650 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
18651 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
18652 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
18654 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
18655 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
18656 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
18657 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
18658 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
18659 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
18661 o Major features (IPv6):
18662 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
18663 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
18664 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
18665 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
18666 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
18668 o Major features (directory authorities):
18669 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
18670 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
18671 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
18672 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
18673 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
18674 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
18675 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
18676 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
18677 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
18678 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
18680 o Major features (performance):
18681 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
18682 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
18683 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
18684 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
18685 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
18686 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
18687 side of Proposal 174.
18688 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
18689 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
18690 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
18691 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
18692 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
18693 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
18694 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
18695 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
18696 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
18697 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
18698 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
18699 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
18701 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
18702 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
18703 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
18704 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
18705 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
18708 o Major features (relays):
18709 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
18710 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
18711 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
18712 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
18713 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
18714 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
18715 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
18717 o Major features (stream isolation):
18718 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
18719 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
18720 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
18721 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
18722 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
18723 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
18724 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
18725 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
18726 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
18727 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
18728 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
18729 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
18730 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
18731 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
18733 o Major features (bufferevents):
18734 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
18735 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
18736 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
18737 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
18738 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
18739 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
18740 zero-copy transports where available.
18741 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
18742 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
18743 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
18744 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
18745 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
18746 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
18748 o Major features (path selection):
18749 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
18750 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
18751 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
18752 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
18755 o Major features (port forwarding):
18756 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
18757 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
18758 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
18759 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
18760 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
18761 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
18763 o Major features (logging):
18764 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
18765 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
18766 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
18767 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
18768 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
18769 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
18770 Implements enhancement 1668.
18772 o Major features (other):
18773 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
18774 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
18775 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
18776 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
18777 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
18778 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
18779 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
18780 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
18781 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
18782 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
18783 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
18784 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
18785 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
18786 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
18787 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
18788 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
18789 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
18790 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
18791 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
18792 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
18794 o New directory authorities:
18795 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18796 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18798 o Security/privacy fixes:
18799 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
18800 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
18801 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18802 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
18803 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
18804 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
18805 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18806 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
18807 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
18808 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
18809 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
18810 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
18811 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
18812 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
18813 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
18814 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18815 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18816 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18817 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18818 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18819 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18820 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18821 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18822 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18823 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18824 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18825 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18826 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18827 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18828 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18829 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18831 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
18832 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
18833 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
18834 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
18835 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18836 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18837 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18838 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18839 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
18840 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
18841 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
18842 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18843 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18844 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18847 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18848 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
18849 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
18850 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
18851 which introduced predicted ports.
18852 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
18853 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
18854 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
18855 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
18856 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
18857 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
18858 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18859 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
18860 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
18862 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
18863 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
18864 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
18865 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
18866 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
18867 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
18869 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
18870 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
18871 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
18872 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
18873 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18874 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
18875 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
18876 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
18877 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
18878 documents entirely.
18880 o Major bugfixes (relays):
18881 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
18882 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
18883 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
18884 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
18885 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
18886 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
18887 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
18888 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
18889 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
18890 immensely in tracking this bug down.
18891 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18892 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18893 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18894 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
18895 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
18896 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
18897 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18899 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18900 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
18901 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
18902 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
18903 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
18904 cells were introduced.
18905 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
18906 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
18907 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
18908 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
18910 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18911 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
18912 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
18913 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
18914 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
18915 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
18916 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
18917 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
18918 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
18919 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
18920 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
18921 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
18922 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
18923 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
18924 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
18925 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
18926 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
18927 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
18928 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
18929 Fixes part of bug 3825.
18931 o Changes to default torrc file:
18932 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
18933 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
18935 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
18936 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
18937 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
18939 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
18940 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
18941 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
18943 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18944 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
18945 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
18946 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
18947 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
18948 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
18949 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
18950 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
18951 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
18952 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
18953 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
18954 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
18955 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
18956 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
18957 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
18958 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
18961 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
18962 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
18963 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
18964 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
18965 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
18966 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
18967 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
18968 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
18969 sure. Closes bug 5139.
18970 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
18971 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
18972 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
18973 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
18974 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
18976 o Minor features (IPv6):
18977 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
18978 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
18979 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
18980 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
18981 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
18982 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
18984 o Minor features (hidden services):
18985 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
18986 Required by fix for bug 3460.
18987 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
18988 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
18989 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
18990 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
18991 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
18992 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
18993 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
18994 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
18995 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
18997 o Minor features (relays):
18998 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
18999 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19000 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19001 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19002 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19003 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
19004 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
19005 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
19006 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19007 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19008 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19011 o Minor features (new config options):
19012 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
19013 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
19014 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
19015 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
19016 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19017 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19018 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19019 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19020 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19021 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19022 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19023 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19025 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
19026 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19027 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19028 Implements issue 933.
19029 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19030 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19031 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19032 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19033 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19034 implements ticket 3439.
19035 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19036 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19037 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19038 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19039 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19040 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19041 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19042 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19044 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
19045 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19046 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19047 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19048 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19049 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19050 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19051 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19052 appending to the list.
19053 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19054 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19055 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19056 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19059 o Minor features (controller, new events):
19060 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19061 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19062 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19063 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19064 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19065 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19067 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19068 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19069 circuit-status' control-port command.
19070 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
19071 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
19072 user. Implements ticket 1692.
19073 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19074 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19075 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19077 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
19078 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19079 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19080 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19081 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
19082 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19083 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19084 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19085 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19087 o Minor features (controller, other):
19088 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19089 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19090 part of ticket 3457.
19091 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19092 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19093 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19094 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19095 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19097 o Minor features (log messages):
19098 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19099 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19100 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19101 please let us know about it.
19102 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19103 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19104 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19105 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19106 Resolves ticket 2474.
19107 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19108 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19110 o Minor features (other):
19111 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19112 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19113 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19114 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19116 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19117 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19118 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19119 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19120 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19121 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19122 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19124 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19125 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19126 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19127 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19128 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19130 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
19131 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19132 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19133 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19134 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19135 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19136 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19137 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19138 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19139 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
19140 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
19141 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
19142 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
19143 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
19144 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
19145 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
19148 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
19149 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
19150 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19151 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19152 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
19153 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
19154 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19155 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19156 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19158 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19159 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19160 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19161 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19162 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19163 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19164 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19165 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
19166 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
19167 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19169 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19170 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
19171 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19172 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19173 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19174 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19175 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19176 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19177 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
19179 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
19180 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
19181 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
19182 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
19183 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
19184 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
19185 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
19186 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19187 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19189 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19190 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
19191 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
19192 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
19193 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
19194 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
19195 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
19197 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19198 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19199 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19200 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19202 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19203 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19204 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19205 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19206 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
19207 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
19208 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
19209 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
19210 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
19211 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19212 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19213 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19216 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
19217 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19218 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19219 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
19220 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19221 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19223 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19224 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19225 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19226 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19227 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
19228 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19229 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19230 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19231 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19232 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19233 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19234 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
19235 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
19236 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
19237 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
19239 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
19240 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19241 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19242 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19243 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19244 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19246 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
19247 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
19248 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
19249 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
19250 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
19251 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19252 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19253 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19254 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19255 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19256 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19257 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19258 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19259 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19260 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19262 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
19263 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19264 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19265 be disabled using the new
19266 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19267 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19268 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19269 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19270 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19271 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19272 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19274 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
19275 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19276 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19277 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19278 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
19279 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
19280 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
19282 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19283 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19284 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19285 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19286 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19287 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
19288 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
19289 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
19291 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19292 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19293 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19294 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19295 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19296 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19297 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19298 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19300 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19301 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19302 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19303 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19304 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19305 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19306 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19307 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19309 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19310 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19311 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19312 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19314 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19315 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19316 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19318 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19319 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
19321 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
19322 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19323 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19324 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19325 case for flushing marked connections.
19326 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19327 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19328 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19329 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19330 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19331 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19332 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19333 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19334 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19335 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19337 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19338 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19339 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19340 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19341 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19342 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19343 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19344 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19345 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19346 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19347 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19349 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
19350 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19351 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19352 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19353 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19355 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
19356 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
19357 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
19358 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
19359 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19360 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
19361 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
19362 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
19363 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
19364 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
19365 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
19366 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
19367 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
19368 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
19369 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
19370 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
19372 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
19373 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
19374 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
19375 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19376 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
19377 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
19378 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19379 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
19380 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19381 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
19382 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
19383 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
19384 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
19385 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
19386 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
19387 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
19388 Implements ticket 3264.
19389 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
19391 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
19392 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
19393 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
19394 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
19395 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
19396 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
19398 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
19399 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
19400 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19401 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
19402 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
19403 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19404 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
19405 them from the other auths.
19406 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
19407 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
19408 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
19409 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19410 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
19411 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
19412 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
19413 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
19417 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
19418 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
19419 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
19421 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
19422 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
19423 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
19424 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
19425 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
19426 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
19427 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19428 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
19430 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
19431 ./src/test/bench binary.
19432 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
19433 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
19434 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
19435 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
19438 o Build improvements:
19439 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
19440 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
19441 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
19442 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
19443 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
19444 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
19445 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
19446 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19447 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
19448 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
19449 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
19450 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
19451 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
19452 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
19453 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
19454 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
19455 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
19456 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
19457 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
19458 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
19459 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
19461 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
19463 o Build requirements:
19464 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
19465 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
19466 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
19467 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
19468 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
19469 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
19470 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
19471 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
19472 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
19473 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
19474 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
19475 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
19476 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
19478 o Build fixes (compile/link):
19479 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
19480 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
19482 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
19483 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
19484 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
19485 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
19486 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
19487 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
19488 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19489 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
19490 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19492 o Build fixes (other):
19493 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
19494 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
19496 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
19497 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
19498 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
19499 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19500 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
19501 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
19502 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
19503 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19505 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19506 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19509 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
19510 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
19511 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
19512 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
19513 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
19514 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
19515 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
19516 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19518 o Code refactoring (safety):
19519 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
19520 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
19521 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
19522 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
19523 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
19524 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
19525 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19526 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19527 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19528 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19529 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
19530 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
19532 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
19533 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
19534 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
19535 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
19536 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
19537 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
19538 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
19539 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
19540 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
19541 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
19542 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
19543 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
19544 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
19545 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
19546 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
19547 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
19548 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
19549 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
19551 o Code refactoring (separate):
19552 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
19553 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
19554 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
19556 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
19557 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
19560 o Code refactoring (name changes):
19561 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
19562 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
19563 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
19564 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
19565 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
19566 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
19567 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
19569 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
19570 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
19571 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
19572 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
19573 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
19574 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
19575 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
19576 invalid value, rather than just -1.
19577 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
19578 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
19579 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
19581 o Code refactoring (other):
19582 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
19583 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
19585 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
19586 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
19587 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
19588 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
19589 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
19590 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
19591 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
19592 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
19593 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
19594 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
19595 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
19596 our library structure used to force them to link it.
19598 o Removed features and files:
19599 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
19600 it would be a bad idea to start.
19601 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
19603 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
19604 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
19605 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
19606 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
19607 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
19608 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
19609 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
19610 are no longer in use as relays.
19611 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
19612 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
19613 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
19614 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
19615 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
19616 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
19620 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
19621 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
19622 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
19624 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
19625 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
19627 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
19628 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
19629 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
19631 o Documentation fixes:
19632 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
19633 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
19634 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
19635 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
19636 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
19637 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
19638 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
19639 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
19642 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
19643 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
19647 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
19648 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
19649 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19650 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
19651 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
19652 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
19653 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
19657 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
19658 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
19659 attack that could in theory leak path information.
19662 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
19663 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
19664 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19665 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
19666 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
19667 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
19668 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
19669 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
19670 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
19671 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
19672 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
19673 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
19674 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
19675 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19678 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
19679 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19680 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19684 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19685 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19686 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19687 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19688 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19689 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19690 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19691 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19692 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19693 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19694 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19697 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19698 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19701 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19702 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19705 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
19706 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
19707 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
19708 and fixes several crash bugs.
19710 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
19711 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
19712 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
19713 those packages and upgrade anyway.
19715 o Directory authority changes:
19716 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19717 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19721 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19722 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19723 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19724 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19725 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19726 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19727 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19728 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19729 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19730 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19731 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19732 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19733 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19734 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19735 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19736 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19737 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19738 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19739 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19740 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19741 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19742 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19743 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19744 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19745 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19746 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19747 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
19750 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19751 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19752 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19753 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19755 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19756 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19758 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19759 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19760 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19761 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19762 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19763 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19764 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19765 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19768 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19769 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19770 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19771 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19772 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19773 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19774 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19775 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19776 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19777 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19778 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19779 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19780 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19781 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19782 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19783 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19784 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19785 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19786 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19787 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19788 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19789 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19790 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19791 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19792 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19793 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19794 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19795 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19796 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19797 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19798 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19799 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19800 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19801 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19802 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19803 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19804 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19805 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19806 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19807 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19808 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
19809 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19810 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19811 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19812 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19813 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19815 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19816 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19817 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19818 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19819 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19820 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19821 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19822 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19823 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19824 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19825 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19826 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19827 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19828 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19829 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19832 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19833 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19834 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19835 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19837 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19840 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19841 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19842 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19843 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19844 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19845 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19846 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19849 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
19850 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
19851 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19853 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19854 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19855 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19856 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19857 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19858 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19859 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19860 (which Tor does not do by default).
19862 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19863 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19864 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19865 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19866 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19868 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
19869 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
19870 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
19873 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
19874 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
19875 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
19876 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
19877 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
19879 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
19880 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
19883 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19884 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19885 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19886 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19887 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19888 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19889 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19890 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19892 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19893 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19894 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19895 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19896 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19897 close based on processing a cell on it.
19898 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19899 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19900 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19901 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19902 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19903 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19904 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19905 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
19906 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
19907 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
19908 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19909 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19910 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19911 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19912 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
19915 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19916 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19917 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19918 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19919 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19920 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19921 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19923 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19924 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19925 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19926 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19927 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19928 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19929 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19930 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19931 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19932 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19933 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19934 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19935 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19936 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19937 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
19938 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19939 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
19940 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
19941 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19942 Reported by "troll_un".
19943 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19944 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19945 Reported by "troll_un".
19946 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19947 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19948 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19949 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19952 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19953 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19954 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19955 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19956 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19957 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19958 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19959 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19960 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19961 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19962 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19964 o Packaging changes:
19965 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19966 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19969 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
19970 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19971 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19972 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19973 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19975 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
19976 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
19978 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19979 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19980 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19981 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19982 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19983 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19984 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19985 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19986 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19989 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19992 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
19993 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
19994 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
19996 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
19997 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
19998 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
19999 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20000 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20001 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20002 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20003 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20004 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20005 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20006 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20007 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20008 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20010 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20011 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20012 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20013 currently connected to them.
20015 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20016 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20017 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20019 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20020 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20021 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20022 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20023 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20024 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20025 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20026 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20027 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20028 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20029 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20030 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20031 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20032 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20033 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20034 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20035 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20036 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20039 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20040 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20041 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20042 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20043 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20044 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20045 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20046 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20047 when bridges were introduced.
20048 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20049 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20050 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20051 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20052 Found by "frosty_un".
20055 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20056 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20058 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20059 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20060 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20061 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20062 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20063 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20064 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20067 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20068 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20069 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20070 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20071 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20072 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20073 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20074 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20075 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20076 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20077 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20078 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20079 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20080 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20081 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20082 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20083 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20084 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20086 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20087 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20088 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20089 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20090 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20091 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20092 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20093 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20094 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20095 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20096 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20097 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20100 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20101 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20102 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20103 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20106 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20107 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20108 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20109 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20110 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20112 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20113 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20114 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20115 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20116 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20117 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20118 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20119 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20120 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20121 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20123 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20124 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20125 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20126 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20127 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20128 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20129 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20130 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20131 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20132 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20133 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20134 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20135 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20136 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20137 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20138 Found by "frosty_un".
20139 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20140 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20141 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20142 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20143 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20144 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20145 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20146 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20147 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20148 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20149 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20150 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20151 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20152 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20153 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20154 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20155 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20156 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20157 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20159 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20160 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20161 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20162 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20163 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20164 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20165 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20166 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20168 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20169 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20170 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20171 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20172 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20173 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20174 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20175 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20176 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20177 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20178 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20179 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20181 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20182 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20183 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20184 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20185 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20186 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20187 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20188 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20189 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20191 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20193 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20194 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20195 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20196 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20197 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20198 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20199 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20200 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20202 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20203 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20204 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20205 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20206 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20208 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20209 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20210 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20211 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20212 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20215 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20216 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20217 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20218 reachable from Iran again.
20221 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20222 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20223 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20225 o Minor features (security):
20226 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20227 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20228 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20229 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20230 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20231 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20232 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20233 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20234 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20235 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20238 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20239 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20240 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20241 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20242 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20243 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20244 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20245 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20246 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20248 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20249 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20250 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20251 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20252 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20253 raised by bug 3898.
20254 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20255 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20256 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20257 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20258 fixes part of bug 2442.
20259 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20260 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20261 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20263 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20264 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20265 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20266 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20267 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20270 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20271 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20272 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20273 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20274 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20275 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20278 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20279 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20280 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20281 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20282 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20283 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20284 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20285 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20286 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20287 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20289 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20290 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20291 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20292 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20293 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20294 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20295 many many other features and bugfixes.
20297 o Major features (client performance):
20298 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
20299 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
20300 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
20301 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
20302 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
20303 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
20305 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
20306 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
20307 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
20308 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
20309 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
20310 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
20311 the first implementation of this feature.
20313 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
20314 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
20315 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
20316 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
20317 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
20318 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
20319 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
20320 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
20321 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
20322 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
20323 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
20324 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
20325 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
20326 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
20327 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
20328 file. Implements ticket 1296.
20330 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
20331 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
20332 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
20333 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
20334 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
20335 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
20336 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
20337 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
20338 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
20339 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
20340 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20341 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20342 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20343 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20344 they first get the Guard flag.
20345 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
20346 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
20347 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
20348 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
20349 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
20350 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
20351 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
20352 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
20354 o Major features (relays control their load better):
20355 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
20356 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
20357 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
20358 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
20359 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
20360 based on a variant of proposal 163.
20361 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
20362 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
20363 but never per-conn write limits.
20364 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
20365 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
20366 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
20367 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
20369 o Major features (controllers):
20370 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
20371 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
20372 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
20373 contributions to the network.
20374 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
20375 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
20376 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
20378 o Major features (directory authorities):
20379 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
20380 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
20381 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
20383 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
20384 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
20385 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
20386 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
20387 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
20388 download consensus + microdescriptors".
20389 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
20390 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
20391 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
20392 hash algorithm in the future.
20393 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
20394 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
20395 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
20397 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
20398 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
20399 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
20400 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
20401 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
20402 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
20403 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
20404 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
20405 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
20406 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
20407 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
20408 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
20409 connections to directory servers.
20410 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
20411 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
20412 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
20413 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
20414 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
20415 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
20416 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
20417 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
20418 information, or fetch directory information.
20419 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
20420 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
20421 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
20422 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
20423 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
20425 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
20426 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
20427 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
20428 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
20429 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
20430 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
20431 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
20432 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
20433 the network changes.
20434 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
20435 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
20437 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
20438 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
20439 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
20440 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
20441 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
20442 unless you really want your Tor to break.
20443 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
20444 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
20445 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
20446 - When StrictNodes is 1:
20447 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
20448 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
20449 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
20450 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
20451 reachability self-tests.
20452 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
20453 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
20454 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
20455 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
20456 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
20458 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
20459 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20460 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
20462 o Major features (misc):
20463 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
20464 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
20465 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
20466 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
20467 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
20468 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
20469 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
20470 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
20471 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
20472 part of ticket 3076.
20473 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
20474 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
20475 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
20477 o Code security improvements:
20478 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20479 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20480 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20481 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20482 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20483 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20484 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
20485 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
20486 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
20487 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20488 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
20489 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
20490 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
20491 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
20492 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
20493 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
20494 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20495 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
20496 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
20497 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
20498 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
20499 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
20500 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
20501 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
20502 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
20503 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20504 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20505 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20507 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20508 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20509 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20510 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20511 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20512 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20513 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20514 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20515 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20516 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20517 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20518 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20519 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20521 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
20522 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
20523 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
20525 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20526 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20528 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20529 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20530 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20531 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20532 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20533 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20534 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
20535 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
20536 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
20537 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
20538 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
20539 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
20540 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
20541 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
20542 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
20543 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
20544 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
20546 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
20547 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
20548 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
20550 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
20551 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
20552 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
20553 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
20554 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
20555 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
20556 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
20557 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
20558 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
20559 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
20560 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
20561 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
20562 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
20563 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
20564 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
20565 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20566 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
20567 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20568 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20570 o Privacy fixes (clients):
20571 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20572 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20573 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20574 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20575 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20576 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20577 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
20578 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
20579 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
20581 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
20582 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
20583 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
20584 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
20585 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
20586 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
20587 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
20588 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
20589 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
20590 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
20592 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
20593 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20594 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20595 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20596 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
20597 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
20598 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20599 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20600 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20601 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20602 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20603 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20604 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20606 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
20607 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
20608 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
20609 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
20610 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
20611 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
20612 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
20613 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
20614 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
20615 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20617 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
20618 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
20619 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
20620 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
20621 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
20622 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
20623 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
20625 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
20626 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
20627 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
20628 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
20629 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
20630 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
20631 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
20632 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
20633 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
20634 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
20635 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
20636 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
20637 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
20638 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
20639 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
20641 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20642 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
20643 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
20644 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
20645 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
20646 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
20647 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
20649 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
20650 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
20651 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
20652 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
20653 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
20654 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
20655 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
20656 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
20658 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
20659 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
20660 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
20661 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
20662 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
20663 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
20664 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
20665 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
20666 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
20667 the longest-lived bug prize.
20668 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
20669 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
20670 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
20671 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
20672 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
20673 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
20674 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
20675 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
20676 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
20677 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
20679 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
20680 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
20681 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
20682 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
20683 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
20684 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
20687 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20688 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
20689 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
20690 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
20691 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
20692 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
20693 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
20694 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
20695 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
20696 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
20697 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
20698 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20699 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
20700 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
20701 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
20702 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
20703 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
20704 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
20705 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
20706 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
20707 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
20708 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
20709 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
20710 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
20711 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
20712 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
20714 o Major bugfixes (misc):
20715 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
20716 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
20717 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20718 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
20719 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
20720 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20721 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20722 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20724 o Minor features (relays):
20725 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
20726 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
20727 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
20728 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
20729 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
20730 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
20731 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
20732 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
20734 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
20735 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
20736 Resolves ticket 3252.
20737 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
20738 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
20740 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
20741 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
20742 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
20743 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
20744 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
20746 o Minor features (network statistics):
20747 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
20748 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
20749 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
20750 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
20751 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
20752 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
20753 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
20754 measure download times.
20755 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20756 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
20758 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
20759 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
20760 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20761 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
20763 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
20764 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
20765 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
20767 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
20768 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
20769 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
20770 Implements ticket 2432.
20771 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
20772 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
20773 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
20774 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
20775 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
20776 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
20777 Implements enhancement 1790.
20778 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
20779 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
20781 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
20782 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
20783 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
20784 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
20785 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
20786 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
20787 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
20789 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20791 o Minor features (clients):
20792 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
20793 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
20794 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
20795 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
20797 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
20798 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
20799 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
20800 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
20801 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
20802 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
20803 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
20804 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
20806 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
20807 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
20808 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
20809 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
20810 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
20811 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
20812 SSL handshake issues.
20814 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20815 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
20816 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
20817 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
20818 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
20819 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
20820 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
20821 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
20822 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
20823 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
20824 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
20825 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
20826 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
20827 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
20828 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
20829 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
20830 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
20831 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
20832 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
20833 hour of their uptime.
20834 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
20835 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
20836 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
20837 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
20839 o Minor features (hidden services):
20840 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
20841 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
20842 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
20843 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
20844 Required by fix for bug 3000.
20845 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
20846 by fix for bug 3000.
20847 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
20848 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
20849 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
20850 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
20851 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20853 o Minor features (controller interface):
20854 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
20855 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
20856 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
20857 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
20858 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
20859 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
20860 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
20861 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
20862 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
20863 over our stored history.
20864 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
20865 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
20866 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
20868 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
20869 to the circuit build timeout.
20870 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
20871 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
20872 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
20874 o Minor features (controller protocol):
20875 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
20876 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
20877 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
20879 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
20880 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
20881 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
20882 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
20883 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
20884 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
20885 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
20886 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
20887 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
20888 arguments we do not recognize.
20890 o Minor features (more useful logging):
20891 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
20892 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
20893 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
20894 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
20895 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
20896 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
20897 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
20898 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
20899 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
20900 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
20901 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
20902 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
20903 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
20904 got suppressed since the last warning.
20905 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
20906 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
20907 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
20908 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
20909 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
20910 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
20911 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
20913 o Minor features (log domains):
20914 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
20915 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
20916 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
20918 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
20919 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
20921 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
20922 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
20923 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
20925 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
20926 during the TLS handshake.
20928 o Minor features (build process):
20929 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
20930 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
20931 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
20933 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
20934 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
20935 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
20937 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
20938 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
20939 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
20940 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
20941 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
20942 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
20944 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
20945 source files Tor was built with.
20946 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
20947 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
20948 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
20949 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
20950 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
20951 speeds up the build considerably.
20953 o Minor features (options / torrc):
20954 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
20955 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
20956 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
20957 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
20958 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
20959 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
20960 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
20961 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
20962 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
20963 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
20964 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
20965 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
20966 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
20967 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
20968 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
20969 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
20970 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
20971 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
20972 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
20973 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
20974 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
20975 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
20976 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
20977 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
20978 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
20979 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
20980 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
20982 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
20983 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
20984 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
20987 o Minor features (unit tests):
20988 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
20989 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
20990 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
20991 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
20992 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
20993 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
20995 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
20996 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
20999 o Minor features (misc):
21000 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21001 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21002 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21003 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21005 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21006 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21007 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21008 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21009 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21011 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21012 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21013 open() without checking it.
21014 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21015 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21016 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21017 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21019 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21020 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21021 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21022 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21023 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21024 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21025 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21026 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21027 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
21028 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
21029 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
21030 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
21031 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
21032 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
21033 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
21034 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
21035 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
21036 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
21037 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21038 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21039 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21040 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21041 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21042 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21043 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21044 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21045 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
21046 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21048 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
21049 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
21050 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
21051 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
21053 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21054 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21055 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21056 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21057 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21059 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21060 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21061 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21062 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
21063 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
21064 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
21065 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
21066 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
21067 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
21068 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21069 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21070 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21071 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21073 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21074 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21075 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21076 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21077 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21078 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21079 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21080 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21081 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21082 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21083 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21084 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21085 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21086 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21087 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21088 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21089 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21090 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21091 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21092 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21093 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21095 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21096 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21097 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21098 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21099 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21100 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21101 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21102 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21103 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21105 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
21106 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
21107 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
21108 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
21109 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
21110 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
21111 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
21112 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
21113 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
21114 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
21115 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21116 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21117 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21120 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21121 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21122 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21123 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21124 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21125 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21126 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21127 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21128 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21129 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21130 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21132 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21133 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21135 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21136 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21137 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21138 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21139 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21140 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21141 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21142 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21144 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21145 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21146 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21147 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21148 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21149 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21150 discovered by katmagic.
21151 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21152 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21154 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21155 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21156 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21157 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21158 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21159 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21160 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21161 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21162 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21164 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21165 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21167 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21168 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21170 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21171 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21173 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21174 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21175 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21176 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21177 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
21178 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
21179 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21180 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21181 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21182 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21183 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21184 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
21185 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
21186 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
21187 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
21189 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
21190 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21191 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21192 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21193 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
21194 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
21195 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
21196 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
21197 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
21199 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
21200 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21201 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21203 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21204 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21205 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21206 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21208 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
21209 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21210 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21211 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21212 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21213 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21214 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21216 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21217 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21218 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21219 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21220 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21221 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21223 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21224 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21225 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21226 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21227 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21228 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21229 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21230 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21231 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21233 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21234 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21235 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21236 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21237 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21238 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21239 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21240 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21241 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21242 control-spec.txt said they were.
21244 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21245 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21246 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21248 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21249 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21250 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21251 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21252 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21254 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21255 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21257 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21258 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21259 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21260 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21261 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21262 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21263 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21265 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
21266 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21267 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21268 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21269 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
21270 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21271 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21272 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21275 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21276 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21277 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21278 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21279 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21280 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21281 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21282 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21283 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21284 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21285 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21286 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21287 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21288 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21289 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
21291 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21292 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
21293 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
21294 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21295 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21296 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21297 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21299 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21300 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21303 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21304 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21305 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21306 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21307 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21308 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21309 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21310 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21311 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21312 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21313 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21314 fixes part of bug 3407.
21315 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21316 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21317 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21318 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21319 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21320 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21321 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21322 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21323 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21324 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21326 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21327 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21328 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21329 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21330 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21331 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21332 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21333 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21334 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21335 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21336 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21337 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21338 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21339 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21340 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21341 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21342 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21344 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21345 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21346 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21347 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21348 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21349 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21350 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21351 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21352 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21353 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
21354 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
21355 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
21357 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
21358 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
21359 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
21360 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
21361 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
21363 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
21364 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
21365 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
21366 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
21368 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
21369 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
21370 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
21371 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
21372 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
21373 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
21374 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
21375 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
21376 structures and defines in or.h for now.
21377 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
21379 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
21380 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21381 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21382 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21383 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
21384 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
21385 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
21386 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
21388 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
21389 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
21390 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
21392 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21393 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
21394 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
21395 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
21396 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
21397 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
21398 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
21399 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
21400 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
21401 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
21403 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
21405 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
21406 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
21407 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
21408 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
21409 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
21410 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
21411 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
21412 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
21413 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
21414 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
21416 o Documentation changes:
21417 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
21418 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
21420 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
21421 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
21422 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
21423 what should go in a patch.
21424 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
21426 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
21427 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
21428 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
21429 projects directory in svn.
21431 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
21432 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
21433 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
21434 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
21435 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
21436 hidden service usage.
21437 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
21438 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
21439 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
21440 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
21441 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
21444 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
21445 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
21446 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
21447 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
21448 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
21451 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
21452 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
21453 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
21454 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
21455 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
21456 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21457 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21458 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
21459 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
21460 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
21461 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
21462 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
21463 via application-level web tricks.
21464 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
21465 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
21466 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
21467 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
21468 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
21469 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
21470 send a body too). Since only server versions before
21471 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
21472 keep the workaround in place.
21473 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
21474 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
21475 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
21476 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
21477 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
21478 want to do it differently.
21479 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
21480 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
21481 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
21484 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
21485 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
21486 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
21487 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21488 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21489 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
21492 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21493 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21494 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21495 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21496 the rest of bug 1074.
21497 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21498 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21499 Found by "piebeer".
21500 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21501 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21502 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21503 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21504 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21505 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21506 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21509 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21511 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21514 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21515 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21516 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21517 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21518 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21519 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21520 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21521 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21522 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21523 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21524 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21526 o Packaging changes:
21527 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21528 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21529 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21530 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21531 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21532 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21535 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
21536 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
21537 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
21538 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
21539 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21541 o Major bugfixes (security):
21542 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21543 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21544 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21546 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21547 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21548 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21549 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21550 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21551 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21552 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21553 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21555 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21556 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21557 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21558 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21559 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21560 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21561 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21562 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21563 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21564 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21565 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21566 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21567 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21568 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21571 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21572 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21573 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21574 bug reported by doorss.
21575 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21576 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21577 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21578 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21579 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21581 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21582 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21583 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21584 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
21585 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21588 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21589 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21592 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21593 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21594 Automake 1.7 or later.
21595 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21596 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21597 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21598 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21601 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
21602 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21603 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
21604 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
21608 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21609 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21610 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21611 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21613 o Directory authority changes:
21614 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21617 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21620 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
21621 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21622 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
21623 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
21624 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
21627 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21628 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21629 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21630 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21631 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21632 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21633 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21634 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21635 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21636 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21637 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21638 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21639 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21640 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21641 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21642 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21643 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21644 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21645 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21646 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21647 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21648 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21649 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21652 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
21653 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
21654 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
21655 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
21657 o New directory authorities:
21658 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21662 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
21663 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
21664 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
21666 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21667 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21668 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21669 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21670 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21671 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21673 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21674 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21675 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21678 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
21679 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
21680 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
21681 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
21682 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
21683 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
21684 Patch from mingw-san.
21687 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
21688 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
21689 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
21690 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
21691 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
21692 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
21695 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
21696 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21697 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21698 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21699 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21701 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
21702 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21705 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21706 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21707 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21708 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21709 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21710 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21711 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21712 their directory fetches over TLS).
21713 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21714 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21715 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21716 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21717 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21718 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21719 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21720 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21723 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21724 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21728 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21729 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21730 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21731 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21732 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21733 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21734 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21737 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
21738 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
21739 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
21740 several minor potential security bugs.
21743 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21744 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21745 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21746 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
21747 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21748 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21749 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21752 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21753 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21755 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21756 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21757 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21758 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21761 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
21762 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
21766 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
21767 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
21768 customized patches to run/build.
21771 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
21772 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
21773 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
21776 o Major bugfixes (performance):
21777 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21778 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21779 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21780 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21781 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21782 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21783 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21786 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21787 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21788 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21789 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21790 libraries in a security patch.
21791 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21792 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21793 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21794 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21798 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21799 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21802 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21803 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21804 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21805 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21806 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21809 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
21810 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
21811 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
21812 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
21813 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
21815 o Directory authority changes:
21816 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21820 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21821 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21822 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21825 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
21826 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
21827 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
21828 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
21829 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
21832 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21833 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21834 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
21835 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
21836 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
21837 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
21838 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
21841 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
21842 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
21843 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21844 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
21845 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
21846 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
21848 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
21849 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
21852 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
21853 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
21854 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
21855 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21857 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
21858 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
21860 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
21861 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
21862 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
21863 in the Vidalia Settings window.
21866 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21867 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21868 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21869 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21870 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21872 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21873 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21875 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
21876 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
21877 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
21880 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21881 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21882 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21884 o New directory authorities:
21885 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21887 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21890 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
21891 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21893 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21894 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21895 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21896 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21897 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21898 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21899 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21900 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21901 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21902 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21903 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21904 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21905 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21906 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21907 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21908 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21909 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21911 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21912 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21913 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
21915 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21916 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21920 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21921 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21922 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21923 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21924 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21927 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
21928 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
21932 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
21933 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
21934 part of patch provided by "optimist".
21937 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
21938 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
21939 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
21940 and confuse fewer users.
21943 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
21944 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
21945 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
21946 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
21947 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
21948 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
21949 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
21952 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
21953 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
21954 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
21955 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
21956 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
21957 other features and bug fixes.
21959 o Major features (clients):
21960 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
21961 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
21962 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
21963 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
21965 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
21966 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
21967 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
21968 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
21969 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
21970 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
21971 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
21972 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
21973 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
21974 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
21976 o Major features (relays):
21977 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
21978 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
21979 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
21980 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
21981 data. Found by Jacob.
21982 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
21983 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
21984 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
21985 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
21987 o Major features (hidden services):
21988 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
21989 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
21990 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
21991 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
21992 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
21993 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
21994 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
21995 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
21996 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
21997 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
21998 lookups more reliable.
22000 o Major features (path selection):
22001 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
22002 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
22003 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
22004 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
22005 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
22007 o Major features (misc):
22008 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
22009 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
22011 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
22012 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
22013 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
22014 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
22015 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
22016 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
22018 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
22019 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
22020 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
22021 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
22023 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
22026 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
22027 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
22028 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
22029 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
22030 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
22031 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
22032 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
22033 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
22034 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
22035 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
22036 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
22037 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
22038 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
22039 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
22040 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
22041 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
22042 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
22043 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22044 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22045 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22046 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22047 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22048 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22049 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22050 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22051 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22052 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22053 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
22054 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
22055 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22056 Implements proposal 148.
22058 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22059 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22060 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22061 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22062 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22063 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22065 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22066 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22067 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22068 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22069 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22070 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22071 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
22072 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22073 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
22075 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
22076 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
22077 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22078 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22080 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22081 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22082 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22083 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22084 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22085 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22086 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22087 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22088 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22090 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22091 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22092 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22093 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
22094 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
22095 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
22096 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
22097 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
22098 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
22099 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
22100 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22101 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22102 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22103 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22104 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22105 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22108 o Major bugfixes (relays):
22109 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22110 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22111 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22112 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22113 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22114 patch by Sebastian.
22115 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22116 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22117 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22118 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22119 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22120 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22121 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22122 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
22123 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
22124 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
22127 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22128 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
22129 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
22130 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
22131 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
22132 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
22134 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22135 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
22136 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
22137 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
22138 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
22139 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
22140 on a typical directory cache.
22141 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
22142 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
22143 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
22144 and may reduce fragmentation.
22146 o New/changed config options:
22147 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22148 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22149 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22150 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
22151 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
22152 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
22153 locked down these days.
22154 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
22155 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22156 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
22157 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
22158 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
22159 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
22160 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
22161 output to messages of warning and error severity.
22162 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
22163 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
22164 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
22165 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
22166 directory requests we should expect to see.
22167 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22168 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22169 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
22170 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
22171 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
22172 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
22173 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22175 o Minor features (relays):
22176 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
22177 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
22178 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
22179 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
22180 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
22182 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22183 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22184 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22185 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22186 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
22187 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
22188 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
22189 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
22190 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
22191 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
22192 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
22193 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
22194 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
22196 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22197 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
22198 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
22199 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
22200 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
22201 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
22202 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22203 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
22204 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
22205 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
22206 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
22208 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
22209 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
22210 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
22211 fingerprints with or without space.
22213 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
22214 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22215 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22216 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
22217 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
22218 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
22219 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
22220 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22221 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22223 o Minor features (bridges):
22224 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22225 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22227 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22228 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22231 o Minor features (hidden services):
22232 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22233 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22234 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22235 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22236 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22237 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22238 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22239 faster after restart.
22240 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22241 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22243 o Minor features (build and packaging):
22244 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
22246 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22247 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22249 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22250 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22251 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22252 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22253 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
22254 are built without support for deprecated functions.
22255 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22256 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22257 system to do it for us.
22258 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22259 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22260 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22261 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22262 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22263 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22264 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22265 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22266 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22267 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22268 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22269 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22270 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22271 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22272 with log.h on Android.
22273 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22274 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22276 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22277 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22278 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
22279 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22281 o Minor features (controllers):
22282 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22283 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22284 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22285 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22286 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22287 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22288 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22289 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
22290 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
22291 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
22293 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22294 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22295 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22296 been fetched and validated.
22297 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22298 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
22300 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
22302 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
22303 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
22304 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
22305 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
22306 partway through and wants to catch up.
22307 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
22309 o Minor features (tools):
22310 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22311 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22312 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
22313 people find host:port too confusing.
22314 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
22315 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
22317 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22318 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22319 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22320 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22321 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22322 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22323 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22324 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22325 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
22327 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
22328 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
22329 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
22330 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
22331 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
22333 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
22334 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
22335 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
22337 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22338 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22339 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22340 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22341 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
22342 have already been marked for close.
22343 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
22344 memory performance during directory parsing.
22346 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22347 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
22348 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
22349 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
22350 done that for a long time.
22351 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22352 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22353 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
22354 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
22355 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
22356 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
22357 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
22358 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
22359 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22360 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
22361 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
22362 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
22363 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
22364 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
22365 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
22366 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
22367 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
22368 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
22369 because of a pending download.
22370 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
22371 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
22372 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
22373 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
22374 bug 820, reported by seeess.
22376 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22377 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
22378 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
22379 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
22380 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
22381 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
22382 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
22383 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
22384 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
22386 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22387 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
22389 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
22390 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
22391 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22392 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
22393 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
22394 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
22395 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
22396 of 0. Suggested by lark.
22397 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
22398 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
22399 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22400 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
22401 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
22403 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
22404 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
22405 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
22407 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
22408 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
22410 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
22411 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
22412 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
22413 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
22414 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
22415 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
22416 rest, and don't automatically fail.
22417 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
22418 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
22419 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
22420 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
22421 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
22422 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22424 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22425 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
22426 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
22427 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
22428 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
22429 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
22430 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
22432 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
22433 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22435 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22436 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
22437 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
22438 Workaround for bug 1024.
22439 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
22440 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
22441 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
22442 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
22443 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
22444 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
22445 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
22446 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
22449 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
22450 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
22453 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
22454 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
22455 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
22456 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
22457 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
22458 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
22459 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
22461 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
22462 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
22463 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
22464 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
22465 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
22466 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
22467 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
22468 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
22471 o Deprecated and removed features:
22472 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
22473 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
22474 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
22476 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
22478 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
22479 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22480 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
22481 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
22482 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
22483 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
22484 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
22485 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
22486 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
22487 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
22488 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
22489 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
22490 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
22491 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
22494 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22495 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
22496 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
22497 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
22498 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
22500 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
22501 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
22502 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
22503 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22504 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22505 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22506 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
22507 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
22508 actual mistakes we're making here.
22509 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
22510 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
22511 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
22512 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
22513 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
22514 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
22515 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
22516 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
22517 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
22518 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
22519 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
22520 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
22521 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22522 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
22523 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
22526 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22528 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22529 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22530 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22531 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22532 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22535 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22536 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22537 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22538 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22539 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22540 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22541 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22542 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22543 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22544 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22547 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22548 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22549 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
22550 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22551 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22552 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22553 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22554 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22557 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
22558 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
22559 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
22560 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22561 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
22563 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
22564 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
22565 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
22566 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22569 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22570 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22571 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22572 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22573 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22574 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
22575 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22576 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22579 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
22580 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22581 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22582 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22585 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
22586 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
22587 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
22588 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
22590 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
22591 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
22592 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
22595 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22596 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22599 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22600 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22601 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22602 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22603 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22604 reported by "wood".
22605 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22606 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22607 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22608 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22609 identify a connection.
22610 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22611 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22612 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22613 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22614 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22615 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22616 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22617 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22618 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22619 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22621 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22622 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
22623 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
22624 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
22625 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
22626 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
22627 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22630 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22631 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22633 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22634 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
22635 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22636 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22637 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22638 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
22639 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22640 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22642 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22643 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
22644 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22645 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22646 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22647 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22648 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22649 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22650 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22651 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22652 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22653 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22654 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22655 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22656 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22657 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22658 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22659 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22660 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
22661 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
22662 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22663 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22664 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22665 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22666 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22667 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22668 840. Patch from rovv.
22669 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22670 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22671 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22673 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22674 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22675 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22676 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22677 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22678 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22679 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22681 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22682 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
22683 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22686 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
22687 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
22689 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22690 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
22691 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22692 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22693 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22694 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22695 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22696 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22697 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22699 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
22701 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22702 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
22706 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
22707 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22708 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22709 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22710 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22711 variety of other issues.
22714 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22715 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22716 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22717 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22718 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22719 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22720 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
22721 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22722 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22723 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22724 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22725 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22728 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22729 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22731 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22732 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22733 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22734 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22735 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22736 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22737 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22738 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22739 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22740 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
22741 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
22742 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
22743 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
22744 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
22745 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22749 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
22750 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22751 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22752 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22753 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22754 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22755 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22756 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22757 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22758 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22759 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22760 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22761 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22762 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22763 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
22764 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22765 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22766 list. It has been gone for many months.
22767 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22768 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
22769 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22772 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22773 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
22774 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
22777 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
22778 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
22779 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
22780 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22783 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22784 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22785 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22786 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
22787 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
22788 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
22790 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
22791 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
22792 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
22793 pointed out by rovv.
22796 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
22797 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22798 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
22799 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22800 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
22801 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
22802 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
22803 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
22804 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
22805 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22806 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
22807 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
22808 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
22809 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22810 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
22811 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
22812 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
22813 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
22814 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
22815 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
22816 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
22819 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
22820 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
22821 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
22822 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
22823 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
22824 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
22825 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
22827 o New v3 directory design:
22828 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
22829 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
22830 network status document rather than each publishing their own
22831 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
22832 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
22833 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
22834 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
22836 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
22837 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
22838 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
22839 dannenberg (run by CCC).
22840 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
22841 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
22842 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
22843 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
22844 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
22845 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
22846 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
22847 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
22848 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
22849 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
22851 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
22852 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
22853 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
22854 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
22855 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
22856 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
22857 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
22858 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
22859 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
22860 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
22861 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
22862 certain censored countries by default again.
22863 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
22864 Tor's x509 certificates.
22866 o Implement bridge relays:
22867 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
22868 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
22869 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
22870 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
22871 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
22872 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
22873 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
22874 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
22875 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
22876 rather than "v2,v3".
22877 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
22878 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
22879 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
22880 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
22881 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
22882 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
22883 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
22884 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
22885 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
22886 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
22887 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
22889 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
22890 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
22891 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
22892 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
22893 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
22894 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
22895 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
22896 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
22897 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
22898 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
22899 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
22900 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
22901 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
22902 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
22903 bridges are functioning.
22904 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
22905 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
22906 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
22907 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
22908 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
22909 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
22910 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
22911 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
22912 knows that password. Unset by default.
22913 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
22914 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
22915 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
22916 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
22917 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
22918 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
22919 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
22920 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
22921 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
22922 and bridges@torproject.org.
22924 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
22925 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
22926 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
22927 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
22928 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
22929 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
22930 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
22931 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
22932 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
22933 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
22934 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
22935 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
22936 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
22937 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
22938 longer a completely silly thing to do.
22940 o Major features (relay usability):
22941 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
22942 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
22943 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
22944 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
22945 proposal 111 for details.
22946 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
22947 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
22948 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
22949 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
22951 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
22952 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
22953 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
22955 o Major features (directory authorities):
22956 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
22957 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
22958 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
22959 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
22960 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
22961 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
22962 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22963 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
22964 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
22965 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
22966 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22967 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
22968 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
22970 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
22971 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
22972 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
22973 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
22974 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
22975 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
22976 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
22977 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
22978 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
22979 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
22980 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
22981 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
22982 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
22983 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
22984 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
22985 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
22986 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
22987 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
22988 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
22989 general, controller, or bridge.
22991 o Major features (other):
22992 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
22993 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
22994 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
22995 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
22996 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
22997 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
22998 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
22999 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
23000 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
23001 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
23002 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
23003 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
23004 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
23005 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
23008 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
23009 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23010 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23012 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
23013 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
23014 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
23015 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
23016 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
23017 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
23018 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
23019 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
23020 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
23021 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
23022 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
23024 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
23025 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23027 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
23028 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
23029 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23030 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23032 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
23033 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
23034 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
23035 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
23036 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
23038 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
23039 address maps to an internal address space.
23040 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
23041 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
23042 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
23043 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
23044 complements proposal 107.
23045 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
23046 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
23047 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23048 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23049 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23050 reported by taranis and lodger.
23051 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23052 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23053 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23054 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23055 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23056 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23057 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23058 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23059 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23060 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
23061 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
23062 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
23063 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
23065 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
23066 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
23068 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
23069 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
23070 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
23071 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
23072 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
23073 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
23074 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
23076 o Major bugfixes (other):
23077 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23078 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23079 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23081 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23082 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23083 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23084 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23085 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23086 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23087 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23088 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23089 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23090 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
23091 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
23092 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
23093 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
23094 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23095 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23096 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23097 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23098 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23099 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23101 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
23102 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
23103 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
23104 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
23105 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
23106 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
23107 eat all of our bandwidth.
23108 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23109 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23110 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23111 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23112 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23113 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
23114 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
23115 bug 688, reported by mfr.
23116 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
23117 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23118 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23119 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23121 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
23122 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23123 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23124 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
23125 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
23126 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
23127 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23128 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23129 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
23130 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
23131 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
23132 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23134 o Performance improvements (memory):
23135 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
23136 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
23137 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
23138 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
23139 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
23140 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
23141 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
23142 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
23143 memory fragmentation.
23144 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
23145 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
23146 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
23147 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
23148 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
23150 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
23151 of them were actually distinct.
23152 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23154 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
23155 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
23156 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
23157 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23158 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23159 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
23160 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
23161 performance-intensive.
23162 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
23163 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
23164 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
23165 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23166 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
23169 o Performance improvements (socket management):
23170 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
23171 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
23172 our allocated connection limit.
23173 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
23174 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
23175 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
23176 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
23177 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
23179 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23180 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
23182 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
23183 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
23184 is interested in a given message.
23185 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
23186 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
23187 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
23188 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
23189 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
23191 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
23192 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
23193 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
23195 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
23196 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
23197 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
23198 they are the same).
23199 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
23200 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
23201 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
23202 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
23205 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
23206 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
23207 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
23208 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
23209 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
23210 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
23211 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
23213 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
23214 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
23215 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
23216 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
23217 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
23218 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
23219 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
23220 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
23221 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
23222 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
23223 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23224 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23225 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23228 o Changed config option behavior (features):
23229 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23230 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23231 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23232 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23233 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23234 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23235 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23236 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23237 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23238 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23239 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23240 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23241 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23242 and are reaching it.
23243 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23244 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23245 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23246 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
23248 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
23249 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23250 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23251 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23252 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23253 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23254 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23255 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23256 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
23258 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23259 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
23260 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
23261 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
23262 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
23263 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23264 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
23265 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
23267 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
23268 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
23270 o New config options:
23271 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
23272 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
23273 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23274 running a test network on a single host.
23275 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23276 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23277 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23278 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
23279 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
23280 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
23281 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
23282 the approved-routers file.
23283 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
23284 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
23285 v2 directory information.
23287 o Minor features (other):
23288 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
23289 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
23290 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
23291 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
23292 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
23293 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
23295 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23296 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23297 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
23298 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
23299 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
23300 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23301 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23303 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
23304 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
23305 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
23307 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
23308 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
23309 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
23310 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
23311 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
23313 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
23314 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
23315 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
23316 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
23317 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23318 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
23319 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
23321 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
23322 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
23323 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
23324 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
23325 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
23326 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
23327 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
23328 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
23329 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
23332 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23333 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23334 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23336 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23337 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23338 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23339 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23340 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23341 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23343 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23344 bandwidthburst values.
23345 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
23346 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
23347 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
23348 to mark all our entry points down.
23349 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
23350 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
23351 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
23352 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
23353 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
23355 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
23356 more often than they are allowed to appear.
23357 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
23358 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23359 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
23360 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
23361 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
23362 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
23363 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
23365 o Controller features:
23366 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
23367 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
23368 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
23369 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
23370 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
23371 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
23373 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
23374 multiple controller passwords.
23375 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
23376 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
23377 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
23378 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
23380 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
23381 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
23382 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
23383 cookie authentication file, and config option
23384 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
23385 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
23386 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23387 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
23389 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
23390 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
23391 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
23392 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
23393 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
23394 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
23395 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
23397 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
23398 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
23400 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
23401 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
23402 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
23403 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
23404 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
23405 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
23406 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
23407 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
23408 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
23409 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
23410 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
23411 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
23412 report the value as a "minimum skew."
23414 o Controller bugfixes:
23415 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
23416 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
23417 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
23418 processes can't run us out of memory.
23419 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
23420 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
23421 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
23423 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
23424 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
23425 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
23426 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
23427 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
23428 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
23429 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
23430 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
23431 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
23432 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
23433 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
23434 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
23435 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
23436 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
23437 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
23439 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
23440 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
23442 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
23443 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
23444 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
23445 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
23446 WARN-severity events.
23448 o Portability / building / compiling:
23449 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
23450 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
23451 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
23452 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
23453 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
23454 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
23455 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
23456 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
23457 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
23458 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
23459 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
23460 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
23461 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
23463 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
23464 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
23465 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
23466 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
23467 Use this version consistently in log messages.
23468 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
23469 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23470 partial results on small file reads.
23471 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
23472 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
23473 a directory. Fix from lodger.
23474 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
23475 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
23476 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
23478 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
23479 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
23480 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
23481 logging for the unit tests.
23482 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
23483 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
23485 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
23486 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
23488 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
23489 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
23490 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
23491 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
23494 o Logging improvements:
23495 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
23496 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
23497 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
23498 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
23499 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
23500 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
23501 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
23503 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23504 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23505 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23506 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23507 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23508 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
23509 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
23510 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
23511 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
23512 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23513 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23514 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
23515 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23516 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23517 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23518 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23519 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23520 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
23521 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
23523 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
23524 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
23525 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
23526 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
23528 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
23529 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
23530 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
23531 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
23532 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
23534 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
23535 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
23536 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
23537 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
23538 makes the log messages nicer.
23539 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
23540 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
23542 o Contributed scripts and tools:
23543 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
23544 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
23546 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
23547 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
23548 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
23549 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
23550 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
23551 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
23552 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
23553 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
23554 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
23555 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
23557 o Newly deprecated features:
23558 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
23559 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
23560 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
23561 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
23563 o Removed features:
23564 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
23565 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
23566 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
23567 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
23568 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
23570 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
23571 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
23572 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
23573 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
23574 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
23575 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
23576 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
23577 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
23579 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
23580 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
23581 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
23582 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
23583 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
23584 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
23586 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
23587 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
23588 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
23589 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
23590 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
23591 patch from Karsten Loesing.
23592 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
23593 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
23594 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
23595 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
23596 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
23597 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
23598 code), this assumption no longer holds.
23599 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
23603 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
23604 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
23605 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
23606 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23609 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
23610 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
23611 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
23612 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
23613 on network address.
23616 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
23617 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
23618 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
23619 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
23620 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
23621 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
23622 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
23623 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
23624 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
23625 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
23626 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
23627 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
23630 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
23631 rebuild our server descriptor.
23632 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
23633 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
23634 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
23635 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
23636 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
23637 nonstandard integer types.
23638 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
23639 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
23640 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
23641 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
23642 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
23644 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
23645 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
23646 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
23647 when they receive them.
23648 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
23649 This includes some 64-bit systems.
23650 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
23651 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
23652 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
23653 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
23654 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
23655 router_get_by_hexdigest().
23656 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
23657 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
23661 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
23662 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
23663 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
23664 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
23665 lists for a few hours each day.
23667 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23668 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23669 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23670 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
23671 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
23672 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23673 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23674 rend_process_relay_cell().
23676 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23677 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23678 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23679 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23680 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23681 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23682 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
23683 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
23685 o Major bugfixes (other):
23686 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
23687 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
23688 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
23689 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23690 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23691 circuit cannibalization).
23692 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23693 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23694 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
23695 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
23696 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
23697 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
23700 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
23701 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
23703 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
23704 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
23705 absent. Resolves bug 467.
23706 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
23707 a way to trigger this remotely.)
23708 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
23709 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
23710 were reporting the dir port.)
23711 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
23712 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
23713 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
23714 the future. Fixes bug 434.
23715 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
23717 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
23718 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
23719 the onion key from getting rotated.
23720 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
23721 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
23722 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
23723 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
23724 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
23725 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
23726 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23729 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
23730 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
23731 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
23732 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
23733 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
23736 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
23737 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
23740 o Major bugfixes (security):
23741 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
23742 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
23743 become more of a headache than it's worth.
23745 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
23746 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
23747 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
23749 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
23750 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
23751 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
23752 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
23753 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
23754 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23756 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
23757 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
23758 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
23759 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
23760 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
23762 o Minor features (controller):
23763 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
23764 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
23765 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
23766 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
23768 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23769 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
23770 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
23771 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
23772 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
23773 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
23774 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
23775 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
23777 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23778 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
23779 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
23780 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
23781 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
23782 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
23783 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
23784 if we ran off the end of the list.
23785 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
23786 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
23787 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
23788 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
23789 every time we change any piece of our config.
23790 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
23791 encourage people using them to stop.
23792 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
23794 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
23795 servers to choose a circuit.
23796 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
23797 unparseable piece of it.
23800 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
23801 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
23802 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
23803 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
23804 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
23805 TorK, etc. Or worse.
23807 o Major security fixes:
23808 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
23809 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
23812 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
23813 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
23814 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
23815 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
23817 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
23818 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
23820 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23821 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
23822 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
23823 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
23824 routerlist while inserting a new router.
23825 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
23826 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
23828 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
23829 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
23830 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
23832 o Major bugfixes (security):
23833 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
23835 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
23836 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
23837 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
23838 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
23839 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
23840 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
23841 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
23842 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
23843 guard list unless we need to.
23845 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
23846 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
23847 don't get overused as guards.
23849 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
23850 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
23851 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
23852 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
23853 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
23855 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23856 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
23857 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
23860 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23861 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23862 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
23863 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
23864 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
23865 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
23866 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
23867 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
23870 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
23871 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
23872 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
23873 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
23875 o Directory authority changes:
23876 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
23877 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
23878 or use hidden services.
23880 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23881 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
23882 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
23883 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
23884 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
23885 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
23886 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
23887 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
23888 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
23891 o Major bugfixes (security):
23892 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
23893 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
23894 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
23896 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
23897 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
23898 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
23899 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
23900 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
23901 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
23902 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
23903 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
23904 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
23905 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
23908 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
23909 purpose=controller.
23910 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
23911 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
23913 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
23914 having a hard time downloading.
23915 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23916 partial results on small file reads.
23917 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
23918 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
23919 the gaps in the store get very large.
23922 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
23923 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
23925 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
23926 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
23929 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
23930 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
23931 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
23932 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
23933 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
23934 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
23936 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
23937 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
23938 free speech on the Internet.
23940 o Major features, client performance:
23941 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
23942 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
23943 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
23944 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
23945 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
23946 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
23947 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
23948 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
23949 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
23950 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
23951 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
23952 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
23953 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
23954 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
23955 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
23957 o Major features, client functionality:
23958 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
23959 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
23960 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
23961 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
23962 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
23963 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
23964 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
23965 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
23966 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
23967 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
23968 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
23969 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
23970 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
23972 o Major features, servers:
23973 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
23974 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
23975 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
23976 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
23977 authenticated, so use with care.
23978 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
23979 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
23980 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
23982 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
23983 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
23984 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
23985 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
23986 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
23987 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
23989 o Improvements on DNS support:
23990 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
23991 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
23992 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
23993 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
23994 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
23995 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
23996 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
23997 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
23998 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
23999 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
24000 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
24001 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
24002 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
24003 lets you turn it off.
24004 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
24005 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
24006 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
24007 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
24008 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
24009 useful to the network.
24010 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
24011 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
24012 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
24013 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
24014 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
24015 our tests for DNS hijacking.
24017 o Improvements on reachability testing:
24018 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
24019 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
24020 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
24021 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
24022 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
24023 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
24024 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
24025 if their identity keys are as expected.
24026 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
24027 chews through many circuits before giving up.
24028 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
24029 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
24030 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
24031 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
24032 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
24033 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
24034 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
24035 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
24036 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
24037 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
24038 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
24039 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
24041 o Improvements on rate limiting:
24042 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
24043 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
24044 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
24045 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
24046 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
24048 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
24049 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
24050 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
24051 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
24052 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
24053 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
24054 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
24055 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
24057 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
24058 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
24060 o Major features, NT services:
24061 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
24062 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
24063 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
24064 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
24065 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
24066 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
24067 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
24069 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
24070 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
24071 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
24073 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
24074 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
24075 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
24077 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
24078 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
24080 o Directory authority improvements:
24081 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
24083 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
24084 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
24085 too much load to the exit nodes.
24086 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
24087 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
24088 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
24089 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
24090 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
24091 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
24092 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
24093 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
24094 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
24095 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
24096 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
24097 broken. Not used yet.
24098 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
24099 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
24100 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
24101 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
24102 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
24103 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
24104 non-versioning dirservers.
24105 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
24106 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
24107 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
24109 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
24110 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
24111 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
24112 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
24114 o Directory mirrors and clients:
24115 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
24116 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
24117 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
24118 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
24119 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
24120 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
24121 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
24122 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
24123 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
24124 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
24125 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
24126 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
24127 routers for even longer.
24128 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
24129 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
24130 caching HTTP proxies.
24131 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
24132 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
24133 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
24134 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
24136 o Major fixes, crashes:
24137 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
24138 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
24139 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
24140 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
24142 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
24143 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
24144 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
24145 stream is detached.
24146 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
24147 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
24148 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
24149 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
24150 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
24151 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
24152 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
24153 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
24154 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
24155 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
24157 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
24158 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
24159 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
24160 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
24161 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
24162 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
24163 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
24164 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
24165 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
24166 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
24167 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
24168 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
24169 could return an unnamed server instead.
24170 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
24171 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
24172 a more attractive target for compromise.)
24173 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
24174 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
24175 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
24176 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
24178 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
24179 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
24181 o Major fixes, other:
24182 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
24183 uptime in the descriptor.
24184 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
24185 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
24186 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
24187 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
24188 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
24189 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
24190 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
24191 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
24192 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
24193 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
24194 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
24195 our DirPort now, etc.
24196 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
24197 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
24198 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
24200 o New config options or behaviors:
24201 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
24202 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
24203 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
24204 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
24205 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
24206 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
24207 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
24208 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
24209 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
24210 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24211 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
24212 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
24214 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
24215 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
24216 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
24217 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
24218 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
24220 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24221 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24222 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24223 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24224 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24225 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24226 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
24227 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
24228 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24229 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24230 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24231 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24232 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
24233 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24234 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24235 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24236 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
24237 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
24238 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
24239 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
24240 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
24241 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
24242 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
24243 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
24244 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
24245 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
24246 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
24247 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
24248 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
24249 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
24251 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
24252 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
24253 your ORPort is set.
24256 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24257 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
24259 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24260 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24261 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
24262 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
24264 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
24265 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
24266 whether the config options are bad or good.
24267 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
24268 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
24269 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24270 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24271 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
24272 result more than once.
24273 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24274 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24275 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24276 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24277 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24278 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
24279 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
24280 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
24281 before we check for libevent.
24282 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
24283 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
24284 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
24285 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
24286 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
24287 recommendation system saner.)
24288 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
24289 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
24290 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
24291 now universal binaries.
24292 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
24293 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
24295 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
24297 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
24298 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
24299 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
24300 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
24301 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
24302 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
24304 o Minor features, controller:
24305 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
24306 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
24307 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
24309 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
24310 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24311 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
24312 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
24313 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
24314 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
24315 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
24317 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
24318 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
24319 connected or resolved cell.
24320 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
24321 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
24322 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
24323 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
24324 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
24325 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
24326 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
24328 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
24329 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
24330 entry guard status as it changes.
24331 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
24332 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
24333 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
24334 watching for STREAM events.
24335 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
24336 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
24337 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
24338 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
24340 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
24341 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
24342 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
24343 working much like those for circuit events.
24344 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
24345 about the current status of a router.
24346 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
24347 a router's status has changed.
24348 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
24349 can tell which events and features are supported.
24350 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
24351 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
24352 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
24353 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
24354 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
24355 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
24356 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
24357 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
24358 for more information.
24359 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
24360 best guess to the user.
24361 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
24362 descriptor has changed.
24363 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
24364 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
24365 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
24367 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
24368 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
24369 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
24370 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
24371 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
24372 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
24373 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
24374 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
24375 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
24376 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
24377 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
24379 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
24380 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
24382 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
24383 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
24384 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
24386 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
24387 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
24388 the controller from learning about current events.
24389 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
24390 reported by Mike Perry.
24391 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
24392 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
24393 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
24394 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
24395 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
24396 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
24397 long nicknames where appropriate.
24398 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
24399 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
24401 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
24402 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
24403 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
24404 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
24405 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
24407 o Minor features, code performance:
24408 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
24409 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
24410 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
24412 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
24413 some profiles, but not others.)
24414 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
24415 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
24416 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
24417 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
24418 operations, for profiling.
24419 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
24420 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
24421 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
24422 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
24423 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
24424 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
24425 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
24426 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
24428 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
24429 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
24430 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
24431 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
24432 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
24433 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
24434 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
24435 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
24436 family lists conveniently.
24438 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
24439 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
24440 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
24441 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
24442 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
24443 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
24444 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
24445 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
24446 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
24447 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
24448 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
24449 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
24450 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
24451 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
24452 of it), is not therefore "up".
24454 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
24455 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
24456 what version a router is running.
24457 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
24458 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
24459 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
24460 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
24462 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
24463 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
24464 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
24465 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
24466 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
24469 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
24470 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
24471 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
24473 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
24474 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
24476 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
24477 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
24478 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
24479 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
24480 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
24481 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
24482 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
24483 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
24484 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
24485 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
24487 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
24488 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
24489 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
24490 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
24491 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
24492 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
24493 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
24494 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
24495 get one we don't recognize.
24498 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
24499 o Security bugfixes:
24500 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
24501 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
24502 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
24503 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24507 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24508 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24509 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
24512 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
24514 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
24515 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24516 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24517 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
24518 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
24519 its circuits on demand.
24520 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
24521 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
24522 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
24523 connections more stable on average.
24524 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
24525 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
24526 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
24528 o Security bugfixes:
24529 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24530 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24533 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
24535 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
24536 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
24537 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
24538 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
24539 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
24540 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
24541 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
24542 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
24545 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
24547 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
24548 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
24549 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
24550 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
24551 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
24552 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
24553 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
24554 it can't resolve its hostname.
24555 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
24556 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
24557 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24560 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
24561 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
24562 "extendcircuit" request.
24563 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
24564 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
24565 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
24566 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
24568 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
24569 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
24570 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
24572 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
24573 methods: these are known to be buggy.
24574 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
24575 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
24576 we don't recognize.
24579 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
24581 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
24582 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
24583 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
24584 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
24585 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
24586 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
24587 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
24588 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
24589 test reachability, so you won't publish.
24592 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
24593 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
24594 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
24595 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
24596 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
24598 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
24599 own server descriptor yet.
24602 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
24604 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
24605 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
24606 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
24607 make sure to test via one of these.
24608 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
24609 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
24610 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
24611 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
24612 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
24614 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
24615 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
24616 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
24619 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
24620 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
24621 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
24622 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
24623 directory authority.
24624 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
24625 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
24626 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
24627 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
24630 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
24631 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
24632 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
24634 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
24635 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
24636 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
24637 current guards when picking a new guard.
24638 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
24639 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
24640 when we had more than one pending.
24641 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
24642 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
24643 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
24644 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
24645 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
24646 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
24647 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
24648 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
24649 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
24650 debug the reachability problems better.
24652 o Log / documentation fixes:
24653 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
24654 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
24655 about protocol violations by others.
24656 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
24657 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
24658 about what happened to our old torrc.
24661 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
24662 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
24663 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
24664 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
24665 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
24666 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
24668 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
24669 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
24670 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
24671 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
24672 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
24673 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
24674 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
24675 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
24676 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
24677 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
24678 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
24679 on malicious huge inputs.
24681 o Security fixes, major:
24682 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
24683 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
24684 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
24685 misreading their logs.
24686 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
24687 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
24688 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
24689 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
24690 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
24691 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
24692 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
24693 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
24694 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
24695 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
24696 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
24697 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
24698 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
24699 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
24701 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
24702 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
24703 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
24704 firewall options forbid.
24705 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
24706 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
24707 can only proxy to certain destinations.
24708 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
24709 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
24710 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
24712 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
24713 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
24714 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
24715 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
24716 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
24717 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
24718 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
24719 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
24720 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
24721 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
24722 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
24723 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
24724 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
24726 o Security fixes, minor:
24727 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
24728 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
24730 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
24731 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
24732 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
24733 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
24734 if we've not heard of a server.
24735 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
24736 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
24737 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
24738 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
24739 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
24740 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
24741 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
24742 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
24743 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
24744 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
24745 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
24746 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
24747 aids some statistical attacks.
24748 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
24749 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
24750 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
24751 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
24752 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
24753 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
24754 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
24755 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
24758 o Packaging improvements:
24759 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
24760 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
24761 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
24762 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
24763 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
24764 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
24766 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
24767 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
24768 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
24769 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
24770 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
24771 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
24773 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
24774 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
24775 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
24777 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
24778 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
24779 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
24780 They are useless now.
24781 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
24782 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
24783 is reachable by you.
24784 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
24787 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
24788 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
24789 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
24790 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
24791 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
24792 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
24793 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
24794 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
24795 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
24796 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
24797 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
24798 and isolating attacks better.
24799 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
24800 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
24801 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
24802 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
24803 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
24804 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
24805 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
24806 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
24807 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
24808 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
24809 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
24811 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
24812 can answer v2 directory requests too.
24813 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
24814 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
24815 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
24816 mirrors still cache and serve it).
24817 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
24818 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
24819 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
24820 for clients and for servers.
24821 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
24822 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
24823 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
24824 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
24825 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
24826 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
24827 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
24828 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
24829 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
24830 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
24831 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
24833 o Other directory improvements:
24834 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
24835 fifth authoritative directory servers.
24836 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
24837 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
24838 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
24839 to hang up on them.
24840 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
24841 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
24842 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
24843 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
24844 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
24845 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
24847 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
24848 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
24849 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
24850 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
24851 connections more reliable.
24852 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
24853 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
24854 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
24855 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
24856 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
24857 we fail to connect).
24858 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
24860 o Controller protocol improvements:
24861 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
24862 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
24863 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
24864 applications without caring how our protocol works.
24865 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
24866 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
24867 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
24868 many bytes we've used in this time period.
24869 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
24870 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
24871 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
24872 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
24873 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
24874 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
24875 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
24876 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
24877 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
24878 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
24879 or "signal reload".
24880 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
24881 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
24882 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
24883 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
24884 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
24885 a router in its role as directory authority.
24886 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
24887 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
24888 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
24889 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
24890 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
24891 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
24892 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
24893 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
24894 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
24895 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
24896 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
24897 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
24898 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
24899 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
24900 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
24901 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
24902 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
24903 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
24905 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
24906 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
24907 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
24908 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
24909 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
24910 just tell them to go read their logs.
24912 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
24913 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
24914 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
24915 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
24916 try to be a bit more fair.
24917 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
24918 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
24919 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
24920 and we're using a default DirPort.
24921 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
24922 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
24923 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
24924 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
24925 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
24926 services faster on the service end.
24927 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
24929 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
24930 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
24931 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
24932 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
24933 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
24934 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
24935 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
24936 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
24937 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
24938 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
24939 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
24940 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
24941 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
24942 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
24943 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
24944 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
24945 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
24946 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
24947 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
24948 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
24949 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
24950 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
24951 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
24952 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
24953 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
24955 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
24956 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
24957 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
24958 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
24959 so we can be backward-compatible.
24960 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
24961 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
24962 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
24963 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
24964 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
24965 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
24966 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
24967 initial descriptor forever.
24968 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
24969 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
24970 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
24971 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
24972 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
24973 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
24974 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
24975 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
24976 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
24977 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
24978 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
24979 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
24980 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
24981 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
24982 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
24983 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
24984 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
24985 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
24986 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
24987 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
24988 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
24989 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
24990 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
24991 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
24992 ports that have changed.
24993 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
24994 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
24995 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
24996 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
24997 connections once a week.
24998 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
24999 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
25000 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
25001 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
25002 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
25003 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
25004 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
25005 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
25006 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
25007 able to discover them.
25008 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
25009 want to make it an NT service.
25010 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
25011 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
25012 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
25013 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
25014 memory leaks better.
25015 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
25016 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
25017 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
25018 statistics are now uint64_t's.
25019 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
25020 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
25021 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
25022 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
25023 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
25024 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
25025 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
25026 default ulimit -n is 1024.
25027 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
25028 and its existence is confusing some users.
25030 o Config option fixes:
25031 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
25032 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
25033 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
25034 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
25035 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
25036 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
25037 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
25038 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
25039 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
25041 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
25042 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
25043 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
25044 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
25045 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
25046 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
25047 it would silently ignore the 6668.
25048 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
25049 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
25050 silently resetting it to its default.
25051 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
25052 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
25053 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
25054 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
25055 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
25056 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
25057 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
25058 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25059 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25060 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
25061 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
25062 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
25063 Address config option.
25064 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
25065 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
25067 o Config option features:
25068 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
25069 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
25070 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
25071 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
25072 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
25074 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
25075 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
25076 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
25077 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
25078 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
25079 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
25080 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
25081 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
25082 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
25083 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
25084 in at least some cases.)
25085 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
25086 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
25087 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
25088 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
25089 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
25090 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
25091 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
25092 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
25093 even if we know they're jerks.
25094 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
25095 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
25096 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
25097 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
25098 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
25099 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
25100 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
25101 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
25102 because older Tors do not understand it.
25103 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
25104 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
25105 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
25106 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
25107 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
25108 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
25109 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
25110 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
25111 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
25112 unattached before we fail it?
25113 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
25114 at least this many seconds ago.
25115 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
25116 at least this many seconds ago.
25117 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
25118 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
25120 o Improved and clearer log messages:
25121 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
25122 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
25123 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
25125 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
25126 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
25127 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
25128 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
25129 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
25130 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
25131 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
25132 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
25133 temporarily unreachable.
25134 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
25135 Windows-style errno back.
25136 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
25137 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
25139 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
25140 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
25141 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
25142 exactly for this case.
25143 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
25144 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
25145 don't warn twice about the same name.
25146 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
25148 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
25149 it was self-testing that told us so.
25150 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
25151 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
25152 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
25153 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
25154 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
25155 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
25156 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
25157 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
25158 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
25159 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
25160 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
25161 established a circuit.
25162 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
25163 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
25164 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
25165 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
25166 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
25167 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
25168 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
25169 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
25170 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
25171 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
25172 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
25173 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
25174 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
25175 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
25176 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
25177 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
25178 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
25179 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
25180 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
25181 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
25182 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
25183 testing for reachability.
25184 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
25185 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
25187 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
25190 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
25191 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25192 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
25193 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
25195 o Other important bugfixes:
25196 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25197 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25198 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25199 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25201 o Backported features:
25202 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25203 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25204 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25205 without getting overloaded.
25206 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
25207 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
25208 503's whenever they feel busy.
25209 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
25210 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
25211 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
25212 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
25213 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
25216 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
25217 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25218 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25219 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25220 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25221 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25222 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25223 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25225 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25226 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25227 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25228 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25229 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25230 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25231 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25232 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25233 rendezvous circuits.
25234 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25236 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25237 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25238 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25239 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25240 advertising it because of hibernation.
25241 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25242 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
25243 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25244 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25245 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25246 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25247 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25248 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25249 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25250 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25251 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25252 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25253 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25254 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25255 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25258 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
25259 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25260 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
25261 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
25262 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
25263 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25264 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25265 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
25266 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
25267 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
25268 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
25269 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
25270 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
25271 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
25272 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
25275 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
25276 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25277 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
25279 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
25280 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
25283 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
25284 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25285 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
25286 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
25287 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
25288 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
25289 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
25291 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
25292 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
25296 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
25297 o New directory servers:
25298 - tor26 has changed IP address.
25300 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25301 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
25302 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
25303 pthreads libraries.
25304 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
25305 claims its dirport is 0.
25306 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
25307 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
25311 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
25312 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25313 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
25314 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
25315 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
25316 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
25317 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
25318 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
25321 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
25323 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
25324 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
25325 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
25326 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
25327 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
25328 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
25329 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
25330 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
25331 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
25333 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
25334 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
25336 o Assert / crash bugs:
25337 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25338 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25339 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25341 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25342 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
25343 TLS errors better in other situations too.
25344 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
25345 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
25348 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
25349 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
25350 duplicate ram over time.
25351 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
25352 reentry and threadsafeness.
25353 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
25354 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
25355 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
25357 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
25358 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
25359 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
25360 point at your Tor server.
25361 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
25363 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
25364 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
25367 o Protocol correctness:
25368 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
25369 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
25370 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
25371 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
25372 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
25373 to abandon partially built circuits.
25374 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
25375 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
25376 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
25377 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
25378 descriptors we just dropped.
25379 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
25380 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
25381 and to take errno into account where possible.
25382 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
25383 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
25384 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
25385 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
25387 o Robustness improvements:
25388 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
25389 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
25390 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
25392 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
25393 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
25394 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
25395 that will want high uptime circuits.
25396 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
25397 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
25398 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
25399 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
25400 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
25401 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
25402 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
25403 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
25404 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
25405 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
25406 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
25407 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
25408 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
25409 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
25410 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
25411 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
25412 for google.com" problem.
25413 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
25414 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
25415 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
25416 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
25417 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
25420 o Reachability testing.
25421 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
25422 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
25423 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
25424 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
25425 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
25426 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
25427 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
25428 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
25429 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
25430 already connected to them.
25431 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
25435 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
25436 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
25437 nickname+key are allowed.
25438 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
25439 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
25440 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
25441 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
25442 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
25443 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
25444 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
25445 have quite wrong clocks).
25446 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
25447 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
25448 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
25449 their descriptors are being rejected.
25451 o Efficiency improvements:
25452 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
25453 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
25454 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
25455 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
25456 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
25457 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
25458 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
25459 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
25460 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
25461 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
25463 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
25464 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
25465 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
25466 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
25467 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
25468 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
25469 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
25470 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
25471 of CPU time plus memory.
25472 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
25473 directory every time you regenerate it.
25474 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
25475 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
25476 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
25477 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
25478 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
25479 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
25480 lowercase when you first see them.
25483 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
25484 hidden services better.
25485 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
25486 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
25487 when we try to launch one.
25488 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
25489 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
25490 attempts to build a circuit.
25491 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
25492 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
25493 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
25494 normal web requests.
25497 - More Tor controller support. See
25498 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
25499 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
25500 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
25501 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
25502 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
25503 to make it easier to write controllers.
25504 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
25505 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
25506 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
25507 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
25508 new log event types.
25510 o New config options/defaults:
25511 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
25512 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
25513 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
25514 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
25515 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
25517 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
25519 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
25520 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
25521 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
25522 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
25523 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
25525 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
25526 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
25527 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
25528 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
25529 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
25530 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
25531 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
25532 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
25533 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
25534 required exit node for certain sites.
25535 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
25536 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
25537 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
25538 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
25539 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
25540 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
25541 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
25542 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
25543 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
25545 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
25546 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
25547 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
25548 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
25549 private-IP addresses.
25550 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
25551 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
25552 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
25553 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
25554 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
25555 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
25556 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
25557 is valid without actually launching Tor.
25559 o Logging improvements:
25560 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
25561 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
25562 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
25563 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
25565 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
25566 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
25567 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
25568 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
25569 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
25570 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
25571 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
25572 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
25573 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
25575 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
25577 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
25578 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
25579 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
25580 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
25581 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
25582 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
25584 o New contrib scripts:
25585 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
25586 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
25588 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
25589 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
25590 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
25591 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
25592 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
25593 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
25595 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
25596 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
25597 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
25598 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
25602 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
25603 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
25604 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
25605 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
25606 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
25607 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
25608 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
25610 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
25611 something more reasonable when first installing.
25612 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
25613 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
25614 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
25615 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
25617 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
25618 artificially capped at 500kB.
25619 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
25621 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
25622 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
25623 they could use instead.
25624 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
25625 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
25626 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
25627 the user asks you to.
25630 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
25631 rather than just rejecting it.
25632 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
25633 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
25634 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
25635 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
25636 rather than just "success" or "failure".
25637 - A more sane version numbering system. See
25638 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
25639 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
25640 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
25641 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
25642 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
25643 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
25645 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
25646 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
25647 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
25648 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
25650 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
25651 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
25653 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
25654 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
25655 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
25656 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
25658 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
25659 whether the server is hibernating.
25662 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
25663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
25664 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25665 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25666 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25670 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
25671 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25672 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25673 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
25674 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
25677 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
25678 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25679 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
25680 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
25681 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
25682 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
25683 busy for more than 100 seconds.
25686 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
25687 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25688 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
25689 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
25690 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
25691 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
25692 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
25693 creating actual system users.
25694 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
25695 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
25699 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
25700 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
25701 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
25702 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
25703 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
25704 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
25705 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
25706 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
25707 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
25708 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
25709 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
25710 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
25711 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
25712 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
25713 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
25715 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
25716 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
25717 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
25718 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
25719 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
25720 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
25721 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
25722 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
25723 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
25724 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
25725 existing torrc files.
25726 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
25729 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
25730 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25731 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
25732 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
25733 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
25734 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
25735 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
25736 the win32 SYSTEM account.
25737 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
25738 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
25739 file descriptors available.
25740 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
25741 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
25742 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
25745 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
25746 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25747 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
25748 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
25750 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
25751 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
25752 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
25753 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
25754 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
25756 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
25757 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
25758 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
25759 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
25760 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
25761 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
25762 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
25763 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
25764 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
25765 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
25766 800kB/s of capacity.
25767 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
25770 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
25771 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25772 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
25773 need as much processor time.
25774 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
25775 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
25776 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
25777 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
25778 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
25779 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
25780 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
25781 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
25782 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
25783 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
25784 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
25785 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
25787 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
25788 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
25789 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
25790 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
25791 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
25792 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
25793 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
25796 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
25797 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
25798 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
25800 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
25801 style address, then we'd crash.
25802 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
25803 a dirserver is broken.
25804 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
25806 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
25807 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
25808 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
25810 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
25811 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
25812 name out of the warning/assert messages.
25813 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
25814 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
25815 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
25817 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
25818 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
25819 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
25821 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
25823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
25824 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
25825 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
25826 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
25827 values at once couldn't work.
25828 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
25829 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
25830 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
25831 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
25832 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
25833 they can handle any number of routers.
25834 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
25835 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
25836 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
25837 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
25838 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
25839 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
25840 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
25841 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
25842 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
25845 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
25846 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25847 - Make hibernation actually work.
25848 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
25849 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
25850 don't use the stream status code.
25853 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
25854 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
25855 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
25856 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
25857 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
25858 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
25859 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
25860 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
25861 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
25862 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
25863 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
25864 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
25867 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
25868 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
25869 win32 socket errors better.
25870 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
25871 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
25872 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
25873 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
25875 - Make unit tests work on win32.
25877 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
25878 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
25879 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
25880 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
25881 right after sending the begin cell.
25882 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
25883 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
25884 exit nodes too. Oops.
25885 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
25886 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
25887 the user would get no response.
25888 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
25889 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
25890 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
25892 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
25893 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
25894 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
25895 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
25896 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
25898 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
25899 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
25900 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
25901 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
25902 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
25903 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
25904 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
25905 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
25906 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
25907 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
25908 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
25910 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
25911 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
25912 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
25913 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
25914 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
25915 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
25916 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
25917 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
25918 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
25919 so we don't see those messages days later.
25920 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
25921 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
25923 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
25924 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
25925 they ran out of file descriptors.
25926 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
25927 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
25928 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
25929 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
25931 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
25932 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
25933 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
25934 the ones we find in directories.)
25935 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
25936 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
25937 if you don't want it open.
25938 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
25939 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
25940 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
25941 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
25942 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
25943 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
25945 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
25946 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
25948 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
25950 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
25951 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
25953 o Features (circuits and streams):
25954 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
25955 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
25956 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
25957 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
25958 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
25959 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
25960 the user knows which one it's talking about.
25961 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
25962 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
25963 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
25964 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
25965 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
25966 from Geoff Goodell.
25967 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
25969 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
25970 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
25971 to fill the last cell completely.
25972 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
25973 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
25975 o Features (bandwidth):
25976 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
25977 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
25978 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
25979 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
25980 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
25981 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
25982 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
25983 your billing cycle starts on.
25984 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
25985 hibernation properties by
25986 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
25987 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
25988 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
25989 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
25990 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
25992 o Features (directories):
25993 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
25994 nickname to its identity key.
25995 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
25996 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
25997 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
25998 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
25999 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
26001 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
26002 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
26004 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
26005 will be able to get a directory.
26006 - Http proxy support
26007 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
26008 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
26009 be routed through this host.
26010 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
26011 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
26012 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
26013 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
26014 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
26015 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
26017 o Features (packages and install):
26018 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
26019 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
26020 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
26021 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
26022 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
26023 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
26024 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
26025 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
26026 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
26027 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
26030 o Features (ui controller):
26031 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
26032 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
26033 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
26034 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
26035 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
26036 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
26037 with the control port.
26038 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
26039 use in authenticating to the control interface.
26040 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
26041 configuration to torrc.
26042 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
26043 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
26044 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
26046 o Features (config and command-line):
26047 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
26048 not on the command line.
26049 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
26051 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
26052 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
26053 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
26054 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
26055 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
26056 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
26057 - New log format in config:
26058 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
26059 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
26060 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
26061 from their dirserver.
26062 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
26064 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
26065 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
26066 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
26067 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
26068 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
26069 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
26070 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
26071 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
26072 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
26073 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
26074 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
26075 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
26076 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
26077 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
26078 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
26079 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
26080 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
26081 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
26082 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
26083 than once per minute.
26085 o Features (other):
26086 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
26087 get back to normal.)
26088 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
26089 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
26090 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
26091 log more informatively.
26092 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
26093 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
26094 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
26095 from each other, to hinder linkability.
26096 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
26097 them act more like real nodes.
26098 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
26099 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
26100 1024) file descriptors.
26101 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
26104 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
26106 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
26107 clients/servers with an open dirport.
26108 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
26109 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
26110 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
26111 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
26112 intermittent connections.
26113 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
26114 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
26116 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
26117 in reporting stats locally.
26118 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
26119 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
26120 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
26123 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
26125 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
26126 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
26127 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
26128 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
26129 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
26130 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
26131 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
26132 list to decide who's running.
26133 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
26134 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
26135 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
26136 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
26137 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
26138 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
26139 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
26140 for pointing out this bug.)
26141 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
26143 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
26144 don't put it into the client dns cache.
26145 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
26146 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
26147 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
26149 o Protocol changes:
26150 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
26151 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
26152 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
26153 hadn't heard of before.
26156 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
26157 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
26158 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
26159 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
26160 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
26161 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
26162 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
26163 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
26164 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
26165 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
26166 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
26167 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
26168 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
26169 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
26170 - Directory caching.
26171 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
26172 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
26173 directory they've pulled down.
26174 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
26175 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
26176 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
26177 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
26178 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
26179 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
26180 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
26182 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
26183 This isn't used yet.
26184 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
26185 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
26186 clients don't use this yet.)
26187 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
26188 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
26189 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
26190 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
26191 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
26192 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
26193 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
26194 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
26195 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
26196 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
26197 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
26198 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
26199 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
26200 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
26201 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
26202 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
26203 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
26204 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
26205 - File and name management:
26206 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
26207 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
26209 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
26210 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
26211 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
26212 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
26213 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
26214 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
26215 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
26217 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
26218 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
26219 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
26221 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
26222 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
26223 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
26224 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
26225 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
26226 - New docs in the tarball:
26228 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
26229 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
26230 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
26231 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
26232 know you might want to get it verified.
26233 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
26234 kazaa, gnutella ports.
26235 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
26236 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
26237 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
26238 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
26239 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
26240 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
26241 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
26243 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
26245 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
26246 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
26248 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
26249 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
26250 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
26253 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
26254 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
26255 ask them to resolve the host "".
26258 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
26259 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
26260 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
26263 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
26264 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
26265 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
26268 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
26269 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
26270 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
26271 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
26273 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
26274 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
26275 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
26277 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
26278 hidden service per 15-minute period.
26279 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
26280 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
26281 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
26282 o Fixes for security bugs:
26283 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
26284 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
26285 a trusted dirserver.
26287 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
26288 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
26289 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
26290 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
26291 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
26292 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
26293 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
26294 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
26295 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
26296 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
26298 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
26299 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
26300 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
26301 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
26302 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
26303 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
26305 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
26308 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
26309 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
26310 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
26311 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
26312 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
26313 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
26314 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
26315 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
26316 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
26317 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
26318 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
26319 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
26320 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
26321 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
26324 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
26325 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
26326 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
26327 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26330 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
26331 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
26332 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
26333 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
26334 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
26335 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26336 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
26340 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
26342 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
26343 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
26344 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
26345 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
26346 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
26347 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
26348 if you decrypted them correctly.
26349 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
26350 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
26351 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
26352 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
26353 in-memory directories too.
26354 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
26355 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
26356 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
26357 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
26358 just close the circ.
26359 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
26360 - Better debugging for tls errors
26361 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
26362 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
26364 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
26365 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
26366 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
26367 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
26368 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
26369 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
26370 it tells you about the first error.
26371 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
26372 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
26373 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
26374 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
26375 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
26376 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
26377 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
26378 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
26379 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
26380 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
26382 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
26383 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
26386 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
26387 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
26389 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
26390 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
26391 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
26392 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
26393 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
26394 expect it to have a nickname.
26395 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
26396 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
26397 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
26398 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
26399 the dns farm to do it.
26400 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
26401 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
26403 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
26404 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
26405 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
26406 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
26407 but that aren't warnings
26410 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
26411 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
26415 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
26416 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
26417 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
26418 - include missing header fcntl.h
26419 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
26420 - deal with hardware word alignment
26421 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
26422 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
26423 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
26424 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
26425 by kill -USR1 currently.
26426 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
26427 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
26428 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
26431 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
26432 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
26433 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
26436 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
26438 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
26439 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
26440 - And fix a few endian issues.
26443 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
26445 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
26446 try that circuit again: try a new one.
26447 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
26448 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
26449 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
26450 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
26451 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
26452 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
26454 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
26455 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
26456 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
26458 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
26460 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
26461 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
26462 side isn't reading right then.
26463 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
26464 RecommendedVersions
26465 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
26466 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
26467 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
26470 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
26472 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
26473 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
26476 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
26480 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
26482 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
26483 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
26484 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
26485 connection is finished.
26486 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
26487 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
26488 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
26489 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
26490 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
26491 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
26492 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
26493 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
26494 rather than warn and continue.
26495 - Make --version work
26496 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
26499 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
26501 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
26502 knows it's working.
26503 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
26504 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
26506 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
26507 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
26508 so you can collect coredumps there.
26510 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
26511 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
26512 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
26513 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
26514 dns cache actually gets populated.
26515 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
26516 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
26517 end cell down it first.
26518 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
26519 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
26522 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
26524 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
26525 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
26527 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
26528 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
26529 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
26530 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
26531 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
26532 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
26534 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
26536 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
26537 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
26538 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
26539 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
26540 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
26541 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
26543 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
26544 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
26547 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
26549 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
26550 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
26551 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
26552 tor. It even has a man page.
26553 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
26554 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
26555 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
26556 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
26558 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
26560 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
26563 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
26565 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
26566 it, apt-getters. :)
26567 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
26568 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
26569 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
26570 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
26571 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
26572 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
26573 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
26574 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
26575 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
26576 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
26577 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
26579 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
26580 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
26583 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
26585 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
26586 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
26589 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
26591 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
26592 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
26593 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
26594 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
26595 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
26596 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
26597 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
26598 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
26599 logfile so you know it's working.
26600 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
26601 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
26604 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
26606 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
26607 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
26608 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
26611 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
26613 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
26614 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
26615 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
26618 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
26619 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
26620 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
26622 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
26623 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
26625 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
26626 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
26627 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
26629 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
26630 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
26634 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
26636 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
26637 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
26638 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
26641 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
26642 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
26643 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
26644 - Add port ranges to exit policies
26645 - Add a conservative default exit policy
26646 - Warn if you're running tor as root
26647 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
26648 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
26649 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
26650 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
26652 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
26655 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
26656 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26657 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
26658 really screw things up.
26659 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
26661 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
26662 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
26664 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
26665 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
26666 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
26667 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
26668 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
26669 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
26672 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
26675 - Change default loglevel to warn.
26676 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
26677 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
26679 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
26682 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
26683 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26684 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
26685 - to get ownership/permissions right
26686 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
26687 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
26688 pull down a directory again
26689 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
26690 causing server crashes
26691 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
26692 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
26693 - exit if bind() fails
26694 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
26695 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
26696 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
26697 - fix minor bias in PRNG
26698 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
26701 - Wrote the design document (woo)
26703 o Circuit building and exit policies:
26704 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
26706 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
26707 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
26708 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
26709 exists, rather than failing
26710 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
26711 which AP connections are standing by
26712 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
26713 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
26714 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
26716 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
26717 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
26720 - APPort is now called SocksPort
26721 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
26723 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
26724 hardcoded (for dirservers)
26725 - Reloads config on HUP
26726 - Usage info on -h or --help
26727 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
26729 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
26730 o General stability:
26731 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
26732 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
26733 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
26734 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
26735 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
26736 to take down the network when I approve a new router
26737 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
26740 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
26741 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
26743 o Autoconf improvements:
26744 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
26745 - Make install now works
26746 - create var/lib/tor on make install
26747 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
26748 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
26750 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
26751 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
26752 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
26753 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup