1 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
3 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
4 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
6 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
9 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
12 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
14 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
15 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
16 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
17 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
18 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
19 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
20 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
21 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
22 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
23 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
24 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
25 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
27 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
28 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
31 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
32 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
33 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
34 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
35 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
36 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
39 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
40 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
41 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
42 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
43 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
44 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
45 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
46 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
47 connections more reliable.
50 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
51 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
52 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
53 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
54 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
55 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
56 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
57 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
58 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
59 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
60 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
61 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
62 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
63 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
67 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
68 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
69 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
70 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
71 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
72 need to be uint64_t's.
73 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
74 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
75 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
77 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
79 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
80 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
81 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
82 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
83 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
84 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
85 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
87 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
88 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
89 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
90 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
91 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
92 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
93 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
94 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
95 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
96 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
97 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
98 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
99 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
102 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
103 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
104 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
105 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
106 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
107 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
108 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
110 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
111 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
112 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
113 can answer v2 directory requests too.
114 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
115 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
116 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
117 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
119 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
120 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
121 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
122 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
123 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
124 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
125 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
126 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
127 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
128 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
129 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
130 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
131 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
132 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
133 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
135 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
136 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
139 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
140 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
141 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
142 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
143 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
144 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
145 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
146 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
147 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
148 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
149 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
150 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
151 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
152 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
153 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
154 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
155 connections once a week.
156 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
157 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
158 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
159 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
160 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
161 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
163 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
164 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
165 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
167 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
168 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
169 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
170 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
171 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
172 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
173 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
174 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
175 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
176 firewall options forbid.
177 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
178 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
179 can only proxy to certain destinations.
180 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
181 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
182 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
183 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
184 aids some statistical attacks.
185 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
186 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
187 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
188 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
190 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
191 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
192 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
193 server descriptor sometimes.
194 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
195 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
196 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
197 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
198 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
199 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
200 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
201 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
203 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
204 case the controller wants to change that too.
205 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
206 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
207 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
208 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
210 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
211 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
212 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
214 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
215 descriptors that they know they will reject.
217 o Features and updates:
218 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
219 significantly faster.
220 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
221 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
222 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
223 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
224 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
225 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
226 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
227 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
228 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
229 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
230 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
231 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
232 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
233 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
234 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
235 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
236 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
237 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
238 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
239 as authoritative dirserver.
240 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
241 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
242 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
245 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
246 o Usability improvements:
247 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
248 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
250 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
251 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
252 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
254 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
255 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
256 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
257 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
258 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
259 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
260 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
261 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
263 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
264 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
265 their operators to pay close attention.
266 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
267 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
269 o Performance improvements:
270 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
271 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
272 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
273 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
274 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
275 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
276 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
277 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
278 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
279 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
280 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
281 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
282 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
283 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
284 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
285 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
286 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
288 o Security improvements:
289 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
290 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
291 fingerprint of server.
292 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
293 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
294 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
296 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
297 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
298 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
299 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
300 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
301 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
302 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
303 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
304 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
305 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
306 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
307 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
308 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
309 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
310 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
311 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
312 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
313 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
314 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
315 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
316 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
318 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
319 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
320 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
322 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
323 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
325 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
326 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
327 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
328 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
329 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
330 of the controller protocol.
331 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
332 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
333 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
336 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
337 o New features (major):
338 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
339 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
340 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
341 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
342 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
343 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
344 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
345 we're using a default DirPort.
346 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
348 o New features (minor):
349 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
350 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
351 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
352 mirrors still cache and serve it).
353 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
354 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
355 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
356 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
357 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
358 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
359 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
360 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
361 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
362 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
363 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
364 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
365 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
366 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
367 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
369 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
370 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
371 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
372 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
373 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
374 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
375 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
376 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
378 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
379 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
380 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
381 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
382 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
383 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
384 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
385 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
386 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
387 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
389 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
390 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
391 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
392 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
393 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
396 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
397 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
399 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
400 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
402 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
403 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
404 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
405 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
406 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
407 don't warn twice about the same name.
408 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
409 if we've not heard of the server.
410 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
411 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
414 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
415 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
416 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
417 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
418 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
420 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
421 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
422 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
423 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
424 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
425 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
429 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
430 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
431 nickname) is reachable by you.
432 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
436 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
437 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
438 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
439 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
440 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
441 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
442 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
443 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
445 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
446 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
447 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
448 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
450 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
451 it was self-testing that told us so.
454 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
455 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
456 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
457 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
458 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
459 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
460 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
461 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
462 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
463 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
464 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
465 exit policy and stopped using him for any exits.
466 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
469 o New controller features/fixes:
470 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
471 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
472 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
473 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
474 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
475 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
476 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
477 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
478 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
480 o Start on the new directory design:
481 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
482 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
484 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
485 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
486 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
487 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
489 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
490 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
491 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
492 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
493 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
494 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
495 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
496 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
499 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
500 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
501 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
502 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
503 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
504 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
505 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
506 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
507 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
508 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
510 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
511 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
512 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
513 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
514 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
515 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
516 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
517 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
518 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
520 o Config option changes:
521 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
522 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
523 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
524 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
525 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
526 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
529 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
530 people have started using them for spam too.
531 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
532 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
533 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
534 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
535 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
536 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
537 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
538 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
539 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
540 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
541 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
542 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
543 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
544 services faster on the service end.
545 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
546 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
547 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
548 it a fair shake next time we try.
549 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
550 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
551 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
552 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
553 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
554 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
555 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
556 able to discover them.
557 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
558 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
559 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
560 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
561 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
562 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
563 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
564 testing for reachability.
565 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
566 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
568 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
570 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
571 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
574 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
575 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
577 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
578 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
579 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
580 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
583 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
584 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
587 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
588 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
589 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
590 options, getinfo keys.
593 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-25
594 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
595 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
597 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
599 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
600 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
601 circuit events and we go offline.
602 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
603 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
604 you don't have enough intro points already.
606 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
607 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
608 many bytes we've used in this time period.
609 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
610 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
611 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
612 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
613 enabled by default yet.
615 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
616 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
617 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
618 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
619 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
622 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-14
623 o New directory servers:
624 - tor26 has changed IP address.
626 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
627 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from 0.1.0.11.
628 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
629 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
630 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
631 ports that have changed.
632 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
634 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
635 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
636 Windows-style errno back.
637 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
638 want to make it an NT service.
639 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
640 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
641 name, give the full name in our response.
642 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
643 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
644 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
645 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
648 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
649 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
653 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
654 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
655 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
656 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
657 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
660 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
662 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
663 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
664 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
665 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
666 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
667 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
669 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
670 temporarily unreachable.
671 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
675 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
676 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
677 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
679 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
683 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
684 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
685 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
686 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
687 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
688 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
689 too -- so detect and avoid this.
690 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
692 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
693 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
694 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
695 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
696 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
697 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
698 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
699 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
701 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
703 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
704 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
705 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
706 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
707 advertising it because of hibernation.
708 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
709 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
710 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
711 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
712 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
713 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
714 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
715 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
716 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
717 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
718 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
719 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
720 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
721 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
722 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
725 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
726 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
727 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
728 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
729 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
730 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
731 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
732 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
733 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
734 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
735 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
736 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
737 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
738 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
739 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
742 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
743 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
744 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
746 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
747 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
750 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
751 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
752 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
753 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
754 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
755 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
756 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
758 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
759 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
763 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
764 o New directory servers:
765 - tor26 has changed IP address.
767 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
768 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
769 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
771 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
772 claims its dirport is 0.
773 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
774 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
778 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
779 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
780 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
781 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
782 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
783 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
784 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
785 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
788 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
790 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
791 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
792 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
793 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
794 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
795 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
796 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
797 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
798 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
800 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
801 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
803 o Assert / crash bugs:
804 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
805 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
806 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
808 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
809 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
810 TLS errors better in other situations too.
811 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
812 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
815 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
816 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
817 duplicate ram over time.
818 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
819 reentry and threadsafeness.
820 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
821 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
822 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
824 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
825 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
826 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
827 point at your Tor server.
828 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
830 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
831 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
834 o Protocol correctness:
835 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
836 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
837 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
838 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
839 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
840 to abandon partially built circuits.
841 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
842 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
843 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
844 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
845 descriptors we just dropped.
846 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
847 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
848 and to take errno into account where possible.
849 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
850 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
851 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
852 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
854 o Robustness improvements:
855 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
856 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
857 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
859 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
860 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
861 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
862 that will want high uptime circuits.
863 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
864 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
865 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
866 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
867 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
868 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
869 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
870 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
871 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
872 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
873 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
874 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
875 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
876 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
877 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
878 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
879 for google.com" problem.
880 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
881 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
882 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
883 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
884 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
887 o Reachability testing.
888 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
889 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
890 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
891 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
892 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
893 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
894 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
895 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
896 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
897 already connected to them.
898 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
902 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
903 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
904 nickname+key are allowed.
905 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
906 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
907 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
908 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
909 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
910 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
911 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
912 have quite wrong clocks).
913 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
914 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
915 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
916 their descriptors are being rejected.
918 o Efficiency improvements:
919 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
920 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
921 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
922 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
923 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
924 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
925 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
926 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
927 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
928 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
930 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
931 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
932 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
933 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
934 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
935 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
936 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
937 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
938 of CPU time plus memory.
939 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
940 directory every time you regenerate it.
941 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
942 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
943 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
944 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
945 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
946 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
947 lowercase when you first see them.
950 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
951 hidden services better.
952 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
953 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
954 when we try to launch one.
955 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
956 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
957 attempts to build a circuit.
958 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
959 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
960 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
964 - More Tor controller support. See
965 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
966 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
967 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
968 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
969 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
970 to make it easier to write controllers.
971 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
972 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
973 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
974 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
977 o New config options/defaults:
978 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
979 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
980 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
981 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
982 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
984 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
986 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
987 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
988 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
989 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
990 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
992 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
993 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
994 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
995 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
996 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
997 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
998 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
999 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
1000 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
1001 required exit node for certain sites.
1002 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
1003 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
1004 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
1005 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
1006 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
1007 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
1008 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
1009 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
1010 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
1012 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
1013 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
1014 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
1015 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
1016 private-IP addresses.
1017 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
1018 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
1019 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
1020 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
1021 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
1022 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
1023 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
1024 is valid without actually launching Tor.
1026 o Logging improvements:
1027 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
1028 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
1029 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
1030 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
1032 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
1033 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
1034 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
1035 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
1036 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
1037 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
1038 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
1039 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
1040 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
1042 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
1044 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
1045 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
1046 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
1047 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
1048 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
1049 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
1051 o New contrib scripts:
1052 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
1053 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
1055 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
1056 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
1057 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
1058 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
1059 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
1060 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
1062 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
1063 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
1064 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
1065 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
1069 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
1070 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
1071 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
1072 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
1073 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
1074 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
1075 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
1077 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
1078 something more reasonable when first installing.
1079 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
1080 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
1081 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
1082 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
1084 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
1085 artificially capped at 500kB.
1086 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
1088 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
1089 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
1090 they could use instead.
1091 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
1092 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
1093 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
1094 the user asks you to.
1097 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
1098 rather than just rejecting it.
1099 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
1100 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
1101 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
1102 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
1103 rather than just "success" or "failure".
1104 - A more sane version numbering system. See
1105 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
1106 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
1107 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
1108 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
1109 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
1110 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
1112 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
1113 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
1114 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
1115 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
1117 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
1118 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
1120 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
1121 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
1122 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
1123 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
1125 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
1126 whether the server is hibernating.
1129 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
1130 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
1131 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
1132 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
1133 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
1137 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
1138 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1139 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
1140 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
1141 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
1144 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
1145 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1146 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
1147 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
1148 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
1149 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
1150 busy for more than 100 seconds.
1153 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
1154 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1155 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
1156 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
1157 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
1158 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
1159 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
1160 creating actual system users.
1161 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
1162 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
1166 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
1167 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
1168 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
1169 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
1170 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
1171 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
1172 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
1173 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
1174 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
1175 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
1176 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
1177 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
1178 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
1179 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
1180 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
1182 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
1183 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
1184 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
1185 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
1186 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
1187 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
1188 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
1189 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
1190 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
1191 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
1192 existing torrc files.
1193 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
1196 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
1197 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1198 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
1199 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
1200 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
1201 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
1202 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
1203 the win32 SYSTEM account.
1204 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
1205 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
1206 file descriptors available.
1207 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
1208 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
1209 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
1212 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
1213 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1214 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
1215 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
1217 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
1218 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
1219 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
1220 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
1221 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
1223 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
1224 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
1225 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
1226 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
1227 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
1228 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
1229 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
1230 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
1231 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
1232 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
1233 800kB/s of capacity.
1234 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
1237 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
1238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1239 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
1240 need as much processor time.
1241 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
1242 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
1243 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
1244 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
1245 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
1246 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
1247 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
1248 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
1249 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
1250 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
1251 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
1252 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
1254 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
1255 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
1256 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
1257 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
1258 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
1259 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
1260 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
1263 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
1264 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
1265 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
1267 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
1268 style address, then we'd crash.
1269 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
1270 a dirserver is broken.
1271 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
1273 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
1274 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
1275 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
1277 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
1278 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
1279 name out of the warning/assert messages.
1280 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
1281 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
1282 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
1284 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
1285 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
1286 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
1288 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
1290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
1291 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
1292 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
1293 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
1294 values at once couldn't work.
1295 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
1296 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
1297 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
1298 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
1299 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
1300 they can handle any number of routers.
1301 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
1302 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
1303 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
1304 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
1305 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
1306 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
1307 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
1308 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
1309 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
1312 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
1313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1314 - Make hibernation actually work.
1315 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
1316 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
1317 don't use the stream status code.
1320 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
1321 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
1322 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
1323 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
1324 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
1325 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
1326 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
1327 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
1328 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
1329 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
1330 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
1331 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
1334 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
1335 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
1336 win32 socket errors better.
1337 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
1338 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
1339 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
1340 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
1342 - Make unit tests work on win32.
1344 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
1345 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
1346 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
1347 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
1348 right after sending the begin cell.
1349 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
1350 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
1351 exit nodes too. Oops.
1352 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
1353 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
1354 the user would get no response.
1355 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
1356 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
1357 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
1359 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
1360 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
1361 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
1362 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
1363 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
1365 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
1366 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
1367 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
1368 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
1369 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
1370 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
1371 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
1372 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
1373 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
1374 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
1375 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
1377 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
1378 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
1379 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
1380 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
1381 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
1382 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
1383 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
1384 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
1385 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
1386 so we don't see those messages days later.
1387 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
1388 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
1390 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
1391 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
1392 they ran out of file descriptors.
1393 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
1394 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
1395 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
1396 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
1398 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
1399 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
1400 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
1401 the ones we find in directories.)
1402 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
1403 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
1404 if you don't want it open.
1405 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
1406 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
1407 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
1408 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
1409 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
1410 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
1412 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
1413 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
1415 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
1417 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
1418 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
1420 o Features (circuits and streams):
1421 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
1422 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
1423 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
1424 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
1425 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
1426 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
1427 the user knows which one it's talking about.
1428 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
1429 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
1430 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
1431 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
1432 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
1434 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
1436 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
1437 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
1438 to fill the last cell completely.
1439 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
1440 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
1442 o Features (bandwidth):
1443 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
1444 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
1445 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
1446 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
1447 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
1448 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
1449 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
1450 your billing cycle starts on.
1451 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
1452 hibernation properties by
1453 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
1454 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
1455 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
1456 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
1457 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
1459 o Features (directories):
1460 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
1461 nickname to its identity key.
1462 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
1463 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
1464 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
1465 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
1466 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
1468 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
1469 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
1471 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
1472 will be able to get a directory.
1473 - Http proxy support
1474 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
1475 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
1476 be routed through this host.
1477 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
1478 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
1479 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
1480 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
1481 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
1482 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
1484 o Features (packages and install):
1485 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
1486 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
1487 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
1488 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
1489 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
1490 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
1491 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
1492 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
1493 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
1494 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
1497 o Features (ui controller):
1498 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
1499 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
1500 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
1501 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
1502 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
1503 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
1504 with the control port.
1505 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
1506 use in authenticating to the control interface.
1507 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
1508 configuration to torrc.
1509 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
1510 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
1511 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
1513 o Features (config and command-line):
1514 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
1515 not on the command line.
1516 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
1518 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
1519 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
1520 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
1521 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
1522 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
1523 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
1524 - New log format in config:
1525 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
1526 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
1527 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
1528 from their dirserver.
1529 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
1531 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
1532 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
1533 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
1534 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
1535 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
1536 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
1537 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
1538 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
1539 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
1540 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
1541 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
1542 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
1543 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
1544 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
1545 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
1546 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
1547 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
1548 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
1549 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
1550 than once per minute.
1553 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
1554 get back to normal.)
1555 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
1556 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
1557 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
1558 log more informatively.
1559 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
1560 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
1561 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
1562 from each other, to hinder linkability.
1563 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
1564 them act more like real nodes.
1565 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
1566 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1567 1024) file descriptors.
1568 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
1571 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
1573 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
1574 clients/servers with an open dirport.
1575 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
1576 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
1577 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
1578 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
1579 intermittent connections.
1580 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
1581 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
1583 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
1584 in reporting stats locally.
1585 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
1586 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
1587 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
1590 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
1592 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
1593 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
1594 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
1595 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
1596 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
1597 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
1598 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
1599 list to decide who's running.
1600 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
1601 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
1602 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
1603 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
1604 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
1605 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
1606 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
1607 for pointing out this bug.)
1608 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
1610 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
1611 don't put it into the client dns cache.
1612 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
1613 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
1614 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
1617 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
1618 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
1619 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
1620 hadn't heard of before.
1623 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
1624 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
1625 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
1626 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
1627 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
1628 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
1629 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
1630 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
1631 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
1632 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
1633 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
1634 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
1635 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
1636 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
1637 - Directory caching.
1638 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
1639 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
1640 directory they've pulled down.
1641 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
1642 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
1643 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
1644 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
1645 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
1646 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
1647 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
1649 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
1650 This isn't used yet.
1651 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
1652 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
1653 clients don't use this yet.)
1654 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
1655 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
1656 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
1657 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
1658 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
1659 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
1660 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
1661 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
1662 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
1663 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
1664 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
1665 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
1666 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
1667 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
1668 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
1669 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
1670 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
1671 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
1672 - File and name management:
1673 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
1674 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
1676 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
1677 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
1678 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
1679 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
1680 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
1681 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
1682 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
1684 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
1685 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
1686 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
1688 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
1689 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
1690 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
1691 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
1692 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
1693 - New docs in the tarball:
1695 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
1696 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
1697 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
1698 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
1699 know you might want to get it verified.
1700 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
1701 kazaa, gnutella ports.
1702 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
1703 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
1704 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
1705 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
1706 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
1707 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
1708 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
1710 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
1712 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
1713 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
1715 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
1716 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
1717 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
1720 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
1721 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
1722 ask them to resolve the host "".
1725 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
1726 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
1727 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
1730 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
1731 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
1732 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
1735 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
1736 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
1737 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
1738 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
1740 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
1741 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
1742 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
1744 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
1745 hidden service per 15-minute period.
1746 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
1747 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
1748 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
1749 o Fixes for security bugs:
1750 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
1751 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
1752 a trusted dirserver.
1754 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
1755 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
1756 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
1757 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
1758 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
1759 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
1760 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
1761 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
1762 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
1763 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
1765 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
1766 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
1767 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
1768 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
1769 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
1770 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
1772 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
1775 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
1776 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
1777 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
1778 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
1779 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
1780 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
1781 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
1782 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
1783 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
1784 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
1785 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
1786 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
1787 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
1788 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
1791 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
1792 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
1793 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
1794 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1797 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
1798 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
1799 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
1800 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
1801 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
1802 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1803 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
1807 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
1809 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
1810 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
1811 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
1812 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
1813 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
1814 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
1815 if you decrypted them correctly.
1816 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
1817 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
1818 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
1819 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
1820 in-memory directories too.
1821 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
1822 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
1823 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
1824 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
1825 just close the circ.
1826 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
1827 - Better debugging for tls errors
1828 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
1829 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1831 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1832 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1833 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1834 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1835 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1836 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1837 it tells you about the first error.
1838 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1839 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1840 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1841 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1842 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1843 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1844 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1845 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1846 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1847 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1849 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1850 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1853 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1854 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1856 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1857 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1858 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1859 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1860 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1861 expect it to have a nickname.
1862 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1863 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1864 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1865 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1866 the dns farm to do it.
1867 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1868 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1870 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1871 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1872 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1873 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1874 but that aren't warnings
1877 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1878 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1882 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1883 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1884 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1885 - include missing header fcntl.h
1886 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1887 - deal with hardware word alignment
1888 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1889 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1890 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1891 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1892 by kill -USR1 currently.
1893 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1894 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1895 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1898 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1899 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1900 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1903 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1905 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1906 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1907 - And fix a few endian issues.
1910 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1912 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1913 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1914 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1915 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1916 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1917 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1918 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1919 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1921 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1922 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1923 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1925 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1927 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1928 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1929 side isn't reading right then.
1930 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1932 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1933 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1934 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1937 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1939 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1940 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1943 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1947 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1949 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1950 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1951 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1952 connection is finished.
1953 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1954 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1955 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1956 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1957 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1958 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
1959 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
1960 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
1961 rather than warn and continue.
1962 - Make --version work
1963 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
1966 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
1968 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
1970 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
1971 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
1973 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
1974 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
1975 so you can collect coredumps there.
1977 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
1978 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
1979 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
1980 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
1981 dns cache actually gets populated.
1982 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
1983 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
1984 end cell down it first.
1985 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
1986 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
1989 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
1991 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
1992 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
1994 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
1995 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
1996 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
1997 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
1998 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
1999 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
2001 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
2003 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
2004 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
2005 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
2006 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
2007 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
2008 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
2010 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
2011 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
2014 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
2016 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
2017 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
2018 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
2019 tor. It even has a man page.
2020 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
2021 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
2022 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
2023 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
2025 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
2027 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
2030 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
2032 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
2034 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
2035 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
2036 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
2037 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
2038 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
2039 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
2040 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
2041 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
2042 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
2043 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
2044 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
2046 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
2047 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
2050 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
2052 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
2053 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
2056 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
2058 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
2059 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
2060 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
2061 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
2062 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
2063 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
2064 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
2065 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
2066 logfile so you know it's working.
2067 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
2068 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
2071 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
2073 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
2074 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
2075 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
2078 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
2080 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
2081 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
2082 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
2085 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
2086 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
2087 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
2089 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
2090 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
2092 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
2093 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
2094 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
2096 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
2097 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
2101 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
2103 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
2104 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
2105 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
2108 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
2109 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
2110 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
2111 - Add port ranges to exit policies
2112 - Add a conservative default exit policy
2113 - Warn if you're running tor as root
2114 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
2115 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
2116 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
2117 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
2119 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
2122 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
2123 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2124 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
2125 really screw things up.
2126 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
2128 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
2129 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
2131 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
2132 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
2133 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
2134 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
2135 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
2136 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
2139 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
2142 - Change default loglevel to warn.
2143 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
2144 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
2146 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
2149 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
2150 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2151 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
2152 - to get ownership/permissions right
2153 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
2154 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
2155 pull down a directory again
2156 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
2157 causing server crashes
2158 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
2159 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
2160 - exit if bind() fails
2161 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
2162 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
2163 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
2164 - fix minor bias in PRNG
2165 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
2168 - Wrote the design document (woo)
2170 o Circuit building and exit policies:
2171 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
2173 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
2174 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
2175 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
2176 exists, rather than failing
2177 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
2178 which AP connections are standing by
2179 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
2180 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
2181 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
2183 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
2184 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
2187 - APPort is now called SocksPort
2188 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
2190 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
2191 hardcoded (for dirservers)
2192 - Reloads config on HUP
2193 - Usage info on -h or --help
2194 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
2196 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
2197 o General stability:
2198 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
2199 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
2200 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
2201 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
2202 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
2203 to take down the network when I approve a new router
2204 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
2207 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
2208 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
2210 o Autoconf improvements:
2211 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
2212 - Make install now works
2213 - create var/lib/tor on make install
2214 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
2215 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
2217 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
2218 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
2219 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
2220 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup